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Series III:
Personal papers and varia
Description
  • This series contains mixed material. It includes several folders with correspondence, of which one part, originating mostly in years 1934-1935, deals mostly with organizing the congress of Jewish victims of the First World War. This congress was also one of the topics that Shalom Schwarzbard discussed during his North American tour in 1934. The correspondence includes letters of Shalom Schwarzbard to various veteran organizations in France, Germany, the United States, and Latvia. After his acquittal Shalom Schwarzbard worked for several insurance companies , among others also with Judea Insurance Company, Le Phénix (Autrichien) , and Confederation Life Association. Correspondence with those companies and some of Shalom Schwarzbard's clients together with certificates and receipts can be found in this series.

    This series also contains several poems, some of which were written by Anna Schwarzbard , the wife of Shalom Schwarzbard. The poems of other authors treat the assassination and express gratitude to Shalom Schwarzbard for his deed, among which is also Shalom Schwarzbard's poem Di nekomeh (The Revenge).

    The posters and fliers for meetings with Shalom Schwarzbard or public lectures may also be of interest to researchers. These meetings took place throughout the northern hemisphere from Paris, France and Denmark to Lakewood, New Jersey. A great number of these flyers relate to Shalom Schwarzbard's tour in the United States.

    The series also contains several of Shalom Schwarzbard's articles. The articles are mostly written in Yiddish, but several were translated into Spanish. The folder includes a serialized article " Fun mayn milkhome togbukh " [From my war dairy] that was published in Der arbeter fraynd , also Shalom Schwarzbard's articles for La Voz libertaria / Frayheyts stime , in Der moment , and series of articles in El Diario israelita / Yidishe tsaytung . The other newspaper articles in this series pertain to the assassination and Shalom Schwarzbard's trial. Contemporary reports, as well as commemorative articles are also included. A protest against the misinterpretation of Symon Petliura's role in a French document on Shalom Schwarzbard published in The Ukrainian Bulletin can be found, too. The last portion of newspaper clippings relates to the events in Germany in the early 1930s.

    The personal documents are also included in this series. The series holds various affidavits and certificates confirming Shalom Schwarzbard's employment and work experience. It also contains release papers from the hospital, household receipts, as well as several business cards and a collection of addresses of Jewish relief organizations and newspapers.

Series and Folders
11 Folders Showing 1 - 11

Folder 902: Correspondence with Jewish Veteran organizations , 1928-1937

Association des anciens combattants juive polonaise en France

Association des anciens combattants et engagés volontaires juifs dans l'armée française

Association des mutilés et anciens combatants de la Grande Guerre du Havre et de la région

Baltijas žīdun kaŗa biedrība ( Baltischer jüdischer Kriegs-Invaliden Verein )

Jewish War Veterans of the United States

Foreign Veterans Relief Drive

Hilfsverband der jüdischen Kriegsopfer, Invaliden, Witwen und Waisen in Wien

Les Voluntaires juifs

World Organization of Jewish Self-Defence – Referrals for Shalom Schwarzbard's trip to the United States and Canada

Haganah – Jüdischer Wehrsport-und Schutzverein (Vienna, Austria)

World Organization of Jewish War Invalids, Widows, and Orphans – Minutes of the Executive, correspondence

see details for 11 folders

Archival Reference Information

Archival identifier
RG85
Date

  • 1891-1958
Source of original
YIVO Archives
Collection
Archon
Part of Record Group
Enabled
Yes
People

  • Barondess, Joseph, 1867-1928
  • Eberlin, Élie
  • Kalmanovitch, Zelig, 1885-1944
  • Petliura, Symon Vasyl´ovych, 1879-1926
  • Rogers, Moshe
  • Schwarzbard, Anna
  • Schwarzbard, Shalom
  • Yelensky, Boris
Detailed Subjects

  • Assassination
  • Housing, Cooperative
  • Jewish learning and scholarship
  • Jewish newspapers
  • Persecutions
  • Trials (Assassination)
  • Writers, Jewish
Organizations

  • Association des anciens combattants et engagés volontaires juifs dans l'armée française
  • Jewish National Workers' Alliance (U.S.)
  • Jewish War Veterans of the United States of America
  • Keren kayemet le-Yi´sra'el
  • Yivo Institute for Jewish Research
Document Types

  • Memoirs
  • Personal correspondence
  • Poems

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