Collection Overview | |
Creator: | Wiernik, Peter, 1865-1936 |
Title: | Peter Wiernik and Bertha Wiernik Collection |
Inclusive Dates: | 1886-1950 |
Bulk Dates: | 1920-1935 |
Size: | 13.5 linear feet |
Number of Boxes: | 15 manuscript boxes, 1 card box, 1 oversized box, 1 map box and 1 shoebox |
Abstract: | Peter Wiernik was a prominent Yiddish journalist active in many Jewish organizations. The collection contains his records of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, with which he was involved, as well as records of other organizations he participated in. It also contains his personal papers, including correspondence from the 1920s and 1930s in the areas of Jewish belles-lettres, philanthropy and Yiddish journalism. His notes, drafts of articles, and newspaper clippings reflect his interest in Jewish political issues, history, bibliography and literature. The papers of his sister, Bertha Wiernik, contain correspondence and several plays she wrote in the 1930s and 1940s. |
Language: | The records are in English, Yiddish, Hebrew, German, French, and Russian. |
Call No: | 1966.098 |
A draft for this inventory was prepared by Dr. Roger S. Kohn in 1988, while he occupied the position of Archivist at Yeshiva University. Shulamith Z. Berger edited the draft and prepared it for publication.
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Peter (Peretz) Wiernik was born in Vilna on March 6, 1865, to Hirsch Wolf and Sarah Rachel (Milchiger) Wiernik. His father was a maggid (“itinerant preacher”) and his mother was a merchant. As a child, Wiernik attended a heder where he received a basic traditional Jewish education. He studied Talmud privately with tutors until the age of thirteen.
After his bar-mitzvah, Wiernik became an apprentice to a wood carver, and continued his Talmudic studies in the evenings. He began teaching himself secular studies and he remained an autodidact in this area the rest of his life.
Wiernik later moved to Riga, where he spent the next four years apprenticed to a turner. From there he traveled to Kovno and Minsk, and lived with his older brother, a Hasid, in Smorgon (Smorogonie, Wojewodztwo Wilenskie). He worked there as a private tutor.
In 1883 Wiernik returned to his parents, who had since moved to Bialystok, to recover from an ailment. After his recovery, Wiernik worked as a box-maker and studied Talmud with his father. He also developed an interest in Jewish bibliography. In 1884, he met Leon Zolotkoff who helped provide the young man with direction in his secular studies. Wiernik left Russia for the United States, and arrived in Chicago on July 25, 1885.
Peter Wiernik's first years in the United States were difficult. He worked as a peddler, a common laborer, a stevedore, and as a handyman in a warehouse for imported goods at the harbor and in a lumber yard.
In 1886, Wiernik was asked to write a series of articles on life in Chicago for the daily Hebrew newspaper Ha-Yom. The request came from Leon Zolotkoff, who had moved to Saint Petersburg and was on the editorial staff of the paper. A year later, Zolotkoff himself immigrated to the United States. He arrived in Chicago with Sarah Wiernik, Peter's mother, and the two shared a lodging with Wiernik. The whereabouts of Peter's father at this time are unknown. In December of that year, Zolotkoff became the editor of the Jewish Courier and Wiernik set type for the paper. Wiernik also served the Courier as a reporter and a writer, and eventually succeeded Zolotkoff as editor. Wiernik left the newspaper in 1896, and worked at the Western Bottle Supply Company with Bernard Horwich.
On February 1, 1898, at age thirty-three, Wiernik left Chicago for New York. He worked as a writer and typesetter for the English page of the Yiddishes Tageblatt [Jewish Daily News] until 1901. (The Tageblatt was owned by Kasriel Sarasohn and his son-in-law, Leon Kamaiky. It was in the offices of this newspaper that the officers of the Central Relief Committee were first elected, on October 4, 1914.) While at the Tageblatt, Wiernik was commissioned to write some thirty articles for the Jewish Encyclopedia. Most of the articles were biographies of rabbis and scholars.
A major advance in Wiernik's career occurred when he became the chief editor of the Jewish Morning Journal, around the time it was founded in July, 1901, by Jacob Saphirstein. When Saphirstein died in 1914, Wiernik was able to exercise full editorial freedom in the content of his articles. He wrote several pieces for each issue almost until the time of his death, totaling several thousand editorials between 1901 and 1936. Wiernik also wrote for Der Amerikaner [Jewish American], a weekly publication of the Morning Journal. In addition to these ongoing commitments to journalism, Wiernik also published several books during his tenure at the Jewish Morning Journal. His A History of the Jews in America appeared in English in 1912, was translated into Yiddish in 1914, and revised in 1931.
Peter Wiernik's prominence in the Yiddish press led him to become involved in many Jewish organizations, both in the United States and abroad. He was a member of the Executive Committee of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (1921-1936). According to Joseph Hirsch (“Peter Wiernik and His Views,” D.H.L., Yeshiva University, 1974, pp. 255-257), Wiernik served as chairman of the Committee on Poland between 1919 and 1921; the Committee on Landsmanschaften between 1921 and 1924; and, in 1929, of the Central Relief Committee, an affiliate organization of the JDC representing Orthodox Jewish interests.
Wiernik was especially involved in Jewish culture and education. He was a member of the Board of Directors of Yeshiva College, and a trustee of the Israel Matz Foundation for the support of indigent Jewish scholars and writers. He was president of Habruta, an open forum on Jewish cultural issues that invited Jewish guests from abroad to speak in New York (1925-1935).
Peter Wiernik died in Brooklyn, N.Y., on February 12, 1936.
Bertha Wiernik, the younger sister of Peter Wiernik, was born in Vilna, on March 21, 1884. She arrived in the United States in 1887. She grew up in Chicago, where she attended public school and studied Hebrew and the Bible with a rabbi. Bertha Wiernik set type for the Chicago Hebrew weekly Ha-Tehiyah, but moved to New York in 1903, where she worked for various relief organizations and businesses.
Bertha Wiernik began writing in 1899 under the pseudonym “Shulamit.” She published poems in Der Kol in 1901 and in the Jewish Courier. She also contributed to the Jewish Herald, the Tageblatt, and other Jewish periodicals in English for which she translated Yiddish literary classics. Among her translations was Isaac Meir Dick's 1868 Yiddish book, Slavery or Serfdom, a Judaized version of Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe. Ms. Wiernik was a “contributor and translator” for the the English-Yiddish Encyclopedic Dictionary, edited by Paul Abelson and published in New York in 1915.
Bertha Wiernik wrote and produced several theatrical pieces, which were staged under the auspices of various New York City charitable societies. Among them are: Lomir Makhn a Pshoreh [Let Us Compromise]; Di Teyveh [The Ark]; Mrs. Peddler; Nokh Nisht [Not Yet]; and Gaystige Atomen [Spiritual Atoms].
After the death of her brother, Peter, she withdrew from the public scene and became religious. Her last published work, Gaystige Atomen [Spiritual Atoms], is a religious drama in two acts.
The date and place of Bertha Wiernik's death are uncertain. The Leksikon fun der nayer Yidisher literatur states that “in 1946, she moved to California where, according to reports, she died lonely and forgotten.” According to her nephew, Harris Wiernik, she died in Brooklyn, N.Y. in 1951.
The Peter Wiernik and Bertha Wiernik Collection contains unique documents dealing with the American experience of two immigrants from Eastern Europe, the history of the Yiddish press, and the history of Jewish belles-lettres in the United States. It also contains valuable records of the history of American relief efforts in Eastern Europe during and after World War I.
The Collection covers the years 1886 to 1950. The bulk of the material was created between 1920 and 1935.
The Collection also contains the personal papers of Peter Wiernik for the years 1886 to 1936, and of his sister, Bertha Wiernik, for the years 1914 to 1950. Many papers are undated.
The Peter Wiernik and Bertha Wiernik Collection contains newspaper clippings, correspondence, drafts, a drawing, essays, personal letters, manuscripts, memoranda, notes, official documents, offprints of articles, photographs, accounting and financial records, community records, and reports.
Most of the documents are in English. The two most prevalent languages of the personal papers are English and Yiddish. A few letters in the Collection are in Hebrew, German, French, and Russian. Materials were arranged in chronological order within the folders.
The arrangement of the Peter Wiernik and Bertha Wiernik Collection reflects the public and private lives of the brother and sister.
Peter Wiernik's public life was that of a prominent Yiddish journalist and Jewish community activist. He was involved in a variety of Jewish organizations, both American and foreign. His dedication to the plight of Eastern European Jewry is illustrated by the records of Jewish relief organizations that he preserved.
Peter Wiernik was most active in the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (Boxes 1 to 9). The records of the JDC contain minutes of the various committees in New York and the overseas offices in Europe during the 1920s and early 1930s.
Most of the records of the JDC consist of carbon copies. These copies have acquired significant historical value for the history of the JDC and its planning and policy-making, especially in Poland and Russia, since some of the original documents from the early 1920s are no longer available at the Archives of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee in New York City.
The provenance of some of the JDC records among the Peter Wiernik papers must, however, be questioned. Some of the records of the JDC now preserved in the Peter Wiernik and Bertha Wiernik Collection were removed from another collection in the Yeshiva University Archives, the Central Relief Committee Collection, at an unknown time and were later incorporated into the Peter Wiernik Collection.
The records of the European Office of the JDC (Boxes 7 to 9) contain minutes and correspondence of the American Joint Reconstruction Foundation between 1924 and 1935. The AJRF continued and expanded on the JDC reconstruction efforts in Central and Eastern Europe, with the exception of the USSR.
The Collection contains records of other Jewish relief organizations (Box 10). Peter Wiernik preserved significant records of two of the three organizations which founded the JDC in 1914: the American Jewish Relief Committee (AJRC) and the Central Relief Committee (CRC). The AJRC, under the leadership of Cyrus Adler, provided financial allocations to Jewish cultural institutions abroad. The CRC defended Orthodox interests within the JDC. Although Peter Wiernik was the chairman of the CRC from 1929 on, the paucity of its records in the Collection indirectly reflects upon the weak position of Orthodoxy within the JDC administration. There are only a few records of the third founding organization, the People's Relief Committee.
Peter Wiernik's papers (Boxes 11-15) contain his correspondence with a broad spectrum of personalities in the 1920s and 1930s, especially in the fields of Jewish belles-lettres, philanthropy and Yiddish journalism. His notes, drafts of articles (Boxes 12-13), and newspaper clippings (Boxes 14-15) reflect his interest in Jewish political issues, history, bibliography, and literature.
The Bertha Wiernik papers (Boxes 16-17) contain some correspondence and several plays that she wrote in the 1930s and 1940s.
The collection is arranged into three subgroups, reflecting the diverse materials it contains:
This collection has been indexed under the following terms:
Persons:
The Peter Wiernik Collection was probably donated to Yeshiva University together with the Peter Wiernik Book Collection now housed in the Mendel Gottesman Library of Hebraica-Judaica. The Peter Wiernik Book Collection was accessioned in 1936.
Some of the records of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) in this Collection were transferred at an unknown date in the late 1960s from the Central Relief Committee Collection.
The provenance of the papers of Bertha Wiernik is unknown.
Editor who was an Historian1
There were two convictions which were the keystone of Wiernik's outlook: he was intensely American and profoundly Jewish. His Americanism was not of the patrioteering type that parades itself as a vulgar emotion. He had an unshakable faith in the structure of the American government and an unquenchable optimism in the resilience of the American people to adjust themselves and overcome every adversity.... So embedded into his personality was his love of and faith in America that he believed that even a United States punctuated here and there by maladministration was better than any of the governments of Europe.
In his Jewish outlook, he was staunchly traditionalist. He believed that the Jew grounded in his past was better equipped to overcome the obstacles of the present.... In him was distilled the wisdom of Jewish suffering over the centuries. “They will not destroy the Jews.” That was his refrain to every additional affront and hurt to the Jewish people.
His advice to Jews was: wrap yourself up in your Jewish traditions; get your solace from the Jewish past and try to be a good Jew in the future. That was why he thought that Orthodox Jews were better prepared psychologically to resist Hitlers....
His objection to the Zionist movement, for example, was that it was political in origin and action. He would see the purpose of a spiritual renaissance, that would equip Jews with a deeper satisfaction with their own culture. But the strength of Jews in a political world was so puny that to imitate others was to invite humiliation and defeat. We who disagreed with him respected the logical consistency of his position, because he himself set an example of broadmindedness.... Although opposed to Zionism, he contributed to its funds, more generously than is known. Admiring the enthusiasm and devotion of Zionist workers who approached him, he bought the shekel, certificate of Zionist membership, from any number of those who came to him — despite the fact that just one would have been enough....
Editorially and personally he was opposed to Communism because he believed it an unsound doctrine. And yet he respected what was being done in Russia. He felt that any government which could enforce discipline in Russia in an effort to bring order out of chaos was worthy of attention. He was influenced also by the fact that the Soviets had made so radical a change in the Russian attitude toward the Jews. He also respected the Soviets for their desire to reestablish a national life.
1. Jacob Fishman, Managing Editor, Jewish Morning Journal. (Appeared in the American Hebrew, February 21, 1936)
American Jewish Year Book, vol. 6 (1904-1905), p. 206.
American Jewish Year Book, vol. 38 (1936-1937), p. 436.
Eisenstadt, Ben-Zion. Hakhme Yisra'el ba-Amerika [Israel's Scholars in America]. New York, 1903. S.v. “Viernik, Perets,” pp. 40-41.
Hirsch, Joseph. “Peter Wiernik and His Views.” D.H.L. dissertation, Yeshiva University, 1974.
Horwich, Bernard. My First Eighty Years. Chicago: Argus Books, 1939, pp. 194-196.
Invitation, Banquet in Honor of the 70th Birthday of Peter Wiernik, May 29, 1935, Box/Folder 11/43.
Jewish Encyclopedia. New York, 1901-1906. S.v. “Wiernik, Peter,” by Frederick T. Haneman.
New York Times, February 13, 1936, p. 19.
Niger, Shmuel, ed. Leksikon fun der nayer Yidisher literatur. [Biographical Dictionary of Modern Yiddish Literature]. New York, 1956-1981. S.v. “Viernik, Perets,” by Hayyim-Leib Fox (Fuchs), vol. 3, cols. 456-459.
Reisen, Zalman. Leksikon fun der Yidisher literatur, prese, un filologye. Vilna, 1927-1929. S.v. “Viernik, Perets,” vol. 1, cols. 990-993.
Ribalow, Menachem. “Perets Vernik.” Ha-Doar 16 (February 21, 1936), pp. 294-295.
Who's Who in American Jewry, 1926. S.v. “Wiernik, Peter.”
Who's Who in American Jewry, 1928. S.v. “Wiernik, Peter.”
Niger, Shmuel, ed. Leksikon fun der nayer Yidisher literatur. [Biographical Dictionary of Modern Yiddish Literature]. New York, 1956-1981. S.v. “Viernik, Basiah (Berte),” vol. 3, col. 455.
Reisen, Zalman. Leksikon fun der Yidisher literatur, prese, un filologye. Vilna, 1927-1929. S.v. “Viernik, Basiah (Berte),” vol. 1, col. 990.
Roskies, David G. “An Annotated Bibliography of Ayzik-Meyer Dik.” In The Field of Yiddish: Studies in Language, Folklore, and Literature, ed. by Marvin I. Herzog... [et al.] Philadelphia: Institute for the Study of Human Issues, 1980, pp. 117-184.
Wiernik, Harris, Waco, TX, to Roger Kohn, March 28, 1988.
Zylbercwaig, Zalman. Leksikon fun Yidishn teater. [Lexicon of the Yiddish Theatre]. New York; Warsaw; Mexico City, 1931-1969. S.v. “Viernik, Basiah,” vol. 1, col. 727.
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Subgroup I: Organizational Records, 1916 - 1946 | |||||||||||||
Series A: American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, 1916 - 1946. Boxes 1- 9, Oversized Box 15, and Map Box 18 | |||||||||||||
Arrangement: The records of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee are separated into two series of unequal size. The records of the Central Administration in New York contain seven boxes. The records of the European offices contain three boxes. | |||||||||||||
Subseries 1: Central Administration, New York, N.Y. 1916-1946 | |||||||||||||
Series Description
: The records of the Central Administration span the years 1916 to 1946 with the bulk from the 1920s. Most of the records are carbon copies of original documents. These copies have acquired great historical value, as it is assumed that the originals are no longer in existence. The records document the activities and decisions made by the Executive Committee and National Council of the JDC and several other policy-making committees. The records of the Executive Committee contain monthly reports of the European offices of the JDC for several months in 1927 and 1930, and the address of Felix M. Warburg at “the dinner tendered to him on June 23rd, 1927.” A mimeographed report of Jonah B. Wise, National Chairman of the Fund-Raising Committee, and Isidor Coons, National Campaign Director (September 12, 1938) is preserved in the records of the National Plan and Scope Committee. The series also contains records of some twenty committees of the JDC. Among the most important are:
The Budget and Scope Committee, including a fifty-six page report of David M. Bressler and Joseph C. Hyman on operations in Europe (October 3, 1929);
The Cultural Committee or Committee on Cultural Activities, organized in May, 1922, as a successor of a similar committee of the American Jewish Relief Committee (AJRC). Several items in this subseries are of special interest. They are the translation of a 1924 letter of M. Hildesheimer requesting funding for cultural institutions in Germany; correspondence relating to allocations for the Refugee Hebrew School of Mexico (1926) and regarding an allocation to Fryda Kagan, the widow of Rabbi Israel Meir Kagan of Radun (the “Hafets Hayim”); and a report by Dr. Bernard Kahn, of Berlin, on Jewish schools in Europe (1927);
The Committee on Landsmanschaften, active between September 1919 and 1924. The folders contain correspondence and memoranda regarding the liquidation of the department in 1924, when Peter Wiernik was president of the Committee;
The Committee on Poland, which includes a copy of a letter of Bernard Horwich to Boris Bogen attacking Mr. [?] Savitky, of the People's Relief Committee (December 20, 1919);
The Committee on Refugees, which includes a report on the refugee problem by Dr. Bernard Kahn (March 17, 1921);
The Committee on Reconstruction, active mainly between 1921 and 1924. (It was succeeded by the American Joint Reconstruction Foundation.) The folders of this committee contain several significant documents: the carbon copies of letters sent by B. Bogen reporting on the medical activities of the JDC in Poland (October 28, 1920); the translation of a letter from Harbin, Manchuria (November 1, 1920); several reports on the situation of Kovno Jewry (1921); a letter from Louis Marshall to Colonel Herbert H. Lehman, chairman of the Reconstruction Committee, presenting his views on reconstruction work in Poland (August 2, 1921); the text of the agreement between the Jewish Colonization Association and the JDC, signed on May 23, 1922, in Paris, regarding the kassas (“cooperative banks”) loans in Poland; and a report of J.C. Hyman, assistant to the chairman of the Reconstruction Committee, on reconstruction activities in Europe (1923);
The Committee on Russia, which was most active between 1921 and 1924. Of special interest among the documents which have been preserved are the draft of an agreement between the JDC and the Soviet Government (undated); a mimeographed “bulletin issued by Dr. Bogen upon his arrival in Poland” signed by Albert Lucas, Secretary (March 2, 1920); an annual report of the Vladivostok branch of the JDC (1920, 1921); the text of an address of J.L. Magnes (January 18, 1921); the report of J. Faitlovitch, from Addis Ababa (January 31, 1921); several letters of B. Bogen on his trip to Nikolaev and Kherson, surveying facilities of the American Relief Administration (1922); and a memorandum from Evelyn Morrissey, secretary of the Committee on Russia, stating that Dr. Bogen has written “approximately 200 letters” (May 15, 1923).
The records of the Central Administration of the JDC also contain some carbon copies of cables sent or received and some printed materials. In the printed materials, a list of 1,034 communities in Poland reached by JDC relief efforts (1919), is of special interest. | |||||||||||||
Box | Folder | Description | |||||||||||
1 | 1 | JDC Minutes, 1917 | |||||||||||
2 | JDC Executive Committee, Minutes, 1918 | ||||||||||||
3 | JDC Executive Committee, Minutes, 1920, January-April | ||||||||||||
4 | JDC Executive Committee, Minutes, 1920, May-August | ||||||||||||
5 | JDC Executive Committee, Minutes, 1920, September-December | ||||||||||||
6 | JDC Executive Committee, Minutes, 1921 | ||||||||||||
7 | JDC Executive Committee, Minutes, 1922 | ||||||||||||
8 | JDC Executive Committee, Minutes, 1923 | ||||||||||||
9 | JDC Executive Committee, Minutes, 1925 | ||||||||||||
Box | Folder | Description | |||||||||||
2 | 1 | JDC Executive Committee, Minutes, 1926 | |||||||||||
2 | JDC Executive Committee, Minutes, 1927 | ||||||||||||
3 | JDC Executive Committee, Minutes, 1928 | ||||||||||||
4 | JDC Executive Committee, Minutes, 1929 | ||||||||||||
5 | JDC Executive Committee, Minutes, 1930 | ||||||||||||
6 | JDC Executive Committee, Minutes, 1931 | ||||||||||||
7 | JDC Executive Committee, Minutes, 1932 | ||||||||||||
8 | JDC Executive Committee, Minutes, 1937 | ||||||||||||
9 | JDC Executive Committee, Correspondence, undated; 1916-1927 | ||||||||||||
10 | JDC Executive Committee, Correspondence, 1927 | ||||||||||||
11 | JDC Executive Committee, Correspondence, 1928-1929 | ||||||||||||
12 | JDC Executive Committee, Correspondence, 1930-1936; 1938 | ||||||||||||
Box | Folder | Description | |||||||||||
3 | 1 | American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Board of Directors, 1932-1939 | |||||||||||
2 | American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Board of Directors, 1945 | ||||||||||||
3 | National Council of the Joint Distribution Committee (members), 1932 | ||||||||||||
4 | American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee National Council, 1935 | ||||||||||||
5 | National Plan and Scope Committee, 1938 | ||||||||||||
6 | Administrative Committee, 1921-1923 | ||||||||||||
7 | Committee on Reduction of Administrative Expenses and Personnel, 1923 | ||||||||||||
8 | Budget and Scope Committee, 1927; 1929 | ||||||||||||
9 | Budget and Scope Committee, 1931-1935 | ||||||||||||
10 | Campaign Committee, 1921; 1923 | ||||||||||||
11 | Committee on Central Europe, 1921 | ||||||||||||
12 | Cultural Committee, Minutes, 1922-1923 | ||||||||||||
13 | Cultural Committee, Minutes, 1926-1930; 1935 | ||||||||||||
14 | Cultural Committee, Correspondence, undated; 1922 | ||||||||||||
15 | Cultural Committee, 1923-1924; 1926 | ||||||||||||
16 | Cultural Committee, 1927-1929 | ||||||||||||
17 | Cultural Committee, 1932-1935 | ||||||||||||
18 | Remittances and Finance Committee, 1919-1921 | ||||||||||||
19 | Landsmanschaften Committee, Minutes, 1922; 1924 | ||||||||||||
20 | Landsmanschaften Committee, Correspondence, 1920-1924 | ||||||||||||
21 | Landsmanschaften Committee, Correspondence, 1923 | ||||||||||||
4 | Landsmanschaften Committee, Cards on Benevolent Societies | ||||||||||||
Box | Folder | Description | |||||||||||
5 | 1 | Medical Committee, undated; 1922 | |||||||||||
2 | Orphans Committee, undated; 1921-1922; 1925 | ||||||||||||
3 | Palestine Committee, 1918-1921 | ||||||||||||
4 | Palestine Orphans Committee, 1921; 1928-1929 | ||||||||||||
5 | Plan and Scope Committee, Minutes, 1920 | ||||||||||||
6 | Committee on Poland, 1919-1923 | ||||||||||||
7 | Committee on Refugees, 1921-1922 | ||||||||||||
8 | Subcommittee on Romania, undated; 1916 | ||||||||||||
9 | Committee on Reconstruction, Minutes, 1921-1922 | ||||||||||||
10 | Committee on Reconstruction, Minutes, 1924-1927 | ||||||||||||
11 | Committee on Reconstruction, Correspondence, undated; 1918-1919 | ||||||||||||
12 | Committee on Reconstruction, Correspondence, 1919 | ||||||||||||
13 | Committee on Reconstruction, Correspondence, 1920-1921 | ||||||||||||
14 | Committee on Reconstruction, Correspondence, 1922 (1) | ||||||||||||
15 | Committee on Reconstruction, Correspondence, 1922 (2) | ||||||||||||
Box | Folder | Description | |||||||||||
6 | 1 | Committee on Reconstruction, after 1922 | |||||||||||
2 | Committee on Reconstruction, 1923 | ||||||||||||
3 | Committee on Reconstruction, 1924-1925; 1927-1929 | ||||||||||||
4 | Committee on Russia, undated; 1919 | ||||||||||||
5 | Committee on Russia, 1920 (1) | ||||||||||||
6 | Committee on Russia, 1920 (2) | ||||||||||||
7 | Committee on Russia, 1921 | ||||||||||||
8 | Committee on Russia, 1922 | ||||||||||||
9 | Committee on Russia, after 1922 | ||||||||||||
10 | Committee on Russia, 1923 | ||||||||||||
11 | Committee on Russia, 1924 | ||||||||||||
Box | Folder | Description | |||||||||||
7 | 1 | Cables, 1919-1922 | |||||||||||
2 | Printed, undated | ||||||||||||
3 | Printed, Bulletin of the Joint Distribution Committee, 1916-1917 | ||||||||||||
4 | Printed, Information Service Letter, 1919 | ||||||||||||
5 | Printed, Newsletter, 1920 | ||||||||||||
6 | Printed, Bulletin of the Executive Committee of the Jewish World Relief Committee, 1921 | ||||||||||||
7 | How Your Contributions Are Helping, 1922 | ||||||||||||
8 | Jacob Billikopf, The Jews Bend to a Great Task, reprinted from the Survey, October 15, 1925 | ||||||||||||
9 | Printed, Loeb & Troper, CPA, American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Report, October 1914 - Through December 31, 1926 | ||||||||||||
10 | Printed, Cable ([J.] Rosenberg in Russia), 1926 | ||||||||||||
11 | Printed, Letter of Resignation of James G. McDonald, High Commissioner for Refugees (Jewish and Other) Coming from Germany, Supplement to the Christian Century, January 15, 1936 | ||||||||||||
12 | Printed, JDC Bulletin, undated [1937]; 1938 | ||||||||||||
13 | Printed, General Mortgage Bank of Palestine, Report, 1937 | ||||||||||||
14 | Printed, Folkshilf, 1939; Noyt un hilf, (in Yiddish) 1941 | ||||||||||||
15 | Printed, JDC Press Releases, 1945-1946 | ||||||||||||
Subseries 2: European Offices, 1920-1935 | |||||||||||||
Series Description
: The records of the European offices of the JDC (Boxes 7-9) span the years 1920 to 1935. The bulk of the materials are from the late 1920s and early 1930s. The printed materials include a report on the European situation by James H. Becker (1920). The American Joint Reconstruction Foundation (AJRF) was created by the JDC and the Jewish Colonization Association in May, 1924. (It succeeded the Committee on Reconstruction of the JDC). The records contain most of the minutes and correspondence of the AJRF. Of special interest is the correspondence on managerial problems at the Bank dla Spoldzielni, especially a memorandum signed by J.C. Hyman, dated April 8, 1932. | |||||||||||||
Box | Folder | Description | |||||||||||
7 | 16 | European Executive Council, Minutes, 1921; 1923 | |||||||||||
17 | JDC Regional Offices: Europe, Summary of the Vienna Conference, 1920-1921; November 15-19, 1920 | ||||||||||||
18 | General Statistical Data and Specific Details Relating to J.D.C.-Relief Activities in Poland 1926 | ||||||||||||
Box | Folder | Description | |||||||||||
8 | 1 | European Executive Offices. Child Care Department, Its Activities in Pictures. Berlin, 1926 | |||||||||||
2 | Same, Child Care Department. A Few Illustrations of Articles Exhibited at Headquarters Typical of the Trade Education in the Various Countries. Berlin, 1926 | ||||||||||||
3 | American Joint Reconstruction Foundation, Minutes, 1924-1926 | ||||||||||||
4 | American Joint Reconstruction Foundation, Minutes, 1926 | ||||||||||||
5 | American Joint Reconstruction Foundation, Minutes, 1927-1928 | ||||||||||||
6 | American Joint Reconstruction Foundation, Minutes, 1928 | ||||||||||||
7 | American Joint Reconstruction Foundation, Minutes, 1929-1931 | ||||||||||||
8 | American Joint Reconstruction Foundation, Minutes, 1932 | ||||||||||||
9 | American Joint Reconstruction Foundation, Minutes, 1933-1935 | ||||||||||||
Box | Folder | Description | |||||||||||
9 | 1 | American Joint Reconstruction Foundation, Correspondence, undated; 1924 | |||||||||||
2 | American Joint Reconstruction Foundation, Correspondence, 1925 | ||||||||||||
3 | American Joint Reconstruction Foundation, Correspondence, 1925 | ||||||||||||
4 | American Joint Reconstruction Foundation, Correspondence, 1926 | ||||||||||||
5 | American Joint Reconstruction Foundation, Correspondence, 1926 | ||||||||||||
6 | American Joint Reconstruction Foundation, Correspondence, 1927 | ||||||||||||
7 | American Joint Reconstruction Foundation, Correspondence, 1928 | ||||||||||||
8 | American Joint Reconstruction Foundation, Correspondence, 1928 | ||||||||||||
9 | European Executive Offices, Financial Department, Berlin. Annual Financial Report, 1927 | ||||||||||||
10 | European Executive Offices, Financial Department, Berlin. Annual Financial Report, 1928 | ||||||||||||
11 | American Joint Reconstruction Foundation, Correspondence, 1929 | ||||||||||||
12 | American Joint Reconstruction Foundation, Correspondence, 1930 | ||||||||||||
13 | American Joint Reconstruction Foundation, Correspondence, 1931 | ||||||||||||
14 | American Joint Reconstruction Foundation, Correspondence, 1931 | ||||||||||||
15 | American Joint Reconstruction Foundation, Correspondence, 1932 | ||||||||||||
16 | American Joint Reconstruction Foundation, Correspondence, 1933 | ||||||||||||
17 | American Joint Reconstruction Foundation, Correspondence, 1933 | ||||||||||||
18 | American Joint Reconstruction Foundation, Correspondence, 1934 | ||||||||||||
19 | American Joint Reconstruction Foundation, Correspondence, 1935 | ||||||||||||
Oversize | Folder | Description | |||||||||||
15 | 1 | Three pictures with captions “Medical Work,” “Gemiloth Chessed,” and “Agro Joint,” (poor condition) undated | |||||||||||
2 | Financial reports of American Joint Reconstruction Foundation, 1924; 1926; 1928 | ||||||||||||
3 | Balance sheets and Budget chart of American Joint Reconstruction Foundation, 1927-1930 | ||||||||||||
4 | Photograph of a map showing the growth of Jewish land settlements in Crimea, (Photo Reprint Co., Trucopy, 40 Exchange Place, 225 Broadway) 1924-1930 | ||||||||||||
5 | AJJDC- European Executive Offices. Berlin, Germany, Data Relating to its Operations, Since its Inception to Date 1914 - 1931. Berlin, 1931.. | ||||||||||||
MapBox | Folder | Description | |||||||||||
18 | 1 | List of 99 kassas (“cooperative banks”) in Poland (14" × 16 3/4"), undated | |||||||||||
2 | Map showing location of Jewish schools in Poland (4' × 4' 7", mounted on fabric), undated | ||||||||||||
3 | Map showing location of Jewish schools in Lithuania (24" × 19", mounted on fabric), 1923 | ||||||||||||
4 | Map showing location of Jewish schools in Latvia (2' 3" × 19 2/4", mounted on fabric, poor condition), 1923 | ||||||||||||
Series B: Records of other Organizations, 1914-1935 | |||||||||||||
Series Description
: This series contains the records of eleven American Jewish organizations active in the United States and the Middle East between 1914 and 1935. The records of the American Committee for Relief in the Near East contain a description of the relief freight on board the S.S. Mercurius in 1919. The American Jewish Relief Committee was one of the three committees which constituted the JDC in 1914. The records mainly document the cultural involvement of the AJRC under the leadership of Cyrus Adler, before the foundation of a JDC Cultural Committee in May, 1922. Of special interest are a report on schools and education in Galicia, and a list of Tarbuth schools in Poland (1921). The Central Relief Committee was another founding committee of the JDC in 1914. Among other documents of interest is a letter from Joseph C. Hyman, JDC secretary, nominating Peter Wiernik as chairman of the Central Relief Committee (October 14, 1929). Peter Wiernik was a trustee of the Israel Matz Foundation for the support of indigent Jewish scholars and writers. The folder on the Israel Matz Foundation contains minutes of meetings and records of allocations. Wiernik was also the president of Habruta, a club that invited speakers to discuss Jewish cultural issues in New York. The folder contains Hebrew invitations to meetings. | |||||||||||||
Box | Folder | Description | |||||||||||
10 | 1 | American Committee for Relief in the Near East, Shipment on S.S. Mercurius, 1919 | |||||||||||
2 | American Jewish Relief Committee, Minutes, Correspondence, Reports, Memoranda, undated; 1914-1916; 1920-1922; 1927-1929 | ||||||||||||
3 | Central Relief Committee, undated; 1916-1922; 1927; 1929 | ||||||||||||
4 | Central Relief Committee (?) - List of Congregations in Philadelphia, undated | ||||||||||||
5 | Central Relief Committee (?) - “Appropriations”; “Leaders in Cities Affiliated with the Middle Western Bureau,” 1916-1922; 1922 | ||||||||||||
6 | Habruta, 1929-1933 | ||||||||||||
7 | Haytian-American Corporation, 1920-1924 | ||||||||||||
8 | Israel Matz Foundation, 1926-1935 | ||||||||||||
9 | Palestine Economic Corporation, 1924-1931 | ||||||||||||
10 | People's Relief Committee, 1922 | ||||||||||||
11 | United Palestine Appeal, 1930 | ||||||||||||
Box | Folder | Description | |||||||||||
15 | 6 | Poster - Pioneers in the Raising of Funds for the Relief of Jews Suffering through the War, undated |
Subgroup II: Peter Wiernik Papers, 1888-1936. Boxes 11-14 and Oversized Box 15 | |||||||||||
Scope and Contents
: Peter Wiernik's personal correspondence covers his years in Chicago and in New York. Most of the letters are in English, with a sizeable portion in Yiddish. Among the most frequent or notable correspondents are: Cyrus Adler, of Philadelphia; the Educational Alliance (1907); Bernard Horwich, of Chicago; Mordecai Kaplan (1932); Dr. Henry Keller; Dr. J. Luepke, of Brooklyn; B. Mack, of Long Branch, N.J.; Samuel Oppenheim's critique of Peter Wiernik's History of the Jews in America (1912); Dr. Bernard Revel, President of Yeshiva College; Judge Otto Rosalsky; James N. Rosenberg, of New York; Samuel Rottenberg, of New York; Ms. Trude Weiss-Rosmarin, of New York; Israel Schapiro, of the Library of Congress; Rabbi M. Schneerson Twersky, of New York; Harry Wiernik, Peter's nephew, of Brooklyn (1926, 1929); Leon Zolotkoff, editor of the Jewish Courier (1888); William Zuckerman, of the European Bureau of the Jewish Morning Journal, from London and Berlin. Peter Wiernik's interest in Jewish bibliography is expressed through his correspondence with Israel Schapiro, of the Library of Congress (1923-1928) and his involvement with the Abraham S. Freidus memorial volume (1924-1928). His papers contain a description of the library of Samuel Krauss, of Vienna (undated [after 1925]) and a list of the books he donated to Yeshiva College Library (undated [after 1935]). His notes contain a faultfinding essay reviewing Marx and Margolis's History (undated [after 1927]). Peter Wiernik's intellectual interests are documented in his notes and articles on Jewish life in the United States and abroad: Yiddish cultural activities, political reflections on Jewish territorialism and Russian Jewish history are among the topics he addressed. Peter Wiernik also kept a series of lectures on American Jewish history - probably given at Yeshiva College - and articles on Jewish Orthodoxy in America. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | Description | |||||||||
11 | 1 | Correspondence, undated | |||||||||
2 | Correspondence, Jewish Courier (Chicago), 1888-1890 | ||||||||||
3 | Correspondence, 1899 | ||||||||||
4 | Correspondence, 1900 | ||||||||||
5 | Correspondence, 1904 | ||||||||||
6 | Correspondence, 1905 | ||||||||||
7 | Correspondence, 1906 | ||||||||||
8 | Correspondence, 1907 | ||||||||||
9 | Correspondence, 1908 | ||||||||||
10 | Correspondence, 1909 | ||||||||||
11 | Correspondence, 1910 | ||||||||||
12 | Correspondence, 1911 | ||||||||||
13 | Correspondence, P.C. Knox to [?] Sulzer, on Leon Kamaiky (copy), 1911 | ||||||||||
14 | Correspondence, 1912 | ||||||||||
15 | Correspondence, 1913 | ||||||||||
16 | Correspondence, 1914 | ||||||||||
17 | Correspondence, 1916 | ||||||||||
18 | Correspondence, 1917 | ||||||||||
19 | Correspondence, 1918 | ||||||||||
20 | Correspondence, 1919 | ||||||||||
21 | Correspondence, 1920 | ||||||||||
22 | Correspondence, 1921 | ||||||||||
23 | Correspondence, 1922 | ||||||||||
24 | Correspondence, 1923 | ||||||||||
25 | Correspondence with Israel Schapiro, of the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., 1923-1928 | ||||||||||
26 | Correspondence, 1924 | ||||||||||
27 | Correspondence with Lewis A. McGowan, of Washington, D.C., regarding claims against the Government of Germany about Imperial German Bonds, 1924-1931 | ||||||||||
28 | Correspondence, 1925 | ||||||||||
29 | Correspondence regarding Peter Wiernik's 60th Birthday, 1925-1926 | ||||||||||
30 | Correspondence, 1926 | ||||||||||
31 | Correspondence, 1927 | ||||||||||
32 | Correspondence, 1928 | ||||||||||
33 | Correspondence regarding Yeshiva College Dedication Dinner, 1928 | ||||||||||
34 | Correspondence regarding Hebrew Union College Endowment Fund, 1929 | ||||||||||
35 | Correspondence, 1929 | ||||||||||
36 | Correspondence, 1930 | ||||||||||
37 | Correspondence, 1931 | ||||||||||
38 | Correspondence, 1932 | ||||||||||
39 | Correspondence with Maurice William, author, 1932-1934 | ||||||||||
40 | Correspondence, 1933 | ||||||||||
41 | Correspondence, 1934 | ||||||||||
42 | Correspondence, 1935 | ||||||||||
43 | Correspondence regarding Peter Wiernik's 70th Birthday, 1935 | ||||||||||
44 | Correspondence, 1936 | ||||||||||
Box | Folder | Description | |||||||||
12 | 1 | Savings Bank Booklet, 1930 | |||||||||
2 | Checkbooks, undated; 1913-1914 | ||||||||||
3 | Check Stubs, 1927 | ||||||||||
4 | Check Stubs, 1928 | ||||||||||
5 | Check Stubs, 1929 | ||||||||||
6 | Check Stubs, 1930 | ||||||||||
7 | Check Stubs, 1931 | ||||||||||
8 | Check Stubs, 1932 | ||||||||||
9 | Check Stubs, 1933 | ||||||||||
10 | Check Stubs, 1934 | ||||||||||
11 | Check Stubs, 1935 | ||||||||||
12 | Unidentified Handwritten Notes, undated | ||||||||||
13 | Handwritten Notes “T” [=? Translations], undated | ||||||||||
14 | “T” (poor condition) | ||||||||||
15 | Handwritten Notes on American Jewry, undated | ||||||||||
16 | Handwritten Notes, “Memoirs,” undated | ||||||||||
17 | Handwritten Notes, Wiernik Family, undated | ||||||||||
18 | Handwritten Notes, Notes on Readings, undated | ||||||||||
19 | Handwritten Notes, List of Books, undated | ||||||||||
20 | Dr. Samuel Krauss (Vienna) Library, undated [after 1925] | ||||||||||
21 | Peter Wiernik Book Plate, undated | ||||||||||
22 | Yeshiva College Library, List of Books Donated by Peter Wiernik, undated [after 1935] | ||||||||||
23 | “Reference Books in the Wiernik Collection,” undated [after 1935] | ||||||||||
24 | Manuscripts, fragments, undated | ||||||||||
25 | Manuscripts, “The Deterioration of the Hatchet,” (incomplete), undated | ||||||||||
26 | Manuscripts, Introduction to Lectures, undated | ||||||||||
27 | Manuscripts, “Ezra vs. Caesar,” undated | ||||||||||
28 | Manuscripts, “Jewish Claims [to Other] Lands than Palestine,” undated | ||||||||||
29 | Manuscripts, [“Cultural Activities in Yiddish” (?)] (incomplete, pp. 4-15), undated | ||||||||||
30 | Manuscripts, “Cultural Activities in Yiddish” (incomplete), undated | ||||||||||
31 | Manuscript on Russian Jewish History (incomplete, pp. 8-79), undated | ||||||||||
32 | Manuscript IX. On Russian Jewish History (incomplete, pp. 222-257), undated | ||||||||||
33 | Manuscript on Haskalah in Russia in the nineteenth century, undated | ||||||||||
Box | Folder | Description | |||||||||
13 | 1 | Manuscripts, I. [On American Jewish History] (incomplete, pp. 1-57), undated | |||||||||
2 | Manuscripts, “I. From Stu[y]vesant to Lehman: A Process of Adjustment,” 33 pp., undated | ||||||||||
3 | Manuscripts, Lectures IV and V [On American Jewish History] (incomplete, pp. 58-126a) | ||||||||||
4 | Manuscripts, Eulogy to [?], undated | ||||||||||
5 | Manuscripts, “Yeshiboth,” undated | ||||||||||
6 | Manuscripts, [On Orthodoxy], undated | ||||||||||
7 | Manuscripts, “What the Open Adjustment Requires,” undated | ||||||||||
8 | Manuscripts, [On American Jewry], undated [1920s] | ||||||||||
9 | Manuscripts, Review of Marx and Margolis's History, undated [after 1927] | ||||||||||
10 | Manuscripts, “Blank Pages and Periods of Preparation in Jewish History,” undated [after 1929] | ||||||||||
11 | Manuscripts, “Essay” [“American Jewry, Past, Present and Future”], 1931 | ||||||||||
12 | Manuscripts, [“American Jewry...”] Part I, undated [1930s] | ||||||||||
13 | Manuscripts, [“American Jewry...”] Part III (incomplete), undated [1930s] | ||||||||||
14 | Revised Typescript, [“American Jewry...”] (incomplete), undated [1930s] | ||||||||||
15 | Typescript, [“American Jewry...”] (incomplete), undated [1930s] | ||||||||||
16 | Typescript, Carbon Copy [“American Jewry...”] (incomplete), undated [1930s] | ||||||||||
17 | Typescript, “Jewish Claims to Other Lands than Palestine,” undated | ||||||||||
18 | Typescript, “What the Open Adjustment Requires” [for Yeshiva College], undated [late 1920s] | ||||||||||
19 | Typescript, Lecture (?), undated | ||||||||||
20 | Typescript, “Lecture IV,” undated | ||||||||||
21 | Typescript, “Lecture Five,” “Lecture VI,” undated | ||||||||||
22 | Typescript, “Lecture VII,” “Lecture VIII,” undated | ||||||||||
23 | Typescript, “Lecture IX,” “Lecture X,” undated | ||||||||||
24 | Typescript,? (incomplete, p. 7), undated | ||||||||||
25 | Typescript,? (incomplete, p. 64), undated | ||||||||||
26 | Typescript, [On Polish Jewish History] (incomplete), undated | ||||||||||
27 | Typescript, [On American Jewry] (incomplete), undated | ||||||||||
28 | Typescript, [Introduction] (in Yiddish), undated | ||||||||||
29 | Typescript, [“Abraham Cahan as an American Jew”] (in Yiddish), undated | ||||||||||
30 | Drawing of Peter Wiernik, undated | ||||||||||
31 | Photographs, Peter Wiernik, undated | ||||||||||
32 | Photographs, Peter Wiernik, undated [1930s] | ||||||||||
33 | Photographs, Peter Wiernik, and Family (?), undated [1930s] | ||||||||||
34 | Photographs, Unidentified Man, [Europe (?)] undated | ||||||||||
35 | Photographs, Unidentified Family, [Europe (?)] undated | ||||||||||
36 | Photographs, Unidentified Man, [F. Gutenkunst, Philadelphia] undated | ||||||||||
37 | Photographs, Unidentified Woman, [USA (?)] undated, | ||||||||||
38 | Photographs, Two Unidentified Women, [Yogg Studio, Newark, N.J.] undated | ||||||||||
39 | Photographs, Three Photographs, 1929; 1934 | ||||||||||
40 | Photographs, Habruta, Asbury Park, N.J. 1928 | ||||||||||
Box | Folder | Description | |||||||||
14 | 1 | Newspaper Clippings in English (unprocessed) | |||||||||
2 | Newspaper Clippings in Yiddish (unprocessed) | ||||||||||
3 | Newspaper Clippings in Yiddish (unprocessed) | ||||||||||
4 | Newspaper Clippings in Yiddish (unprocessed) | ||||||||||
5 | Newspaper Clippings in Yiddish (unprocessed) | ||||||||||
6 | Newspaper Clippings in Yiddish (unprocessed) | ||||||||||
7 | Newspaper Clippings in Yiddish, Jewish Morning Journal (unprocessed) | ||||||||||
8 | Newspaper Clippings in Yiddish (unprocessed), Jewish Morning Journal | ||||||||||
9 | Newspaper Clippings in Yiddish (unprocessed), “Curiosities,” “Drama,” “Poetry,” “Philosophy” | ||||||||||
10 | Printed articles in Yiddish by Peter Wiernik | ||||||||||
11 | Printed articles in English by Peter Wiernik | ||||||||||
12 | A.S. Freidus Memorial Volume, 1928 | ||||||||||
13 | Printed articles about Peter Wiernik, 1914-1932 | ||||||||||
Oversize | Folder | Description | |||||||||
15 | 6 | Scrapbook of Newspaper Clippings of Peter Wiernik's articles, 1898-1916 | |||||||||
Box | Folder | Description | |||||||||
19 | Photograph - 60th [birthday?] celebration in honor of Peter Wiernik, editor of the Jewish Morning Journal, Broadway Central Hotel [New York, NY], Dec. 7, 1925 |
Subgroup III: Bertha Wiernik Papers, 1914-1950. Boxes 16-17 | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | Description | |||||||||
16 | 1 | Correspondence, undated | |||||||||
1a | Correspondence, 1908, undated | ||||||||||
includes Application for a Certificate of Arrival and Preliminary Form for a Declaration of Intent (post 1940) | |||||||||||
2 | Correspondence, 1914 | ||||||||||
3 | Correspondence, 1946 | ||||||||||
4 | Correspondence, 1949 | ||||||||||
5 | Correspondence, 1950 | ||||||||||
6 | Correspondence, undated [1950s] | ||||||||||
7 | Handwritten Notes in Yiddish, undated | ||||||||||
8 | Handwritten Notes in English, undated | ||||||||||
9 | Handwritten Notes in English, [“Ahre'le”] in Yiddish, undated | ||||||||||
10 | Unidentified Play, undated | ||||||||||
11 | Plays, The Akarah, Director's Copy (incomplete typescript), undated | ||||||||||
12 | Plays, The Akarah, (typescript), 1939 | ||||||||||
13 | Plays, The Akarah, (incomplete carbon copy), undated | ||||||||||
14 | Plays, [Mrs. Peddler] (typescript for a performance), undated | ||||||||||
15 | Plays, [Mrs. Peddler (?)] (carbon copy of scenes, incomplete), undated | ||||||||||
16 | Plays, Actors' Roles in Mrs. Peddler, undated | ||||||||||
17 | Plays, Mrs. Peddler, The Bridge to Heaven (typescript), undated | ||||||||||
18 | Plays, [Mrs. Peddler, The Bridge to Heaven] (carbon copy of scenes, incomplete), undated | ||||||||||
19 | Plays, The Bridge to Heaven (incomplete typescript), undated | ||||||||||
20 | Plays, The Bridge to Heaven (carbon copy of the first act), 1947 | ||||||||||
21 | Plays, The Bridge to Heaven (typescript), after 1948 | ||||||||||
22 | Plays, Spiritual Atoms (incomplete typescript), undated | ||||||||||
23 | Part of a Novel (?) in Yiddish (carbon copy with handwritten parts), undated | ||||||||||
24 | The Halizah (play), undated | ||||||||||
25 | “Let Him Dream,” First Draft (typescript), undated | ||||||||||
26 | Monis (play, incomplete typescript), undated | ||||||||||
27 | Bound volumes of The Aqua Monk (typescript), The Halizah (The “Untying”), undated | ||||||||||
Box | Folder | Description | |||||||||
17 | 1 | Bound Volume: Isaiah's Garden; or, The Romance of Ten Million Jews, I'll Die Dreaming of You, Photoplay Drama based on the story “Violet” by Joseph Borstack, Brooklyn, N.Y., 1918-1939; 1942 | |||||||||
2 | Bound Volume: “Wandering Thoughts, Volume One,” Brooklyn, N.Y., 1930-1935 | ||||||||||
3 | Bound Volume: The Akarah, Brooklyn, N.Y., 1939 | ||||||||||
4 | Gaystige Atomen [Spiritual Atoms: A Religious Drama](photocopy of the printed copy with handwritten notes kept in the Mendel Gottesman Library, 892.492 W), undated [after 1946] | ||||||||||
5 | Di Getlikhe Pshoreh [The Divine Compromise] (Kessler's Theatre, revised version in Yiddish), New York, N.Y., 1950 |