Cohen, Israel (1879-1961). Papers.

Title: Israel Cohen

Inclusive Dates: 1905-1950s

ID: RG 448

Extent Information

1'3"; 3 5"lgl

Arrangement

Organization: folders numbered sequentially

Arrangement: The collection is arranged in 5 series: I) Jewish Life in Europe between the Wars (folders 1-32); II) Dissolving Jewries (33); III) Jews during the Nazi period (34-41); IV) General Jewish Historical Interest (42-46); V) Miscellaneous (47-49)

Biographical/Historical

Jewish writer and journalist. Active in the Zionist movement and secretary of the Zionist Organization in London. After World War I he toured Europe and reported on the pogroms of 1918-1919 in the Ukraine and on the Jewish situation throughout Europe. His books relate to Zionism and topics in Jewish history.

Creators

Cohen, Israel (1879-1961)

Subjects (links to similar collections)

ANTISEMITISM_
Minority Rights
Minority Treaty
Pogroms
POLITICS AND POLITICAL PARTIES_
YIDDISH LANGUAGE_
Zionism

Forms of Material (links to similar genres)

Documents - Papers

Administrative Information

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Other Note

Inventory: English, 6 pp., typed

Description: Notes, correspondence, clippings, manuscripts of books, articles and reports on Jewish life in Austria, England, France, Germany, Hungary, Lithuania, Poland, Rumania, Russia, Spain, Portugal, the Balkans, North Africa, ca. 1910-1930s. Includes materials on the pogroms in Poland, 1918-1919 and materials relating to the situation of Jews during the Nazi period. Manuscripts of works on Jewish history including biographies of Jewish personalities and a report on the Yiddish Language Conference in Czernowitz. Materials on the Minorities Treaties.

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