YIVO - Yidisher Visnshaftlekher Institut (Vilna, Tcherikower Archive). Records.

Title: YIVO, Vilna (Tcherikower Archive)

Inclusive Dates: 1921-1943

ID: RG 82

6'3"; ca. 16.5 5"lgl

This collection is indexed and arranged as a portion of the Tcherikower Archive, which includes RG 80 through RG 89. The pages within the Tcherikower Archive index which correspond to this collection are as follows: 356-380; 387-388. The folders which constitute this collection are the following numbers: 2070-2415; 2493-2501

Biographical/Historical

Elias Tcherikower was a founding member of YIVO in Vilna, a member of its Executive Committee and Chairman of the Historical Section, 1925-1940. Attending to YIVO affairs from his residences in Berlin (1929-1933) and Paris (1933-1940), he kept in his possession all correspondence and other materials generated in his official capacity.

Creators

YIVO (Vilna, Tcherikower Archive)

Subjects (links to similar collections)

Cultural Institutions
CULTURE_
Educational Institutions
EDUCATION_
Shtif, Nokhem
YIDDISH LANGUAGE_
YIVO - Vilna

Forms of Material (links to similar genres)

Documents - Records

Administrative Information

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Other Note

In-house Inventory: Tcherikower Archive, Yiddish, ms., pages 356-380, 387-388 (folders 2070-2415)

Description: Files of the YIVO Executive Committee. Correspondence between Tcherikower and other members of the Committee: Naftali Feinerman, Zelig Kalmanovitch, Jacob Lestschinsky, Zalman Reisen, Jacob Shatzky, Max Weinreich. Minutes and reports of the Executive Committee. Copies of letters from various correspondents to YIVO in Vilna which were sent from Vilna to Tcherikower for his information. Correspondence and reports from YIVO departments. Materials relating to various YIVO research projects. Files of the YIVO Historical Section. Correspondence, minutes of meetings. Minutes and reports of the Historical Commission on Poland in Warsaw. Materials relating to the Section's publications. Materials on the founding of the YIVO Institute, 1925-1927. Correspondence and memoranda mainly of Nahum Shtif and Tcherikower and of the Berlin Initiative Group For a Jewish Academic Institute. Records of the YIVO branches in Berlin, 1929-1931 and Paris, 1933-1940.

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