Shatzky, Jacob (1893-1956). Papers.

Title: Jacob Shatzky

Inclusive Dates: 1912-ca.1960

ID: RG 356

13'10"; 15 5"lgl; 1 2.5"lgl; 8 card catalog drawers

The collection is arranged in 6 series: I) Correspondence (folders 1-53); II) Manuscripts & Notes (54-181); III) Bibliographies & Catalogs (182-193); IV) Personal Documents (194-199); V) Printed Materials & Clippings (200-220); VI) Miscellaneous Materials (221)

Biographical/Historical

Historian, writer, lecturer, lexicographer, bibliographer, editor. One of the founders of "Amopteyl", the American branch of YIVO. Member of the Board of Directors of YIVO. Co-editor of the YIVO bleter and the YIVO Annual of Social Science. Co-editor of the Leksikon fun der nayer yidisher literatur (Biographical Dictionary of Modern Yiddish Literature), N.Y., 1956. President, Yiddish Pen Club. Director, Research Library of the New York State Psychiatric Institute. Wrote numerous works on Jewish history, concentrating on the history of the Jews in Poland. Co-author, with Leland E. Hinsie, of the Psychiatric Dictionary. Born in Warsaw, Poland. Immigrated to the U.S. in 1923.

Creators

Shatzky, Jacob (1893-1956)

Subjects (links to similar collections)

Art
Charitable Activities
ECONOMIC LIFE_
Education
EDUCATION_
Folklore
FOLKLORE AND ETHNOGRAPHY_
Kehillahs
LITERATURE_
Politics and Political Parties
POLITICS AND POLITICAL PARTIES_
Rabbis
RELIGIOUS LIFE_
Theater
THEATER_
Warsaw
Warsaw, Jews
Yiddish Literature

Forms of Material (links to similar genres)

Documents - Papers

Administrative Information

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Other Note

Inventory: English, 52 pp., typed

Description: Correspondence with Jewish literary, cultural and political figures, and communal leaders, including Ber Borochov, Boris Thomashefsky, Solomon Grayzel, Aaron Glanz-Leieles, H. Leivick, Joseph Opatoshu, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Menahem Boraisha, Shmuel Niger, Kalman Marmor, Mark Wischnitzer, Max Weinreich, Emanuel Ringelblum. Correspondence with organizations, societies, publishers. Family correspondence. Notes and photostatic copies for Shatzky's book, History of the Jews in Warsaw, Volumes I-III, New York, 1947-1953 and Volume IV which is unpublished. Topics relate to: the rabbinate; community council; local organizations; Yiddish literature, art and culture; education; industry, trade, banks; political movements; charities. An abbreviated unpublished version of A History of the Jews in Warsaw. Notes, manuscripts and correspondence relating to the Shatzky bukh (The Shatzky Book), ed. E. Lifschutz, YIVO, 1957. Clippings of Shatzky's writings, as well as reviews and articles about Shatzky, 1910s-1960s. Manuscripts and notes for articles by Shatzky on topics in Jewish history, Yiddish folklore and literature. Materials, including biographical sketches, for the Leksikon fun der nayer Yidisher literatur. Materials relating to Shatzky's biographical work Moris rozenfeld, in likht fun zayne briv (Morris Rosenfeld, in the light of his letters), New York, 1936. Bibliographies, on cards relating to: early Yiddish literature in print; topics of medical interest in Jewish history; Judaica; theatralia; psychiatry and Jews; American Jewish press. Personal documents. Posters and lecture announcements.

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