A. Litwin

Brief Description: Yiddish folkore materials, including notebooks of songs, folk plays, folktales, folk humor, anecdotes, proverbs. Clippings of Litwin's articles relating to various topics, including: Russia, 1917-1930; Palestine and Zionism; towns and cities in Europe; *landsmanshaftn*; Poale Zion activities, 1915-1928; Jewish occupations; colonization and farming; Jewish holidays; Yiddish theater; education. Poems by Litwin. Photographs of personalities, towns in Europe. Correspondence with Abraham Cahan, Saul Ginsburg, Abraham Liessin, Baal Makhshoves (Isidor Eliashev), Shmuel Niger, Zalman Reisen, Sholem Aleichem, Israel Zinberg. Family correspondence.

Held at:

YIVO Online Guide

Record Series Number: RG 206 /RG 206

Created by: Litwin, A (1862-1943)

Volume: 0.0

Arrangement: The collection is divided into 5 series: I) Personal Papers & General Correspondence (folders 1-5); II) Journalistic Articles (6-51b); III) Jewish Folklore (52-99); IV) Various Materials (100-105); V) Photographs (106-117)

Subject Index

Agriculture
Colonies and Colonization Projects
Customs, Jewish
Economic Life
Education
Folklore and Ethnography
Israel
Landsmanshaftn
Literature
Litwin, A
Music
Poland
Politics and Political Parties
Russia
Scholarship
Theater
United States
Writers
Zionism

Genres/Forms of Material

Documents - Papers

Finding Aid Revisions: 1994/07/28 ; 1999/02/22