Guide to the Papers of Papers of Isaac Nachman Steinberg (1888-1957) 1893-1968 (bulk 1919-1956) RG 366

Processed by David M. Wolfson. Additional processing by Rachel S. Harrison as part of the Leon Levy Archival Processing Initiative, made possible by the Leon Levy Foundation.

YIVO Institute for Jewish Research
15 West 16th Street
New York, NY 10011
Email: archives@yivo.cjh.org
URL: http://www.yivo.org

Electronic finding aid was encoded in EAD 2002 by Rachel S. Harrison in November 2012. EAD finding aid customized in ARCHON in 2013. Description is in English.

Collection Overview

Title: Guide to the Papers of Papers of Isaac Nachman Steinberg (1888-1957) 1893-1968 (bulk 1919-1956) RG 366

Predominant Dates:(bulk 1919-1956)

ID: RG 366 FA

Extent: 26.58 Linear Feet

Arrangement:

David Wolfson arranged the collection and created an index, which he divided into seven sections representing more of an intellectual arrangement rather than a physical arrangement. These sections were: I: correspondence with individuals; II: correspondence with organizations, institutions, libraries, and publishers; III: subject materials, manuscripts not by Steinberg and photographs and clippings; IV: Steinberg’s personal materials, including manuscripts and articles by Steinberg; V: materials filed by geographical locations which were considered for Jewish settlements; VI: correspondence of the Freeland League; and VII: miscellaneous materials of the Freeland League. Materials in the index are often cross-listed by organization, by individual, by subject, and by location. Many of the individual correspondents and organizations can be found in multiple series. The index lists the language of the materials as Y for Yiddish, E for English, R for Russian, G for German, F for French, S for Spanish, H for Hebrew, Rom for Romanian, and D for Dutch, although there are also other languages in the collection. Much of the collection is arranged alphabetically, although the newspaper clippings and family correspondence are arranged chronologically and some of the manuscripts by Steinberg are arranged by language.

David Wolfson also physically divided the collection by material type or subject and wrote a summary for the folder contents. This summary generally corresponds to the series organization. The collection is divided into 17 series, some of which have been further divided into subseries.

Languages: Yiddish, Russian, Polish, German, English, French, Hebrew, Spanish, Dutch;Flemish, Romanian, Italian, Serbian, Croatian, Czech, Norwegian, Swedish

Abstract

This collection contains the personal and professional papers of Isaac Nachman Steinberg, a Russian-Jewish political writer, leader of the Left Socialist Revolutionary Party during the 1917 revolution in Russia, People’s Commissar of Justice in the first Bolshevik government, leader of the Jewish Territorialist Movement and of the Freeland League for Jewish Territorial Colonization, and a founding member of the YIVO Institute in Vilna. These materials include Steinberg’s writings, personal correspondence, clippings, journals, meeting announcements, and some photographs. These materials relate mainly to Steinberg’s work with the Freeland League and plans for the large-scale settlement of Jews in various places around the world.

Scope and Contents of the Materials

A large proportion of the collection consists of records of the Freeland League, including its London and New York offices and the Refugee Freeland League in Austria, and relates to the League’s colonization projects. There are also some materials relating to the Left Socialist Revolutionary Party and the Russian Revolution of 1917, private and family correspondence and Steinberg’s personal, political and literary papers, including his travels to Australia and South Africa on behalf of colonization efforts. Materials include correspondence with individuals, organizations and publications, minutes of meetings, clippings, diaries, event and lecture notices, reports, photographs, manuscripts by Steinberg and by others, research materials for Steinberg’s writings, materials pertaining to efforts to establish Jewish settlements in Australia, including the Kimberley Project and the Queensland, Tasmania and Melville Island plans, materials on geographical locations which were considered for colonization, including Surinam and various areas in Africa and South America, and materials relating to the publications Oifn Shvel and Freiland . Some important correspondents include Sir Norman Angell, Angelica Balabanoff, Ben-Adir, Ernest Bevin, Nathan Birnbaum, Winston Churchill, Josef Czernichow, Anthony de Rothschild, Edmond de Rothschild, Albert Einstein, Emma Goldman, Jacob Gordin, Zelig Kalmanovitch, Karl Kautsky, Fiorello La Guardia, Harold Lasky, H. Leivick, Itzik Manger, Thomas Mann, Shmuel Niger, Joseph Proskauer, Eleanor Roosevelt, E. Savinkov, Baruch Charney Vladeck, Colonel Josiah Wedgewood, and Stefan Zweig.

There is also correspondence and other materials with Territorialist and colonization organizations and various publications from all over the world, among them the American Jewish Committee, American Jewish Conference, American Jewish Congress, American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, Der Tog , Freie Arbeiter Stimme , Freiland , International Jewish Colonization Society (Jew-Col), Jewish Territorial Organization, League for Jewish Colonization, Novoye Russkoye Slovo , Oifn Shvel , President's Commission on Immigration and Naturalization, Relief Society for Socialist Prisoners and Exiles in Soviet Russia, United Nations, Workmen’s Circle, Yiddish P.E.N. Club, Yiddish Writers Union, Yugntruf, and Die Zukunft , among many others.

This collection would be particularly helpful for those interested in the history of Terrotorialism, Jewish colonization efforts, especially in Australia, South Africa and Surinam, early Soviet political history and the Russian Revolution of 1917, the Socialist Revolutionary Party, and Jewish social, political and cultural history.

Historical Note

Biographical Note Isaac Nachman Steinberg was born into an educated, religious, and wealthy merchant family on July 13, 1888 in Dvinsk (Daugavpils, Latvia), then part of the Russian Empire, son of Zerakh Steinberg and his wife Chiana, née Eliashev, the older sister of Isidor Eliashev (Baal-Makhshoves). Steinberg and his younger brother, Aaron (1891-1975), a Russian and Yiddish writer and essayist, were raised in a traditionally religious family and were given a strong Jewish education. Steinberg remained religiously observant his entire life, even during his time as a revolutionary politician.

The family moved to Pernov (Pyarnu), Estonia in 1904, where Steinberg attended the gymnasium, graduating in 1906. He also continued his religious education with private tutors. The family once again moved, this time to Moscow in 1907, where Steinberg entered the Imperial Moscow University. There he studied law and joined the Socialist Revolutionary Party (SR). Steinberg was arrested in 1907 for his revolutionary activities, and was only released on the condition that he leave Russia. He moved to Germany, where he continued his legal studies at the University of Heidelberg, and also studied Talmud under a private tutor, Zalmen Borukh Rabinkov, in a small circle that included Erich Fromm, Nahum Goldmann, and Ernst Simon. After completing his period of exile and defending his doctoral thesis on Talmudic criminal law, Steinberg returned to Moscow in 1910. He began his practice of law, defending Jewish victims of the tsarist regime, and won endorsement for the Duma, the Russian parliament. In 1914 he married Nechama Esselson and became an active member of the Moscow Jewish community, being considered as a future rabbi of Moscow.

During World War I, Steinberg participated in activities of the Jewish Committee for Aiding Victims of War (EKOPO). He also resumed his activities within the SR Party starting in 1916 and quickly rose through its political ranks. After the split of the SR Party in August 1917, he became one of the leaders of its independent left wing, the Left Socialist Revolutionary Party (LSR). Vladimir Lenin invited the LSR to join his government and, from December 1917 to February 1918, Steinberg served as the People’s Commissar (Narkom) for Justice of Soviet Russia, although his position was largely decorative. Steinberg succeeded in saving the lives of a number of political prisoners but his most fateful political action was his legal approval, as Commissar of Justice, of the dissolution of the Constituent Assembly in January 1918 by the Bolsheviks. After the breakdown of the Bolshevik-LSR coalition over the issue of the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk in February 1918, Steinberg resigned his post in protest and traveled to Europe to mobilize support for the LSR, probably saving himself from arrest after the failed anti-Bolshevik coup of July 1918. Upon his return, he served as a mediator between the LSR opposition and the Bolshevik leadership.

In 1923, having been warned that he was in danger of assassination, he moved with his family to Berlin where he acted as foreign representative of the LSR in Russia and continued to edit the Socialist Revolutionary Party organ, as he had done in Moscow. He also began his career in literature and journalism, with his first Yiddish publication appearing in 1925. In addition, he contributed to several German Socialist publications. From 1926 to 1937 he edited the Vilna journal Fraye Shriftn—Farn Yidishn Sotsialistishn Gedank (Free Papers—For Jewish Socialist Thought), which covered a wide range of political and cultural issues, Tsukunft (Future), and many other periodicals in New York, Buenos Aires, Warsaw, Vilna, Kovno, and many other places. He was also affiliated with YIVO from its founding in 1925 and was a member of its Board of Directors.

After the Nazis came to power in 1933, Steinberg, his wife and their three children settled in London where Steinberg became active in the newly resurrected Territorialist Movement. In 1935 Steinberg and Ben-Adir (Abraham Rosin) founded the Freeland League for Jewish Territorial Colonization, which was the successor to Israel Zangwill’s Jewish Territorial Organization (ITO), which had disbanded in 1925. The Territorialist Movement aimed to find a location where Jews could govern themselves, although the goal of self-government was quickly subordinated to the urgent task of finding a territory in which to settle endangered Jews from Europe and in planning a future life in this territory. Ideas included Madagascar, New Caledonia, New Hebrides (Vanuatu), British Guiana, Dutch Guiana (Surinam), French Guiana, Alaska, Albania, Angola, Birobidjian, Brazil, Ceylon (Sri Lanka), Chile, Canada, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Peru, Rhodesia, South Africa, Mexico, Argentina, Ethiopia, Haiti, New Zealand, Swaziland, Tanganyika (Tanzania), and Uruguay, among others.

Steinberg was opposed to Zionism on moral and political grounds and did not support the idea of the Jewish nation-state. He was highly critical of Zionist movement politics, believing that the salvation of the Jewish people lay in autonomous Yiddish-speaking agricultural settlements under the political patronage of colonial empires. For this purpose, he visited South Africa (1935–1936) and Australia (1939–1943) and supported efforts for Jewish settlement in dozens of other possible locations.

The Freeland League selected the Kimberley region in the north of Western Australia and planned to buy an area of 7 million acres of agricultural land, where it hoped to settle 75,000 Jewish refugees from Europe to develop the pastoral and agricultural industries. On May 23, 1939 Steinberg arrived in Perth. He appealed to people both on humanitarian grounds and by citing the British government’s officially-declared need to populate northern Australia. By early 1940 Steinberg had gained the support of the Western Australian government, the Australasian Council of Trade Unions, a number of leading public figures, and major newspapers such as the Sydney Morning Herald , the Melbourne Argus and the West Australian . He had also encountered opposition from the Bulletin , Smith's Weekly , some daily newspapers, and several British and Australian politicians and public figures, whose arguments ranged from the practical to the xenophobic. For their part, many Australian Jews criticized the proposed settlement, some fearing that it would provoke a wave of anti-Semitism in Australia, others seeing it as a threat to the Zionist cause.

Steinberg left Australia in June 1943 to join his family in Canada. On July 15, 1944 he was informed by Australian Prime Minister John Curtin that the Australian government would not “depart from the long-established policy in regard to alien settlement in Australia” and could not “entertain the proposal for a group settlement of the exclusive type contemplated by the Freeland League”. Steinberg, however, continued to wage a paper battle for the scheme. He approached successive prime ministers in 1945 and 1946, and published Australia—The Unpromised Land in London in 1948, all to no avail.

In 1943, he settled in the United States, where he became involved in Yiddishist activities. From 1943 to 1956 was the editor of the Freeland League’s official organ Oifn Shvel (On the Threshold), taking over after Ben-Adir’s death in 1942. He also continued to work for the Territorialist cause, despite setbacks. In 1946, the Freeland League started negotiations with the Surinamese and Netherlands governments about the possible resettlement in the Saramacca district of Surinam of 30,000 Jewish displaced persons from Europe. In August 1948, the Surinamese parliament decided “to suspend the discussions until the complete clarification of the international situation”, however the negotiations were never resumed. After the establishment of the State of Israel, Steinberg expressed concern at the idea of an exclusively Jewish nation, instead supporting the idea of creating a bi-national Jewish-Arab federation in Israel/Palestine. At the same time he continued his efforts to establish a compact self-ruled Jewish settlement somewhere outside the Middle East.

Steinberg wrote hundreds of articles on literary, legal and political subjects and more than a dozen books in Russian, German, Yiddish, Hebrew, and English. These include an award-winning play about the Russian Revolution, Du Hast Gesiegt Mochnatschow! (You have Triumphed Mochnatschow), contributions to legal and general periodicals, a series of books on the Russian Revolution such as Memoirs of a People’s Commissar , a comprehensive work on the Russian revolutionary Maria Spiridonowa (1935), articles and books on socialism, Der Moralisher Ponim fun der Revolutsiye (The Moral Aspect of the Revolution, Russian, 1923; Yiddish, 1925); Gewalt und Terror in der Revolution (Violence and Terror in the Revolution, German, 1931), In the Workshop of the Revolution (English, 1953), Als Ich Volkskommissar (Memoirs of a People’s Commissar; German, 1929; English and Yiddish, 1931), and a work on the Territorialist movement, Australia - The Unpromised Land (English, 1948).

Isaac Nachman Steinberg died suddenly on January 2, 1957 in New York. He was survived by his son, the art historian Leo Steinberg, and a daughter, Shulamit Charney, the wife of Shmuel Niger’s son, Dr. William Charney. His wife and a daughter, Ada Siegel, had predeceased him.

Subject/Index Terms

Administrative Information

Access Restrictions: Permission to use the collection must be obtained from the YIVO Archivist.

Use Restrictions:

Permission to publish part or parts of the collection must be obtained from the YIVO Archives. For more information, contact:

YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, Center for Jewish History, 15 West 16th Street, New York, NY 10011

email: archives@yivo.cjh.org

Acquisition Method: Given by the family of I.N. Steinberg in March 1957. Additional materials donated by the offices of Oifn Shvel in 1985.

Separated Materials: There is no information about materials that are associated by provenance to the described materials that have been physically separated or removed.

Original/Copies Note: There is an index created by David Wolfson in the reading room, which reflects an intellectual arrangement in seven sections.

Related Materials: The YIVO Library and Archives have materials about Territorialism, the Freeland League and Jewish colonization efforts. There are also many books by and about Steinberg, including the Dr. Isaac Nachman Steinberg Bibliography ; 30 Yor Sotsyalistishe Ideen in Rusland ; Australia, the Unpromised Land ; Fun Februar biz Oktober 1917 ; Gelebt un Geholemt in Oystralye ; Gewalt und Terror in der Revolution ; In Kamf far Mentsh un Yid ; In Shturem fun der Tsayt ; In the Workshop of the Revolution ; A Land far Yidn in Oystralie ; Der Maksimalizm in der Yidisher Velt ; Maria Spiridonowa ; Mit Eyn Fus in Amerike ; And I Burned with Shame: The Testimony of Ona Šimaitė, Righteous Among the Nations A Letter to Isaac Nachman Steinberg ; and many others, as well as a film reel of a Freeland League trip to Surinam. Steinberg’s correspondence can be found in the Papers of Ben-Adir RG 394, the Papers of Shmuel Niger RG 360, Papers of David Ignatoff RG 1338, and the Papers of Chaim Zhitlowsky RG 208, among many others.

Preferred Citation: Published citations should take the following form:Identification of item, date (if known); Papers of Isaac Nachman Steinberg; RG 366; folder number; YIVO Institute for Jewish Research.

Finding Aid Revision History: Originally processed by David M. Wolfson in 1975. Additional processing was completed in 2012.

Box and Folder Listing

Browse by Series:

Series 1: Series I: Correspondence with Organizations, 1923-1966,
Series 2: Series II: Freeland League, New York Office, 1941-1952,
Series 3: Series III: Correspondence with Individuals, 1918-1965,
Series 4: Series IV: Freeland League, London Office, 1937-1943,
Series 5: Series V: Freeland League, Miscellaneous Materials, 1938-1968,
Series 6: Series VI: Refugee Freeland League in Austria, 1945-1951,
Series 7: Series VII: Steinberg’s Visit to London, 1946,
Series 8: Series VIII: Geographical Files, 1930-1964,
Series 9: Series IX: Freeland League, Australia Plans, 1901-1906, 1919-1956,
Series 10: Series X: Steinberg’s Visit to South Africa, 1935-1937,
Series 11: Series XI: Newspaper Clippings, 1924-1957,
Series 12: Series XII: Steinberg’s Personal Papers, 1920-1965,
Series 13: Series XIII: Family Correspondence, 1908-1956,
Series 14: Series XIV: Writings by Others, 1914, 1930-1964, undated,
Series 15: Series XV: Writings by Steinberg, 1924-1959, undated,
Series 16: Series XVI: Russia and the Russian Revolution, 1906-1955,
Series 17: Series XVII: Miscellaneous Materials, 1893-1956,
All

Series IX: Freeland League, Australia Plans 1901-1906, 1919-1956

This series contains materials pertaining to the efforts of the Freeland League, and Steinberg in particular, to establish Jewish settlements in Australia, including the Kimberley Project and the Queensland, Tasmania and Melville Island plans. These include letters of recommendation of leading public figures, letters and documents of Australian officials, statements in the press and by prominent personalities on the Kimberly Project, memorandums and reports, and assorted writings. Many of the individuals and organizations in this series are also represented in other series.

Folders: 200

Subseries 1: Individuals 1932-1956

Some important correspondents include Kreine Alexander, Ludwik Anigstein, M. Astour, Angelica Balabanoff, M. Balberyszski, Georg and Eva Berger, Robert Waley Cohen, Philip Emanuel, Walter Murdoch, and Solomon Stedman.

Folders: 115

Folder 650: Alexander, Fred 1939-1943
Folder 651: Alexander, Kreine 1941-1947
Folder 652: Angelo, A.C. 1939-1941
Folder 653: Archbishops 1939-1943: Archbishop of Melbourne, of Perth, of Sydney
Folder 654: Abrahams to Astour 1938-1945: Abrahams, Francis George; Adderley, Ernest; Altshul, David; Anderson, Ethel; Anderton, W. Stanley; Anigstein, Ludwik; Anthony, H.L.; Ashby, Eric; Astour, M.
Folder 655: Barrett, James and J. Noel 1938-1940
Folder 656: Bavin, Lord and Lady 1940-1942
Folder 657: Berger, Georg and Eva 1940-1946
Folder 658: Billigheimer, S. 1941-1943
Folder 659: Blumenthal, Hans 1941-1942
Folder 660: Boas, Harold 1938-1939
Folder 661: Badger to Baumwald 1939-1952: Badger, C.R.; Bailey, Alice A.; Bailey, E.H.; Balabanoff, Angelica; Balberyszski, M.; Ball, W. McMahon; Baracchi, Guido; Bardach, Alice; Barkman, Frances; Barnett, Mr.; Baumwald, Rudolf
Folder 662: Bean to Blumenthal 1939-1944: Bean, C.E.W.; Beaumont, Hubert; Beeby, George S.; Bensusan, Ethel; Bergner, Herz; Beveridge, William; Billikopf, Jacob; Bina, Mordecai; Blackburn, Maurice; Blair-MacGregor, Malcolm; Bland, Prof.; Bligh, Arthur W.; Bloch, Myer; Blumenthal, A.
Folder 663: Bobinsky to Burstin 1938-1946: Bobinsky, S.; Boruch, Jacob; Bowman, Robert; Bradfield, J.J.C.; Brand, James C.; Braun, Bernard; Breckler, Mayer; Brennan, Frank; Brilliant, S.; Bromhead, Walter S.; Brook, Gladys; Brookes, Fay and Herbert; Bruce, S.M.; Burgmann, Ett; Burstin Bund Group
Folder 664: Calwell, Arthur 1942-1949
Folder 665: Cameron, D. 1941-1945
Folder 666: Chodziesner, Georg and Margot 1939-1943
Folder 667: Cohen, Robert Waley 1939-1944
Folder 668: Cohen, Samuel 1940
Folder 669: Cohen, Stanley J. 1939-1942
Folder 670: Colebatch, Hal 1938-1948
Folder 671: Collett, Herbert B. 1939-1941
Folder 672: Collings, J.S. 1941-1942
Folder 673: Cramsie, John B. 1938-1944
Folder 674: Curtin, John 1939-1944
Folder 675: Cain to Curthoys 1938-1945: Cain, John; Campbell, C.J.; Casey, R.G.; Chazen, D.; Chester, H.; Chifley, J.B.; Chisholm, Mr.; Cilente, R.; Clancy, Elizabeth; Clancy, Frank; Clements, C.E.; Cohn, D.; Coles, A.W.; Condliffe, J.B.; Cooper, W.J.; Cornfield, Mr.; Coverley, Mr.; Cowan, Maurice; Cribb, Estelle N.B.; Crick, S.S.; Curreen, Mr.; Curthoys, Mr.
Folder 676: Danglow, J. 1944-1954
Folder 677: Davis, Gerald de Vahl 1940-1941
Folder 678: Dixon, Owen 1943-1944
Folder 679: Donkin, J.E.; Drake-Brockman, Henrietta and Geoffrey 1932-1941
Folder 680: Durack, M.P. and Elizabeth 1938-1944
Folder 681: Dauncey to Drakeford 1938-1943: Dauncey, R.R.; Davidson, J.E.; de Burgh, E.C.; Davis, Albert P. and Catherine; Devonshire, Duke of; Drakeford, A.S.
Folder 682: Eggleston, Fred W. 1938-1945
Folder 683: Elkin, A.P. 1940
Folder 684: Ehrentreu to Evatt 1938-1943: Ehrentreu, E.; Emanuel, I.S.; Emanuel, Philip; Epstein, Albert K.; Ernst, Lore; Evatt, H.V.
Folder 685: Falstein, Sidney Max 1941-1944
Folder 686: Fink, Leo 1942-1956
Folder 687: Fisk, Ernest 1940-1943
Folder 688: Forde, Francis M. 1940-1945
Folder 689: Frankel, Philip 1933-1940
Folder 690: Freedman, D.J. 1938-1939
Folder 691: Fairfax to Funnell 1937-1944: Fallon, P.; Farrelly, Mary; Farwell, Diane; Feisel, Henriette; Feith, Arthur; Finkel, Mr.; Finlay, Haidee; Finlayson, H.C.F.; Fisher, H.H.; Flynn, Mr.; Foll, H.S.; Forman, Eugene; Foster, Alfred W.; Frampton, Mr.; Frank, N.; Fraser, J.M.; Freeman, Felix; Fremder, Joshua; Froimoff-Gaubaisin, G.; Funnell, B.
Folder 692: Gentili, J. 1941-1943
Folder 693: Gepp, Herbert 1939-1944
Folder 694: Gestetner, Sigmund 1939-1943
Folder 695: Goldberg, Frank 1938-1939
Folder 696: Goldhar, Pinchas 1939-1944
Folder 697: Gowrie, Lord and Lady (Alexander and Zara Hore-Ruthven) 1939-1943
Folder 698: Ganan to Gullett 1938-1943: Ganan, R.R.; Garcia, Mr.; Garnsey, Arthur Henry; Gempe, Elisabeth; Gestetner, Henry; Giblin, L.F.Gilento, Raphael; Glattaner, E.; Goldberg, Louis; Goldberger, J.; Gordonoff, Toni; Gray, E.H.; Green, S.; Gregory, H.; Grunsfan, Paul; Guest, Vernon; Gullett, Henry
Folder 699: Haneman, Ben and Nathan 1940-1946
Folder 699A: Haus, Gabriel 1940-1944
Folder 700: Holloway, E.J. 1940-1945
Folder 701: Hadley to Hyman 1937-1956: Hadley, Beatrice and Hershell; Hahn, B.; Hahn, M.; Hall, D.R.; Hamilton, Margaret; Hanlin, Frank; Harrison, Eric J.; Haslett, J.M.; Healy, G.; Heath, A.E.; Heller, E.; Heller, J.; Henderson, Kenneth; Hicken, O.A.; Hiler, M.; Hirsh, Edward; Hodgson, Mr.; Hounde, Alfred; Holiday, H.E.; Holt, Harold; Holzman, Max; Honig, J.; Honig, Patricia and Jerachmiel; Hooke, Jack; Hughes, Mr.; Hutchins, W.G.; Hyman, Arthur W.
Folder 702: Isaacs, Maurice and Eva 1941-1950
Folder 703: Isaacson, Caroline 1940-1951
Folder 704: Irvine to Juder 1938-1946: Irvine, P.F.; Issacs, Isaac; Israel, W.B.; Jackson, H.B.; Jamieson, C.W.; Janaver, Moses; Jasny family; Johnson, Nelson T.; Jona, J. Leon; Judah, Melech; Juder, Mr.
Folder 704A: Karpin, Julius 1940-1944
Folder 705: Kimmel, H. 1945-1954
Folder 706: Kosterlitz, Max 1941
Folder 707: Keane to Koo 1938-1941: Keane, R.V.; Kiarl, A.H.; King, Mr.; Klee, Hans; Klein, Hans; Klippel, A.; Kohn, Henry; Koo, T.Z.
Folder 708: Lambert, H.J. 1941-1943
Folder 709: Lowenthal, H. 1938-1939
Folder 710: Lyons, Enid 1939-1943
Folder 711: Laffer to Lvovitch 1936-1956: Laffer, K.M.; Landa, A.; Lang, P.S.; Langley, Mary; Larkins,Elsa L.M.; Laserson, Maurice; Latham, C.G.; Lefroy, E.H.B.; Leftwich, Joseph; Levi, Albert; Levien, Neville; Leviner, Erine; Lewis, Ray; Lindsey, Samuel T.; Lissauer, M.I.; Loewe, F.; Lomax, Heda V.; Looker, C.T.; Loser, Mr. and Mrs.; Lothian, Lord; Lowy, S.; Lvovitch, David
Folder 712: Maley, Lewese 1939-1943
Folder 713: Martin, C.E. 1941-1943
Folder 714: McPhee, Stuart 1940-1941
Folder 715: Menzies, Robert G. 1939-1943
Folder 716: Miles, George W. 1938-1945
Folder 717: Morris, James 1940-1945
Folder 718: Murdoch, Walter 1939-1944
Folder 719: Macaulay to Mazzocchi 1938-1943: Macaulay, R. Wilson; MacCallum, M.W.; Macdonald, E.J.; Maloney, J.; Maloney, W.; Mandelbaum, Rose; Mandelsam, Mr.; Mannix, F.D.; Marcus, Fritz; Marks, Ernest N.; Marks, Gladys H.; Matthews, Philip; Maynard, R.S.; Mazzocchi, C.S.
Folder 720: McCall to Merrett 1939-1944: McCall, W.V.; McLear, Mr.; McKerihan, Mr.; McMaster, Frederick; Medley, J.D.G.; Melamed, I.; Melbourne, H.; Meldman, W. Mackenzie; Melville, George F.; Mendelsberg, Mr.; Mennell, Christabel; Menuhin, Yehudi; Merrett, Charles
Folder 721: Michaelis to Mitchell 1939-1946: Michaelis, Archie; Mills, C.D.; Milstein, Mark; Minter, John R.; Mintz, Hersh; Mishaloff, N.; Mitchell, Mrs.
Folder 722: Moody to Myer 1938-1943: Moody, Mr.; Moore, Gladys; Morgan, Charles A.; Moses, Philip H.; Moss, A. May; Moss, Ernest; Munz, H.; Murdoch, Keith; Murray, G.J.; Muscis, Mildred; Myer, Mr.
Folder 723: Nadelbaum to Ottery 1939-1943: Nadelbaum, A.J.; Nock, H.K.; Nye, J.; Ottery, Thomas A.
Folder 724: Onslow, Sibella Macarthur 1940-1944
Folder 725: Patkin, Aaron 1936-1942
Folder 726: Pilcher, Charles V. 1940-1949
Folder 727: Pushett, Jonathan 1943-1956
Folder 728: Page to Prescott 1938-1943: Page, Earle; Palmer, Nettie; Pariser, Kate; Parker, Critchley, Jr.; Parkes, Edward; Paton, J.; Pearce, George F.; Peden, J.B.; Phillips, J.R.; Pineas, H.; Pinchin, F.; Pinus, L.; Popper, Joseph; Porzsolt, Imre; Prescott, J.A.;
Folder 729: Rapoport, O. 1941-1946
Folder 730: Reis, Alex J. 1939-1945
Folder 731: Ripps, Isaac and Esther 1940-1949
Folder 732: Rose, A.S. 1940-1943
Folder 733: Rubinstein, J.C. 1940-1944
Folder 734: Rahmani to Ruhr 1937-1947: Rahmani, S.; Reasin, Fanny; Rechter, Mr.; Rickard, Arthur; Ripps, Raymonde; Rivett, David; Roberts, Harvey A.; Roberts, S.; Robertson, Malcolm; Rogers, E.Y.; Rogers, Percival Halse; Rosenberg, Chaim; Rosenfeld, Henrietta; Rosenfeld, Julius; Rosenson, J.; Rosenstamm, B.; Rosenthal, Herman; Rothberg, Reuben; Rubin-Zacks, L.; Rubinstein, A.; Rude, Melech and Sara; Ruhr family; unidentified
Folder 735: Saenger, H.M. 1938-1939
Folder 736: Scullin, J.H. 1941-1942
Folder 737: Selby, Aimee 1940-1943
Folder 738: Selby, Doris 1943-1945
Folder 738A: Sher, Israel 1941-1951
Folder 739: Shimenson, Joseph 1938
Folder 740: Siegel, Ada 1940-1944
Folder 741: Simon, Joseph 1939-1940
Folder 742: Smith, James MacCallum 1938-1939
Folder 743: Snow, Sydney 1940-1943
Folder 744: Sonnabend, H.; Sonnenberg, Max 1939
Folder 745: Stedman, Solomon 1941-1956: see also folder 747
Folder 746: Street, Jessie M.G. 1939-1945
Folder 747: Stuchinski, Abram 1941-1950
Folder 748: Stuchinski, Sonya 1942-1953
Folder 749: Sanderson to Shotwell 1937-1943: Sanderson, R.F.; Sapero, M.; Scharf, Ph.; Schiff, Otto; Schnierer, Irma; Schnoebel, Walter; Schonfeld, Solomon; Schurek, Norman; Scott, Lady; Segal, Victor M.; Sevier, Julia Etta; Shaul, Ignatz; Shepherd, Thomas; Shor, M.; Shotwell, John
Folder 750: Silberberg to Szuster 1938-1943: Silberberg, William; Singer, D. Martin; Smith, McClure; Speiser, W.P.; Speller, Charles; Spender, P.C.; Sperling, Leo; Spiwak, Henryk J.; Spooner, E.C.; Stanner, W.E.H.; Stevens, Bertram; Stuart, Mr.; Swinburne, May G.; Szuster, Icko
Folder 751: Tabor to von Hirschberg 1938-1943: Tabor, David; Teichert, C.; Terry, Michael; Tobias, Raymond; Troy, F.M.; Turak, N.; Valentine, J.A.; von Hirschberg, M.
Folder 752: Ward, E.J. 1941-1942
Folder 753: Warszawski, B. 1941-1954
Folder 754: Wells, Abram and David 1943-1945
Folder 755: Whiskard, Geoffrey 1940-1941
Folder 756: Willcock, C.J. 1938-1945
Folder 757: Wise, F.J.S. 1939-1945
Folder 758: Wood, G.L. 1940-1945
Folder 759: Wynn, Shlomo 1940-1941
Folder 760: Waislits to Zimmerman 1938-1945: Waislits, Jacob; Wakehurst, Lord; Waks, J.; Wall, Mr.; Wallace, R.S.; Watkin, Gwendolen and N.; Welton, Sid; Wexler, R.; Weyman, I.J.; Wheeler, T.M.; Williams, James T.; Williams, H.; Wilson, Alex; Wilson, E.; Wilson, Thomas M.; Winkler, Josef; Winton, Robert; Witter, Arno; Wohlmuth, H.; Wren, S.; Wrench, Evelyn; Yakobson, Sergei; Zimmerman, L.
Folder 761: Unidentified correspondents 1937-1944

Subseries 2: Organizations 1936-1955

Organizations represented include the Australian Department of the Interior, Australian Jewish Forum, Australian Labour Party, the Jewish Chronicle , Oifn Shvel , Polish Jewish Relief Committee, Royal Institute of International Affairs, and the World Jewish Congress.

Folders: 22

Folder 762: Australian Council of Trade Unions 1938-1945
Folder 763: Australian Department of the Interior 1939-1940
Folder 764: Australian Institute of International Affairs 1940
Folder 765: Australian Jewish Forum 1940-1948
Folder 766: Australian Jewish Welfare Society 1937-1941
Folder 767: Australian Labour Party 1939-1943
Folder 768: Australian Prime Minister's Office 1939-1946
Folder 769: A 1938-1947: African Jewish Newspaper; South African Jewish Times; American Jewish Congress; The Argus; Australian Broadcasting Commission; Australain Consolidated Press; Australian Digest of World Reading; Australian Federayion of Women Voters; Australian Institute of Agricultural Science; Australian Institute of Political Science; Australian Institute of Sociology; Australian Jewish Herald; Australian Jewish News; Australian Natives' Association; Australian News and Information Bureau; Australian Newspaper Service; Australian Workers' Union
Folder 770: B-C 1938-1940: British Australian and New Zealander; Chamber of Manufactures of New South Wales; Contemporary Jewish Record; Country Women's Association of Victoria
Folder 771: E-F 1939-1947: Economic Society of Australia and New Zealand; Executive Council of Australia Jewry; Forum Collegium; Freeland League, Melbourne; Freeland League, New York; Freeland League, Sydney
Folder 772: G-I 1940-1944: Goldsbrough Mort and Company Limited; The Guardian; Graziers' Association of New South Wales; Hebrew Standard; Institute of Building Societies' Secretaries; International Committee on the Christian Approach to the Jews
Folder 773: Jewish Peoples Relief Fund 1941-1944: New South Wales
Folder 774: J 1940-1955: Jewish Community of Kobe, Japan; Jewish Chronicle; Jewish Council to Combat Fascism and Anti-Semitism; Jewish Folk Centre; Jewish Frontier; Jewish National Library "Kadimah"; Jewish People Centre; Jewish Post; Jewish Students' Study Group; Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Folder 775: K-L 1940-1946: Kulturkampf Association; Labor Council of New South Wales; Lord Mayor of Sydney; Committee of the Lowitcher Friends in Melbourne
Folder 776: M 1939-1943: Manchester Guardian; Manly and Warringah Chamber of Commerce; Melbourne Jewish Community; Melbourne Jewish Youth Council; Millions for Australia League, Millions Club; Modern Women's Club; Mount Isdell Mining Syndicate; E.B. Myer Charity Fund
Folder 777: N 1939-1944: National Council of Jewish Women in Australia; New South Wales Country Press Association; New South Wales Jewish Congregational Advisory Board; New South Wales Jewish War Memorial; North Bondi Hebrew School and Kindergarten
Folder 778: Oifn Shvel 1941-1946
Folder 779: P-R 1939-1943: Pastoralists' Association of Western Australia; Perth Bible Institute; Perth Chamber of Commerce; Perth Hebrew Congregation; Perth Junior Chamber of Commerce; Polish Jewish Relief Committee; Progress; Presbyterian Church of Victoria; Returned Sailors and Soldiers' Imperial League of Australia; Rotary Club of Manly; Rotary Club of Melbourne; Royal Institute of International Affairs
Folder 780: S 1940-1943: St. Kilda Hebrew Congregation; Shanghai Jewish Relief Fund Appeal; Shomrim Zionist Youth Organisation; Signs Publishing Company; South African Jewish Board of Deputies; Sydney Chamber of Commerce; Sydney Jewish News; Sydney Morning Herald; The Sun
Folder 781: T-V 1939-1944: Tarbuth Sydney; Trades Hall Council; Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America; United Jewish Overseas Relief Fund; Victorian International Refugee Emergency Council; Victorian Jewish Advisory Board; Victorian Jewish Graduates' and Undergraduates' Association
Folder 782: W 1938-1944: Waite Agricultural Research Institute; Walkabout; The Watchman; The West Australian; Westralian Judean; Westralian Worker; Women's International League; World Jewish Congress
Folder 783: Y-Z 1936-1945: Yiddish School Committee; Young Men's Hebrew Association of Australasia; Zionist Federation of Australia and New Zealand

Subseries 3: Writings and Other Materials 1901-1906, 1919-1952

These materials consist of articles and lectures by Steinberg and others, notes and the manuscript of the book I Lived and Dreamed in Australia as well as other manuscripts, meeting minutes, geographical surveys, maps, publicity materials, demographic materials, and newspaper clippings.

Folders: 63

Folder 784: Articles by Steinberg 1938-1942
Folder 785: Lectures by Steinberg 1941-1950
Folder 786: Notes and incomplete manuscripts undated
Folder 787: Letters to Advisory Council of the Freeland League in London 1939-1940
Folder 788: Telegrams to prominent Freeland League supporters in Australia 1943-1944
Folder 789: Responses to Steinberg's appeal for support of the Kimberley Project 1939-1940
Folder 790: Australia the Unpromised Land undated: manuscript
Folder 791: Articles and addresses by others 1942, undated
Folder 792: Articles on Australia by others 1952
Folder 793: Workmens Circle student compositions on the Kimberley Project undated
Folder 794: Letters of introduction from London to Australia 1939-1940
Folder 795: Steinberg's trip to the United States and Canada 1940-1944
Folder 796: Letters of introduction from Australia to the United States and Canada 1942-1943
Folder 797: Meeting minutes of Freeland League in Melbourne Memoranda and proposals 1939, , 1938-1945
Folder 799: Memoranda and proposals 1939, undated
Folder 800: Statements and news releases 1940-1946
Folder 801: Reports 1937-1941
Folder 802: Publications and publicity 1939-1942
Folder 803: Geographical and economic data 1922-1940
Folder 804: Migration and land settlement 1936-1947
Folder 805: Maps 1937-1944
Folder 806: Queensland 1906, 1939-1943
Folder 807: Tasmania 1901, 1939-1946
Folder 808: Lists of names 1939-1942, undated
Folder 809: Miscellaneous 1938-1943
Folder 810: Letters from would-be settlers in Australia 1939
Folder 811: Geographical and economic data 1920-1924, 1936-1940
Folder 812: Geographical and economic data 1937-1941
Folder 813: Geographical and economic data 1938-1941
Folder 814: Maps 1919-1920, 1931-1939
Folder 815: Photos of Western Australia 1939-1945
Folder 816: A Jewish Settlement in Australia 1943-1944: manuscript
Folder 817: Manuscripts 1939, undated
Folder 818: In Search of a Land 1943: manuscript
Folder 819: I Lived and Dreamed in Australia 1945-1946: manuscript
Folder 820: I Lived and Dreamed in Australia 1944-1946: correspondence, news clippings, publication information
Folder 821: Materials for book on Australia 1933-1941
Folder 822: Family correspondence 1939
Folder 823: Family correspondence 1939
Folder 824: Family correspondence 1939
Folder 825: Family correspondence 1940
Folder 826: Family correspondence 1940
Folder 827: Family correspondence 1941
Folder 828: Family correspondence 1941
Folder 828A: Family correspondence 1941-1942
Folder 829: Family correspondence 1942
Folder 830: Family correspondence 1942
Folder 831: Family correspondence 1943
Folder 832: News clippings 1937-1943: not directly related to Kimberley Project
Folder 833: News clippings 1944-1946: not directly related to Kimberley Project
Folder 834: News clippings 1936-1937: related to Kimberley Project and other plans for Jewish colonization in Australia
Folder 835: News clippings 1938: related to Kimberley Project and other plans for Jewish colonization in Australia
Folder 836: News clippings 1939: related to Kimberley Project and other plans for Jewish colonization in Australia
Folder 837: News clippings 1940: related to Kimberley Project and other plans for Jewish colonization in Australia
Folder 838: News clippings 1941: related to Kimberley Project and other plans for Jewish colonization in Australia
Folder 839: News clippings 1942: related to Kimberley Project and other plans for Jewish colonization in Australia
Folder 840: News clippings 1943: related to Kimberley Project and other plans for Jewish colonization in Australia
Folder 841: News clippings 1944: related to Kimberley Project and other plans for Jewish colonization in Australia
Folder 842: News clippings 1945: related to Kimberley Project and other plans for Jewish colonization in Australia
Folder 843: News clippings 1946-1952: related to Kimberley Project and other plans for Jewish colonization in Australia
Folder 844: News clippings undated: related to Kimberley Project and other plans for Jewish colonization in Australia
Folder 844A: Interviews 1939-1941