Abraham Simcha Sachs - P7 The Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People Jerusalem (CAHJP) COLLECTION ABRAHAM SIMCHA SACHS (1878-1931) - P 7 .was an author and journalist active in socialist and literary Yiddish circles in New York in the 1920s and 1930s ש.א[ . זאקס] A.S. Sachs Born in Žagarė, Lithuania in 1878, he received a traditional Jewish education until the age of 17, when he began to pursue the study of political economy and socialism. In 1899 he received his teaching license and attended the universities of Warsaw and then Berlin, worked as an agriculturist in Słobódka Leśna in 1905, and finally graduated in 1907 from the University of Jena with a degree in and ,[ דער טאג] Agronomy. He immigrated to Amer to several Yiddish language newspapers in the New York area, particularly The Day published works on polit ica in 1908, first working as a journalist in Chicago before moving to New York in 1910 to become editor of He contributed ical economy, the history of socialism, natural science, and most famously the shtetls of Lithuania in a .[ צוקונפט] Zukunft book called "Choreve Veltn", published in 1917. First and foremost an educator, Sachs was a frequent lecturer and taught for the Arbeter Ring, the Jewish Folk University, and the Jewish Teachers Seminary. He was a member of YIVO, the Yiddish PEN Club, and president of the Jewish Writer’s Union (1925-1926). After his sudden death in 1931, his wife, friends, and former students formed a society to promote his memory and publish his remaining work. Half of this collection consists of Sachs’ correspondence, which involved many prominent New York area Yiddish journalists, writers, and organizations. The other half includes photographs, personalia, articles written by or about Sachs, material generated by the A.S. Sachs Gezelshaft , and material collected by Herman Frank for his biography of Sachs. 1 1 Abraham Simcha Sachs - P7 Rec. No. Content Dates Language Quantity Private Correspondence to Sachs The Bronx, NY, US (no date) 1908 - 1931, Yiddish 101 letters י,[ . אפאטאשוP7/01 - mtotJ t[ reepaf O phrsosevokLy Brooklyn, NY, US (no date) no dates ב,[ . װאָרנסאָןs nnoomtor trAe e.f rBL] - (NY, US (07/11/1918 ,[ארלאנס] Letter from Arlons - (NY, US (11/10/1915 י,[ . באַראָנדעסmtoaJ toreerf B phss[ rsoeednL - (NY, US (01/02/1928 ,[בײלין] Letter from Bellin - (NY, US (24/10/1928 ה,[ . בערמאַןmmtolHr ot rdeer[e nf araBL - (NY, US (04/10/1929 ה,[ . בערמאַןmmtolHr ot rdeer[e nf araBL - (NY, US (25/11/1929 ה,[ . בערמאַןmmtolHr ot rdeer[e nf araBL - (NY, US (17/10/1918ב ,[ . ר . בריקנערmto ternkeRe.[i B f. crrrBL - (Jersey City, NJ, US (no date ,[גאָלאָװענטשיץ] Letter from Golovenshitz - - Letter from B.Z. Goldberg , Berlin, Germany (22/01/1922) - Letter from A. Goldring, NY, US (20/12/1926) - Letter from Dr. Hirsch L. Gordon, Newark, NJ, US (02/10/1929) (Brooklyn, NY, US (20/04/1909 ,[יעקב גאָרדין] Letter from Jacob M Gordin - (no date) [גוז־ריװקין] Letter from Guz-Rivkin - - Letter from J. Grossman, Haifa, Israel (18/11/1928) (NY, US (17/01/1926 ,[ישראל דאװידזאן] Letter from Israel Davidson - (Vienna, Austria (08/02/1922 ,[בער האָראָװיץ] Letter from Ber Horovitz - Brooklyn, NY, US (Brooklyn-Brownsville ,[יצחק האראװיטץ] Letter from J. Horowitz - Post letterhead) (09/01/1922) - Letter from Mendel Volosky (11 Nov.) - Letter from Sol Weingast, including newspaper clipping (24/05/1928) - Letter from Jehiel Weintraub, Paterson, NJ, US (16/01/1923) - Letter from Jehiel Weintraub, Paterson, NJ, US (20/05/1925) - Letter from Julius Weissberg, Pittsburgh, PA, US ( Jewish Daily Forward letterhead) (15/01/1924) - Letter from Vinaker, Vernon, CT, US (12/12/1930) 2 2 Abraham Simcha Sachs - P7 - Letter from M. Winchevsky, NY, US ( Die Zukunft letterhead) (23/02/1908) - Letter from M. Winchevsky, NY, US (21/04/1909) (Brooklyn, NY, US (14/04/1905 ,[יחזקאל יעקב הכהן זאקס] Letter from Haskell J. Sachs - (no date) [ י װ. זײדנער] Letter from J.V. Sedner - - Letter from Morris Ziskind, Chicago, IL, US ("Jewish Labor World" letterhead) (no date) - Letter from Morris Ziskind, Chicago, IL, US (10 Apr.) - Letter from David H. Tomback, Brooklyn, NY, US (22/03/1928) - Letter from Miriam Ruden, Canton, MA, US (18/01/1922) (Atlanta, GA, US (04/05/1919 ,[ ש . יאמפאלסקי] Letter from S. Yampolsky - (Bloomgarten] (22/12/1921] [יהואש] Letter from Yehoash - - Letter from A.B. Yudin, The Bronx, NY, US (12/08/1931) - Letter from Dr. L. Katz, Vienna, Austria (18/04/1929) - 3 letters from Dr. L. Katz, Vienna, Austria (no dates) - Letter from A. Levin, Springfield, MA, US (19/06/1913) (Brooklyn, NY, US (05/08/1926 ,[ י . ליפשיץ] Letter from Ch. Lifshutz - (Brooklyn, NY, US (29/08/1926 ,[ י . ליפשיץ] Letter from Ch. Lifshutz - (NY, US ("Yiddish Culture Society") (18/01/1929 ,[יעקב לעװ] Letter from Jacob Lev - (Lithuania (15/10/1929 ,[ כ . לעמכען] Letter from Ch. Lemchen - - Letter from F. Miller, NY, US (23/05/1909) - Letter from F. Miller, NY, US (18/07/1909) - Letter from B. Milvidski, Lithuania (12/12/1928) - Letter from Miriam Ruden, Canton, MA, US (22/01/1922) - Letter from Moishe Nadir, NY, US (24/10/1925) - Letter from Moishe Nadir, NY, US ("Verba Publishing Co." letterhead) (20 Dec.) - 3 letters from Moishe Nadir, NY, US (no dates) - Letter from J.B. Salutsky, NY, US (3 Oct.) - Letter from Sol Sorkin, Brooklyn, NY, US (no date) (Pittsburgh, PA, US (06/08/1916 ,[דוד סיגעל] Letter from David Segel - - Letter from B. Simon, Houston, TX, US (no date) - Letter from Mordecai Spektor, The Bronx, NY, US (17/11/1923) - Letter from Mordecai Spektor, NY, US (no date) 3 3 Abraham Simcha Sachs - P7 - Letter from Vilodek?, NY, US (21/04/1909) (no date) [ װ . עצלין] Letter from V. Eslin - (Kovno, Lithuania (03/08/1924 ,[אסתר עליאלאװ] Letter from Esther Eliachoff - (Kovno, Lithuania (16/11/1924 ,[אסתר עליאלאװ] Letter from Esther Eliachoff - (Tel Aviv, Israel (30/08/1931 ,[מנחם פּאָזנאַנסקי] Letter from Menachem Poznanski - (Tel Aviv, Israel (25/09/1932 ,[מנחם פּאָזנאַנסקי] Letter from Menachem Poznanski - - Letter from N. Pomerantz (no date) - Letter from B. Feigenbaum, Brooklyn, NY, US (15/11/1923) - Letter from Freidman, Brooklyn, NY, US (26/12/1916) (NY, US (no date ,[ישראל צינבערג] Letter from Israel Cinberg - (NY, US (10/01/1926 ,[ישראל צינבערג] Letter from Israel Cinberg - (Hartford, CT, US (07/07/1917 ,[מאטװא קאדושן] Letter from Matthew Kadushin - - Letter from Ida Cohen, Chicago, IL, US (30/10/1914) - Letter from Louis B. Caplane, NY, US (no date) - Letter from C. Cooperman (no date) (Uffing, Germany (23/12/1921 ,[קלאַצקין .י] Letter from - (03/08/1925) [ קלמנאװיטש ] Letter from Z. Kellmanovitch - - Letter from Roberts, Brooklyn, NY, US (02/10/1913) - Letter from Rosa (11/03/1930) (Buffalo, NY, US (28/03/1929 ,[דבורה ראָטבאַרד] Letter from Devorah Rothbard - (San Francisco, CA, US (11/11/1930 ,[דבורה ראָטבאַרד] Letter from Devorah Rothbard - (San Francisco, CA, US (11/15/1930 ,[דבורה ראָטבאַרד] Letter from Devorah Rothbard - (San Francisco, CA, US (20/02/1931 ,[דבורה ראָטבאַרד] Letter from Devorah Rothbard - (no date) [דבורה ראָטבאַרד] Letter from Devorah Rothbard - (Detroit, MI, US (11/03/1917 ,[ ה . רױזענבלאַט] Letter from H. Rosenblatt - (24/04/1917) [ ה . רױזענבלאַט] Letter from H. Rosenblatt - - Letter from Hannah Starkstein, Brooklyn, NY, US (02/12/1925) (Berlin, Germany (07/11/1925 ,[נחום שטור] Letter from Nachum Shtur - - Letter from I. Stein, Brooklyn, NY, US (no date) (Berlin, Germany (16/11/1926 ,[אהרן שטײנבערג] Letter from A. Steinberg - (Berlin, Germany (26/10/1924 ,[יצחק נחום שטײנבערג] Letter from I. N. Steinberg - - Letter from A. Shonbron, Chelsea, MA, US (30 Oct.) 4 4 Abraham Simcha Sachs - P7 - Letter from F. (no date) - Letter from V. Rosenberg, Radviliskis, Lithuania (05/01/1928) - Letter from S. Rosenberg, Radviliskis, Lithuania (no date) - Letter from Rosenberg (no date) - Letter from ?, Sagarrn? (14 Feb.) - Letter from S. Rosenberg, Radviliskis, Lithuania (15/02/1928) (Siauliai, Lithuania (30/07/1928 ,[ נ . געסעלעװיק] Letter from Naum Geselevic - - Letter from Nechemia, Siauliai, Lithuania (30/07/1928) - Letter from Nachman Sachs, Wolseley, South Africa (06/10/1918) Correspondence & documents regarding the newspaper Haint P7/02 - Letter from R. Abramovitch, Berlin, Germany (08/02/1922) 1921 - 1922, Yiddish, 40 letters - Letter from I. Eisenstein, Orange, CA, US (no date) no dates English (no date) [ י . איש־חזק] Letter from Ish-Chazak - - Letter from P. Backall, NY, US (no date) - Letter from A. Gamza, Kishineff, Romania (21/01/1922) - Letter from Ch. Geller, Vienna, Austria ("Unser Wort" letterhead) (25/01/1922) - Letter from R. Wahmer, Philadelphia, PA, US (09/02/1922) ( 27/01/1922) [ ז . טיגעל] Letter from S. Tiegel - (Staten Island, NY, US (28/02/1922 ,[משה ליפֿשיץ] Letter from Morrie Lischitz - - Letter from M. Pollack, Rock Island, IL, US? (10/12/1922) - Letter from H. Finkelstein, Cleveland, OH, US (03/02/1922) - Letter from A. Perlman, Cleveland, OH, US (12/01/1922) - Letter from Em. Verschleiser, NY, US (01/02/1922) - Letter from Aaron. J. Klugerman, Dubuque, IA, US (18/01/1922) - Letter from Aaron. J. Klugerman, Dubuque, IA, US (20/01/1922) - Letter from Aaron. J. Klugerman, Dubuque, IA, US (09/02/1922) (Chicago, IL, US (20/01/1922 ,[יצחק ראָנטש] Letter from I. Ronch - - Letter from L. Sher, Denver, CO, US (07/01/1922) - Letter from Isaac Licht? (05/01/1921) - Letter from ?, NY, US (27/12/1921) 5 5 Abraham Simcha Sachs - P7 - Letter from J. Broches, New Brunswick, NJ, US (no date) - Letter from J. Broches, NY, US (HaDor letterhead) (no date) - Letter from ? (no date) - Letter