Shalom Schwarzbard Papers, 1891, 1912-1958 1920-1937
The collection consists of correspondence, manuscripts of Shalom Schwarzbard's autobiographical writings, personal documents, clippings, and printed ephemera, as well as poems by Schwarzbard's wife Anna and poems by others, about Schwarzbard's assassination of Petlyura. The materials mostly relate to Shalom Schwarzbard's writings, his speaking engagements following his acquittal, and his efforts in the 1930s to organize Jewish war veterans and war victims of the First World War. Among the correspondents are individuals including Joseph Barondess, Jacob Bluvstein-Sela, Israel Efroykin, Zelig Kalmanovitch, Noah Prylucki, Rudolf Rocker, Moshe Rogers, Anna Schwarzbard, Boris Yelensky, William Zukerman; and organizations including Yidish Natsyonaler Arbeter Farband, Jewish Agency for Palestine, YIVO Institute, Ligue Internationale Contre l'Antisémitisme, Fédération de Sociétés Juives de France, and various Jewish veterans organizations and Yiddish newspapers (for example, *Der tog*; *Morgn zhurnal*; and *Di tsukunft*). The manuscripts include notebooks dating from the era of the First World War, as well as from the time of Schwarzbard's imprisonment in 1926, as well as typescripts, in Yiddish and French, of the first volume of his memoirs, *In krig mit zikh aleyn* (At War With Myself)
Archival Material, Yiddish, 1891