Collection on the Jewish community of Iași, Romania
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of documents from the large Jewish community of Iași, Romania, 1862-1950. About half of the documents in this collection pertain to Jewish communal life in Iași in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, while the rest date from the time of World War II or the postwar period. The first part of the collection contains approximately 100 documents in Romanian. The second part contains 19 documents in Yiddish.
Dates
- 1862-1950
Language of Materials
The materials are primarily in Romanian and Yiddish, with some in Hebrew.
Conditions Governing Access
The materials are open for research.
Conditions Governing Use
Copyright status for collection materials is unknown. Transmission or reproduction of materials protected by U.S. Copyright Law (Title 17, U.S.C.) beyond that allowed by fair use requires the written permission of the copyright owners. Works not in the public domain cannot be commercially exploited without permission of the copyright owners. Responsibility for any use rests exclusively with the user.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Transferred from the Judaica Collection Curator, 2015. The first part of the collection, containing the documents written in Romanian, was purchased from Rosenfeld and Vinograd on the Arthur D. Krom Fund in 2008. The additional Yiddish documents were purchased from Rosenfeld and Vinograd in 2011 on the Rosalyn and Joseph Newman Collection Fund.
Arrangement
The materials are arranged chronologically.
Extent
.21 Linear Feet (2 boxes)
Catalog Record
A record for this collection is available in Orbis, the Yale University Library catalog
Persistent URL
Abstract
The collection consists of documents from the large Jewish community of Iași, Romania, 1862-1950. About half of the documents in this collection pertain to Jewish communal life in Iași in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, while the rest date from the time of World War II or the postwar period. The first part of the collection contains approximately 100 documents in Romanian. The second part contains 19 documents in Yiddish.
Biographical / Historical
By the end of the nineteenth century, the Jewish population of Iasi had grown to nearly 40,000 people. The papers in this collection document the variety and cultural richness of the Jewish community, as well as responses to anti-Semitism during the twentieth century. In 1941, almost 14,000 thousand Jews in Iași—nearly a third of the Jewish population--were massacred in a pogrom and subsequent deportations in death trains.
- Title
- Guide to the Collection on the Jewish Community of Iași, Romania
- Status
- In Progress
- Author
- compiled by Julie Cohen
- Date
- September 2015
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description note
- Finding aid written in English.
Part of the Manuscripts and Archives Repository
Yale University Library
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New Haven CT 06520-8240 US
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Location
Sterling Memorial Library
Room 147
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New Haven, CT 06511