Chaim Grade Archive.

Chaim Grade (1910-1982), was a Yiddish poet and writer from the city of Vilnius, Lithuania. Grade was raised a yeshiva student but later joined the group of modernist Yiddish poets known as "Yung Vilna" (Young Vilna). During World War II, Grade found refuge in the Soviet Union, and in 1948 he immigrated to the United States. The bulk of his writing after that point related to the Musar yeshiva experience before the war. Grade died in New York in 1982. His widow Inna (née Hecker) died in 2010. In 2013 the YIVO Institute in New York and the National Library of Israel acquired the Chaim Grade - Inna Hecker archives, and it is jointly owned by both institutions. The physical archive is located at YIVO, and the digital archive can be accessed in full at both institutions (Series 1-11). In addition, the archive includes two other, smaller units, which can be accessed exclusively through the National Library of Israel: Series 21-23 includes correspondence, manuscripts and certificates between Grade and the publisher Abraham Bornstein that were transferred from the Avraham Bornstein Archive (ARC. 4* 1503) in 2017. Series 24 -25 consists mainly of letters and certificates from Grade to Max Friedman, as well as a few handwritten and typewritten poems by Grade. These were donated to the National Library of Israel in 1994 by Max Friedman's widow, Mrs. Ita Friedman of California. Read more