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Zaḳs, A. Ś., 1879-1931 (Creator of the archive)
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Abraham Simcha Sachs (1878 Žagarė, Lithuania – New York 1931) was an author and journalist active in socialist and literary Yiddish circles in New York in the 1920s and 1930s. He received a traditional Jewish education until the age of 17, when he began to pursue the study political economy and socialism. Sachs 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 Agronomy. In 1910 he moved to New York to become editor of "Zukunft." First and foremost an educator, Sachs was a frequent lecturer and taught at the Arbeter Ring, the Jewish Folk University, and the Jewish Teachers Seminary --

Reference Code
P7
Dates
1903-1931
Consists of
41 files..
Languages
Yiddish; English; German; Russian;
Description
Half of this collection consists of Sachs’ correspondence with 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.
Title Sachs, Abraham S.
Additional Titles Zukunft
Der Tag
Choreve Veltn
Archives Private Collections
Contributors A.S. Sachs Gezelshaft
Workmen's Circle (U.S.)
Jewish Teachers' Seminary and People's University (New York, N.Y.)
Yivo Institute for Jewish Research
Yiddish Pen Club
Host Item Sachs, Abraham S. - Private Collection
Level of Description Fonds Record
Biographical summary Abraham Simcha Sachs (1878 Žagarė, Lithuania – New York 1931) was an author and journalist active in socialist and literary Yiddish circles in New York in the 1920s and 1930s. 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 Agronomy. He immigrated to America to work at several Yiddish language newspapers in the New York area, particularly "Der Tag", and published works on politics in 1908, first working as a journalist in Chicago before moving to New York in 1910 to become editor of "Zukunft". He contributed articles on the economy, the history of socialism, natural science, and most famously the shtetls of Lithuania in a 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.
Language Note Predominantly Yiddish and English
includes some German and Russian correspondence
National Library system number 990043211610205171
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