Call Number:

SCRC 412

Repository:

Temple University Libraries: Special Collections Research Center

Extent:

0.1 linear feet (3 folders)

Language:

Yiddish, Russian, Hebrew, English, and Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE); Imperial Aramaic (700-300 BCE)

Preferred Citation:

[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], Chaim Korman and Yente Yesersky Family Correspondence, SCRC 412, Special Collections Research Center, Temple University Libraries, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Date:

1904-1906 (inclusive)

Creator:

Korman, Chaim

Form:

Compact discs, Correspondence, and Ephemera

Abstract:

Collection consists of 38 letters and postcards (including some fragments) sent between Chaim Korman, his father, Binyomin Korinman, Yente and Shlomo Yesersky, and other members of the Korman and Yesersky families. Correspondence is primarily in Yiddish, but fragments are in Russian, Hebrew, and Aramaic. Scanned copies of most of the letters available on CD, as well as computer printouts of the scans. A typed English translation of one letter dated February 15, 1906, from Shlomo is also available. Also included is an engagement contract or tenaim for Chaim and Yente written by Binyomin Korinman and a Russian cross stich embroidery pattern.

English translations for some of the letters can also be found in the book 36 Letters: One Family's Story by Joan Sohn (Jewish Publication Society: 2010).