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Dr. Chaim Zhitlowsky Yiddish double bill poster in Boyle Heights, Los Angeles. January 1st, 1942, New Year's Chanukah (Khanike, Hanukkah) themed Childrens' Concert accompanied by a lecture
- Title (English):
- Dr. Chaim Zhitlowsky Yiddish double bill poster in Boyle Heights, Los Angeles. January 1st, 1942, New Year's Chanukah (Khanike, Hanukkah) themed Childrens' Concert accompanied by a lecture
- Title (Yiddish Romanized):
- Dr. Khayim Zhitlovsky kinder kontsert-Dr. Khayim Zhitlovsky gast redner
- Title (Yiddish):
- דר. חײם זשיטלאווסקי ביים קינדער קאנצערט אין באיל הייטס — דר. חײם זשיטלאווסקי גאסט רעדנער
- Collection:
- International Workers' Order (IWO) and Jewish People's Fraternal Order (JPFO)
- Set:
- Culture Front
Visual
Education
Chaim Zhitlowsky
Exhibit and Collection Highlights
IWO and JPFO Affiliated Publications and Publishing
- Creator:
- Zhitlowsky, Chaim, 1865-1943
- Creator:
- זשיטלאָווסקי, ח
- Organization:
- International Workers Order, Jewish American Section (JPFO)
- Date:
- 1942-01-01
- Location:
- 2706 Brooklyn Avenue, Los Angeles, California
- ID Number:
- 5276b21f36_35
- File Name:
- 5276b21f36_35.pdf
- Address (creator):
- 2706 Brooklyn Avenue, Los Angeles, California
- Work Type:
- posters
organization files
- Subject:
- Youth
Soviet Union
Pedagogy
Education
Wartime Jewish Unity
Political
Jewish Left
historical figures
political ideologies and attitudes
Antisemitism
Yiddish (Language)
World War II Support
Organizing
Nazism and Fascism
World War II- War Effort
World War II Homefront
Intelligentsia
Jewish Lodges
fundraising
speeches
Culture Front- Music, Dance, Film, Drama, Performances,Lectures
Jews-Politics and Government
Jews-Social Conditions
organizing
Concerts
- Description:
- Los Angeles Yiddish poster of Dr. Chaim Zhitlowsky for a New Year's talk and childrens' concert in Boyle Heights at 2706 Brooklyn Avenue, on Thursday, January 1st, New Years 1942, 2:30pm. The poster graphic features a large picture of Dr. Zhitlowsky with a program that features Sholem Aleichem's Freylekhe Kabtsonim, a Kinder Choir, Chanukah (Khanike, Hanukkah) numbers, and Dr. Zhitlowsky who will appear as a speaker. Boyle Heights was a very active area for the Jewish American Section of the IWO (JPFO). The concert and talk are prior to Dr. Zhitlowsky embarking on a 1943 fund-raising tour for the War effort in Canada where he passed away on tour.
- Cite As:
- International Workers Order (IWO) Records #5276. Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives, Cornell University Library.
- Repository:
- Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives, Martin P. Catherwood Library, Cornell University
- Archival Collection:
- International Workers Order (IWO) Records, 1915-2002 (KCL05276)
- Box:
- 21
- Folder:
- 36
- Format:
- Image
- Rights:
- The copyright status and copyright owners of most of the images in the International Workers Order (IWO) Records Collection (Kheel Center #5276) are unknown. This material was digitized from physical holdings by Cornell University Library in 2016, with funding from an Arts and Sciences Grant to Jonathan Boyarin. Documents include language and representations which comprise the historical record and should not be interpreted to mean that Cornell University or its staff endorse or approve of negative representations or stereotypes presented. Cornell is providing access to the materials as a digital aggregate under an assertion of fair use for non-commercial educational use. The written permission of any copyright and other rights holders is required for distribution, reproduction, or other use that extends beyond what is authorized by fair use and other statutory exemptions. Responsibility for making an independent legal assessment of an item and securing any necessary permissions ultimately rests with persons desiring to use the item. Cornell would like to learn more about items in the collection and to hear from individuals or institutions that have any additional information as to rights holders. Please contact the Kheel Center at kheel_center@cornell.edu
