Telegram sent from Calgary, Canada reporting Dr. Chaim Zhitlowsky's May 6, 1943 death while on IWO wartime support tour
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- Title (English):
- Telegram sent from Calgary, Canada reporting Dr. Chaim Zhitlowsky's May 6, 1943 death while on IWO wartime support tour
- Collection:
- International Workers’ Order (IWO) and Jewish People's Fraternal Order (JPFO)
- Set:
- Culture Front
Education
Chaim Zhitlowsky - Creator:
- Louis Pearlman
- Recipient:
- Morning Freiheit
- Organization:
- Morgn Freiheit (Frayhayt)
International Workers Order, Jewish American Section (JPFO)
The United Jewish People's Order (UJPO, Canada)
- Date:
- 15833
- Location:
- Calgary, Canada
- ID Number:
- 5276b30f16c_48
- File Name:
- 5276b30f16c_48.pdf
- Address (recipient):
- Morgn Freiheit (Frayhayt), 35 East 12th Street, New York, New York
- Address (creator):
- Calgary, Canada
- Work Type:
- obituaries
telegrams - Subject:
- Jewish Left
Intelligentsia
Speaking Tour
Soviet Union
Pedagogy
Education
Wartime Jewish Unity
Political
Culture Front- Organizing
historical figures
political ideologies and attitudes
Antisemitism
Yiddish (Language)
World War II Support
Jewish Lodges
Canada
Organizing
Nazism and Fascism
World War II- War Effort
World War II Homefront
communism
Jews-Social Conditions
Jews-Politics and Government
Culture Front- Music, Dance, Film, Drama, Performances,Lectures - Description:
- Telegram sent from Calgary, Canada reporting Dr. Chaim Zhitlowsky's sudden death on May 6, 1943 while lecturing on an IWO wartime tour. The telegram to the New York City Yiddish Communist newspaper, Di Morgn Frayhayt, movingly recounts Dr. Zhitlowsky's successful talks in Calgary and his sudden fatal medical decline, and details the funeral train to New York City. According to Louis Pearlman from the UJPO (United Jewish Peoples Order) who writes the four page telegram, Zhitlowsky, possibly not fully understanding the seriousness of his condition, said: "When I suggested sending a wire to his wife he said 'please do not disturb her, inform Zaltsman.'” Rubin Saltzman was the General Secretary of the Jewish American Section of the IWO (JPFO) and had arranged the 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:
- 30
- Folder:
- 16c
- 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