From the Pages of Yedies

In September 1950, YIVO announced plans for a new, focused effort to collect artifacts, documents and other materials documenting American Jewish history, specifically the history of the mass immigration of Jews from Eastern Europe in the late nineteenth to early twentieth centuries and the impact that the immigrants were continuing to have on American Jewish life. This article in Yedies points to the surprising lack of documentation on these topics in Jewish archives of the day and expresses concern that much of American Jewish history was in danger of being lost.