An extraordinarily rich archive of scores of Autograph letters signed (few typed letters signed) by Yiddish writers world-wide, to Zalman Rejzen, concerning the compilation of his Leksikon fun der Yidisher Literatur, Presse un Filologi.

As a Yiddish philologist and literary historian, Zalman Rejzen’s greatest contribution to literature was his 4-volume Lexicon of Yiddish Literature, published in Vilna 1926-29. These letters were the original source material from which Rejzen compiled his monumental work. The letters detail each respondent’s personal and literary biography, many include autograph manuscript poems, articles, stories - occasionally a photograph. Includes A. L. s. s and auto. mss. by: Melech Ravitch, Emanuel Ringelblum, Sh. L. Citron, Ignacy Schipper, Menachem Kipniss, Eliezer Steinberg, Y. Y. Segal, Sh. Zanwill, Ch. Schposhkes, Yisroel Shtern, J. Sztejnsapir, A. J. Stybel, Sh. Z. Rubashov (later, Shazar), A. Reuveni, Sh. Niger, Y. Fichtman, Sarah Schneour, Y. Schifer, P. Novik, David Ganzburg, Y. Peskin, Avremel Margolin, Zalman Schneour, Yeshaya Spiegel, P. B. Ravitzky, Yaakov Rimon, Morris Schimmel Moses Marx, etc.