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Astrinsky Family Yiddish - East European Postcard Album
Bernath Mss 108
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Title: Astrinsky Family Yiddish - East European Postcard Album,
Date (inclusive): ca. 1900-1924
Collection number: Bernath Mss 108
Extent:
.2 linear feet
(1 half-size box)
Repository:
University of California, Santa Barbara. Library. Dept. of Special Collections
Santa Barbara, California 93106-9010
Physical location: Del Sur
Language:
English.
None.
Copyright has not been assigned to the Department of Special Collections, UCSB. All requests for permission to publish or
quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Head of Special Collections. Permission for publication is given
on behalf of the Department of Special Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply
permission of the copyright holder, which also must be obtained.
Astrinsky Family Yiddish - East European Postcard Album. Bernath Mss 108. Department of Special Collections, Davidson Library,
University of California, Santa Barbara.
Purchase, 2004.
Scope and Content of Collection
Photograph album in a customized box labeled with the family name Astrinsky. The album contains 53 postcards, some in color,
depicting a variety of people and places with messages handwritten in Yiddish. Many are from areas in Eastern Europe including
such locales as Warsaw and Bialystok. Captions are in Russian, Polish, Yiddish, and German. Other cards feature locations
in the U. S. such as Niagara Falls, Yellowstone National Park, and Santa Barbara, California. A number of the cards are addressed
to a Mr. J. Astrinsky in Brooklyn, New York. There are also a handwritten (in Yiddish) note laid in and three handwritten
documents (in Yiddish) tipped in.
Yiddishland, (postcards compiled with an introduction by Gérard Silvain and Henri Minczeles), Bernath Collection DS 135 E83 Y5313 1999,
contains a brief history of Jewish culture in the major centers of Eastern Europe as well an essay on the importance of postcards
in documenting the history of the prewar Jewish population in the region.