Collection Guide
Brief record only
Collection Title:
Collection Number:
Get Items:
Nathan Feldman family papers, 1899-1962.
Collection Number:
No online items
Collection Overview
Title:
Nathan Feldman family papers, 1899-1962Creator/Contributor:
Feldman, Nathan, creatorCreator/Contributor:
Judah L. Magnes Museum, WJHC 2009.20 AR1.Creator/Contributor:
Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and LifeAbstract:
The collection consists of two photo albums, loose photos, and family documents from Nathan Feldman's life in Russia and the
Soviet Union in the late 1910s and early 1920s. Some photos document Feldman's work as a Bolshevik pilot (including a plane
crash in which Feldman's co-pilot was killed). The collection also includes materials from Feldman's life in the United States,
including correspondence with Doris Sarietzky and others, family photographs (from the Feldman as well as the Sarietzky families),
and family documents (naturalization papers, etc.).
Date:
1899 (issued)Subject:
n-us-caFeldman, Nathan -- Archives
Sarietzky, Doris
Communist Party of the United States of America (New York)
Jews -- Soviet Union
Communism and Judaism
Note:
Formerly: Judah L. Magnes Museum Collection Number WJHC 2009.20 AR1.
UNARRANGED COLLECTION. UNAVAILABLE FOR USE. Inquiries regarding these materials should be submitted to The Bancroft Library
via the Notice of Interest in Unprocessed Collections form.
COLLECTION STORED OFF-SITE: Advance notice required for use.
Nathan Feldman family papers, BANC MSS 2010/754, The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life, The Bancroft Library, University
of California, Berkeley.
Nathan Feldman was born in Russia in 1895. He was sent to Siberia for eighteen months in the 1910s for his communist activities
and later became a pilot for the Bolshevik Air Force. In 1926, Feldman came to the United States illegally via Mexico. He
settled in New York and became a member of the Communist Party. Feldman worked as a labor organizer, though he made a living
with his window washing business. He married Doris Sarietzky in 1940. Doris was born in 1910 in London and moved to the United
States with her family in 1913. The Sarietzky family settled first in New York and then in Ohio. Nathan and Doris had one
child, Miriam, in 1941.
Materials in English and Russian.
Physical Description:
print
1 box, 1 oversize box (.8 linear feet)
Language:
English
Russian
Identifier:
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/libraries/bancroft-library/unprocessed-collections-form
Origin:
CaliforniaCopyright Note:
UNARRANGED COLLECTION. UNAVAILABLE FOR USE. Inquiries regarding these materials should be submitted to The Bancroft Library
via the Notice of Interest in Unprocessed Collections form.
COLLECTION STORED OFF-SITE: Advance notice required for use.