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Isaac Meyers papers, 1904-1959.
BANC MSS 2010/668 box 1; BANC MSS 2010/668
Collection Overview

Title:

Isaac Meyers papers, 1904-1959

Creator/Contributor:

Meyers, Isaac., creator

Creator/Contributor:

Western Jewish History Center, 209.

Creator/Contributor:

Judah L. Magnes Museum, WJHC 1971.013.

Creator/Contributor:

Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life

Creator/Contributor:

Online Archive of California

Abstract:

The collection consists of correspondence, a travel diary (1959), miscellaneous papers, and photographs. The correspondence of Isaac Meyers and his wife-to-be, Annie (Khanka), illustrates how two members of an anarchist group were able to immigrate to the U.S. without money or friends and make a secure place for themselves and their daughter Ida (Kheike).

Date:

1904 (issued)

Subject:

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Meyers, Isaac -- Archives
Meyers, Annie -- Correspondence
Meyers, Ida
Jewish anarchists -- California
Voyages and travels
Europe -- Emigration and immigration
United States -- Emigration and immigration

Note:

Formerly: Western Jewish History Center Collection Number 209.
Formerly: Judah L. Magnes Museum Collection Number WJHC 1971.013.
COLLECTION STORED OFF-SITE: Advance notice required for use.
Isaac Meyers papers, BANC MSS 2010/668, The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
Transfer; Judah L. Magnes Museum; 2010.
In 1906, Isaac Meyer Handelsman (later Isaac Meyers) emigrated from London, England to Montreal, Canada. By 1908, Meyers was in Warren, Michigan, where he worked as a farmer. Eventually, he made his way west to California and, in 1928, his name appears as Isaac Meyers on a Workmen's Circle Camp lease in San Bernardino County, California.
Primarily in Yiddish, with translations into English.

Type:

Business records-California.
Diaries-California.
Correspondence-California.
Photographs-California.

Physical Description:

1 box (.4 linear feet)

Language:

yid
English

Identifier:

2006585269
BANC MSS 2010/668 box 1
BANC MSS 2010/668

Origin:

California

Copyright Note:

COLLECTION STORED OFF-SITE: Advance notice required for use.