Metadata : Papers of Abraham Nahum Stencl
Collection
- Country:
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
- Holding institution:
- SOAS University of London
- Holding institution (official language):
- SOAS University of London
- Postal address:
- Archives and Special Collections, SOAS Library, Thornhaugh Street, Russell SquareLondonGreater LondonUnited KingdomWC1H 0XG
- Phone number:
- Telephone: 020 7898 4180
- Web address:
- http://archives.soas.ac.uk/CalmView/Default.aspx?
- Email:
- Email: docenquiry@soas.ac.uk
- Country:
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
- Holding institution:
- SOAS University of London
- Holding institution (official language):
- SOAS University of London
- Postal address:
- Archives and Special Collections, SOAS Library, Thornhaugh Street, Russell SquareLondonGreater LondonUnited KingdomWC1H 0XG
- Phone number:
- Telephone: 020 7898 4180
- Web address:
- http://archives.soas.ac.uk/CalmView/Default.aspx?
- Email:
- Email: docenquiry@soas.ac.uk
- Reference number:
- PP MS 44
- Title:
- Papers of Abraham Nahum Stencl
- Title (official language):
- Papers of Abraham Nahum Stencl
- Creator/accumulator:
- Stencl, Abraham Nahum
- Date(s):
- 1910/1983
- Language:
- English
- Yiddish
- Extent:
- 20 boxes
- Scope and content:
- Papers, c 1910-1983, of Abraham Nahum Stencl [Avrom-Nokhem Shtentsl], relating to his life and work and to modern Yiddish literature, and comprising papers relating to his life, 1934-1978, including letters received from his family, photographs, press cuttings relating to his life and work, and personal documents; manuscript and printed writings, 1930-1980, in verse and prose, including some autobiographical and works on literature; papers, 1918-1983, largely dating from the 1940s and after, relating to 'Loshn un Lebn' and the Friends of Yiddish circle, other friends and acquaintances, Jewish organisations, and Stencl's involvement in literary events, comprising letters received and other papers, including works by other authors, of over 200 correspondents, some of them annotated by Stencl; ephemera, c 1910-1982, accumulated by Stencl, including postcards, membership cards, receipts, tickets, greeting cards, circulars, advertisements, and flyers.
- Archival history:
- Stencl's library, numbering several thousand books and periodicals, letters and other papers, which included collections passed onto him by other Yiddish literary figures, were rescued from his flat in Whitechapel after his death.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- Abraham Nahum Stencl [Avrom-Nokhem Shtentsl]: born in Tsheladzh, in south-western Poland, 1897; arrived in Berlin, 1921; a leading Yiddish literary figure in Germany, he wrote expressionist poetry and associated with other literary figures including Else Lasker-Schüler (Schueler) and Thomas Mann; he was a pioneer of the modernist form in Yiddish poetry, but his themes and imagery drew on Jewish tradition; fled to Britain in the mid-1930s; following his arrival his best-known works were on Whitechapel, where he settled, and which he admired as the last Yiddish 'shtetl' [place]; edited 'Loshn un Lebn' [Language and Life], a Yiddish literary journal, for over 40 years; chaired the literarishe shábes-nokhmîtiks [literary Sunday afternoons] meetings; lived in Greatorex Road, off Whitechapel High Street; died, 1983. An annual lecture at the University of Oxford was founded in his name.
- Access points: locations:
- Berlin
- Whitechapel
- Access points: persons/families:
- Stencl, Abraham Nahum
- Subject terms:
- Jewish languages--Yiddish
- Literature
- Access, restrictions:
- Unrestricted access to boxes 1-18, but boxes 19-20, containing further unsorted manuscripts by Stencl, annotated Loshn un Lebn proofsheets, and miscellaneous Yiddish newspapers, are unavailable for consultation.
- Finding aids:
- A paper version of the catalogue written by Prof. Leonard Prager (25 August 1993) is also available.
- Links to finding aids:
- https://archiveshub.jisc.ac.uk/data/gb102-ppms44A
- Author of the description:
- Compiled by Rachel Kemsley as part of the RSLP AIM25 project. Source: article by Peter Shmuel Salinger in The Jewish Chronicle, 25 Nov 1983.
- Reference number:
- PP MS 44
- Title:
- Papers of Abraham Nahum Stencl
- Title (official language):
- Papers of Abraham Nahum Stencl
- Creator/accumulator:
- Stencl, Abraham Nahum
- Date(s):
- 1910/1983
- Language:
- English
- Yiddish
- Extent:
- 20 boxes
- Scope and content:
- Papers, c 1910-1983, of Abraham Nahum Stencl [Avrom-Nokhem Shtentsl], relating to his life and work and to modern Yiddish literature, and comprising papers relating to his life, 1934-1978, including letters received from his family, photographs, press cuttings relating to his life and work, and personal documents; manuscript and printed writings, 1930-1980, in verse and prose, including some autobiographical and works on literature; papers, 1918-1983, largely dating from the 1940s and after, relating to 'Loshn un Lebn' and the Friends of Yiddish circle, other friends and acquaintances, Jewish organisations, and Stencl's involvement in literary events, comprising letters received and other papers, including works by other authors, of over 200 correspondents, some of them annotated by Stencl; ephemera, c 1910-1982, accumulated by Stencl, including postcards, membership cards, receipts, tickets, greeting cards, circulars, advertisements, and flyers.
- Archival history:
- Stencl's library, numbering several thousand books and periodicals, letters and other papers, which included collections passed onto him by other Yiddish literary figures, were rescued from his flat in Whitechapel after his death.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- Abraham Nahum Stencl [Avrom-Nokhem Shtentsl]: born in Tsheladzh, in south-western Poland, 1897; arrived in Berlin, 1921; a leading Yiddish literary figure in Germany, he wrote expressionist poetry and associated with other literary figures including Else Lasker-Schüler (Schueler) and Thomas Mann; he was a pioneer of the modernist form in Yiddish poetry, but his themes and imagery drew on Jewish tradition; fled to Britain in the mid-1930s; following his arrival his best-known works were on Whitechapel, where he settled, and which he admired as the last Yiddish 'shtetl' [place]; edited 'Loshn un Lebn' [Language and Life], a Yiddish literary journal, for over 40 years; chaired the literarishe shábes-nokhmîtiks [literary Sunday afternoons] meetings; lived in Greatorex Road, off Whitechapel High Street; died, 1983. An annual lecture at the University of Oxford was founded in his name.
- Access points: locations:
- Berlin
- Whitechapel
- Access points: persons/families:
- Stencl, Abraham Nahum
- Subject terms:
- Jewish languages--Yiddish
- Literature
- Access, restrictions:
- Unrestricted access to boxes 1-18, but boxes 19-20, containing further unsorted manuscripts by Stencl, annotated Loshn un Lebn proofsheets, and miscellaneous Yiddish newspapers, are unavailable for consultation.
- Finding aids:
- A paper version of the catalogue written by Prof. Leonard Prager (25 August 1993) is also available.
- Links to finding aids:
- https://archiveshub.jisc.ac.uk/data/gb102-ppms44A
- Author of the description:
- Compiled by Rachel Kemsley as part of the RSLP AIM25 project. Source: article by Peter Shmuel Salinger in The Jewish Chronicle, 25 Nov 1983.
