Eliezer Yerushalmi papers

Collection consists of several manuscript and typescript drafts of writings by Yerushalmi describing events in the Šiauliai (Shavli) ghetto during the German occupation as well as other topics. Includes a manuscript text in a notebook, titled "Di geshikte fun Shavler geto un fun zefon Lita bekitzur;" manuscript drafts of several plays, including "Profesor Shuster;" and a draft of a novel, "Man iz im mekane di dira, a novele fun plitim in Italye," which is based on the lives of Jewish refugees in post-war Italy. Eliezer Yerushalmi was a teacher and a member of the Jewish Council (Judenrat) of the Šiauliai (Shavli, in Yiddish) ghetto, in Lithuania. His diary account of life in the ghetto was published in 1950.