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Collection: Title: Papers, 1890-1942.
Description: ca. 1 linear ft.
Yiddish and Hebrew writer and playright.

David Baer Tirkel used the pen-name D. Batten.  He was active in Jewish organizations in Philadelphia, PA, and contributed to and edited Yiddish newspapers there.  He was born in the Ukraine and came to the United States in 1893.  Manuscripts of Tirkel's essays, articles, plays, writings on the history of the Yiddish theater in Philadelphia, and an autobiographical sketch.  Also, correspondence, 1905-1942; photographs of Tirkel; and minutes, 1899, of the Hebrew Literary Society of Philadelphia, are included.

Ref.: *.DOC file sent to me by Andrew Z. Tirkel, Australia