David Fram Papers
Scope and Contents Note
The collection of David Fram consists of correspondence, drafts (many incomplete) of his literary works, clippings, and publications. The time span is the 1920s to 1980s. Most of the collection is in Yiddish, but some items are in English or French. Correspondence to Fram includes business colleagues; family members; Hebrew writer, Yosi Gamzu; Yiddish writers, H. Erlikh, Yudel Mark, Nachman Mayzel, Chaim Sacks and David Wilkin; P.E.N. South African Centre; Dorem-afrikaner Yidishe kultur-federatsye (South African Yiddish Cultural Federation) and Yidishe kultur-federatsye, Capetown, South Africa (Yiddish Cultural Federation). Correspondence from Fram includes business colleagues; family members; Jewish artists, Alva and Bencjon Benn; Fram’s translator, Joseph Leftwich; Yiddish writers, Meilech Bakalczuk-Felin, Jonathan Batnitzky, Leah Benson-Rink, Leon Bernstein, Benjamin Jacob Bialostotzky, Hirsh Bloshtein, Jacob Botoshansky, Richard Feldman, Jacob Glatstein, Itshe Goldberg, S. J. Goldsmith, Chaim Grade, Zalman Levi, Chaim Sacks, Israel Jacob Schwartz, Levi Shalit, M. Tabatznik and David Wilkin; P.E.N. South African Centre; and Dorem-afrikaner Yidishe kultur-federatsye (South African Yiddish Cultural Federation). His literary works include poetry, prose and literary criticism.
Dates
- Creation: 1920s-1984
Language of Materials
Yiddish
Access Restrictions
Unrestricted.
Use Restrictions
Standard copyright restrictions apply.
Biographical Sketch
Yiddish author David Fram was born in Panevezys, Lithuania, on Oct. 14, 1903 and died in Johannesburg, South Africa, on July 10, 1988. Having been exiled to Russia during World War I, he returned to Lithuania in 1921. He emigrated to South Africa in 1927 but also lived for many years in London and Rhodesia. He took a four–month trip beginning in Nov. 1946 to Paris, Basel, Antwerp, and New York in order to meet with other Yiddish writers and to discuss his writings. He began publishing in 1923 in Yiddish newspapers and journals in Kovno, Lithuania. He published two anthologies of his poetry—Lider un poemes (Vilna: Johannesburg, 1931) and A shvalb oyfn dakh (Johannesburg, 1983)—as well as two long poems, Efsher and Dos Letste Kapitl (both London, 1947). A significant amount of his work remains unpublished.
Full Extent
5 linear inches
Abstract
Correspondence, drafts of literary works, clippings, and publications of Yiddish author David Fram.
Arrangement
The collection is arranged in three series: Correspondence, Literary works, Biography and assorted. Correspondence is arranged chronologically; Literary works are arranged by genre as correctly as possible.
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- Title
- David Fram Papers
- Status
- Edited Partial Draft
- Author
- Jane Garner and Nathan Snyder, Benson Latin American Collection
- Date
- 1996
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- Finding aid written in English and Yiddish.
Revision Statements
- 2021 June: Edited by D Ryan Lynch to fix compliance check errors to prepare for the migration to new TARO website.
- 2021 November: Edited by Devon Murphy to update control access terms and formatting based on the TARO Control Access List.
- 2025 July: Revised by Ryan Sullivant to fix validation errors prior to ingestion into ArchivesSpace.
Repository Details
Part of the Benson Latin American Collection, The University of Texas at Austin Repository
2300 Red River Street
Austin Texas 78712 United States
(512) 495-4578
bensonspecialcollections@austin.utexas.edu