Jay Stiefel (jrstiefel at gmail.com) emails: Hi, Luke-
I enjoyed reading your thumbnail bio about Chaim Tchernovitz, founder and publisher of Bitzaron, the international Hebrew monthly. My father, Israel Stiefel (1898-1966) was its chairman during the period that the Rav Tzair’s son Maurice ran it. He also contributed articles to it, including one on Joseph Klausner whom he first met at Bialik’s house in Odessa and befriended on their aliyah on the Ruslan to Jaffa in 1919. Klausner became his favorite professor at the Hebrew Teachers College in Jerusalem. My father also established literary prizes for the best contemporary Hebrew short stories. The winners of the Stiefel Prizes were published in Bitzaron.
I am presently working in my father’s archive at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania (collection 4025). Given his close association with the Tchernowitz family and Bitzaron, I wanted to make reference to any correspondence of his that may have survived in papers of that family or the publication. Have you any suggestion as to any repository or individual in that regard?
