WPA Yiddish Writer's Group Study (1938-39)
Questionnaire
Questionnaire
- Name of organization/district
- When founded? For what purpose?
- How founded?
- Number of members at time of founding
- Average age at time of founding
- Have you helped found other organizations?
- Are you a member of a federation?
- Which one?
- Present membership of your organization
- Membership classification:
- workers
- businessmen
- others
- Present average age
- Percent of non-landsleit
- Number of American born members
- Proportion of youth members
- Time of meeting
- Place of meeting
- Do you engage in cultural activities?
- Lectures (What kind?)
- Theatre
- Benefits
- Where held?
- Language used at:
- Meetings
- Correspondence
- Minutes?
- Do you pay benefits and amount
- Death benefit
- Sick-benefit
- Others
- Amount of dues in your organization?
- Have you your own burial plot?
- Amount paid in
- Have you a printed or written constitution?
- Have you published any material?
- Have you participated in the raising of funds for the benefit of your native town?
- Through what agency:
- Joint Distribution Committee
- Indepent
- Others
- Amount raised until now
- Have you sent a representative to Europe?
- What ties do you maintain with the old home
- How much aid have you given the various institutions?
- Do you help support any American Jewish institutions?
- Which ones?
- Amount contributed annually
- What are your assets?
- Is your society:
- Zionist
- Orthodox
- Are you losing or gaining members?
- Name of your society
- Address
- Name of interviewer
- Date
