2) present sources of income,
3) subject and content of their research,
4) what they had in their portfolios before the war; 4a) what they have now
4b) what has been lost and under what circumstances (contents of the lost
work),
5) the connection between their present occupations and their research,
6) whether they have the necessary premises and other conditions to continue
their work,
7) experiences of those who “left” and returned,⁴¹⁵
8) scholarly plans for the future,
9) whether the material has already been collected (indicate the content of
the work to be produced) in written form or memorised,
10) what the scholars think of the present time, of the experiences and future
of the Jews,
11) what edifying aspects they have observed in Jewish ghetto life,
12) what ignominious aspects,
13) Warsaw Jews and Jews from the provinces,
14) how scholars live their lives at the present time (meetings, scholars’
monthly budget),
15) the attitude of social welfare institutions to Jewish scholars,
16) war suffering (housing, family casualties)
The survey also includes deceased scholars and should explain what has
happened to a deceased scholar’s legacy.
Some of the questions in the survey should be answered on the basis
of interviews with friends and relatives of the deceased. Photographs of all
the scholars from before the war and at the present time should be attached.
[8] The names of the scholars to be approached for the purpose of the
survey must be confirmed in advance by the editorial board.
The author of the articles must familiarise himself with the works of
the individual scholars and on that basis portray the nature of current
Jewish scholarship in comparison with the pre-war period. Given
the risk that work may be lost, an accurate summary of the content
415 Most probably refers to those who fled from the occupied territories to the Soviet Union and returned after the outbreak of the German–Soviet War.
