The personal papers of Chaim and Inna Hecker Grade (pronounced Gra-day) have been digitized, and are now publicly accessible online.

Chaim Grade, who died in 1982, was one of the most important Jewish writers of the 20th century. In 2013, his personal papers, a 20,000-volume library, literary manuscripts and publication rights were awarded to the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research and the National Library of Israel. His widow, Inna Hecker Grade, who died in 2010, was a fierce, self-appointed guardian of his literary legacy.

Reportedly, she would call The Forward to complain when one of the stories in the newspaper referred kindly to Isaac Bashevis Singer, the Nobel laureate whom she called a “blasphemous buffoon.