[1][4]: 260 He published his first article – an essay in Russian on the Yiddish writer Sholem Yankev Abramovitsh ("Mendele Moykher Sforim: An attempt at a critical characteristic")[5]: 41 – in 1905, in the Russian-language Zionist journal Evreiskaia zhizn (Jewish life).
[9] When the Soviets gained control of Ukraine in 1921, Tcherikower and other Yiddish activists in Kyiv fled the city; he and his wife Riva (Rebecca), taking the archive with them, went first to Moscow and then to Berlin.
[11] Tcherikower became the leader of the Historical Section of the new institute (one of four research divisions), which held its founding meeting on October 31, 1925 at Dubnow's apartment in Berlin.
[2] He headed a group of historians, including Vladimir Burtsev and Sergei Svatikov, who gathered evidence and gave testimony for the prosecution concerning the fraudulent nature of the Protocols.
[13] In 1939 Tcherikower, then living in France, co-edited, with Yisroel (Israel) Efroykin (1884–1954), the new Yiddish-language journal Oyfn sheydveg (At the Crossroads), with Zelig Kalmanovitch as a major contributor.
The three colleagues, who had all advocated for diaspora nationalism and Yiddishism, aimed to reevaluate their cultural and political views on the future of the Jewish people.
They eventually managed to obtain visas with the help of the American branch of YIVO, and emigrated to the United States in September 1940, settling in New York City.