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RG 10: Vilna Jewish Community Council. Records.

Records of the administration of the Jewish community in Vilna from 1800 to 1940

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Prayer celebrating Polish independence (RG 10.301.1)
Rabbinical proclamation about suppression of Jewish religion in Soviet Union (RG 10.298.1)
Rabbinical proclamation permitting celebration of Passover with tea instead of wine (RG 10.298.4)

RG 27: Guttmacher, Eliyahu (1796-1874). Papers.

Several thousand 19th-century kvitlekh (written requests to a rabbi asking for a blessing or advice) sent to Rabbi Eliayahu Guttmacher, known as the Tsadik of Graetz

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Letter to a rabbi about rules governing the lighting of candles (RG 27.2.41.1)
Letter to a rabbi from Rabbi Nachum Streisand, a shohet (ritual slaughterer) (RG 27.2.45.2)

RG 28: Poland (Vilna Archives) Collection.

Leaflets, posters, and other documents related to political organizations, elections, banks, trade unions, cultural activities, religious matters, and sports, from over 200 Jewish communities

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"Exciting news!" (RG 28.Warsaw 48.2)
"To the Jewish Woman!" (RG 28.Pinczow)
A mohel's business card (RG 28.Lodz 20.5)
Advertisement for a performance a child cantor (RG 28.Warsaw 48.6)
Advertisement for High Holiday services (RG 28.Warsaw 48.7)
Advertisement for High Holiday services (RG 28.Warsaw 48.8)
Advertisement for High Holiday services (RG 28.Warsaw 48.9)
Advertisement for High Holiday services at Mr. Skała's school (RG 28.Warsaw 48.12)
Advertisement for High Holiday services in the courtyard of the shipping office (RG 28.Warsaw 48.4)
Advertisement for High Holiday services on Dzika Street. (RG 28.Warsaw 48.13)
Announcement about distribution of flour for baking matzoh (RG 28. Bialystok 1.3)
Appeal to women to observe Jewish family purity laws (RG 28.Tomaszow Lubelski)
Bylaws of the Torah Fund (RG 28 Lowicz.7)
Call to attend meeting of the Tares Bnos Yisroel (Purity of Jewish Women) Women's Association (RG 28.Warsaw 42.3)
Flyer advertising appearance by cantor Yoysef Rabinshtayn at Mizrachi synagogue (RG 28.Warsaw 48.3)
Flyer advertising sale of etrogs (citrons) from Palestine (RG 28.Lodz 20.4)
Flyer advertising the purchase of khomets (RG 28.Lodz 20.6)
Flyer announcing an appearance by cantor Koyfman Yudl Eydilzohn at a synagogue during the High Holidays (RG 28.Warsaw 48.5)
Handwritten flyer inviting men to come and study at a synagogue on the Sabbath (RG 28.Warsaw 48.11)
Invitation to celebrate dedication of Great Synagogue, Bialystok (RG 28. Bialystok 1.1)
Leaflet advertising High Holiday services (RG 28.Lodz 20.3)
Leaflet advertising high holiday services (RG 28 Warsaw 48.10)
Transcription of pinkas (register) of the Khevra Kadisha of Kutno (RG 28. Kutno 5)

RG 29: Vilna. Collection.

Records of Jewish organizations and institutions; official government, municipal, and legal documents; memoirs of the German occupation, and other documents chronicling the life of the Jewish community in Vilna

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"Mishmeres Khoylim - 36 years" (RG 29.43.3)
Call for Jewish women to buy candles from Mishmeres Khoylim (Miszmeres Chojlim) (RG 29.43.2)
Jewish workers urged to study Torah in the evenings (RG 29.94.1)

RG 48: TSYSHO (Tsentrale Yidishe Shul Organizatsye), Vilna. Records.

Records of the Tsentrale Yidishe Shul Organizatsye (Central Yiddish School Organization), a secular Yiddish school system active in Poland from 1921 to ca. 1940

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A fourteen-year-old Orthodox girl's responses to a questionnaire on telling lies (RG 48.33.5)

RG 116 POLAND 1: Territorial Collection. Poland 1. (Pre WWII)

Printed materials, posters, correspondence, and fragmentary personal papers and records of institutions related to Polish Jewish life before WWII

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Announcement about a "golden book" of "Jewish yikhes" (lineage) (RG 116 Poland 1.2.11.1)
Invitation to dedication of the reconstructed Kneset Yisroel Synagogue (RG 116 Poland 1.4.5.3)
Last warning for women who do not observe family purity laws (RG 116.Poland1.7.7.2)
Passbook for a mikve (ritual bath) (RG 116.Poland1.7.7.1)