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RG 3: Yiddish Literature and Language. Records.

Manuscripts by and biographical materials on Jewish writers and scholars, as well as other materials about Yiddish language and literature

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Scene from "Stempenyu" (RG 3.3159.1)
Scene from "Stempenyu" (RG 3.3159.2)
Scene from "The Big Prize" (RG 3.3159.3)
Scene from "The Big Prize" (RG 3.3159.4)
Scene from "The Hunchback" (RG 3.1903.4)

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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Affadavit submitted to the Vilna Kehillah confirming the identity of Yankev-Tsvi Hiller (RG 10.310. 2)

RG 26: Yidisher Artistn Fareyn (Warsaw). Records.

Records of the Jewish Actors Union, including 600 individual files on actors, singers, composers, and directors

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Stage photo from the T.U.SH., "Teater un shpil" (theater and play). (RG 26.247)

RG 36: Bernstein, Abraham Moshe (1878-1933). Papers

Printed musical works and music manuscripts of Abraham Bernstein, a cantor, choir master, composer of Jewish liturgical and popular music, music teacher, musicologist, and writer

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Portrait of Abraham Moshe Bernstein in cantorial garb. (yarg36f30.4527d005)

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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Diploma and report card of a student in the Eight-grade Gymnasium of the TSYSHO, Święciany (RG 48.95.1)
Diploma and report card of a student in the Eight-grade Gymnasium of the TSYSHO, Święciany (RG 48.95.2)
Diploma and report card of a student in the Eight-grade Gymnasium of the TSYSHO, Święciany (RG 48.95.3)
Diploma and report card of a student in the Eight-grade Gymnasium of the TSYSHO, Święciany (RG 48.95.4)

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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Russian gymasium graduation diploma (RG 116.Poland1.7.10)

RG 120: Territorial Photographic Collection. Poland.

Thousands of photographs of Jewish life in Poland before WWII

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COLLECTION Territorial Photographic Collection:Poland (120)
Annopol-Rachów, 1912. Dovid Elye the sofer (ritual scribe) at work with a quill on a Torah scroll. (yarg120po11)
Baranowicze, 1930s. The children at mealtime, in the dining room of the YEKOPO Orphanage. (yarg120po57)
Bedzin, 1923. Thousands of Hasidim of the Gerer Rebbe, gather for his son's wedding. (yarg120po73)
Berezne, 1930. Outdoor portrait of pupils and teachers of the Talmud Torah Yavne. (yarg120po88)
Berlin, 1930. Album cover of photographs of OSE activities in interwar Poland. (yarg120poalbum8_p001)
Bialystok, April 16, 1919. A man poses in uniform with his bicycle, in front of a painted backdrop. (yarg120bialystokboxd005)
Bialystok, 1905. The corpses of victims of the "Bloody Sabbath" pogrom. (yarg120po249)
Bialystok, 1915. Portrait study in profile of four sisters; Masza on the left, Berta, Fania, and Sonia Lewin. (yarg120po161.02)
Bialystok, 1918 . Two well-dressed young men, posing in the woods. (yarg120bialystokboxd001)
Bialystok, 1919. Students and faculty, of the sixth grade class, at the Yiddish Folkshul of the Yugnt Fareyn. (yarg120po211.01)
Bialystok, 1919. Children from the Yugnt Fareyn Folkshul, in costume for a play. (yarg120po188)
Bialystok, 1924. Outdoor group portrait, of the mandolin orchestra of the I. L. Peretz School. (yarg120po197)
Bialystok, 1925. Formal class portrait in a yard, of the well-dressed children of Dore Volabrinsky-Frank's private kindergarten. (yarg120po238)
Bialystok, 1928. Group portrait, of the soccer teams of the Grodno Maccabee Sports Club (in solid jerseys), and the Bialystok Jewish Sports Club. (yarg120po226)
Bialystok, 1930. "Summer Colony" of OSE-TOZ. (yarg120poalbum8_7641)
Bialystok, 1930. Portraits of the board of directors of the Jewish Sports Club. (yarg120po229)
Bialystok, ca. 1900. Mashe Zilberlat-Arodisht; a young woman in a dress, holding a book. (yarg120po136)
Bialystok, ca. 1905. Outdoor portrait of Hershl Jacobson, the gymnastics teacher at a school of the Union for Jewish Youth, presenting a pyramid formation. (yarg120po194.07)
Bialystok, ca. 1915. Outdoor portrait of Yugnt Fareyn members during calisthenics. (yarg120po194.08)
Bialystok, Feb. 27, 1920. Portrait of students of the Yiddish Folkshul (secular elementary school), in a gymnastics pyramid, wearing ballet slippers. (yarg120po194.36)
Bialystok, Feb. 27, 1918. A folkshul gymnastics group, poses in formation. (yarg120bialystokboxd007)
Bialystok, June 14-15,1929. The Bialystok Jewish Sports Club soccer team, plays the Warsaw Polonia team (wearing "v" jerseys). (yarg120po228)
Bialystok, Nov. 20, 1932. Housewives carry pots of cholent, to the baker's oven on a Friday afternoon. (yarg120po115)
Bialystok, Oct. 2, 1923. Members of the Bialystok Jewish Sports Club soccer team, pose on the field in uniform. (yarg120po224)
Bialystok. A boy poses in uniform, with his hand in his jacket. (yarg120bialystokboxd002)
Bialystok. A boy poses with his hand in his jacket. (yarg120bialystokboxd003)
Bialystok. A group of young men and a woman, in a discussion. (yarg120bialystokboxd004)
Bialystok. A gymnastics group. (yarg120po233)
Bialystok. Children in costumes. (yarg120po190)
Biecz, ca. 1922. Outdoor class portrait of Talmud Torah children. (yarg120po254)
Bransk, 1903. Portrait of four members of the Zagelbaum family, in formal clothing. (yarg120po290)
Bransk, 1920. Portrait of four children of the Zagelbaum family. (yarg120po292)
Brody, 1881. Portrait of The Committee in Charge of Relief and Migration Activities. (yarg120po300d001)
Brzesc Litewski, 1930. Portrait montage forming a Star of David, of the teachers and students of the Torat Chesed Yeshivah. (yarg120po350c001)
Brzesc Litewski. Portrait of a couple, standing on either side of a small covered table. (yarg120po336.01)
Brzezany, 1929. A row of tombstones, in the old Jewish cemetery. (RG 120 PO 364)
Brzezany, ca. 1910. Portrait of Melech Chmelnitzky, with his arm around his friend. (yarg120po370.01)
Brzeziny, 1910. Portrait of a group of young men, successful businessmen in the dress industry. (yarg120po382)
Brzeziny, 1918. Yehuda Fuks, a Hebrew teacher, center, and others, pose with students of the Beit Sefer Yavne. (yarg120po393.01)
Brzeziny, 1920s-1930s. Portrait of Yehuda Fuks, a Hebrew teacher, with his students from the Yesodei Ha-Torah kheyder. (yarg120po393.02)
Brzeziny, 1931. The soccer team of the Brzeziny Sports Club. (yarg120po393.12)
Chelm, 1920s. Portrait of Sara Berlan, and Rosa Karpenkop. (yarg120po427.08)
Chelm, 1927. Studio portrait of the Zimmerman family. (yarg120po423.07)
Chelm, 1930. Y. Beker, addressing the crowd at the funeral procession for Jewish City Councilman Yitschok Ivri, murdered by Polish right-wing extremists on July 29, 1930. (yarg120po422.01)
Chelm, 1934. Jewish students at the State Gymnasium. (RG 120 PO 427.12)
Chelm, ca. 1900. Portrait of Avrom, Srulka, and Khalev Braun. (yarg120po423.01)
Ciechanow, 1915. The leaders of the local branch of Tse'irei Tsion, a Zionist youth organization. (yarg120po458)
Ciechanow, 1928. Young men, at the the completion of the writing of a new Torah scroll. (RG 120 PO 450)
Ciechanowiec, 1920s-30s. At the resort, merchants from the Nalewki commercial district of Warszawa, relax around a table outdoors. (yarg120po462)
Czestochowa, 1928. Members of the Jewish Sports Club's bicycle team, pose in front of a fence. (yarg120po613.01)
Czestochowa, 1916. People with Yiddish placards, on a municipal election day. (RG 120 PO 603)
Czestochowa, 1920s-1930s. Festive gathering of Jewish soldiers in the Polish army, and Jewish community leaders. (yarg120po605)
Czestochowa, 1927. Cyclists of a Jewish sports organization. (yarg120po0613)
Czestochowa, May 1919. Victims of the pogrom of May 27th, 1919, awaiting burial. (yarg120poalbum34_8077)
Czortków. Carte-de-visite portrait of Rabbi Menahem Mendel Rosenzweig. (yarg120po642.01)
Deblin, August 1920. A delegation of Jews greeting Pilsudski with bread and salt, after the Polish Army captured the town from the Bolsheviks. (yarg120po685)
Dlugosiodlo, 1920s-1930s. Boys playing chess, at the Yehudia summer camp for religious children. (yarg120po705.01)
Domaczewo, 1936. Exercising by the water, at a summer camp run by CENTOS. (yarg120po725)
Drobin, 1926. Portrait of members of the Drobnianka Jewish Sports Club, with a soccer ball. (yarg120po727)
Drohiczyn, 1917. Musicians lead a wedding procession to the synagogue, from Khaykl Milner's house. (yarg120po738)
Drohobycz, 1930. Photomontage of the graduating class and staff, of King Wladyslaw Jagiello School. (yarg120po748.11)
Druskieniki, 1926. A group of vacationers at the resort, pose on a porch with a large fish. (yarg120po754.02)
Druskieniki. Portrait of a woman and three children, at the resort. (yarg120po756.03)
Drzewica, April 28, 1931. After a flood, two men pose on the lower roof of a house, partially submerged in water on Potocka Street. (yarg120po794)
Dubno, 1920s-1930s. Part of the hospital, maintained by the Kehile. (yarg120po776)
Ejszyszki, 1897 (?). A teacher poses her class outside the Folkshul. (yarg120po799)
Ejszyszki, 1936. Photomontage of the jubilee committee for the 100th anniversary of the birth of Mendele Moykher Sforim, at the I. L. Peretz Jewish Library. (yarg120po801)
Gabin, 1909. Four young leather workers, at work outdoors. (yarg120po837c001)
Gabin, 1914-1918. The busy market square. (yarg120po816)
Gabin, 1921. A front view of the exterior of the wooden synagogue, built in the early 18th century. (yarg120po824)
Gabin, 1925. Portrait of Henokh Goldschmidt, member of the Bund, reading its newspaper, the Folkstsaytung. (yarg120po832)
Gdansk, 1937. Students from the Zygmund August High School in Vilna, pose on a boat at the mouth of the Vistula River. (yarg120po870.02)
Glebokie, 1923-1924. Girls in a class at an ORT trade school for seamstresses, in the first year that the courses existed. (yarg120po879)
Grajewo, May 25, 1920. Outdoor portrait of members of Poalei Tsiyon. (yarg120po916)
Grodno, 1920. Members of a Hechalutz agricultural group, sharing a meal in a field. (yarg120po1164)
Grodno, 1920s-1930s. Portrait of Francesca Moyerman, a teacher. (yarg120po1030)
Grodno, 1920s-30s. Children and staff, sunbathing by the shore of the Nieman River. (yarg120po1202)
Grodno, 1920s. Children in a TOZ summer camp, pose in hammocks during a rest period. (yarg120po1201)
Grodno, 1925. Five young members of Ze'irei Zion, posing outdoors. (yarg120po1163)
Grodno, 1926 . A patient and doctors in a treatment room, at the Jewish Hospital. (yarg120po1180)
Grodno, 1926. Medical personnel and administrators, pose in an office at the Jewish Hospital. (yarg120po1185)
Grodno, 1926. Young members of the Sheskin family, at the grave of Bezalel , 1904-1926, a cultural activist. (yarg120po1001)
Grodno, 1929. Portrait of a young woman. (yarg120po1040)
Grodno, 1933. Children posing in the water and on the shore, of the TOZ "Summer Colony" in Grodno. (yarg120grodno1933)
Grodno, 1935. A building damaged in a pogrom. (RG 120 PO 1215)
Grodno, April 1922. A portrait of a young woman named Eva. (yarg120po1028)
Grodno, ca. 1906. Jacob Sheskin and his brother Mordkhe, posing at the grave of their father. (yarg120po1000)
Grodno, ca. 1930s. The mother of Leon Arkin, of the Chicago bureau of the Forverts, poses at the gravestone of her husband. (yarg120po1044)
Grodno, March 10, 1928. Group portrait at a costume ball for children, at the TOZ health care facility. (yarg120po1198)
Grzymalów. Picture postcard view of the synagogue. (yarg120po1240.05)
Inowlodz , July 27, 1904. A group of people, posing together under a tree in the woods. (yarg120po6481)
Jaroslaw, 1931. View of a TOZ summer camp. (yarg120po1304)
Jaroslaw, after 1915. Tombstones in the Jewish cemetery, of two Jewish soldiers who fell while serving in the German army during World War I. (yarg120po1298)
Jaroszowka (a district of Bialystok), 1930s. In the doctor's office, at a consulation center for infant health, run by the Bialystok TOZ . (yarg120po14)
Jaroszowka, 1930's. "Rest Cure." Children lying on cots outdoors, at a summer camp run by the Bialystok TOZ-OZE. (yarg120poalbum14_7722)
Jaroszowka, 1930's. Two women pose in a pharmacy. (yarg120poalbum14_7700)
Jaroszowka, 1930s. A dentist, shown treating a patient at a dental clinic. (yarg120poalbum14_7699)
Jaroszowka, 1930s. A doctor examines a boy with a stethoscope. (yarg120poalbum14_7721)
Jaroszowka, 1930s. Portrait of youngsters at a meal outdoors, at a summer camp run by the Bialystok TOZ-OZE. (yarg120poalbum14_7734)
Kalisz, 1920s-30s. Tauba Siemiatycka, a student at the Warsaw University, poses on a couch. (yarg120po1341.05)
Kamionka Strumilowa, 1920s-1930s. Boys studying in a kheyder. (yarg120po1347.02)
Kamionka Strumilowa, 1930s. The melamed presides over a class in a kheyder. (yarg120po1347.03)
Karczew, 1935. People walk along a quiet residential street, lined with wooden homes. (yarg120po1350)
Karwia, 1928. Men, including I. J. Singer, play chess, while a crowd looks on, at the Kultur-Lige Summer Colony. (yarg120po1363.01)
Kazimierz Dolny, 1920s-30s. Young men and women from Warszawa on an outing, pose in bathing suits. (yarg120po1414)
Kazimierz Dolny, 1925. Customers look over shoes, at an outdoor shoe stall in the marketplace. (yarg120po1393)
Kazimierz Dolny, 1936. Members of Tsukunft pose, wearing bathing suits, in a lake at their summer camp. (yarg120po1414.10)
Kazimierz Dolny, July 1936. Members of the Tsukunft summer camp, pose out in the woods. (yarg120po1414.09)
Kazmierz Dolny, 1930s. Horse-drawn wagons, in the market place. (yarg120po1393.03)
Klimontow, 1920s-1930s. Children and adults line the balcony, and the path to the synagogue. (RG 120 PO 1483)
Kolomyja, 1932. Jewish curtain makers and piece workers (khalupnikes), posing at their machines, with examples of their lace-curtain work. (yarg120po1525)
Korelicze, ca. 1921. A house reconstructed, with the aid of funds from the AJDC. (RG 120 PO 1560)
Kraków, 1920. Portrait of three children of the Stern family. (yarg120po563.41)
Krakow, 1938. Portrait of Maryna Jakobiak, with her husband on their wedding day. (yarg120po563.35)
Krakow. Portrait of I. Krieg, a soldier in the Polish army, and his bride, on their wedding day. (yarg120po563.28)
Krzemieniec, 1928. A man at a desk, in the library of the Histadrut Hatsiyonit (the Zionist Organization). (yarg120po1651)
Kunow, 1920s-1930s. Khaskele, a tailor, poses at a sewing machine in his home. (yarg120po1654)
Lachwa, 1937. Wedding portrait, in front of a wooden house. A non-Jewish couple, flanked by their wedding party, with a Jewish fiddler, and other musicians. (yarg120po1682)
Lask, ca. 1939. A street scene: a Jewish man in traditional dress, and a young girl on the sidewalk, outside a barber shop. (yarg120po1689)
Leczyca, 1890. Men in costume for a Purim shpil. Among them is Jacob Lassman, who later emigrated to the USA. (yarg120po1712)
Lida, 1910. Rabbi Shlomo Polachek, the Illui (prodigy) of Meitshet, the head of the Lida Yeshiva, with teachers and students of the 3rd class. (yarg120po1735)
Lodz, 1890s. Studio portrait of four generations of a family, posing with a framed portrait of a man on a bicycle. (yarg120po1833)
Lodz, 1902. Striking weavers, pose for a group portrait, in front of the Wislicki factory. (yarg120po1849)
Lodz, 1909. Yiddish writer Mendele Moykher Sforim, with Jacob Dinesohn, Dovid Frischmann, and the teachers of the Jaroczinski Trade School. (yarg120po1807)
Lodz, 1912. Crowds fill the streets, at the funeral procession of Rabbi Eliyahu Chaim Meisel (1821-1912), the rabbi of Lodz. (yarg120po1803)
Lodz, 1914-15. Emblems of various relief organizations, active during World War I. (yarg120po1753.07)
Lodz, 1924.The founders and current board of directors, of the Linat Ha-Tsedek emergency medical service. (yarg120po1916)
Lodz, 1928. Young men, pose near seamless sock-making machines, in an ORT vocational class. (yarg120po1859.01)
Lodz, 1928. Young women, at work in an ORT embroidery class, where they learned to make linen undergarments and shirts. (yarg120po1861)
Lodz, 1930s. A street scene, in the Baluty neighborhood. (RG 120 PO 1772)
Lodz, 1933. In the Baluty neighborhood marketplace, a street merchant, with geese for sale, hung around his neck. (yarg120po1784.03)
Lodz, 1939. Scenes from a TOZ summer camp. (yarg120po6746)
Lodz, August 1928. Students and faculty, pose in a classroom, on the day of the final examination. (yarg120po1859.02)
Lodz, ca. 1920s. Portrait of the faculty and students of the first graduating class of the school for tinsmiths, run by the trade union. (yarg120po1892)
Lodz, ca. 1920s. Yiddish Writers: Broderson, Markish, and Kacyzne. (yarg120po1808.01)
Lodz, ca. 1930s. Factories and smokestacks. (RG 120 PO 1746)
Lodz, January 20, 1926. Boys pose in the snow, with adults outside their kheyder, the traditional elementary school. (yarg120po1882.01)
Lodz, WWI. Outside J. Koprovsky's pharmacy, dish washers kasher (ritually cleanse) dishes, for Passover use. (yarg120po1753.24)
Lodz. A picture postcard, of the the Great German Synagogue. (RG 120 PO 1788)
Lomza, WWI, ca. 1915. On the pavement near a shop, Jewish boys shine the shoes of German officers. (yarg120po1950.01)
Lowicz, 1910s. Six men, pose around a table with newspapers and cigarettes. (yarg120po1958.01)
Lowicz, 1917. Portrait of members of the local Poalei Zion. (yarg120po1956.01)
Lowicz, 1919. Two children, an uncle and his nephew, play chess outdoors. (yarg120po1951.02)
Lowicz, Oct. 10, 1925. Portrait of members of a "lecture circle," posing in front of a portrait of I. L. Peretz. (yarg120po1961)
Lubcza, 1920s. Ruveyn Kivelewicz's home, under reconstruction, with the help of a loan from the AJDC. (yarg120po1984.01)
Lubcza, after WWI. Children with a horse-drawn sleigh, outside Borukh Mordkhe Jankelewicz's house, under reconstruction, with the aid of a loan from the AJDC (yarg120po1970)
Lubcza, after WWI. Tuvye Szimszelewicz's house, under reconstruction, with the aid of a loan from the AJDC. (yarg120po1976)
Lubcza, ca. 1920s. View of Palace Street, in the winter. (yarg120po1965)
Lublin, 1919. A group of men, all born in 1898, pose with a framed portrait of Ber Borochov, before going into the Polish army at the age of 21. (yarg120po2041.01)
Lublin, 1919. In an office of the AJDC, a committee meeting of women who will be in charge of a children's summer camp. (yarg120po2048)
Lublin, 1925. A view of the amud (lectern) in the Maharam synagogue. (yarg120po2016)
Lublin, 1930. At the Consultation Center for Infants, a baby is weighed on a scale. (yarg120poalbum8_7643)
Lublin, 1937. The local water carrier. (yarg120po2003.01)
Luck, 1930s. Students and a staff member, looking at books in a children's library. (yarg120po2079)
Lukow, ca. 1920s. A Jewish soldier in the Polish army, poses with family members. (yarg120po2091)
Lwów, 1918. After the pogrom, children who have received food from a soup kitchen, pose on a sidewalk, with pitchers and soup pails. (yarg120po2169.29)
Lwów, 1918. After the pogrom: victims in a field and along a road, carrying bundles, and driving horse-drawn wagons laden with belongings. (yarg120po2169.04)
Lwów, 1918. Taking refuge in a cellar: these four children whose parents were murdered in the pogrom in Lwów, were taken in by refugees. (yarg120po2169.08)
Lwów, 1918. Two months after the pogrom: the damaged gate of a ladies' and children's clothing store. (yarg120po2169.06)
Lwów, 1923. Students at work in a sewing class, at the Jewish Trade School for Girls, at No. 9 Piekarska Street. (yarg120po2162.02)
Lwów, 1924. Jozef Wittlin, a well-known Polish writer, and his wife Halina, pose on a balcony during their honeymoon. (yarg120po2198.02)
Lwów, 1930s. A view of the city, from a tall building. (yarg120po2122)
Lwów, 1930s. Sharly (Lotte) Wilder, a teacher, with her students in costume, posing outdoors. (yarg120po2156.02)
Lwów, 1930s. Two beggars, at the cemetery wall. (yarg120po2149.01)
Lwów, 1937. A man in silhouette, standing in front of a tombstone. (yarg120po2148.01)
Lwów, ca. 1900. Photomontage of students in uniform. (yarg120po2230.01)
Miedzeszyn, 1938-39. Refugee children from Germany, at the Medem Sanatorium, posing with their two counselors. (yarg120po2442)
Miedzeszyn, the 1930s. The Medem Sanatorium. (yarg120po2310)
Miedzeszyn,1938-39. Refugee children from Germany, sitting at desks during a Yiddish lesson, in a classroom at the Medem Sanatorium. (yarg120po2439)
Miedzyrzec, 1930s. Portrait of a student, at study in the yeshivah. (yarg120po2491)
Miedzyrzec, ca. 1930s. Portrait of young Tsukunft activists. (yarg120po3098)
Mielec, October 1930. Members of the Eisig family, sitting in front of a monument. (yarg120po2501.39)
Mir, 1926. Montage of photographs of the faculty and students of the Mirrer Yeshivah. (yarg120po2524)
Mlawa, 1930s. A woman standing behind the tombstone of Sarah Yerl, who died in 1911. (yarg120po2554)
Mlawa, ca. 1914-17. Picture postcard of the town during World War I. Russian prisoners of war, are led away by German soldiers. (yarg120po2535)
Mlawa,1919. Portrait of members of the Hechalutz Hatzair. (yarg120po2573)
Motol, 1939. A woman stands next to a tombstone, erected 18 years after the death of Avraham Leib Halevi. (yarg120po2604)
Motol, 1939. A woman stands next to the tombstone of Toybe Dine (d. 1921), wife of the shochet and cantor of the city of Gubsayv. (yarg120po2605)
Niemiezh, 1930s. Dr. Max Weinreich at work at his typewriter, with his sons Uriel and Gabriel, at Dr. Zemach Shabad's summer home. (yarg120po2616.02)
Niemiezh, 1931. Dr. Max Weinreich watching his sons, Uriel and Gabriel, get water from an outdoor pump, at Dr. Zemach Shabad's summer home. (yarg120po2616.03)
Niemiezh, c. 1930. Uriel Weinreich, son of Max, as a young boy, painting at a table outdoors, at the summer home of Dr Zemach Shabad. (yarg120po2616.05)
Nieswicz, 1904. A panoramic view of the town, from across the river. (yarg120po2622.01)
Nieswicz, August 1, 1926. Children pose in a playground, sponsored by TOZ. (yarg120po2631)
Novominsk, ca. 1928. A man poses at the tombstone of Yisroel Yude Rosenberg (d. 1917), son of Boruch Isser. (yarg120po2505.03)
Novominsk, 1936. People examining a house, that was burned down during the pogrom. (yarg120po2509)
Nowy Sacz, 1916. Outdoor portrait of a group of young Zionists, posing with a framed portrait of Ber Borochov. (yarg120po2679.01)
Opatow, 1920s. Portrait of Yosl Wajcblum, "der blinder," and his children. (yarg120po2721.12)
Opatow. Portrait of a member of the Kirshenblatt family. (yarg120po2721.11)
Orla, 1930s. Men at study in the beit-midrash. (yarg120po2745.10)
Orla, 1930s. Officials of the Gemilat Chesed Free Loan Society, leaving a meeting at the People's Bank. (yarg120po2745.28)
Orla, ca. 1920s. Rokhele Buszmyc (Buschmitz), holding a doll. (yarg120po2745.34)
Ostróg, 1906. Portrait of Moyshe Tolpin, a teacher in a governmental school, and his family. (yarg120po2766)
Ostrog, 1921-22. Hashomer Hatzair activists: Ezra Tolpin, Yosef and Yashe Bukimer, Grynes, Yosef Weksler, Shmarye Biber, and Baranik. (yarg120po2769.02)
Ostrow. Portrait of a boy with a bowtie. (yarg120po2778.01)
Ostrowiec, 1920s. Portrait of the families Laks and Tenenblum. (yarg120po2794.26)
Ostrowiec, ca. 1900. A kapelye, known all over Poland. (yarg120po2797c001)
Oszmiana, April 1933. Children posing in costume, for a play entitled "Queen of the Fairytale," at the Folkshul. (yarg120po2815)
Parczew, 1920s-1930s. Members of a Jewish fire brigade, posing with their fire-wagon. (yarg120po2885)
Pinsk ca. 1924. Outdoor portrait of the orchestra of the M. Glouberman Folkshul. (yarg120po3001)
Pinsk, 1870. Lippe Lurie, on the right, with his brother. (yarg120po2922.01)
Pinsk, 1903. Four Zionist-Socialist party members. (yarg120po3026)
Pinsk, 1919. The "Martyrs of Pinsk," murdered during the Russian-Polish War, by a Polish military unit, on April 5, 1919. (yarg120po3066)
Pinsk, 1921. Girls wearing striped aprons, pose with sewing machines, in a seamstress class at the ORT Trade School for Girls. (yarg120po2955)
Pinsk, 1928. The first seventh grade graduating class, of the M. Glouberman Folkshul. (yarg120po3008.01)
Pinsk, 1930s. Girls from the M. Glouberman Folkshul, pose in costume for a production. (yarg120po2999)
Pinsk, 1930s. Students and staff of the sixth class, of the M. Glouberman Folkshul. (yarg120po3006)
Pinsk, 1934. Female employees of the Lurie Brothers industrial enterprises, pose in a formation in their gym class. (yarg120po2925.01)
Pinsk, 1936. Girls read Polish and Yiddish newspapers, in the reading room of the Jewish Trade School for Girls. (yarg120po2965)
Pinsk, 1936. Students at work, in the kitchen of the Jewish Trade School for Girls. (yarg120po2966)
Pinsk, 1936. Two men at work, in the main office of the CENTOS orphan organization. (yarg120po3049.01)
Pinsk, 1937. Portrait of the management and staff, of the Gemilat Chesed Society. (yarg120po3037)
Pinsk, 1937. The entire student body and staff of the M. Glouberman Folkshul, poses in the school yard. (yarg120po3007)
Pinsk, ca. 1900. Outdoor portrait of four students seated around a table, which was set with teacups and a samovar. (yarg120po2952.01)
Pinsk, ca. WWI. Dr. Simon Wedkos, director of the AJDC in Pinsk. (yarg120po2940)
Pinsk,1930s. Portrait of the Mikhalevich circle, of the Yugnt-Bund Tsukunft. (yarg120po3030)
Pinsk. At an orphanage run by CENTOS, a nurse with three children. (yarg120po3057)
Plock, 1930. Weighing produce, at the vegetable stand in the marketplace. (yarg120po3083)
Plock. A view of the city, on the Vistula River. (yarg120po3073)
Podbrodzie, March 3, 1939. Tarbut school children, in costume for a Purim-Shpil. (yarg120po3123)
Pospieszki, 1937. A group from the Children's Home, run by the Jewish Women's Union in Vilna, at the TOZ Summer Camp. (yarg120poalbum42_8246)
Pruzany, ca. 1910. Portrait of an elderly couple. (yarg120po3141.01)
Przemysl, 1919-21. A traveling theater troupe from Galicia. (yarg120po3182)
Przemysl, 1930s. Group portrait of a kapelye, in traditional dress. (yarg120po3184)
Puszkarnia, 1922. A group of students, examine a specimen under the only microscope at the summer camp of the Vilna Jewish Teachers' Seminary. (yarg120po3232)
Rabka, 1930. The Stern family, posing outdoors. (yarg120po3244.01)
Radom, 1936. Funeral procession, for a pogrom victim. (RG 120 PO 3248)
Radun, 1932. Rabbi Yisrael Meir ha-Kohen (Kagan), known as the Chafets Chayim after the title of his first book, in his later years (d. 1933). (yarg120po794.04)
Równe, 1920s. In an orphanage, children and their teacher, play an indoor circle game. (yarg120po3332.01)
Równe, 1923, Portrait of the seventh grade, of the Równe Business Gymnasium. (yarg120po3323)
Równe, September 30, 1921. Portrait of a young man in uniform. (yarg120po3322)
Ryki, 1931. Members of the youth group, Hechalutz Ha-Tsa'ir, pose with a sign in the forest. (yarg120po3363)
Rypin, ca. 1920s. Portrait of the Jewish Sports Club soccer team. (yarg120po3369)
Siedlce, 1900-1915. A family portrait. (yarg120po3438)
Siedlce, ca. 1906. Portrait study of a woman. (yarg120po3440)
Siedlce, December 20, 1906. A portrait of two well-dressed women. (yarg120po3439)
Siedlce. A portrait of two well-dressed men. (yarg120po3435.01)
Skierniewice, 1904. Portrait of members of Achdus. (yarg120po3498)
Skierniewice, 1920s. Members of the Tiferet Zion organization, pose for a portrait. (yarg120po3505)
Skierniewice, 1921. A music lesson. A girl and her instructor, both with violins. (yarg120po3495)
Skierniewice, 1921. A portrait of six sisters. (yarg120po3489)
Skierniewice, 1930. Zionist youth group leaders pose for a portrait, on the occasion of the departure to Palestine, of one of their circle. (yarg120po3504)
Skolimow, 1937. Prof Dr. Gustaw Bychowski with his wife Maryla, and their friend's child, outdoors. (yarg120po3514.07)
Slobodka, 1937. Photomontage of portraits of rabbis and students, of the Yeshiva of Slobodka. (yarg120po3514.53)
Smargonie, ca. 1918. Children and adults, pose among the ruins of Minsk Street. (yarg120po3539.04)
Sochaczew, 1911. Collectors of Jewish folklore, on the occasion of a literary evening. (yarg120po3571)
Sokólka, 1918. Members of the Kadima school organization, pose under a framed portrait of Herzl. (yarg120po3581)
Sokólka, August 1931. The Maccabee soccer team, posing for a group portrait with their opponents, representatives of the Polish Army club. (yarg120po3583)
Stanislawów, 1910. Portrait of a high school mandolin orchestra. (yarg120po3606.11)
Staszow, ca. 1920s. Yitschok Erlich, the belfer, carries youngsters to kheyder. (yarg120po3621)
Staszow, May 20, 1923. Portrait of Yisrolik Szyldewer, a Hasid and ba'al darshan, wearing a striped coat. (yarg120po3617c002)
Stolin, 1929. Rabbi Osher Fialkow and his shames, walking through the marketplace, on their way to collect ma'ot chittim. (yarg120po3643)
Suwalki, 1933. Girls in white costumes, for a scene from "The Snow Girl," staged at the Folkshul. (yarg120po3743)
Suwalki, 1935. A scene from D. Einhorn's play "Hands," staged at the Folkshul. (yarg120po3744)
Swislocz, 1911. Portrait of Yudl Aidelman, posing on a bicycle. (yarg120po3796)
Swislocz, 1920s. Shaye Leyzer Ain at the tombstone of his mother, Sore Khane (d. 1919). (yarg120po3787)
Swislocz, 1920s. Osher Berl Lazarowicz, posing with a walking stick, on the sidewalk in front of a shop. (yarg120po3804)
Swislocz, 1920s. Osher Berl Lazarowicz, posing with his family, and his visiting grandchild from Canada. (yarg120po3802)
Swislocz, 1927-1928. Children in costume, for a scene from a summer play. (yarg120po3815)
Swislocz, 1929. Tannery workers, posing in front of the small leather factory, where they work. (yarg120po3807)
Swislocz, ca. 1917. Libe Slapak, at her mother's tombstone in the cemetery. (yarg120po3829)
Swislocz, ca. 1920. Etl Asner and her daughter, at the side of the tombstone of her husband, Eliezer (d. 1919). (yarg120po3785)
Szereszow, 1920s-1930s. The view across the bridge on Preziener Street, which leads to Shmuel the Blacksmith's smithy. (yarg120po3850)
Szydlow, 1920s. Leibtshe Ksieski, at the tombstone of his sister, Perel. (yarg120po3864.08)
Szydlow, 1920s. A member of Hashomer Hatzair, posing at the tombstone of her young boyfriend, Avraham Yosef (d. 1928). (yarg120po3864.22)
Tarnow, 1928. Outdoor portrait of members of Tsukunft, the youth movement of the Jewish Socialist Bund. (yarg120po3924)
Tarnow, 1902. Workers at M. S. Mandla's Jewish Bakery, at the flour sifter, the oven, and with loaves of bread. (yarg120po3914)
Tarnow, 1905. A mass demonstration for universal suffrage, arranged by the Polish and Jewish socialist parties. (yarg120po3926)
Tarnow, 1929. Members of the Bundishe boyuvke (the "tough squad" of the Jewish Socialist Bund), acting as marshals in the May Day demonstration. (yarg120po3930)
Tarnow, 1930. On May Day, members of Tsukunft ("the future"), the youth movement of the Jewish Socialist Bund, assemble. (yarg120po3925d001)
Tarnow, WWI. A Jewish bread peddler, wearing traditional dress, and pushing a cart. (yarg120po3895.01)
Tomaszów, 1920s-1930s. Members of the Beth Lechem Association, a charitable organization, distributing bread and challah to poor children. (yarg120po3970)
Unknown location, 1920s-1930s. Laughing children, who were selected to attend a TOZ day camp. (yarg120po6754)
Unknown location, 1920s. A shoemaker at work. (yarg120po6551.01)
Unknown location, 1928. Two men, pose beside the gravestone of the rabbi of the community. (yarg120po643)
Unknown location, 1930. Informational chart, about the distribution of OSE hygienical educational material, 1923-1927. (yarg120poalbum8_7648.23)
Unknown location, 1930s. School children, posing with a wall banner for a campaign to save money in the PKO. (yarg120po6736)
Unknown location, 1934. Members of Morgnshtern, posing on the ship's mast. (yarg120po6709)
Unknown location, 1934. Members of Morgnshtern, posing for a group portrait with the boat crew. (yarg120po6710)
Unknown location, 1934. Members of Morgnshtern, pose for a group portrait at the end of the pier. (yarg120po6711)
Unknown location, after 1921. Children, posing at the grave of a family member. (yarg120po6636.97)
Unknown location, ca. 1880s. Group portrait. Tintype. (yargrg120uncatalogued001)
Unknown location, ca. 1910. Yiddish writers Shalom Asch, I. L. Peretz, Peretz's son Lucjan, and Hersh David Nomberg, a Hebrew writer. (yarg120po6847)
Unknown location, ca. WWI. A kheyder class in session. (yarg120po6725)
Unknown location,1912. Yiddish writer I. L. Peretz, with his wife Helena, and three young women friends. (yarg120po6846.01)
Unknown location,1920s-1930s. A city street scene. (yarg120po6516)
Unknown location. ca. 1900. Studio portrait of a family. (yarg120po6826)
Unknown location. Ca. WWI. Men and women, carting food to town. (yarg120po6652)
Unknown location. Card from a series of photographs, depicting "Jewish Livelehoods," showing a secondhand clothes dealer and his customer, a housewife. (yarg120po7145)
Unknown location. Card from a series of photographs, depicting "Jewish Livelihoods," showing a woman who deals in used goods. (yarg120po7150)
Unknown location. New Year's greeting card, depicting the Shlogn Kapores ceremony. (yarg120po6624)
Unknown location. New Year's greeting card. (yarg120po6612)
Unknown location. Statement about the OSE-TOZ "Summer Colony" activities in interwar Poland, sponsored by the AJDC. (yarg120poalbum12_9521a)
Uscilug, 1931. Two women and a man, posing at the tombstone of Khaye Lipshe Levensboym (d. 1927). (yarg120po4006)
Uscilug, December 10, 1931. Ben-Zion, standing among members of Betar, posing in uniform. (yarg120po4006.20)
Uscilug. A gathering around Rosh Hashanah at the Lug River, for the observance of the tashlich ritual. (yarg120po4006.28)
Vilna 1936-1937. The first class in women's tailoring, at the trade school of the Jewish Women's Union. (yarg120po8214)
Vilna, 1930s. A decorated hall in the David Pinsky School, on its fifth anniversary. (yarg120po5606)
Vilna, 1913. Boris Kletzkin, and Jacob Dinesohn. (yarg120po5975.01)
Vilna, 1914-1918. Outdoor portrait of Dr. Elias Sedlis. (yarg120po5997)
Vilna, 1915. Picture postcard of a 100-year-old Jewish man, exiled from the Suwalki district by the Russian authorities, lying on a cot, surrounded by onlookers. (yarg120po5148)
Vilna, 1918-1919. A group of young teachers from the Kinder Farzorgnt (Child Care) Orphanage and School at 39 Ostrabrama Street, posing near a tree. (yarg120po5248)
Vilna, 1918. Outdoor portrait of several Yiddish and Hebrew Teachers, members of the Maccabi Sports Club. (yarg120po5704)
Vilna, 1919. Staff of the Der Tog newspaper, at the time of its establishment. (yarg120po5796)
Vilna, 1920-1921. Photomontage of the students and faculty, of the second yearly cycle of Jewish pedagogical courses. (yarg120po5568)
Vilna, 1920's. Staff members, pose at the entrance to the TOZ sanatorium. (yarg120po5282)
Vilna, 1920s-1930s. Studio portrait of shirtless weight lifters, from the Maccabi Sports Club. (yarg120po5701)
Vilna, 1920s-1930s.The dispensary in the Mishmeret Cholim Hospital. (yarg120po5271)
Vilna, 1920s. Children at the TOZ summer camp in the Pospieska suburb, sitting in formation to spell TOZ. (yarg120po5327)
Vilna, 1920s. Children posing in the courtyard of an orphanage. (yarg120po5366)
Vilna, 1920s. Moyshe Kulbak, H. Leyvik, and Yakov Gershteyn, with students of the Jewish Real-Gymnasium. (yarg120po5611)
Vilna, 1925. Portrait of poets H. Leivick (right), and Moshe Kulbak. (yarg120po5981.01)
Vilna, 1926. A group of Jewish men in the Vilna Old Age Home, get in a few pages of Talmud study. (yarg120po_forward42898)
Vilna, 1927. Tu Be-Shevat, at a CEBEKA school. (yarg120po5672)
Vilna, 1927. Photomontage of the faculty and students of the Gymnasia S. Gurevitsh. (yarg120po5567)
Vilna, 1928. Portrait of Kulbak, Opatoshu, Maks Eryk and Zalman Reisen, board members of the Yiddish PEN Club. (yarg120po5981c002)
Vilna, 1928. Portrait of Yiddish writers. (yarg120po5984.02)
Vilna, 1929. Founders of the YIVO: Wirgili-Kahan, Zeleznikov, Kalmanovitch, Unidentified, Weinreich, Steinberg, Zhitlowsky, Szapiro, Z. Reisen, Czernichow, and Keltzkin. (yarg120po5810)
Vilna, 1929. Hand-drawn album cover, of photographs of the "Summer Colony," the TOZ summer camp. (yarg120poalbum31_p001)
Vilna, 1930. Photomontage of portraits of the staff and the 8th graduating class, of the Jewish Real-Gymnasium. (yarg120po5612)
Vilna, 1930s. A group portrait of students of the Vocational Courses and Trade School, of the Jewish Women's Union in Vilna. (yarg120poalbum42_8213)
Vilna, 1930s. A man diving into the new swimming pool, at the Maccabi Sports Club. (yarg120po5717)
Vilna, 1930s. A man diving into the new swimming pool at the Maccabi Sports Club. (yarg120po5718)
Vilna, 1930s. A peddler woman, conversing with two young boys in the durkhhoyf (through-yard), between Jatkowa and Zydowska streets. (yarg120po5053)
Vilna, 1930s. A rabbi at the Slonimer Yeshiva, delivering a talmudic lecture to his students. (yarg120po5456)
Vilna, 1930s. A young Talmudic scholar, in the Ramayles Yeshiva. (yarg120po5442)
Vilna, 1930s. Album of girls attending the Nursing School, page five. (yarg120poalbum3_p005)
Vilna, 1930s. Album of girls attending the Nursing School, page four. (yarg120poalbum3_p004)
Vilna, 1930s. Album of girls attending the Nursing School, page seven. (yarg120poalbum3_p007)
Vilna, 1930s. Album of girls attending the Nursing School, page six. (yarg120poalbum3_p006)
Vilna, 1930s. Album of girls attending the Nursing School, page three. (yarg120poalbum3_p003)
Vilna, 1930s. Boys and their teacher, studying Talmud in the Ramayles Yeshiva. (yarg120po5437)
Vilna, 1930s. Boys and young men, posing with their Talmud texts in the Ramayles Yeshiva. (yarg120po5445)
Vilna, 1930s. Children playing with clay, seated around a table, supervised by their teachers, in the P. Anman Day Care Center run by YAF. (yarg120po5377)
Vilna, 1930s. Children's division of the Maccabi Sports Club, performing calisthenics on a sports field. (yarg120po5723)
Vilna, 1930s. Men at prayer, at the Jewish Home for the Aged at 17 Portowa Street. (yarg120poalbum45_5235)
Vilna, 1930s. Men walking on a path in the shulhoyf. A Yiddish poster advertises the services of shipping agent L. Kopelovitsh, to emigrants to Palestine. (yarg120po5064)
Vilna, 1930s. Portrait of a committee, taken at the David Pinsky School's fifth anniversary. (yarg120po5603)
Vilna, 1930s. Portrait of a committee, taken at the David Pinsky School's fifth anniversary. (yarg120po5604)
Vilna, 1930s. Portrait of a committee, taken at the David Pinsky School's fifth anniversary. (yarg120po5605)
Vilna, 1930s. The Maccabi Sports Club cycling team, posing on a road with their bicycles. (yarg120po5726)
Vilna, 1930s. The Maccabi Sports Club skiing team, at summer training. (yarg120po5729)
Vilna, 1930s. Three young men, studying Talmud in the Ramayles Yeshiva. (yarg120po5443)
Vilna, 1930s. Young men, engaged in a lively Talmudic discussion, in the Ramayles Yeshiva. (yarg120po5446)
Vilna, 1931. Dr. Zemach Shabad, reading to his grandsons Uriel and Gabriel Weinreich. (yarg120po5993.07)
Vilna, 1933. Photomontage of the 1933 graduating class and faculty, of the Vilner Yiddisher Tekhnikum. (yarg120po5425)
Vilna, 1934-1935. Photomontage of the students and staff, of the Hilf Durkh Arbet Trade School. (yarg120po5485)
Vilna, 1934. Aleksander Granach, Zalman Reisen with his wife, and Dr. M. Albauer, in front of Reisen's home. (yarg120po5980.01)
Vilna, 1934. Naptime at the A. Litvak Day Care Center, which was run by YAF. (yarg120po5373)
Vilna, 1934. The library of the ORT Technical School. (yarg120po6501)
Vilna, 1935. Informal portrait at the Jewish Orphans' Home, with Simon Dubnow, Marc Chagall, Charney, and others. (yarg120po5972.01)
Vilna, 1935. A TOZ summer camp for frail children in need of fresh air and good food, with visiting dignitaries. (yarg120po5361c002)
Vilna, 1935. Portrait of M. Schreiber, director of the ORT Technical School, at his desk in his wood-paneled office. (yarg120po5492)
Vilna, 1936-1937. Classroom at the Children's Home of the Jewish Women's Union in Vilna. (yarg120poalbum42_8250)
Vilna, 1936-1937. Home Economics lessons, at the Trade School of the Jewish Women's Union in Vilna. (yarg120poalbum42_8221-8222)
Vilna, 1936-37. Alumnae of the Trade School of the Jewish Women's Union in Vilna, sewing at the Madame Annétte corset shop. (yarg120poalbum42_8238-8239)
Vilna, 1936-37. Photomontage featuring the graduating class and the faculty, of the David Pinsky School. (yarg120po5607)
Vilna, 1936-37. A display of clothing and hat designs, part of an exhibition at the Trade School of the Jewish Women's Union. (yarg120poalbum42_8225)
Vilna, 1936-37. A display of women's undergarments and sleepware, produced at the Trade School of the Jewish Women's Union in Vilna. (yarg120poalbum42_8227)
Vilna, 1936-37. Girls from the Trade School of the Jewish Women's Union in Vilna, at the beach. (yarg120poalbum42_8233-8234)
Vilna, 1936-37. Girls from the Trade School of the Jewish Women's Union in Vilna, posing together. (yarg120poalbum42_8228-8229)
Vilna, 1936-37. Girls ironing in the pressing room, at the Trade School of the Jewish Women's Union in Vilna. (yarg120poalbum42_8219)
Vilna, 1936-37. Seamstress Class 1A, at the Trade School of the Jewish Women's Union in Vilna. (yarg120poalbum42_8215)
Vilna, 1936-37. Student seamstresses fitting a dress on a woman, at the Trade School of the Jewish Women's Union in Vilna. (yarg120poalbum42_8220)
Vilna, 1936-37. Students of the undergarment sewing division, at the Trade School of the Jewish Women's Union in Vilna. (yarg120poalbum42_8218)
Vilna, 1936-37. The Madame Annétte corset shop, which employed alumnae of the Trade School of the Jewish Womens Union in Vilna. (yarg120poalbum42_8237)
Vilna, 1936. Boys washing up, at the city Talmud Torah. (yarg120poalbum44_8266)
Vilna, 1936. Children's health clinic. (yarg120poalbum44_8265)
Vilna, 1936. Lord Marley taking notes, during a visit to YIVO. (yarg120po5963)
Vilna, 1936. The Maccabi Sports Club soccer team, posing on the playing field. (yarg120po5730)
Vilna, 1936. The Maccabi Sports Club soccer team. (yarg120po5731)
Vilna, 1937. Portrait of Dr. Jacob Wygodski (seated, center), and other members of the Kehillah. (yarg120po6117)
Vilna, 1938. Students and teachers in a kitchen, during a housekeeping class, sponsored by the Women's Aid Organization. (yarg120po5527)
Vilna, 1938. Women searching for missing husbands, children, and other relatives, at the office of the Women's Aid Organization. (yarg120po5529)
Vilna, 1939. An aspirant at work, in the ethnography section of the YIVO Aspirantur. (yarg120po5862)
Vilna, 1939. Historian Lucy Schildkret Dawidowicz from New York, posing with Riva Kalmanovitch. (yarg120po5864)
Vilna, 1939. Historian Simon Dubnow, posing with a group of Jewish refugee writers, during his visit to the refugee shelter. (yarg120po6036.01)
Vilna, 1939. Men giving their shoes in for repair. (yarg120po7136)
Vilna, 1939. Refugee boys, studying Talmud at the Lubavitcher Yeshiva. (yarg120po5429.08)
Vilna, 1939. Two boys conversing at their study benches, at the Lubavitcher Yeshiva. (yarg120po5429.07)
Vilna, Aug 14-19, 1935. Historians at the YIVO Conference. (yarg120po5846)
Vilna, Aug 14-19,1935. Portrait of historians who attended the YIVO conference. (yarg120po5845)
Vilna, before 1907. Portrait of Dvora Esther Gelfer (1817-1907), philanthropist, and founder of a gemilat chesed. (yarg120po5180)
Vilna, ca. 1900. Photomontage of portraits of prominent members of Hovevei Zion. (yarg120po5175)
Vilna, ca. 1900. Portrait of Dvoyre Romm, a member of the well-known family of printers and publishers. (yarg120po5794.06)
Vilna, ca. 1900. Portrait of Shevel Kinkulkin, the last Jewish bookseller of non-Jewish books, on the streets of Vilna. (yarg120po6772)
Vilna, ca. 1910. Looking down Georgy Prospekt Street, at the Cathedral Church and Tower. (yarg120po4891)
Vilna, ca. 1918. A portrait of a gymnastics class, at the Orphanage at 39 Ostrabrama Street. (yarg120po5247)
Vilna, ca. 1930s. Peddlers with produce, in the durkhhoyf (through-yard), located between Jatkowa and Zydowska Streets. (yarg120po5052)
Vilna, ca. 1930s. Pedestrians on Wielka Street. On the left, a store belonging to R. Bersztel. (yarg120po4924.04)
Vilna, ca. 1930s. Three men at work, in the YIVO Archives. (yarg120po6857)
Vilna, ca. 1930s. Zelig Kalmanovitch (right), and F. Halpern, in conversation over a book at YIVO. (yarg120po6862)
Vilna, ca. 1939. Poet A. Sutzkever and actor Noach Nachbush, walking down the street. (yarg120po5984.01)
Vilna, Jan. 23, 1933. Students of the Real-Gymnasium, posing at a YIVO exhibition on Jewish social movements. (yarg120po5899)
Vilna, June 29 1933. Newsmen from the Jewish press, being welcomed by the TOZ staff and children, at the summer camp. (yarg120po5349)
Vilna, May, 1922. The 2nd graduating class of the Mefitse Haskalah Boys' School (the I. L. Peretz class), and the staff. (yarg120po5591)
Vilna, May, 1937. Adults, including Dr. Jabwabnik, pose with children, during a visit to the TOZ summer camp. (yarg120po5335)
Vilna, Nov 16, 1935. Elye Tejtelbaum, directing a performance by the Maccabi Sports Club Brass Band. (yarg120po5725)
Vilna, Spring 1939. A group of YIVO aspirantn, and instructors. (yarg120po5859)
Vilna. Boys pose shirtless, in a gymnastic formation. (yarg120po5680)
Vilna. An arch across the cobblestone street, along Jatkowa Street, in the Jewish Quarter. (yarg120po4926)
Vilna. Schoolboys doing acrobatics with their instructor. (yarg120po5681)
Warszawa, 1880-1890. Portrait of Nahum Sokolow, an early Zionist, senior editor and co-owner of Hatzefira, with his wife and child. (yarg120po4340)
Warszawa, 1903. David Herman, director and actor, stands next to a carriage, with his troupe's actresses. (yarg120po4719)
Warszawa, 1907. Portrait of Lejba Hirszowicz, his son Jozef, and grandson Ernest; three generations. (yarg120po4752)
Warszawa, 1918. Visiting writer Jacob Dinesohn, with a teacher and students, in a classroom at the Folkshul at 29 Krochmalna St. (yarg120po4591)
Warszawa, 1919. Group portrait of 8 of the 13 Jewish representatives, in the first Polish Parliament. (yarg120po4320.01)
Warszawa, 1920. People receiving packages, at the remittance office of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee. (yarg120po4449)
Warszawa, 1920s-1930s. On the eve of Sukkot, Jewish boys on a cobblestone street, are carrying the etrog and lulav. (yarg120po4153.03)
Warszawa, 1920s. A povery-stricken widow in bed, ill with tuberculosis, with two of her four children. (yarg120po4058)
Warszawa, 1920s. At a folkshul, children dress in costume, for a play directed by Zofia Rotblat. (yarg120po4591.03)
Warszawa, 1920s. At a folkshul, children are in costume, for a play directed by Zofia Rotblat. (yarg120po4591.01)
Warszawa, 1920s. At a folkshul, two children are in costume, one with a mandolin, for a play directed by Zofia Rotblat. (yarg120po4591.02)
Warszawa, 1920s. The children and staff of the orphanage at 21 Elektoralna Street, pose at mealtime. (yarg120po4446.16)
Warszawa, 1920s. The children and staff of the orphanage at 21 Elektoralna Street, pose with mugs in a classroom. (yarg120po4446.18)
Warszawa, 1921-22. Portrait of four writers: Uri Zvi Greenberg, Markish, Elkin, and Leybl. (yarg120po4701.11c001)
Warszawa, 1922. A group of school girls, from the class of Rivka Gordon (Tolpin), at the Borochow School. (yarg120po4584.04)
Warszawa, 1922. Members of the young Yiddish literary crowd: Esther Shumiatcher, Khane Kacyzne, Peretz Hirschbein, Mendl Elkin, Esther Elkin, Alter Kacyzne, and Uri Zvi Greenberg. (yarg120po4701.15)
Warszawa, 1922. The Khalyastre (Gang): Mendl Elkin, Peretz Hirschbein, Uri Zvi Greenburg, Peretz Markish, Melech Ravitch, and Israel Joshua Singer. (yarg120po4701.10)
Warszawa, 1923. Drinking tea, under framed portraits of Karl Marx and Ber Borochov, at the Poalei Zion Workers' Home. (yarg120po4354.01)
Warszawa, 1927. Poale Zion members and workers, march in a May Day parade with Yiddish signs. (yarg120po4354)
Warszawa, 1928. Janina and Hanna Mortkowicz, stand on a balcony. (RG 120 PO 4754.08)
Warszawa, 1929. Pola Goldstein-Jackubowicz, right, the aunt of Lucjan Borowik, son-in-law of industrialist Abraham Gepner, posing in an open window. (yarg120po4750.12)
Warszawa, 1929. Zofja Oldak, winner of the Nasz Przeglad Miss Judea Beauty Contest. (yarg120po4745.14)
Warszawa, 1930. Five art students, pose with their paintings, drawings, and sculptures, which are on exhibit. (yarg120po4756.02)
Warszawa, 1930. Protest against British restrictions on Jewish immigration to Palestine. (RG 120 PO 4309)
Warszawa, 1930s. Malke Hamerow poses for a portrait with Chaim Sznejer, a member of the Vilna Troupe, and others. (yarg120po4759.52b)
Warszawa, 1930s. A sukkah is set up in a courtyard for Sukkot. (yarg120po4155)
Warszawa, 1930s. A business courtyard on Nalewki Street, with the stores of T. Appel, Szpiro, and others. (yarg120po4048.01)
Warszawa, 1930s. Boys on the street, holding flags used in the Simchat Torah processions, with the Torah scrolls. (yarg120po4158)
Warszawa, 1930s. On the eve of Sukkot, a women carries a bundle of hosha'anot and a covered basket, along a commercial street. (yarg120po4156)
Warszawa, 1930s. Selling flags for Simhat Torah. (RG 120 PO 4157.01)
Warszawa, 1930s. The staff of Der Moment. (yarg120po6789.01)
Warszawa, 1936. Professors Mojzesz Schorr (on the left), and Majer Balaban, walk down the street together. (yarg120po4756.10)
Warszawa, 1937. Sculptor Nathan Rapaport, posing in his studio with his wife, Sima. (yarg120po4705.02)
Warszawa, 1938. In the demonstration room, set up as a ward, in the School of Nursing. (yarg120poalbum35_8087)
Warszawa, 1938. In the nursery, two students prepare to apply hypodermic needles to children, in the School of Nursing. (yarg120poalbum35_8095)
Warszawa, 1938. Mothers sit with their babies, at a babies' health station in the School of Nursing. (yarg120poalbum35_8102)
Warszawa, 1938. Students of the School of Nursing at the Jewish Hospital, conduct an examination. (yarg120poalbum35_8100)
Warszawa, 1938. At the School of Nursing at the Jewish Hospital, two boys are examined. (yarg120poalbum35_8101)
Warszawa, 1938. Students at the School of Nursing, prepare for an operation. (yarg120poalbum35_8092)
Warszawa, 1939. Nursing students preparing food, at the School of Nursing, at the Jewish Hospital. (yarg120poalbum35_8088)
Warszawa, 1939. Students in the Science Laboratory of the School of Nursing. (yarg120poalbum35_8089)
Warszawa, 1939. The main hall of the student residence of the School of Nursing, at the Jewish Hospital. (yarg120po8085)
Warszawa, ca. 1917. A melamed in a kheyder, reads to his pupils. (yarg120po6722)
Warszawa, ca. 1919. Children from the I. L. Peretz Orphanage, pose with a framed portrait of Peretz. (yarg120po4446.01c002)
Warszawa, ca. 1919. Jacob Dinesohn, the writer, visits with the children and staff of the I. L. Peretz Orphanage and Elementary School. (yarg120po4446.01c001)
Warszawa, July, 1923. Shabad and Lewin, at the first TOZ reorganization conference. (yarg120poalbum1_7292)
Warszawa, late 1920s. A busy street scene on Muranow Street, in the heart of the Jewish Quarter. (yarg120po4045.02)
Warszawa, late 1930s. Strollers at the corner of Ujazdowskie Avenue and Matejki Street. (yarg120po4045.01)
Warszawa, Oct. 24, 1931. Shmuel Lehman, collector of Jewish folklore, interviewing an informant. (yarg120po4686.01)
Warszawa, Summer, 1919. A photograph taken at the Fourth National Convention, of the Zionist Organization in Poland. (yarg120po5123)
Warszawa, WWI. Portrait of a kheyder class in session. (yarg120po6723)
Warszawa,1938. Fresh air cure in the day nursery, in the School of Nursing, at the Jewish Hospital. (yarg120poalbum35_8097)
Warszawa. A scene from the end of Motke Ganev, a play by Sholem Asch. (yarg120po4721)
Warszawa. Two men examine an etrog for Sukkot, with a magnifying glass. (yarg120po4154)
Wloszczowa, 1920s-1930s. A family gathered around a tombstone in the cemetery, at the grave of Yisroel Yitschok. (yarg120po6070)
Wolomin, 1921-22. Removing freshly baked loaves of bread from an oven, at the bakery of the Central Relief Committee for Jewish Refugees from the Ukraine and Russia. (yarg120po6123)
Wyszkow, 1920s-1930s. On the eve of Passover, a woman pours water into a bucket, near furniture piled outside a home, which is being cleaned for the holiday. (yarg120po6157)
Wyszkow, 1920s-1930s. The managing committee, of the local talmud-torah. (yarg120po6177)
Zabludów, 1916. Children pose sitting on boulders, in a street of wooden houses. (yarg120po6189c001)
Zabludów, June 3, 1930. Members of Poalei Zion Yugnt, from Kolomyja and Zabludów. (yarg120po6188)
Zbaszyn, 1938-1939. Noah Nachbush, entertaining refugee children. (RG 120 PO 6304)
Zdzieciol, 1927. At the Sholem Aleichem High School, on a day honoring I. L. Peretz. (yarg120po6342)
Zdzieciol, 1929. Group portrait of Flower Day volunteers. (yarg120po6350)
Zdzieciol, May 28, 1921. Outdoor portrait of members of a balalaika orchestra. (yarg120po6354)
Zloczow, 1934. Portrait of uniformed girl members of the "Flame" group, of Hashomer Hatzair. (yarg120po6407.10)
Zloczow, 1935. Posing in exotic costumes, possibly for Purim. (yarg120po6407.09)
Zychlin, 1904 or 1906. Group portrait of seven well-dressed young men. (yarg120po6431c001)
Zyrardow, 1920s-1930s. A family portrait. (yarg120po6460)
Zyrardow, 1930s. Portrait of a woman, wearing a strand of pearls. (yarg120po6459)
Zyrardow, 1930s. Portrait of three adolescent boys. (yarg120po6461)
Zyrardow, 1930s. Studio portrait of a couple. (yarg120po6458)
Zyrardow, ca. 1910. Portrait of Zalmen Holtz, with a group of friends. (yarg120po3497.11)
Zyrardow, WWI. An elderly Jewish man in traditional dress, with German soldiers. (yarg120po6689.03)
Zyrardow. Portrait of a young man, posing with a Yiddish newspaper. (yarg120po6448)

RG 121: Photographs of Personalities. Collection.

Photographs of individuals noted for their contributions to Jewish life: writers, scholars, historians, scientists, philosophers, community leaders, rabbinical figures, political figures, musicians, and cantors

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Famous Yiddish writers and journalists (RG 121 Groups 30)
Group portrait of writers (RG 121 Groups 209)
H. Leivick and Peretz Markish (RG 121 Groups 230)
Jacob Dinesohn, Isaac Leib Peretz, and Sholem Aleichem (RG 121 Groups 33)
Simon Dubnow, Jacob Lestschinsky, Elias Tcherikower, and others (RG 121 Groups 183)
Yiddish writers (RG 121 Groups 229)
Yung Vilne (Young Vilna) (RG 121 Groups 225)

RG 126: Genealogy and Family History. Collection.

Papers of individuals and families; genealogical charts; family histories; birth, marriage, and death certificates; military service passes; diplomas; passports; memoirs; diaries; oral history interviews; and photographs

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Passport issued by the Republic of Poland to Rywka Rozenberg, Minsk Mazowiecki, Poland, 1936. (RG 126.1.20.1)
School diploma (RG 126.1.1.2)
Unidentified young man, Lodz (RG 126.37.8)

RG 335.7: American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee. Subgroup: JDC Landsmanshaftn Department. Records.

Records of the Landsmanshaftn Department of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, established to enlist the cooperation of landsmanshaftn in the AJDC's reconstruction program in Eastern Europe

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Child being weighed at a TOZ clinic (RG 335.7 307.7)
Children at Centos day care center with teachers (RG 335.7 308.1)
Children at meal at Centos day camp (RG 335.7 308.2)
Children at meal at TOZ summer camp (RG 335.7 307.11)
Children at meal at TOZ summer camp (RG 335.7 307.4)
Children dancing at Centos day camp (RG 335.7 308.3)
Children from TOZ orphanage in physical education class (RG 335.7 307.8)
Children from the TOZ orphanage working on handicrafts (RG 335.7 307.10)
Children receiving milk from TOZ (RG 335.7 307.5)
Girls from TOZ summer camp performing a dance (RG 335.7 307.2)
Hut of poor Jewish family, Ostrog (RG 335.7 307.9)
Mother and children in their home. (RG 335.7 307.3)
Mothers and children in their home (RG 335.7 307.6)

RG 898: United Brisker Relief. Records.

Records of a landsmanshaft affiliated with the hometown of Brzesc nad Bugiem

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Children from the Talmud Torah (RG 898 Album 1.1)
Delegates fom United Brisker Relief at old age home (RG 898 Album 1.4)
Jews lining up to receive money sent by relatives (RG 898 Album1.2)
Jews receiving matzoh for Passover (RG 898 Album1.5)
United Brisker Relief delegates handing out money (RG 898 Album1.3)

RG 1043: Makower Young Men's Aid Society. Records.

Records of a landsmanshaft affiliated with the hometown of Makow

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At the natural springs in Makow Mazowiecki (RG 1043 Group I_8_193)
Jews with a German officer (RG 1043 Group II_2)
Makower schoolchildren with German officers (RG 1043 Group I_21)
Members of the Wilenburg family with German soldiers (RG 1043 Group I_20)
Movie theater (RG 1043 Group I_12)
Souvenir portrait from Zakopanie (RG 1043 Group I_32)

RG 1100: Kadison, Leib (1880-1947). Papers.

Costume and set designs, photographs, and playbills related to the career of the Yiddish theater director and actor who was a founder of the Vilna Troupe

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Elyoshe Shteyn in Der dorfs yung (RG 1100.30. 1)
Joseph Buloff and Luba Kadison in Der karger (The Miser) (RG 1100.49. 2_1)
Matisyohu Kovalski as Reb Miropoler inThe Dybbuk (RG 1100.31.2_1)
Members of the Vilna Troupe (RG 1100.47.1)
Scenes from The Dybbuk (RG 1100.31.1_1)
Scenes from The Dybbuk (RG 1100.31.3_1)
Sonia Alomis in a role from Der puste kretshme (RG 1100.44)
Vilna Troupe actors in roles from Der vos krigt di petsh (He Who Gets the Slap) (RG 1100.32_1)

RG 1270: Kacyzne, Alter (1885-1941). Papers.

Photographs of Jewish life in Poland in the 1920s-1930s

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COLLECTION Alter Kacyzne (1270)
COLLECTION Alter Kacyzne Photographs (RG 1270)
Bialystok. 'Unemployed weavers taking the air,' sitting on a park bench. (RG 1270_010)
Bialystok. Portrait study of an unemployed seamstress sitting at her (Singer) sewing machine. (RG 1270_011)
Bielsko Biala. 'Father and son.' (RG 1270_003)
Bielsko Biala. 'Volf Nakhovitsh, the gravedigger, teaching his grandson (whose father is in America) to read, while his wife looks on with pleasure.' (RG 1270_002)
Bielsko Biala. Ezrielke the 'shames' (sexton) was also the 'shabes-klaper.' (RG 1270_006)
Bielsko Biala. Portrait study of the daughter of the 'Byaler Rebbe,' Avrom Yehoshua Rabinowicz. (RG 1270_004)
Bielsko Biala. The 'melamed' (teacher) with students in a 'kheyder. (RG 1270_005)
Brest-Litovsk. 'Generations in need in Brisk.' (RG 1270_604)
Brzeziny. A portrait of a tailor and six members of his family, together at work. (RG 1270_018)
Czortkow. 'Chortkow Jews on Sunday (the shops are closed).' (RG 1270_605)
Czortkow. 'Jewish types: the carpenter with his grandchild.' (RG 1270_618)
Czortkow. 'The Rabbi's Bes Medresh [synagogue].' (RG 1270_568)
Czortkow. A view of the main street on a Sunday afternoon. (RG 1270_019)
Czortkow. Women and children gathered by houses on an unpaved street at the foot of the mountains. (RG 1270_020)
Dabrowica. A tailor and his family: two men work at a table while women and children pose. (RG 1270_024)
Dlugosiodlo. 'Sunday Dlugoshodle is full of the country non-Jews.' (RG 1270_025)
Dlugosiodlo. A man sits for an informal portrait with a child in his home. (RG 1270_026)
Dlugosiodlo. Informal portrait of a class at Leyzer Segal's 'kheyder' (traditional Jewish elementary school. (RG 1270_027)
Falenica. Children and staff at lunch at an outdoor dining room area at a summer sanatorium for school children run by CYSHO. (RG 1270_029)
Falenica. View down an unpaved, muddy commercial street. (RG 1270_028)
Garwolin. 'A Garvoliner tinsmith.' (RG 1270_625)
Girls' kheyder in Laskarzew. (RG 1270_140)
Gora Kalwaria. 'Eydl Karbman at ther modest Sabbath table.' (RG 1270_617)
Gora Kalwaria. Naftole Grinband, a clockmaker, at work. (RG 1270_032)
Grodno. 'Alley where the tobacco workers of Grodne live.' (RG 1270_453)
Grodno. 'Brigyoka Street - a street of church domes and spires.' (RG 1270_034)
Grodno. On Grodno Boulevard. (RG 1270_035)
Grodno. The facade of the main synagogue of the city. (RG 1270_037)
Horochow. On a market day, at a corner of the marketplace near the synagogue (two-story building at right); merchants selling fruit from baskets. (RG 1270_038)
Hrubieszow. The muddy marketplaces on a market day; horse and wagons near a church. (RG 1270_039)
Husiatyn. A view of 'the marketplace in the devastated city. (RG 1270_040)
Husiatyn. A view of the 16th century fortress synagogue. (RG 1270_041)
Husiatyn. H. Ginsberg, identified by the photographer as 'the biggest textile merchant in town. (The whole city deals in textiles. The customer: Soviet Ukraine.') (RG 1270_042)
Ignatki. On a market day, Ukrainians and Jews trade. (RG 1270_043)
Jablonna. 'Meir Kahn, the fish-seller.' (RG 1270_624)
Karczew. 'A son of the ritual slaughterer.' (RG 1270_558)
Karczew. 'A tailor visits a tailor.' (RG 1270_610)
Karczew. 'Seven children sitting, sitting by a spring, a well. (RG 1270_044)
Karczew. Portrait of an elderly furrier at work. (RG 1270_046)
Karczew. Portrait study of a grandmother and granddaughter. (RG 1270_045)
Kazimierz Dolny. A view of the marketsquare on a market day. (RG 1270_048)
Kazimierz Dolny. Merchants and customers on a marketday in front of the church. (RG 1270_047)
Kazimierz Dolny. The busy marketplace where clothing is being sold. (RG 1270_049)
Kolomyja. Peasants and Jews and horse-drawn wagons laden with produce and goods in the marketsquare on a market day. (RG 1270_050)
Kopyczynce. 'A Jewish trade--rope spinners, father and son. (RG 1270_053)
Kopyczynce. 'Waiting for something to turn up.' (RG 1270_052)
Kosow. 'Aaron Bandrovnik, porter.' (RG 1270_537)
Kozience. Men, women and children at water pump in marketplace. (RG 1270_058)
Kozienice. Four young women work on embroidery near a window. (RG 1270_059)
Krakow. 'The REMA's grave near his synagogue. (RG 1270_475)
Krakow. Jews by the old synagogue in Kazimierz (the old Jewish section of the city) built in the latter part of the 14th century. (RG 1270_062)
Krakow. View of the goose market near Ester Street. (RG 1270_061)
Krynki. Three seamstresses working together. (RG 1270_063)
Krzemieniec. Horses and wagons on Broad Street. (RG 1270_066)
Kutno. 'A Kutne housewife.' (RG 1270_448)
Kutno. Portrait study of Arn-Nokhem, sitting at his sewing machine near a window looking out. (RG 1270_068)
Lida. 'His matzas go as far as Warsaw.' (RG 1270_454)
Lipkan. Portrait study of a woman plucking feathers. (RG 1270_095)
Lodz. 'Portrait of Yitzhak Katzenelson; Hebrew-Yiddish Center.' (RG 1270_436)
Lodz. Portrait of a Jewish hand-weaver at his loom in the Baluty neighborhood. (RG 1270_091)
Lodz. View of Petrikower Street near the intersection of Zavadska Street: passersby and vehicles on a commercial street. (RG 1270_090)
Lomza. 'Khone Szlajfer, 85 year-old grinder, umbrella maker and folk doctor.' (RG 1270_088)
Lublin. 'Winter-flies.' (RG 1270_079)
Lublin. A boys 'kheyder' (traditional elementary school) in session. (RG 1270_080)
Lublin. A man at study, two boys (right) doze on the step leading to the bimah, in a synagogue in the outskirts of the city that dates back to the time of the Tatars. (RG 1270_076)
Lublin. Across an empty cobblestone street: men walking; a woman seated on the sidewalk with children, talking; a boy rolling a hoop; a woman at a baby carriage; and two-story wooden houses representing, according to the photographer, 'old Jewish architecture.' (RG 1270_075)
Lublin. In the oldest synagogue in the city, the synagogue of Saul ben Judah Wahl (1541-ca.). (RG 1270_077)
Lublin. Men and women standing on a mound near the fence are crowded into the yard listening to the speeches given from the balcony at the opening of the Lublin Yeshiva. (RG 1270_082)
Lublin. The cutting of the ribbon at the ceremony marking the opening of the Lublin Yeshiva. (RG 1270_081)
Lublin. Three barefoot boys on a cobblestone street. (RG 1270_073)
Lublin. Young and elderly men studying the Talmud in an old synagogue. (RG 1270_078)
Luck. On the street that runs through the city over the river; men at work on the bridge which is under construction; people walking on their way. (RG 1270_093)
Luck. People filling up pails at a water pump in the marketplace near dilapidated buildings. (RG 1270_096)
Luck. People pose in an alley in a Jewish residential neighborhood. (RG 1270_094)
Lukow. 'A controversy.' (RG 1270_098)
Lukow. An unidentified tanner treating a stretched animal skin to make parchment for Torah scrolls. (RG 1270_099)
Lukow. Portrait study of Moyshe-Yankev, 'the town's oldest scribe' at work with a quill pen near his bed. (RG 1270_100)
Maciejowice. Passersby and children at a wooden foot-bridge in one of the oldest Jewish settlements in the area. (RG 1270_101)
Makow Mazowiecki. On an unpaved street that runs through a residential neighborhood, people and horse-drawn carts. (RG 1270_104)
Miedzeszyn. 'They make a newspaper - the children editors in the Medem Sanatorium' Teenagers work with teacher, Menukhe Zaltzman in a classroom. (RG 1270_435)
Miedzeszyn. Children at the Medem Sanatorium. (RG 1270_434)
Miedzeszyn. Children posing at the pigeon coop, at the Medem Sanatorium. (RG 1270_106)
Miedzeszyn. Children sit wrapped in blankets on the porch of the Medem Sanatorium listening to the radio. (RG 1270_665)
Miedzeszyn. Gymnastics, Medem Sanatorium. (RG 1270_556)
Miedzyrzec. A brushmaker in his hat and coat eating a meal by the window, at home, with his family. (RG 1270_108)
Nowy Dwor. 'Novidvorer seamstresses, their mothers and fathers: three girls sit and sew.' (RG 1270_626)
Ostrog. 'Leyvi Soyfer, the scribe (right) with his two 'unequal' students, one old, one young, at the end of a table by a window. (RG 1270_123)
Ostrog. At the center of town, clusters of people stand across an intersection. (RG 1270_116)
Ostrog. View of a busy commercial street with shops and sidewalk vendors. (RG 1270_119)
Ostrog. View of a church and the towers of the castle which was connected by an underground passage to the MAHARSHA Synagogue, (built in the mid-17th century), at the other end of the town. (RG 1270_120)
Ostroleka. At a corner of the marketplace, men and women are selling produce from stands and children loiter. (RG 1270_114)
Otwock. A water pump in the crowded fish market. (RG 1270_126)
Otwock. Two unidentified boys working the wheel of the town pump. (RG 1270_125)
Parysow. 'Jewish village (itinerant) tailors.' (RG 1270_128)
Parysow. Esther the seamstress at work. (RG 1270_129)
Piaseczno. Portrait study of a boy studying a page of the 'gemore' (Talmud). (RG 1270_130)
Piaseczno. Portrait study of two boys at a long table over an open page of Talmud. (RG 1270_131)
Pliskov. At the town pump in the marketsquare, three water-carriers waiting to fill their pails while the women draw water. (RG 1270_137)
Pulawy. Four men in traditional dress talking together on the sidewalk at the corner of a cobblestone street. (RG 1270_139)
Radzyn. View down a cobblestone street on the Sabbath in a Jewish neighborhood. (RG 1270_141)
Rovno. Five men at a meal in an old age home. (RG 1270_145)
Ryki. Girls and women wade in a river at the end of a lane. (RG 1270_146)
Ryki. Hatsellers in the marketplace. (RG 1270_147)
Ryki. Two barefoot children in the busy marketplace. (RG 1270_148)
Rzeszow. 'A Hullabaloo in front of the city hall: the dollar has advanced.' (RG 1270_589)
Rzeszow. A class in session in the Rayshe (Rzeszow) Yeshiva; Among the students is a member of the Teitelbaum family. (RG 1270_151)
Rzeszow. A street scene in the Jewish neighborhood. (RG 1270_149)
Rzeszow. The busy marketplace with shops: 'Obadia Kalter', 'Herman Spielman' and 'Chaim Teitelbaum'. (RG 1270_150)
Smorgon. An unidentified group of people posing on a path with a dog in front of the new 'besmedresh' (house of study and prayer), a wooden building under construction. (RG 1270_153)
Sochaczew. A Jewish woman emptying a soaking pan used or for ritual preparation of meat into the road in front of her house. (RG 1270_458)
Sokolka. Portrait of an unidentified woman sitting in a corner, crotcheting. (RG 1270_154)
Suchestaw. 'The innkeeper and his wife in Suchestaw, eastern Galicia." (RG 1270_615)
Swider. Bathers in the Shvider River on a Saturday. (RG 1270_157)
Unidentified location. 'Children.' (RG 1270_555)
Unidentified location. 'A young boy standing by the door; poverty is hidden by the darkness within the room. (RG 1270_379)
Unidentified location. 'From the series: 'Child and School'. The Eastern Jews' children's colony. Children in little kaftans are already learning gymnastics. Children, wearing kaftans, pose in a field, standing in a double row. (RG 1270_596)
Unidentified location. 'Fully equipped.' (RG 1270_484)
Unidentified location. 'Here's an old Jewish woman with hot peas.' (RG 1270_562)
Unidentified location. 'Jewish classical dancer, Shulamith Ram, one of the three Ram sisters who are now on their way to America.' (RG 1270_583)
Unidentified Location. 'Leonia and Shulamith Ram in their studio.' (RG 1270_460)
Unidentified location. A crowd of people waiting, on a sunny day. (RG 1270_377)
Unidentified location. A little shoeless boy stands in an open door. (RG 1270_370)
Unidentified location. A poor woman is getting ready to cook a meal, while her little daughter (?) observes the preparations. (RG 1270_363)
Unidentified location. Children having a meal in the school's (?) dining room. (RG 1270_362)
Unidentified location. Desks, filled with young students, are in a tight circle around the teacher's seat. (RG 1270_365)
Unidentified location. Group studio portrait including: Melech Ravitch, Joseph Opatoshu, Nachman Meisel, Peretz Markish and I. I. Singer. (RG 1270_577)
Unidentified location. Photograph of Clara Segalowitz with the inscription: 'To Mendl Elkin, as a remembrance' on the reverse. (RG 1270_387.01)
Unidentified location. Three elderly women wrapped in shawls sit together. (RG 1270_350)
Unidentified location. Women wash pots in a stream in the foreground. (RG 1270_516)
Vilna. Ignacy Schiper (1884-1943) historian, Zionist, and member of the Polish Parliament. (RG 1270_329)
Warsaw. 'Before Passover in Warsaw.' (RG 1270_474)
Warsaw. 'Eretz Israel behind Warsaw.' (RG 1270_628)
Warsaw. 'Half-colony: Jewish school children who are not so well off, spend half of their summer day in the Marysienka Forest behind Warsaw, under the watchful eye of the teachers. (RG 1270_482)
Warsaw. 'Horticulture in the .....; at the hothouses (hotbeds).' (RG 1270_171)
Warsaw. 'Surrounded by faint patterns on the walls, dirt and poverty, a young girl finds a little warmth under blankets on a bed.' (RG 1270_311)
Warsaw. 'The lively multitudes in the Halles at Morowsky Place, before Yontov.' (RG 1270_179)
Warsaw. 'Types of Jewish women: Pearl Sandler, known as a beauty in literary and artistic circles.' (RG 1270_613)
Warsaw. 'View from the third story into a commercial courtyard known as 'Der Mlawers', located on Nalewki Street.' (RG 1270_160)
Warsaw. 'What he got by fighting.' (RG 1270_575)
Warsaw. A boy and a man sit among bundles, waiting to leave for the port in the Free City of Gdansk. (RG 1270_264)
Warsaw. A boy standing by his basket of bagels at the curb. (RG 1270_167)
Warsaw. A group of Yiddish writers in a huddle, pose for a portrait. (RG 1270_285)
Warsaw. A market woman poses with her wares near the Halles. (RG 1270_164)
Warsaw. A porter or wagon driver sitting on the traces of a wagon holding a rope. (RG 1270_175)
Warsaw. A scrap metal dealers' courtyard in a Jewish neighborhood on Bagna Street. (RG 1270_165)
Warsaw. Actors of the Vilna Troupe with the writer Jacob Dineson. (RG 1270_398)
Warsaw. An elderly shoemaker poses at work in his workshop. (RG 1270_169)
Warsaw. Consulting the bulletin board in the HIAS building front courtyard; One of over 100 photographs taken by Kacyzne to document HIAS' emigration aid activities. (RG 1270_191)
Warsaw. Crowds of emigrants inside the shipping office of the Red Star-American Line. (RG 1270_271)
Warsaw. Customers around the stand of a second-hand shoe merchant. (RG 1270_168)
Warsaw. Emigrants living at HIAS headquarters; in foreground, men, women and children in dining room with workers and HIAS staff in rear. (RG 1270_263)
Warsaw. Emigrants pose in the open doorway of the train which will carry them to the port of Gdansk. (RG 1270_273)
Warsaw. Family portrait of Alter Kacyzne, his wife and child. (RG 1270_385)
Warsaw. HAIS waiting room. (RG 1270_254)
Warsaw. Hasidic men and boys walking along a city sidewalk on the way back from 'shul' (synagogue). (RG 1270_177)
Warsaw. HIAS staff workers at work processing emigrants; woman holding papers is on the right; writing implements are on the table. (RG 1270_253.02)
Warsaw. HIAS staff workers at work processing emigrants. (RG 1270_234)
Warsaw. Khane Kolski, 106 years old. (RG 1270_549)
Warsaw. Leah Noemi as an old woman in a production of 'Der Dybbuk' by Sh. Ansky. (RG 1270_404)
Warsaw. Members of a Jewish Sports Club pose for a portrait in matching white singlets. (RG 1270_277)
Warsaw. Men sitting on a bench. (RG 1270_163)
Warsaw. Mothers with children and baby carriages along a row of benches in Krasinski park, in the Jewish Quarter. (RG 1270_161)
Warsaw. People waiting in line in HIAS building courtyard; One of over 100 photographs taken by Kacyzne to document HIAS' emigration aid activities. (RG 1270_194)
Warsaw. People waiting in line in HIAS building courtyard; One of over 100 photographs taken by Kacyzne to document HIAS' emigration aid activities. (RG 1270_193)
Warsaw. People waiting on line outside the HIAS building; One of over 100 photographs taken by Kacyzne to document HIAS' emigration aid activities. (RG 1270_192)
Warsaw. Portrait of a woman (this may by Menucha Zaltzman). (RG 1270_655)
Warsaw. Portrait of Alter Kacyzne. (RG 1270_384)
Warsaw. Portrait of an elderly Hasid. (RG 1270_295)
Warsaw. Portrait study of an unidentified Hasid looking up from a book. (RG 1270_176)
Warsaw. Scene from the play, 'Der Dukus' (The Duke) by Alter Kacyzne, directed by Avrum Morevski. (RG 1270_405)
Warsaw. Scene from the play, 'He Who Gets Slapped' by Andreyev: Warsaw 1920, Act III. (RG 1270_419)
Warsaw. Studio portrait of Dr. Zemakh Shabad. (RG 1270_280)
Warsaw. Tableau of Bella Belarina (nee Rubinlicht) and her husband, Chaim Sznejer-Hamerow, both actors in the Vilna Troupe, with their infant son. (RG 1270_396)
Warsaw. The funeral of Rabbi A. Perlmutter. (RG 1270_178)
Warsaw. The play, 'Der Dybbuk', by Sh. Ansky, Act III, produced in 1919 by 'The Vilna Troupe'. From right to left: Jacob Waislitz, Noah Nachbush, Miriam Orleska, Avrum Morevski, Leib Kadison (RG 1270_182)
Warsaw. The Vilna Troupe's performance of Shalom Asch's 'Amnon and Tamar', directed by Mendel Elkin. (RG 1270_422)
Warsaw. Toddlers in a Jewish home for abandoned children pose in white smocks at a table in a dormitory. (RG 1270_185)
Warsaw. Vignetted studio portrait of a group of Jewish women intelligentsia. (RG 1270_293)
Warsaw. Vignetted studio portrait of dentist Ruta (Rubinlicht) Karlinska, wife of Jewish writer Boaz Karlinsky, holding her baby Ury. (RG 1270_290)
Warsaw. Voters line up at the polls in a Jewish neighborhood to elect representatives to the Polish Parliment. (RG 1270_183)
Warsaw. Workers in a Jewish Socialist Bundist cooperative workshop pose working with leather and other materials. (RG 1270_172)
Warsaw. Young men and women planting potatoes at a Zionist youth farm in the Grochow suburb. (RG 1270_184)
Wawolnica. Portrait study of Yisroel Lustman, a weaver of peasant linen, seated at a hand loom. (RG 1270_320)
Wilejka. 'Sara Kugel, the baker.' (RG 1270_619)
Wilejka. 'The Polish-Russian border 'type': a Jewish young man.' (RG 1270_601)
Wolomin. 'Malke-Raizl with her daughters.' (RG 1270_606)
Wolomin. A Jewish woman, Rimer's wife. (RG 1270_539)
Wolomin. Portrait-study of Yankev Szeranski, a saddler. (RG 1270_333)
Wolomin. Zelig, the tailor, at work. (RG 1270_332)
Wysokie Litewskie. 'Jewish workers in a mechanical locksmith shop.' (RG 1270_439)
Wysokie Litewskie. A man sitting over a book at a wooden study table in the old besmedresh (house of prayer and study). (RG 1270_335)
Wysokie Litewskie. Portrait study: Moyshe Pinczuk, a shames (sexton). (RG 1270_336)
Wyszkow. 'A Vishkover housewife 80 years old: Itke, the glazier's wife.' (RG 1270_612)
Wyszkow. 'Nahum the carpenter and his wife.' (RG 1270_500)
Wyszkow. 'Wife of the Jewish worker.' (RG 1270_611)
Wyszkow. 'Wyszkow by the bridge.' (RG 1270_461)
Zambrow. Portrait study of a locksmith at work. (RG 1270_338)
Zelechow. An old peddler carrying his stock of prayer books in the marketplace. (RG 1270_344)
Zolkiewka. 'The synagogue from Sobeski's time.' (RG 1270_438)
Warsaw. 'The Jewish woman who sells nuts at the courtyard at the entry-gate. (RG 1270_566)
Scene from the play, 'He Who Get Slapped' by Andreyev, Act III: 'Danton's Death', directed by Weiter, Nowosci Theater, 1930, Warsaw. (RG 1270_420)
The ornately decorated ceiling in the 'besmedresh' (house of prayer and study ) of the 'Tshortkover Rebe', the Hasidic leader from Czortkow. (RG 1270_022)
Hlinik. Women sell cucumbers and other produce in a market square. (RG 1270_138)

RG 1343: Kipnis, Menachem

125 photographs of Jewish life in Poland during the 1930s taken in some 30 communities. Subjects include: occupations such as coach drivers, street peddlers and street musicians, and scenes of life in the streets of Poland's cities and towns.

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Ciechocinek, 1926. Young heir to the Alexsandrer Rebbe - at a resort. (yarg1343kipnis31)
Ciechocinek. A Jewish Markeplace for white crockery in a spa. (yarg1343kipnis135)
Kazmierz Dolny. Jewish vegetable and fruit sellers with their baskets in the market. (yarg1343kipnis113)
Ciechanow. A view down the unpaved main street, where it runs through a residential neighborhood. (yarg1343kipnis42)
Kleszczele, 1929. Lubliner group of girls pose with a portrait of Mikhalevich. (yarg1343kleshtshel1929)
Krynki. Hasidim and others sitting on benches at one of the most popular spas in Poland. (yarg1343kipnis006)
Lukow, 1920s. The Town bath house. (yarg1343kipnis108)
Otwock, 1926. An itinerant cobbler. (yarg1343kipnis33)
Otwock, pre-1926. Jewish man plays with two goats in front of picket fence. (yarg1343kipnis109)
Otwock. A man holds his goat around the neck with his right hand. (yarg1343kipnis90)
Otwock. Moshe Koussevitzky, Warsaw's chief cantor from the Tlomackie Street Synagogue. (yarg1343kipnis084)

RG 1371: Szczek, Stanislaw (1925-). Papers.

Photographs and architectural drawings of synagogues in Poland

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COLLECTION Papers of Stanislaw Szczek (1371)
Ark in the Przemysl synagogue (RG 1371.6.4)
At the spa in Truskawiec (RG 1371.13.1)
Bird's eye view map of Rzeszow (RG 1371.9.1)
Door of ruined synagogue, Suwalki (RG 1371.61.1)
Façade of ruined synagogue, Orla (RG 1371.61.5)
Façade of ruined synagogue, Suwalki (RG 1371.61.2)
Façade of synagogue on Miodowa Street, Krakow (RG 1371.43.1)
Façade of synagogue on Miodowa Street, Krakow. (RG 1371.43.2)
Great Synagogue, Rzeszow (RG 1371.9.3)
Great Synagogue, Rzeszow (RG 1371.9.4)
Interior of ruined synagogue, Suwalki (RG 1371.61.3)
Interior of ruined synagogue, Suwalki (RG 1371.61.4)
Interior of Great Synagogue, Rzeszow (RG 1371.9.5)
Interior of ruined synagogue, Orla (RG 1371.61.6)
Interior of ruined synagogue, Orla (RG 1371.61.7)
Marketplace in Rzeszow with Jewish shops (RG 1371.9.6)
Near the synagogue, Przemysl-Zasanie (RG 1371.51.1)
Part of façade of the Old Synagogue, Rzeszow (RG 1371.9.2)
Ruins of synagogue, Dukla (RG 1371.3.1)
Ruins of synagogue, Dukla (RG 1371.3.2)
Ruins of the synagogue, Lesko (RG 1371.5A.1)
Ruins of the synagogue, Tarnogrod (RG 1371.55.1)
Ruins of the synagogue, Tarnogrod (RG 1371.55.2)
Ruins of the synagogue, Tarnogrod (RG 1371.55.3)
Synagogue used as department store, Debica (RG 1371.40.1)
Synagogue, Belz (RG 1371.63.1)
Synagogue, Cieszanow (RG 1371.37.1)
Synagogue, Cieszanow (RG 1371.37.2)
Synagogue, Cieszanow (RG 1371.37.3)
Synagogue, Husiatyn (RG 1371.62.1)
Synagogue, Przemysl (RG 1371.6.1)
Synagogue, Przemysl (RG 1371.6.1)
Synagogue, Tarnow (RG 1371.62.2)
Worshippers in the synagogue, Przemysl (RG 1371.6.3)

RG 1400: Bund Archives.

Archives of the Bund (Algemeyner Yidisher Arbeter Bund in Lite, Poyln un Rusland - The General Union of Jewish Workers in Lithuania, Poland and Russia), including materials on the history of the Bund, Jewish and general socialist groups, and other political movements