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Administrative records of the YIVO Institute in Vilna from 1925 to 1941, including records of the Psychological-Pedagogical and Philological Sections, materials on exhibitions, and correspondence with well-known scholars and Jewish cultural figures.

Materials on folklore, ethnography, and linguistics collected by YIVO in Vilna before WWII

Research papers written by students in YIVO's graduate studies program in Vilna before WWII

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

Autobiographies submitted to YIVO in Vilna as entries to three contests (1932, 1934, 1939) sponsored by the institute's Youth Research Division (Yugntforshung)

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

Records of an organization in Vilna that promoted secular Yiddish education

Registers of births, marriages and deaths, tax rolls, correspondence regarding Jewish military service in Minsk, and other documents

Records on taxation and communal administration, birth and marriage records, materials about the community's religious school, and other documents

Records related to the hiring of a rabbi, cantor, ritual slaughterer, teacher; the building of the mikve (ritual bath), the sale of the synagogue in Briesen, and other documents

Records of a vocational school founded in Vilna in 1921 to train young people in the fields of mechanics and electrical maintenance

Records of the Vilna branch of the Society for the Promotion of Culture Among the Jews of Russia, founded in St. Petersburg in 1863 to disseminate Russian language and culture among the Jews

Records of a seminary that trained teachers for the Hebrew elementary school system in Poland

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

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

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

Posters advertising political organizations, elections, banks, trade unions, cultural activities, religious matters, and sports, from over 200 Jewish communities

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

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

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

Records of the Central Committee for Religious Education, an educational organization that maintained a network of Orthodox Jewish schools for boys of all ages

Records of the Yiddish Teachers' Union, a professional association in Vilna which promoted the interests of its member teachers and was ideologically associated with the Yiddish secular school network known as TSYSHO

Records of an organization dedicated to providing health care and health education to Jews in Poland

Records of an organization established to work for the interests of Jews with hearing disabilities

Correspondence, leaflets, contracts, and other materials related to the work of a union for Jewish writers and journalists in Vilna

Fragmentary records of the office of the Vilna Chief of Police, including dossiers on people suspected of revolutionary activities

Papers of the librarian of the Strashun Library, including copies of rare manuscripts, research materials for scholarship, and correspondence

Rare historical documents and research materials from the collection of the great historian Simon Dubnow (1860-1941), seminal scholar of Jewish history in Eastern Europe

Original art works, reproductions, and historical artifacts, including costume and stage designs; political cartoons; and Jewish ceremonial art

Printed and hand-drawn maps of countries, regions, cities, and towns around the world, including many localities in Poland

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

Thousands of photographs of Jewish life in Poland before WWII

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

Records of a philanthropic association that assisted Jewish immigration and agricultural colonization throughout the world, including Poland

Papers of a badkhen (wedding entertainer), including rhymed wedding songs, bar mitzvah speeches, tombstone epitaphs, a notebook recording the efforts of a matchmaker, and letters

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

Papers of an Anglo-Jewish diplomat who was a delegate to the Paris Peace Conference of 1919 and who was involved in the drafting of the minorities treaties

Papers of the historian, writer, lecturer, lexicographer, bibliographer, and editor, including correspondence, materials and notes for articles, and bibliographies

Papers of the Jewish writer and journalist, including reports on the pogroms of 1918-1919 in Ukraine

Correspondence, manuscripts, and other materials related to scholarly work on the history of Poland in the pre-WWII period and the history of the Jews in Poland in the 1930s

Manuscripts of a Yiddish folk poet and carpenter whose songs are among the best known in Yiddish folk literature

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

Drawings, sketches, charcoals, and watercolors depicting scenes of Jewish life in Eastern Europe

Photographs and architectural drawings of synagogues in Poland

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