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

Published music and manuscripts: Yiddish and Hebrew folk and art songs; theater music; Holocaust songs; liturgical and Hasidic music; choral music; classical compositions. Materials about Jewish music organizations, choruses, and cantors.

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

Leaflets, posters, and other documents related to 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

Rare recordings of Jewish music and oral history interviews with Jews from Poland

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

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

A bound volume of songs, rhymes, and poems, handwritten by a badkhen (wedding entertainer)

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