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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

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

Synagogue seat contracts, brit (circumcision) and marriage registers, school and vocational apprenticeship records, and other documents

Records on taxation and communal administration, birth and marriage records, materials about the community's religious school, 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 Rabbinical School and Teachers' Institute, one of several Jewish state schools established in the Russian Empire in 1847 in order to undermine and replace the traditional heder system of education

Records of an organization that provided financial and spiritual assistance to a network of 70 yeshivot in the five Eastern provinces of 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

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

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 related to the activities of a secular Jewish high school (est.1906), which began as a Russian-language school but shifted to Yiddish after WWI

Records of Jewish state schools established in the Russian Empire in 1847 in order to undermine and replace the traditional heder system of education

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.