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RG 1.1: YIVO - Yidisher Visnshaftlekher Institut (Vilna).  Subgroup: Administration. Records.
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.
RG 1.2: YIVO - Yidisher Visnshaftlekher Institut (Vilna). Subgroup:  Ethnographic Committee. Records.
Materials on folklore, ethnography, and linguistics collected by YIVO in Vilna before WWII
RG 1.3: YIVO - Yidisher Visnshaftlekher Institut (Vilna). Subgroup: Aspirantur. Records.
Research papers written by students in YIVO's graduate studies program in Vilna before WWII
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
RG 10: Vilna Jewish Community Council. Records.
Records of the administration of the Jewish community in Vilna from 1800 to 1940
RG 11: VILBIG (Vilner yiddisher bildungs gezelshaft), Vilna. Records.
Records of an organization in Vilna that promoted secular Yiddish education
RG 13: Ostrowo Jewish Community Council. Records.
Synagogue seat contracts, brit (circumcision) and marriage registers, school and vocational apprenticeship records, and other documents
RG 17: Goldberg, Isaac Leib (1860-1935). Papers.
Papers of an early and  prominent Zionist leader in Vilna, including reports and correspondence from 1901-1919 related to both local and international Zionist organizations
RG 21: ORT Vocational School (Vilna). Records.
Records of a vocational school founded in Vilna in 1921 to train young people in the fields of mechanics and electrical maintenance
RG 22: Hevrah Mefitsei Haskalah Society (Vilna). Records.
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
RG 23: Tarbut Hebrew Teachers' Seminary (Vilna). Records.
Records of a seminary that trained teachers for the Hebrew elementary school system in Poland
RG 26: Yidisher Artistn Fareyn (Warsaw). Records.
Records of the Jewish Actors Union, including 600 individual files on actors, singers, composers, and directors
RG 27: Guttmacher, Eliyahu (1796-1874). Papers.
Several thousand 19th-century kvitlekh (written requests to a rabbi asking for a blessing or advice) sent to Rabbi Eliayahu Guttmacher, known as the Tsadik of Graetz
RG 28: Poland (Vilna Archives) Collection.
Leaflets, posters, and other documents related to political organizations, elections, banks, trade unions, cultural activities, religious matters, and sports, from over 200 Jewish communities
RG 29: Vilna. Collection.
Records of Jewish organizations and institutions; official government, municipal, and legal documents; memoirs of the German occupation, and other documents chronicling the life of the Jewish community in Vilna
RG 49: CHOJREW (Vilna). Records.
Records of the Central Committee for Religious Education, an educational organization that maintained a network of Orthodox Jewish schools for boys of all ages
RG 50: Yidisher Lerer Fareyn (Vilna). Records.
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
RG 52: Jewish State Schools in the Vilna School District. Records.
Records of Jewish state schools established in the Russian Empire in 1847 in order to undermine and replace the traditional heder system of education
RG 54: Jewish Deaf-Mute Association of Poland. Records.
Records of an organization established to work for the interests of Jews with hearing disabilities
RG 55: Yiddish Writers and Journalists Union,  Vilna. Records.
Correspondence, leaflets, contracts, and other materials related to the work of a union for Jewish writers and journalists in Vilna
RG 56: Vilna Chief of Police. Records.
Fragmentary records of the office of the Vilna Chief of Police, including dossiers on people suspected of revolutionary activities
RG 57: Shtif, Nahum (1879-1933). Papers.
Papers of a Yiddish linguist, co-founder of the YIVO Institute in Vilna, and chairman of the linguistics section of the Institute for Jewish Proletarian Culture in Kiev, including manuscripts of his linguistic, literary, and political works
RG 58: Lunski, Khaykel. Papers.
Papers of the librarian of the Strashun Library, including copies of rare manuscripts, research materials for scholarship, and correspondence
RG 82: YIVO - Yidisher Visnshaftlekher Institut (Vilna, Tcherikower Archive).  Records.
Records and correspondence assembled by scholar Elias Tcherikower, relating to the founding of YIVO, its Executive Committee, and Historical Section; documents about the Historical Commission on Poland in Warsaw
RG 87: Dubnow, Simon (1860-1941). Papers.
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
RG 101: Art and Artifacts. Collection.
Original art works, reproductions, and historical artifacts, including costume and stage designs; political cartoons; and Jewish ceremonial art
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
RG 128: Rabbinical and Historical Manuscripts. Collection.
Correspondence of rabbinical (including Hasidic) and scholarly figures; rabbinical responsa; commentaries on the Torah and Talmud; prayers; kabbalistic and ethical works; and other writings of rabbis and scholars in Poland and around the world
RG 223: Sutzkever, Abraham -Kaczerginski, Szmerke. Collection.  Part II. Historical and Literary Manuscripts.
Historical and literary manuscripts belonging to YIVO that were rescued and hidden from the Nazis, including manuscripts by S. An-Ski, Theodor Herzl, Mendele Moykher Sforim, and Sholem Aleichem
RG 237: Ezras Torah Fund. Records.
Correspondence with rabbis and Torah scholars, mostly in Poland, from the records of an organization in New York which provide financial assistance to rabbis and Torah scholars in Europe
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
RG 347.1.29: American Jewish Committee. Subgroup:  Executive Offices.  Morris Waldman Files. Records.
Documents of an official of the AJC, including correspondence, reports, studies, statements, minutes of meetings, memoranda, speeches, and other papers related to Jewish affairs in Poland.
RG 348: Wolf, Lucien (1857-1930) and  Mowshowitch, David (1887-1957). Papers.
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
RG 356: Shatzky, Jacob (1893-1956). Papers.
Papers of the historian, writer, lecturer, lexicographer, bibliographer, and editor, including correspondence, materials and notes for articles, and bibliographies
RG 448: Cohen, Israel (1879-1961). Papers.
Papers of the Jewish writer and journalist, including reports on the pogroms of 1918-1919 in Ukraine
RG 1401: Bund Foreign Committee. Records.
Records of the Bund Foreign Committee in Geneva including letters and other documents related to Bund support groups in the Russian Empire and worldwide.


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