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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

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Questionnaire: Jewish Male and Female Apprentices in Vilna (RG 1.3.3964)

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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COLLECTION Vilna Jewish Community Council (010)
Official document regarding the sale of kosher meat (RG 10.10.2)
Receipt for an interest payment on a loan (RG 10.10.1)
Regulations for the sale of kosher meat (RG 10.10.3)

RG 12: Minsk Jewish Community Council. Records.

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

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Notice of sale of candle lanterns and of a public auction for the lease of property in the Mnsk marketplace (RG 12.61.1)

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

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Legal document issued to Louis Levy (RG 27. 2.34)
Letter to a rabbi requesting assistance with business (RG 27.2.3.1)
Note to a rabbi from a man who has fallen on hard times in Palestine (RG 27.662.1)

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

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"The Right to Work for the Jewish Working Masses!" (RG 28.Warsaw 83.1)
"We demand free access to all jobs in the country…" (RG 28.Warsaw 83.2)
Right-to-work bureau delegate card (RG 28.Warsaw 83.3)

RG 28P: Poland (Vilna Archives) Collection. Posters.

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

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Berlin. Appeal for support for the ORT vocational training organization. (RG 28/P/373)
Bialystok. List of demands to the City Council, in response to the economic crisis. (RG 28/P/10)
Bialystok. List of workers' demands to the City Council, in response to the economic crisis. (RG 28/P/9)
Bialystok. Official notice detailing the collection and processing of fruit-pits and nuts. (RG 28/P/884)
Bielsk-Podlaski. The first anniversary celebration of the garment makers union in Bielsk-Podlaski, 9/6/1927. (RG 28/P/7)
Brzeziny. Obituary notice for Moyshe Kadish [Kadysz], dead at the age of 33, on April 26, as a result of "hooliganism." (RG 28/P/950)
Chrzanow. A meeting for the unemployed. (RG 28/P/958)
Grodno. Announcement of a lecture, by Jacob Lestschinsky, 4/12/1934. (RG 28/P/402)
Kalisz. Mass meeting on "The Politico-Economic Situation in the Country and the Working Class." (RG 28/P/216)
Kolo. Announcement of a lecture by comrade Artur [Zygielbojm], Bundist leader. (RG 28/P/225)
Kolomyja. A pre-election meeting of all members. (RG 28/P/1290)
Kolomyja. A protest meeting in response to the alleged misappropriation of Joint Distribution Committee funds for unemployed workers. (RG 28/P/952)
Krakow. Comrades, Workers, Tenants! A call to a mass meeting. (RG 28/P/248)
Kutno. A lecture on: "The Situation of the Jewish People in the Present Troubled Times." (RG 28/P/421)
Lublin. Last masquerade ball of the season on Purim. (RG 28/P/949)
Luck. On the importance of "self-sustenance," buying only locally-produced goods. (RG 28/P/286)
Lwow. A gathering of merchants and vendors, with the theme: "The Economic Position of Merchants and Vendors." (RG 28/P/976)
Lwow. A general meeting of ready-made tailors, to discuss their worsening economic situation, 1/11. (RG 28/P/281)
Lwow. A public meeting and lecture on: "Productivization, Emigration, and Eretz Yisrael." (RG 28/P/334)
Pinsk. "If you want a healthy municipal economy and fair taxing policy - vote for list # 1," [1927]. (RG 28/P/1557)
Pinsk. "If You Want a Roof Over Workers' Heads- Vote and Agitate For #7." (RG 28/P/1542)
Pinsk. "If you want free health care vote for list # 7." (RG 28/P/1546)
Poznan. A call for an economic boycott of the Jews. (RG 28/P/736)
Przemysl. Notice of measures to hold down the price of kosher meat. (RG 28/P/801)
Radom. A notice about the hours of sale of kosher chickens before the holidays. (RG 28/P/1302)
Rowne. Elections to the city council, and an appeal to vote for the Bloc of Artisans and Small Merchants, #11. (RG 28/P/1305)
Siedlce. Announcement of investment opportunities, 1928. (RG 28/P/783)
Siedlce. Investment opportunities in the Bank Udzialowy [Cooperative Bank]. (RG 28/P/782)
Slonim. A lecture on the Position of the Jewish Artisan in Poland. (RG 28/P/276)
Stryj. Appeal to vote for ballot #3; list of demands of the Coalition. (RG 28/P/1165)
Tarnow. Boycott all products from Hitler's Germany! (RG 28/P/1342)
Vilna. "To All Citizens From Vilna and Environs," an appeal for support for slate #3. (RG 28/P/996)
Vilna. An appeal in support of the Jewish committee to help the unemployed. (RG 28/P/1257)
Vilna. Announcement of a 20th anniversary jubilee exhibition and bazaar. (RG 28/P/995)
Vilna. Annual chemists' and agronomists' dance, 2/18/1938. (RG 28/P/537)
Vilna. Buy the Committee's labels, in support of their agenda. (RG 28/P/1007)
Vilna. Election poster for slate #23. (RG 28/P/1203)
Vilna. Mass meeting on: "Social Revolution and the Workers' Cooperative." (RG 28/P/732)
Vilna. Public Meeting: "The Jewish Workers' Movement." (RG 28/P/718)
Warsaw. Advertisement encouraging saving at the Jewish People's Bank. (RG 28/P/889)
Warsaw. Appeal for participation in the Workers' Congress. (RG 28/P/75)
Warsaw. Appeal to become members of the Cooperative Bank. (RG 28/P/1057)
Warsaw. Appeal to tenants to vote for slate #20. (RG 28/P/1098)
Warsaw. Hebrew Book Exhibition, 1914-1924. (RG 28/P/770)
Warsaw. Informational program/celebration, in conjunction with the information drive of the trade union movement. (RG 28/P/947)
Warsaw. Jewish workers and clerks should fight for their right to work. (RG 28/P/1121)
Warsaw. Program commemorating the 10th anniversary of the youth division of the Garment Industry Workers' Union. (RG 28/P/954)
Warsaw. Save! Deposit your money in the Jewish People's Bank! (RG 28/P/888)
Warsaw. Special gathering of manufacturing employees, 9/2. (RG 28/P/974)
Wlodzimierz. Citizens should contribute to the National Loan [bond] campaign. (RG 28/P/450)

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

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Contract concerning the building of a house. (RG 87.978. V.2a)
Letter to Ben-Tsion Dubnow from the Ministry of Education about the purchase of a school building. (RG 87.978 v2.L 75109-75110)
Pinkas (record book) of the Jewish Community of Pinczow. Selected Pages. (RG 87.922)
Pinkas (Communal Register) for the Jewish community of Piotrowice (Pitrovits), 1726-1809. (yarg87f917p73152-73213)
Pinkas Hamedina d'Medinat Lita (Register of the Council of Lithuania) (yarg87f928p73633-73715)

RG 120: Territorial Photographic Collection. Poland.

Thousands of photographs of Jewish life in Poland before WWII

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Bialystok, ca. 1906. Yoyne the tanner, bids his bride goodbye before his death, after being attacked by pogromists. (yarg120po_forward27349)
Brzesc Litewski, 1924. Water carriers, filling up their barrels from the river. (yarg120po_forward27286)
Brzeziny, 1910. Portrait of a group of young men, successful businessmen in the dress industry. (yarg120po382)
Gabin, 1909. Four young leather workers, at work outdoors. (yarg120po837c001)
Gabin, 1914-1918. The busy market square. (yarg120po816)
Glebokie, 1923-1924. Girls in a class at an ORT trade school for seamstresses, in the first year that the courses existed. (yarg120po879)
Grodno, 1924. A group of young women, who are on strike against the Szereszewski Tobacco Factory. (yarg120po_forward27082)
Kazimierz Dolny, 1925. Customers look over shoes, at an outdoor shoe stall in the marketplace. (yarg120po1393)
Kazimierz Dolny, 1927. Hershele the water-carrier, walks from the well with two full buckets of water. (yarg120po_forward43036)
Kazmierz Dolny, 1930s. Horse-drawn wagons, in the market place. (yarg120po1393.03)
Kolomyja, 1932. Jewish curtain makers and piece workers (khalupnikes), posing at their machines, with examples of their lace-curtain work. (yarg120po1525)
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)
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, 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, 1933. In the Baluty neighborhood marketplace, a street merchant, with geese for sale, hung around his neck. (yarg120po1784.03)
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. 1930s. Factories and smokestacks. (RG 120 PO 1746)
Lodz, WWI. Outside J. Koprovsky's pharmacy, dish washers kasher (ritually cleanse) dishes, for Passover use. (yarg120po1753.24)
Lomza, 1927. An old Jewish carpenter, works a piece of wood with his hand tools. (yarg120po_forward43037)
Lomza, WWI, ca. 1915. On the pavement near a shop, Jewish boys shine the shoes of German officers. (yarg120po1950.01)
Lublin, 1937. The local water carrier. (yarg120po2003.01)
Lukow, 1926. Lukow's widest and busiest street; almost all its inhabitants were Jews. (yarg120po_forwardf2083_42719)
Lukow, 1926. The town marketplace. (yarg120po_f208742733)
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)
Miedzyrzec, 1924. A peddler, posing with her wares. (yarg120po2460)
Ostrowiec, ca. 1900. A kapelye, known all over Poland. (yarg120po2797c001)
Otwock. A milkman and a fruit peddler, near a fence. (yarg120po3502)
Pinsk, 1921. Girls wearing striped aprons, pose with sewing machines, in a seamstress class at the ORT Trade School for Girls. (yarg120po2955)
Pinsk, 1934. Female employees of the Lurie Brothers industrial enterprises, pose in a formation in their gym class. (yarg120po2925.01)
Pinsk, 1936. Students at work, in the kitchen of the Jewish Trade School for Girls. (yarg120po2966)
Plock, 1930. Weighing produce, at the vegetable stand in the marketplace. (yarg120po3083)
Równe, 1923, Portrait of the seventh grade, of the Równe Business Gymnasium. (yarg120po3323)
Stolin, 1929. Rabbi Osher Fialkow and his shames, walking through the marketplace, on their way to collect ma'ot chittim. (yarg120po3643)
Swislocz, 1920s. Osher Berl Lazarowicz, posing with a walking stick, on the sidewalk in front of a shop. (yarg120po3804)
Swislocz, 1929. Tannery workers, posing in front of the small leather factory, where they work. (yarg120po3807)
Szereszow, 1920s-1930s. The view across the bridge on Preziener Street, which leads to Shmuel the Blacksmith's smithy. (yarg120po3850)
Tarnow, 1902. Workers at M. S. Mandla's Jewish Bakery, at the flour sifter, the oven, and with loaves of bread. (yarg120po3914)
Tarnow, WWI. A Jewish bread peddler, wearing traditional dress, and pushing a cart. (yarg120po3895.01)
Unknown location, 1920s. A shoemaker at work. (yarg120po6551.01)
Unknown location, 1930s. School children, posing with a wall banner for a campaign to save money in the PKO. (yarg120po6736)
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)
Vilna 1936-1937. The first class in women's tailoring, at the trade school of the Jewish Women's Union. (yarg120po8214)
Vilna, 1920-1921. Photomontage of the students and faculty, of the second yearly cycle of Jewish pedagogical courses. (yarg120po5568)
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 peddler woman, conversing with two young boys in the durkhhoyf (through-yard), between Jatkowa and Zydowska streets. (yarg120po5053)
Vilna, 1934-1935. Photomontage of the students and staff, of the Hilf Durkh Arbet Trade School. (yarg120po5485)
Vilna, 1935. Portrait of M. Schreiber, director of the ORT Technical School, at his desk in his wood-paneled office. (yarg120po5492)
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. 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 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, 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. 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)
Warszawa, 1923. View through a courtyard during business hours, near Nalewki Street. (yarg120po_forward42376)
Warszawa, 1928. Three shoemakers, in the open-air marketplace. (yarg120po_forward43483)
Warszawa, 1930. Five art students, pose with their paintings, drawings, and sculptures, which are on exhibit. (yarg120po4756.02)
Warszawa, 1930s. A business courtyard on Nalewki Street, with the stores of T. Appel, Szpiro, and others. (yarg120po4048.01)
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, 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, late 1920s. A busy street scene on Muranow Street, in the heart of the Jewish Quarter. (yarg120po4045.02)
Warszawa,1938. Fresh air cure in the day nursery, in the School of Nursing, at the Jewish Hospital. (yarg120poalbum35_8097)
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)

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

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Promissory note by Rabbi Chaim Auerbach of Leczyca (Lunshits), 1803 (yarg128f343)

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

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Legal contract of Rachel and Rabbi Menashe Tarner of Wlodawa and David ben Chaim Lavitshker (RG 223.2.44.5)
Legal document concerning the private property of Baruch and Yitshak ben Shloime Zalman of Pińczów (Pintshev) (RG 223.2.53.1)

RG 1160: Reiss, Lionel S. (1894-1987). Papers.

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

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Carpenter Waiting for Job-Wilno, undated (ya-rg1160-006)
Curb Merchandise-Radom, 1921 (ya-rg1160-027)
Gravestone Carver-Poland, 1922 (ya-rg1160-042)
Knife Grinder, undated (ya-rg1160-007)
Lublin Glasier, 1921 (ya-rg1160-040)
Market Transaction, 1921 (ya-rg1160-030)
Shop in Lemberg, 1921 (ya-rg1160-013)
Stetle [shtetl] Water Carrier, 1921 (ya-rg1160-038)
Street Fiddler, 1922 (ya-rg1160-061)
Vegetables, undated (ya-rg1160-009)
Village Bal Agalah [Wagon Driver], 1921 (ya-rg1160-020)
Wood Turner, undated (ya-rg1160-082)

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

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

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Kopyczyńce. Busy street scene outside a Jewish-owned inn. (yarg1270_344ia1)

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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COLLECTION Menachem Kipnis (1343)
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)
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)

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

Photographs and architectural drawings of synagogues in Poland

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Marketplace in Rzeszow with Jewish shops (RG 1371.9.6)