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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

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

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

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

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 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

Rare historical documents and research materials from the collection of the great historian Simon Dubnow (1860-1941), seminal scholar of Jewish history in Eastern Europe

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)

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

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