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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

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Invitation to opening of the Kehillah Museum (RG 1.2.114.2)

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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FINDING AID Guide to the Records of the Vilna Jewish Community Council, 1800-1940, RG 10 (RG 10 FA)
Letter from the Hilf durkh arbet (Help Through Work) School demanding wood for heating (RG 10.246.1)
Request for permission to create an organized Jewish community (RG 10.96.2)

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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"Your nearest and dearest and dying of hunger in Russia and Ukraine" (RG 28. Grodno 6.2)
Announcement about distribution of flour for baking matzoh (RG 28. Bialystok 1.3)
Announcement of the opening of a school for girls (RG 28. Grodno 6.1)
Appeal to the Jewish communities in Poland to aid the victims of a fire in Iwie (RG 28. Iwie)
Call for a conference of Jewish community councils of the eastern Polish borderlands (RG 28. Grodno 2.1)
Essays on the Jewish community of Kalusz (RG 28. Kalusz 2)
Matzoh Day (RG 28. Grodno 2.2)
Matzoh ration coupon (RG 28. Grodno 6.3)

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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Bialystok. Platform of the Jewish Socialist Workers Party. (RG 28/P/135)
Bialystok. Appeal for votes for the Jewish Labor Bund slate no. 5. (RG 28/P/111)
Bialystok. Declaration of the Democratic Youth (Youth Union)'s platform. (RG 28/P/133)
Bialystok. Election poster from the 1928 kehillah [community] elections. (RG 28/P/106)
Bialystok. Election poster urging a vote for Poalei-Tsion, slate number 7. (RG 28/P/108)
Bialystok. On the platform of the Jewish Socialist Workers Party, slate #2. (RG 28/P/131)
Bialystok. Vote for Slate no. 12 [Zionists]. (RG 28/P/110)
Bialystok. Vote for Slate no. 6. (RG 28/P/109)
Chelm. Announcement of kehile election results. (RG 28/P/1129)
Chelm. The results of the latest election, 11/2/1931. (RG 28/P/1126)
Kalisz. Vote for Slate No. 7. (RG 28/P/938)
Kolomyja. A mass meeting prior to the kehillah election. (RG 28/P/1285)
Kolomyja. A protest meeting against the total disregard of the Zionist parties. (RG 28/P/1289)
Kolomyja. Announcement of Hebrew School registration. (RG 28/P/1090)
Kolomyja. Announcement of the results of the election to the kehile from 9/12/1928. (RG 28/P/1288)
Kolomyja. Announcement of the results of the election to the kehile of 8/5/1928. (RG 28/P/1297)
Kolomyja. Appeal to boycott elections to the kehile on August 5. (RG 28/P/1287)
Kolomyja. Appeal to vote for list #5 for the elections to the kehile. (RG 28/P/1326)
Kolomyja. Regulations for the submission of a list of candidates for the elections to the kehile. (RG 28/P/1323)
Kolomyja. The lists of candidates from all slates, for the elections to the kehile, 8/1/1928. (RG 28/P/1324)
Kolomyja. Vote against religious and anti-Zionist parties in the election to the kehile, [1928]. (RG 28/P/1298)
Kolomyja. Vote for list #2 to the kehile (includes list of candidates). (RG 28/P/1294)
Kolomyja. Vote for the National Jewish list #8 in the elections to the kehile. (RG 28/P/1325)
Kutno. In the upcoming second national census, respond under "native language." (RG 28/P/490)
Kutno. The observance of the tenth anniversary of the Polish Republic. (RG 28/P/792)
Novogrodek. Announcement of the candidates running for Jewish community administrative positions. (RG 28/P/1134)
Pruzany. List of candidates with slate affiliations, elected to the kehillah leadership, [1928]. (RG 28/P/805)
Przemysl. Notice of daily low-cost lunches available at the kehile for individuals and families, 1926. (RG 28/P/829)
Przemysl. Notice of measures to hold down the price of kosher meat. (RG 28/P/801)
Przemysl. Notice of new elections for the Kehile Council, and regulations governing them, 1902. (RG 28/P/803)
Przemysl. Notice that Passover supplies should be given by donors directly to the needy, due to the lack of kehile funds. (RG 28/P/802)
Radom. A notice about the hours of sale of kosher chickens before the holidays. (RG 28/P/1302)
Radom. A service in the Great Synagogue related to the ninth convention of legionaires. (RG 28/P/1319)
Radom. Four rallies prior to the kehile elections, and an appeal to vote for list #4. (RG 28/P/1314)
Radom. Public clarification regarding accusations against the Chief Rabbi of Radom. (RG 28/P/1301)
Radom. Vote for the orthodox slate #7 for the kehile. (RG 28/P/1308)
Sanok. List of candidates for kehile position. (RG 28/P/1135)
Warsaw. A mass meeting prior to a kehile election. (RG 28/P/259)
Warsaw. A mass meeting prior to the kehile elections. (RG 28/P/270)
Warsaw. A mass meeting with the theme: "The Struggle for a National and Democratic Kehile." (RG 28/P/266)
Warsaw. A series of mass meetings in conjunction with the kehile elections, in support of the Bloc's slate (#26). (RG 28/P/271)
Warsaw. Appeal for a Grass-Roots Religious Kehile. (RG 28/P/268)
Warsaw. Appeal for votes for Akhudus Yisroel's slate (#26). (RG 28/P/269)
Warsaw. Appeal to Jewish workers to vote for the Bund slate (#4). (RG 28/P/298)
Warsaw. Everyone is Voting for Number 15. (RG 28/P/296)
Warsaw. Mass meetings dedicated to the kehile elections. (RG 28/P/292)
Warsaw. Vote for slate "17." (RG 28/P/294)

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

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List of Jewish immigrants submitted to the Vilna Kehillah (RG 29.119.5)
Request to Vilna kehillah for travel expenses for Jewish emigrants to Palestine (RG 29.119.6)
Vilna Technical Courses diploma (RG 29.192.2)

RG 105: Films. Collection.

Amateur film footage of Jewish communities in Poland from the YIVO Film Archive, digitized with the generous support of the Righteous Persons Foundation and the Steven Spielberg Foundation.

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Zaromb (Zareby Koscielne) (RG 105 F006)

RG 120: Territorial Photographic Collection. Poland.

Thousands of photographs of Jewish life in Poland before WWII

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Dubno, 1920s-1930s. Part of the hospital, maintained by the Kehile. (yarg120po776)
Vilna, 1937. Portrait of Dr. Jacob Wygodski (seated, center), and other members of the Kehillah. (yarg120po6117)