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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

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

Printed musical works and music manuscripts of Abraham Bernstein, a cantor, choir master, composer of Jewish liturgical and popular music, music teacher, musicologist, and writer

Rare historical documents and research materials from the collection of the great historian Simon Dubnow (1860-1941), seminal scholar of Jewish history in Eastern Europe

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)

Papers of the historian, writer, lecturer, lexicographer, bibliographer, and editor, including correspondence, materials and notes for articles, and bibliographies

Bound manuscripts of liturgical compositions, Sabbath zmirot (melodies), and theatrical music

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

Correspondence, manuscripts, and other materials related to scholarly work on the history of Poland in the pre-WWII period and the history of the Jews in Poland in the 1930s

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

Costume and set designs, photographs, and playbills related to the career of the Yiddish theater director and actor who was a founder of the Vilna Troupe

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.