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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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"Two Couplets" (RG 1.2.23.1)

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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Agreement to establish a foundation to support the work of Jewish writers (RG 10.47.1)
Announcement of the opening of an orphanage (RG 10.214.1)
Invitation to the opening of the Hygienic Kitchen for Jewish Intelligentsia (RG 10.176.1)
Letter from the principal of the Mefitse Haskalah school to the Vilna Kehillah (RG 10.250.1)
Minutes of a meeting of the Tzedakah Gedolah (RG 10.2.3)
Request from the Evening Home for Young Jewish Workers to the Vilna Kehillah (RG 10.201.1)

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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"Support the pioneer fund!" (RG 28.Warsaw 37.1)
"The blood of our brothers cries out to us!" (RG 28.Sanok 1.1)
"The secular Jewish school is our future" (RG 28. Bialystok 7)
"Your nearest and dearest and dying of hunger in Russia and Ukraine" (RG 28. Grodno 6.2)
Advertisement for a performance by a child cantor (RG 28.Warsaw 48.1)
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 for aid to victims of a fire (RG 28. Olszany)
Appeal for funding for wall around a Jewish cemetery (RG 28.Tluste)
Appeal for help from the board of the Gmilas Khesed Bank (Free Loan Bank) in Zyrardow (RG 28.Zyrardow)
Appeal for Keren Ha-yishuv (RG 28.Warsaw 41.1)
Appeal for support for Keren HeHaluz Hamizrachi (RG 28.Warsaw 38.1)
Appeal for support for Keren HeHaluz Hamizrachi (RG 28.Warsaw 38.2)
Appeal from unemployed atarot-makers (RG 28.Sasow)
Appeal to the Jewish communities in Poland to aid the victims of a fire in Iwie (RG 28. Iwie)
Bylaws of the Torah Fund (RG 28 Lowicz.7)
Donation coupon for Keren Ha-yishuv (RG 28.Warsaw 41.6)
Invitation to a Jad Charuzim event (RG 28 Sanok 1.2)
Invitation to ball of the Nosen Lechem Society (RG 28 Lodz 20.9)
Invitation to dance for pioneers making aliyah to Palestine (RG 28.Sanok 2)
Invitation to laying of groundstone for new building at Hehaluz (Pioneer) hakhshara (Zionist training farm) (RG 28.Warsaw 37.2)
Keren Kayemet (Jewish National Fund) donation booklet for Purim (RG 28.Warsaw 40.4)
Keren Kayemet (Jewish National Fund) donation coupon for Purim (RG 28.Warsaw 40.5)
Letter about the Sholem Aleichem Library (RG 28. Bialystok 7.1.1)
Matzoh Day (RG 28. Grodno 2.2)
Report of the charitable organization Machzyke Tamche (RG 28.Warsaw 79.3)
Statistics of the Sholem Aleichem Library (RG 28. Bialystok 7.1.2)

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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"Call from Vilna Mishmeres Khoylim to the Jewish population of the entire province" (RG 29.43.4)
"Mishmeres Khoylim - 36 years" (RG 29.43.3)
"What is the significance of the shekel today?" (RG 29.102.1)
Announcement of a food drive for the poor (RG 29.94.3)
Announcement of temporary suspension of disbursement of aid (RG 29.56.2)
Announcement of the establishment of TSYSHO and of new activities by the Kultur Lige, Vilna (RG 29.150.3)
Announcement of the opening of a women's shelter (RG 29.45.2)
Bylaws of Nichum Avelim (RG 29.48.3)
Call for Jewish women to buy candles from Mishmeres Khoylim (Miszmeres Chojlim) (RG 29.43.2)
Certificate for a donation to an old age home in Jerusalem (RG 29.68.1)
Fundraising appeal for Beys Lekhem (Dom Chleba) (RG 29.57.1)
Fundraising appeal for Old Age Home (RG 29.53.3)
Fundraising appeal for Yavneh schools (RG 29.207.3)
Invitation to the annual meeting of Nichum Avelim (RG 29.48.2)
Lottery to benefit old age home (RG 29.53.2)
Mishmeres Khoylim stamps (RG 29.45.1)
Pinkas of the "Somech Noflim" charitable association (RG 29.51.1)
Report on the reconstruction work of YEKOPO, Vilna (1919-1924) (RG 29.72.2)
Request to Vilna kehillah for travel expenses for Jewish emigrants to Palestine (RG 29.119.4)
Sign advertising tickets for benefit performance of Yiddish play (RG 29.47.1)
Sign: "Donations to the municipal gmilas khesed (free loan society)" (RG 29.214.3)
Yahrzeit reminder from Nichum Avelim (RG 29.48.1)
Zionist Organization donation coupon booklet (RG 29.107.2)

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.