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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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"Der Erev-Shabes" The Eve of the Sabbath (1.2.17.1.1)
"Maykholim af Purim" Special Purim foods and practices in Radom (1.2.62.1)

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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Minutes of a meeting of the Tzedakah Gedolah (RG 10.2.3)
Rabbinical proclamation permitting celebration of Passover with tea instead of wine (RG 10.298.4)

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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Letter to a rabbi about rules governing the lighting of candles (RG 27.2.41.1)

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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Advertisement for High Holiday services (RG 28.Warsaw 48.7)
Advertisement for High Holiday services (RG 28.Warsaw 48.8)
Advertisement for High Holiday services (RG 28.Warsaw 48.9)
Advertisement for High Holiday services at Mr. Skała's school (RG 28.Warsaw 48.12)
Advertisement for High Holiday services in the courtyard of the shipping office (RG 28.Warsaw 48.4)
Advertisement for High Holiday services on Dzika Street. (RG 28.Warsaw 48.13)
Announcement about distribution of flour for baking matzoh (RG 28. Bialystok 1.3)
Flyer advertising sale of etrogs (citrons) from Palestine (RG 28.Lodz 20.4)
Flyer advertising the purchase of khomets (RG 28.Lodz 20.6)
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)
Matzoh Day (RG 28. Grodno 2.2)
Matzoh ration coupon (RG 28. Grodno 6.3)
Report of the charitable organization Machzyke Tamche (RG 28.Warsaw 79.3)

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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Grodno. List of donors according to synagogue and study house, to the Passover fundraising drive, 1929. (RG 28/P/886)
Kalisz. Notice: Ceremony for lighting of the first Hanukah candle. (RG 28/P/824)
Kolomyja. Announcement of a Hanukah program. (RG 28/P/804)
Lublin. Last masquerade ball of the season on Purim. (RG 28/P/949)
Przemysl. Notice of the Passover matzoh sale by the kehile. (RG 28/P/810)
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)
Unknown location. Rosh Hashana appeal for funds for Jewish colonization of Palestine. (RG 28/P/774)
Vilna. Announcement of a gala "Palestine evening" to coincide with Hanukah, 1918. (RG 28/P/93)
Warsaw. A lecture on: "The Meaning of the Jewish Holidays." (RG 28/P/427)
Warsaw. Appeal (at Hanukah time) for contributions to build housing for Jewish workers in Eretz Israel, [1919]. (RG 28/P/700)
Wlodzimierz. A Hanukah evening with declamation, drama and dance. (RG 28/P/963)

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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Announcement of special Succoth discount at the communal baths (RG 29.40.2)
Fundraising appeal for Beys Lekhem (Dom Chleba) (RG 29.57.1)
Notice about special hours of the communal baths during Passover (RG 29.40.1)
Program for a Purim ball (RG 29.183.3)

RG 48: TSYSHO (Tsentrale Yidishe Shul Organizatsye), Vilna. Records.

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

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Rosh Hashanah greetings to Zemach Shabad from a student (RG 48.47.2)

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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Petition of the Jews of Mstislavl to the Countess Saltykova, 1856 (RG 87 978 [75086-75159] V.2)

RG 101: Art and Artifacts. Collection.

Original art works, reproductions, and historical artifacts, including costume and stage designs; political cartoons; and Jewish ceremonial art

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Menorah Created by Chayim Aryeh Seifter in 1943 with Memorial Plaque and Letter (yarg101.3dmenorah.seifter_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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Mosty Wielkie (RG 105 F 034)

RG 115: Max and Frieda Weinstein Archives of Recorded Sound. Collection.

Rare recordings of Jewish music and oral history interviews with Jews from Poland

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Hasidim, Songs. Nigun 'Bar Yochai'. Karliner/Stoliner Hasidim. (yarg1014stolinernign)

RG 116 POLAND 1: Territorial Collection. Poland 1. (Pre WWII)

Printed materials, posters, correspondence, and fragmentary personal papers and records of institutions related to Polish Jewish life before WWII

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"Traditional Hannukah holiday" (RG 116 Poland 1.5.29.1)
Announcement of a Purim ball (RG 116 Poland 1.13.4.2)
Appeal for volunteers to raise funds for the matzoh fund (RG 116.Poland1.4.5.1)
Certificate attesting to the purchase of a seat in the women’s section of the Great Synagogue of Vilna (RG 116 Poland 1.10.5.1)
Invitation to a Purim ball (RG 116.Poland1.6.7.1)
Program for a school Hannukah celebration (RG 116.Poland1.13.13.C.1)
Rosh Hashanah greeting card in the form of a check (RG 116 Poland 1.2.5)

RG 120: Territorial Photographic Collection. Poland.

Thousands of photographs of Jewish life in Poland before WWII

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Kalisz, 1932. An old man with a lulav and etrog, and a woman with a basket, on Sukkot. (yarg120po_f1338)
Krakow, 1932. A child of the Rebbe, on a walk on Lag Be-Omer. (yarg120po_f0497.01)
Leczyca, 1890. Men in costume for a Purim shpil. Among them is Jacob Lassman, who later emigrated to the USA. (yarg120po1712)
Lodz, WWI. Outside J. Koprovsky's pharmacy, dish washers kasher (ritually cleanse) dishes, for Passover use. (yarg120po1753.24)
Stolin, 1929. Rabbi Osher Fialkow and his shames, walking through the marketplace, on their way to collect ma'ot chittim. (yarg120po3643)
Unknown location. New Year's greeting card, depicting the Shlogn Kapores ceremony. (yarg120po6624)
Unknown location. New Year's greeting card. (yarg120po6612)
Uscilug. A gathering around Rosh Hashanah at the Lug River, for the observance of the tashlich ritual. (yarg120po4006.28)
Vilna, 1927. Tu Be-Shevat, at a CEBEKA school. (yarg120po5672)
Warszawa, 1920s-1930s. On the eve of Sukkot, Jewish boys on a cobblestone street, are carrying the etrog and lulav. (yarg120po4153.03)
Warszawa, 1930s. A sukkah is set up in a courtyard for Sukkot. (yarg120po4155)
Warszawa, 1930s. Boys on the street, holding flags used in the Simchat Torah processions, with the Torah scrolls. (yarg120po4158)
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, 1930s. Selling flags for Simhat Torah. (RG 120 PO 4157.01)
Warszawa. Two men examine an etrog for Sukkot, with a magnifying glass. (yarg120po4154)
Wyszkow, 1920s-1930s. On the eve of Passover, a woman pours water into a bucket, near furniture piled outside a home, which is being cleaned for the holiday. (yarg120po6157)
Zloczow, 1935. Posing in exotic costumes, possibly for Purim. (yarg120po6407.09)

RG 898: United Brisker Relief. Records.

Records of a landsmanshaft affiliated with the hometown of Brzesc nad Bugiem

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Jews receiving matzoh for Passover (RG 898 Album1.5)

RG 1100: Kadison, Leib (1880-1947). Papers.

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

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"A Passover Feast" (RG 1100.57)