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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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COLLECTION YIVO - Yidisher Visnshaftlekher Institut (Vilna). Subgroup: Ethnographic Committee (1.2)
"Shlof, shlof, shlof" Sleep, Sleep, Sleep (1.2.20.2.1)

RG 36: Bernstein, Abraham Moshe (1878-1933). Papers

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

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COLLECTION Abraham Moshe Bernstein (036)

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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Folksongs. Patch, Patch, Kichelech! sung by Ruth Rubin (yarg6201225)

RG 120: Territorial Photographic Collection. Poland.

Thousands of photographs of Jewish life in Poland before WWII

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Drohiczyn, 1917. Musicians lead a wedding procession to the synagogue, from Khaykl Milner's house. (yarg120po738)
Grodzisk Mazowiecki, 1925. Hasidic musicians outside the rebbe's house, on the day of his daughter's wedding. (yarg120po1228)
Kazimierz Dolny, 1927. Hershele the water-carrier, walks from the well with two full buckets of water. (yarg120po_forward43036)
Kosow, 1909.Yitschok and Yente Ribok, and their daughter and son. (yarg120po_forward43653)
Krzemieniec, ca. 1912. Zusman Kisselhof, on the S. An-Sky Ethnographic Expedition, making sound recordings of Jewish folklore. (yarg120po1649)
Leczyca, 1890. Men in costume for a Purim shpil. Among them is Jacob Lassman, who later emigrated to the USA. (yarg120po1712)
Lodz, 1933. In the Baluty neighborhood marketplace, a street merchant, with geese for sale, hung around his neck. (yarg120po1784.03)
Lodz, WWI. Outside J. Koprovsky's pharmacy, dish washers kasher (ritually cleanse) dishes, for Passover use. (yarg120po1753.24)
Lomza, 1927. An old Jewish carpenter, works a piece of wood with his hand tools. (yarg120po_forward43037)
Lublin, 1937. The local water carrier. (yarg120po2003.01)
Miedzyrzec, 1924. A peddler, posing with her wares. (yarg120po2460)
Otwock. A milkman and a fruit peddler, near a fence. (yarg120po3502)
Przemysl, 1930s. Group portrait of a kapelye, in traditional dress. (yarg120po3184)
Rohatyn, 1912. Group portrait of klezmorim from Galicia, most of them members of the Faust family. (yarg120po3307)
Sochaczew, 1911. Collectors of Jewish folklore, on the occasion of a literary evening. (yarg120po3571)
Staszow, ca. 1920s. Yitschok Erlich, the belfer, carries youngsters to kheyder. (yarg120po3621)
Tarnow, WWI. A Jewish bread peddler, wearing traditional dress, and pushing a cart. (yarg120po3895.01)
Unknown location, 1920s. A shoemaker at work. (yarg120po6551.01)
Unknown location. Card from a series of photographs, depicting "Jewish Livelehoods," showing a secondhand clothes dealer and his customer, a housewife. (yarg120po7145)
Unknown location. Card from a series of photographs, depicting "Jewish Livelihoods," showing a woman who deals in used goods. (yarg120po7150)
Unknown location. New Year's greeting card, depicting the Shlogn Kapores ceremony. (yarg120po6624)
Vilna, 1939. An aspirant at work, in the ethnography section of the YIVO Aspirantur. (yarg120po5862)
Warszawa, 1928. Three shoemakers, in the open-air marketplace. (yarg120po_forward43483)
Warszawa, Oct. 24, 1931. Shmuel Lehman, collector of Jewish folklore, interviewing an informant. (yarg120po4686.01)

RG 1343: Kipnis, Menachem

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.

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Otwock, 1926. An itinerant cobbler. (yarg1343kipnis33)

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