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RG 12: Minsk Jewish Community Council. Records.

Registers of births, marriages and deaths, tax rolls, correspondence regarding Jewish military service in Minsk, and other documents

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COLLECTION Minsk Jewish Community Council (012)

RG 14: Krotoszyn Jewish Community Council. Records.

Records on taxation and communal administration, birth and marriage records, materials about the community's religious school, and other documents

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COLLECTION Krotoszyn Jewish Community Council (014)
Invitation to a swearing-in of inductees to the synagogue (RG 14.2.1)

RG 15: Briesen Jewish Community Council. Records.

Records related to the hiring of a rabbi, cantor, ritual slaughterer, teacher; the building of the mikve (ritual bath), the sale of the synagogue in Briesen, and other documents

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COLLECTION Briesen Jewish Community Council (015)
Plan for women's and men's seats in the synagogue (RG 15.77. 2)
Synagogue rules (RG 15.146.1)

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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"Exciting news!" (RG 28.Warsaw 48.2)
Advertisement for a performance a child cantor (RG 28.Warsaw 48.6)
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)
Flyer advertising appearance by cantor Yoysef Rabinshtayn at Mizrachi synagogue (RG 28.Warsaw 48.3)
Handwritten flyer inviting men to come and study at a synagogue on the Sabbath (RG 28.Warsaw 48.11)
Invitation to celebrate dedication of Great Synagogue, Bialystok (RG 28. Bialystok 1.1)

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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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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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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COLLECTION Films. (105)
A Pictoral Review of Kolbishev (RG 105 F013)
A Trip to Poland and Palestine (RG 105 F110)
Holtzman film (partial) (RG 105 F121)
Kalushin (RG 105 F005)
Krakow (RG 105 F001)
Kurow and Radom (RG 105 F009)
Kurow and Radom (RG 105 F009)

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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Appeal for funds for a memorial to Isaac Baer Levinsohn (RG 116.Poland1.6.7.4)
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)
Certificate granting ownership of a seat in a kloyz (RG 116.5.18.1)
Invitation to dedication of the reconstructed Kneset Yisroel Synagogue (RG 116 Poland 1.4.5.3)

RG 120: Territorial Photographic Collection. Poland.

Thousands of photographs of Jewish life in Poland before WWII

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Gabin, 1921. A front view of the exterior of the wooden synagogue, built in the early 18th century. (yarg120po824)
Grzymalów. Picture postcard view of the synagogue. (yarg120po1240.05)
Klimontow, 1920s-1930s. Children and adults line the balcony, and the path to the synagogue. (RG 120 PO 1483)
Lodz. A picture postcard, of the the Great German Synagogue. (RG 120 PO 1788)
Lublin, 1925. A view of the amud (lectern) in the Maharam synagogue. (yarg120po2016)
Vilna, 1923. At the shul-hoyf, the poor beg for alms. (yarg120po_forward42123)
Warszawa, 1905. The cantors, and choir, of the Adas Yeshurun Synagogue, on Swietojerska Street 21, including Menachem Kipnis. (yarg120po4245)
Zabludów, 1916. Children pose sitting on boulders, in a street of wooden houses. (yarg120po6189c001)

RG 223: Sutzkever, Abraham -Kaczerginski, Szmerke. Collection. Part II. Historical and Literary Manuscripts.

Historical and literary manuscripts belonging to YIVO that were rescued and hidden from the Nazis, including manuscripts by S. An-Ski, Theodor Herzl, Mendele Moykher Sforim, and Sholem Aleichem

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Legal contract of Rachel and Rabbi Menashe Tarner of Wlodawa and David ben Chaim Lavitshker (RG 223.2.44.5)

RG 1160: Reiss, Lionel S. (1894-1987). Papers.

Drawings, sketches, charcoals, and watercolors depicting scenes of Jewish life in Eastern Europe

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Before a Lemberger Synagogue, 1921 (ya-rg1160-031)
Memory of Cracow, 1922 (ya-rg1160-102)
Wilno Synagogue, undated (ya-rg1160-090)

RG 1270: Kacyzne, Alter (1885-1941). Papers.

Photographs of Jewish life in Poland in the 1920s-1930s

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Czortkow. 'The Rabbi's Bes Medresh [synagogue].' (RG 1270_568)
Grodno. The facade of the main synagogue of the city. (RG 1270_037)
Horochow. On a market day, at a corner of the marketplace near the synagogue (two-story building at right); merchants selling fruit from baskets. (RG 1270_038)
Husiatyn. A view of the 16th century fortress synagogue. (RG 1270_041)
Krakow. Jews by the old synagogue in Kazimierz (the old Jewish section of the city) built in the latter part of the 14th century. (RG 1270_062)
Lublin. 'Winter-flies.' (RG 1270_079)
Lublin. A man at study, two boys (right) doze on the step leading to the bimah, in a synagogue in the outskirts of the city that dates back to the time of the Tatars. (RG 1270_076)
Lublin. In the oldest synagogue in the city, the synagogue of Saul ben Judah Wahl (1541-ca.). (RG 1270_077)
Lublin. Young and elderly men studying the Talmud in an old synagogue. (RG 1270_078)
Lukow. 'A controversy.' (RG 1270_098)
Ostrog. View of a church and the towers of the castle which was connected by an underground passage to the MAHARSHA Synagogue, (built in the mid-17th century), at the other end of the town. (RG 1270_120)
Zolkiewka. 'The synagogue from Sobeski's time.' (RG 1270_438)

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.