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Materials on folklore, ethnography, and linguistics collected by YIVO in Vilna before WWII

Records of the administration of the Jewish community in Vilna from 1800 to 1940

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

Synagogue seat contracts, brit (circumcision) and marriage registers, school and vocational apprenticeship records, and other documents

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

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

Posters advertising political organizations, elections, banks, trade unions, cultural activities, religious matters, and sports, from over 200 Jewish communities

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

Records of the Central Committee for Religious Education, an educational organization that maintained a network of Orthodox Jewish schools for boys of all ages

Papers of the librarian of the Strashun Library, including copies of rare manuscripts, research materials for scholarship, and correspondence

Rare historical documents and research materials from the collection of the great historian Simon Dubnow (1860-1941), seminal scholar of Jewish history in Eastern Europe

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

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

Thousands of photographs of Jewish life in Poland before WWII

Photographs of individuals noted for their contributions to Jewish life: writers, scholars, historians, scientists, philosophers, community leaders, rabbinical figures, political figures, musicians, and cantors

Correspondence of rabbinical (including Hasidic) and scholarly figures; rabbinical responsa; commentaries on the Torah and Talmud; prayers; kabbalistic and ethical works; and other writings of rabbis and scholars in Poland and around the world

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

A bound volume of songs, rhymes, and poems, handwritten by a badkhen (wedding entertainer)

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

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

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.

Photographs and architectural drawings of synagogues in Poland