Maps

The following maps have been drawn from the map gallery of The YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe. Some of the maps presented here have interactive features that work only on the Encyclopedia website. Please explore them more fully at http://www.yivoencyclopedia.org/maps.aspx.

L'viv, eighteenth century.

Major Hasidic centers, 1740–1815. (Based on a map prepared for the exhibition "Time of the Hasidism." by Elżbieta Długosz, The Historical Museum of Kraków—Old Synagogue)

Misnagdic and Hasidic centers in East European Jewry, early nineteenth century.

The Pale of Settlement, ca. 1855.

The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and the Partitions of Poland. Boundaries shown are ca. 1795.

The Polish Republic in the Interwar Period, ca. 1930s.

Silesia before 1939.

Vilna in the 1930s.

Warsaw. Sites of Jewish institutions, ca. 1938. (Prepared by Eleonora Bergman, Ursula Fuks, and Olga Zienkiewicz, Jewish Historical Institute, Warsaw)