Note to researchers: This collection is currently closed in preparation for the Edward Blank YIVO Vilna Collections Project.

Records of communal officers include: materials on the elections of communal officers, rabbis, cantors, slaughterers and sextons; synagogue seat contracts; marriage registers; lists of the poor and petitions for aid; school and vocational apprenticeship records; tax rolls and other financial documents; government regulations and decrees; vital statistics, birth records.  Records of the Community Council include minutes of election meetings, correspondence with the government, communal decisions and protests, rolls of community members listing profession and citizenship status.