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

The record group is comprised of:  administrative records of the MYHA and of its predecessor organization, the Editorial Committee in Kiev;  documents relating primarily to the pogroms in the Ukraine;  documents on the period of Jewish autonomy in the Ukraine, 1918-1920;  miscellaneous historical documents on Russian Jewry.      Pogrom materials include files on the effects of the pogroms on the Jewish communities.  Eyewitness accounts arranged by locality.  Lists of pogrom victims.  Statistics on relief work in the Ukraine.  Elias Tcherikower's notes about the pogroms. Photographs of victims, destruction.  JDC materials about Ukrainian pogroms.      Minutes of meetings of the Jewish National Council, Kiev, 1917-1918.  Minutes of meetings of the Jewish National Assembly in the Ukraine, 1918.  Material relating to various departments of the Jewish Ministry.      Records of Jewish organizations.  Minutes, memoranda, bulletins and other materials of the following:  United Zionist Labor Movement in Russia;  Relief Commission for Jewish Writers and Artists in Carlsbad;  Committee of Jewish Delegations in Paris;  Bund;  Poalei Zion.      Petitions to the Tsar about Jewish matters, 1860-1892. Jewish protests against antisemitic theatrical performances by Russian groups, 1864.  Correspondence between the Prime Minister Stolypin and Nicholas II, ca. 1910.  Material about the Kishinev pogroms and the Beilis trial.  Secret police report from Cherkassy District about a conference of the Zionist-Socialist Party, 1911.  Clippings regarding the Jewish Legion, 1915.  Materials about the trial of the Zeirei Zion, (Zionist Youth) in Kiev, 1922.  Materials relating to the Schwarzbard trial.  Clippings relating to the following topics:  nationalist and political groups in the Ukraine, 1919-1920;  professional organizations, 1919; international political situation, 1919;  Red Cross and government relief programs in the period following the progroms;  Jews in Galicia, Lithuania, Germany, Amsterdam, Palestine, Poland, 1918-1919.      Diary of the Editorial Committee regarding investigations of the pogroms (kept daily by Tcherikower), 1919.  Minute-books of the Editorial Committee.  Accounting records.  Correspondence of the Editorial Committee and the MYHA, 1919-1924, with individuals, organizations, publishing houses, including:  Shalom Asch, G.E. Gurevitch, Pinchas Dubinsky, Simon Dubnow, David Mowshowitch, OSE (Berlin), JDC.