Territorial Photographic Collection
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Brief Description: Photographs collected from various sources which relate to  all aspects of Jewish life in about 65 countries.      Included are photographs of street scenes, synagogues and other community buildings, community leaders and members, market scenes, economic life, schools, factories, activities of Jewish organizations, members of organizations, political parties, religious activities, families, immigration, antisemitism, pogroms, historical events, Holocaust period. Holocaust photographs relate to, Nazi propaganda activities, Nazi personalities, concentration camps, ghetto conditions, atrocities, deportations, extermination, post-war memorial monuments.      The following countries are included: Abyssinia, Algeria, Antilles (Netherlands), Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Bessarabia, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, Dominican Republic, Egypt, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Hong Kong, Hungary, India, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Italy, Japan, Latvia, Libya, Lithuania, Luxemburg, Malaysia, Mexico, Mongolia, Morocco, the Netherlands, Norway, Pakistan, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Poland, Portugal, Rhodesia, Rumania, Russia and the Soviet Union, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Tanganyika, Tunisia, Turkey, Uruguay, the United States, Venezuela, Yemen, Yugoslavia.      The largest collections by far are those of Poland, 1860s to the present and Russia and the Soviet Union, 1880s-1970s and the U.S., ca. 1900-1980s.      Photographs are arranged by locality and not by subject.  Within each country the arrangement is by name of city, town or village.  For some countries separate groupings were established for the Holocaust period.      Card Inventory for each country, English.      The bulk of the Polish collection and part of the Lithuanian, Estonian, Latvian and Russian photographs are cataloged on YIVO's videodisc database, titled, "People of a Thousand Towns."
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Record Series Number: RG 120 /RG 120 
Created by: Territorial Photographic Collection
Volume: 0.0
Arrangement: The collection is arranged in alphabetical order by name of country and within each country primarily by name of town or city. Most countries have only inventories, but a few, indicated in the Finding Aids section below, also have subject indexes.
Access Restrictions: The photo collections are open by apointment with the photo archivist. For information write to Krysia Fisher, Photo and Film Curator at kfisher@yivo.cjh.org or write to Jesse Aaron Cohen, Photo Archivist and Reproduction Services Coordinator at jacohen@yivo.cjh.org
Subject Index
Agriculture
Algeria
Antilles
Antisemitism
Argentina
Australia
Austria
Belgium
Bolivia
Brazil
Bulgaria
Canada
Cemeteries
Charitable Activities
Children
Chile
China
Colombia
Colonies and Colonization Projects
Concentration, Death, Labor, and Internment camps
Cuba
Culture
Czechoslovakia
Denmark
Dominican Republic
Economic Life
Education
Egypt
England
Estonia
Ethiopia
Everyday Life
Finland
France
Germany
Ghettos, Holocaust
Great Britain
Greece
Hasidism
Health and Health Care
Holocaust and Aftermath
Hungary
Immigration and Emigration
India
Iran
Iraq
Israel
Italy
Japan
Jewish Labor Bund
Landsmanshaftn
Latvia
Libya
Lithuania
Luxembourg
Malaysia
Mexico
Mongolia
Morocco
Netherlands
Norway
Pakistan
Palestine
Panama
Paraguay
Peru
Photographers
Pogroms
Poland
Politics and Political Parties
Portugal
Rabbis
Refugees
Religious Life
Resistance, World War II
Revolutions and Revolutionary Movements
Rhodesia
Rumania
Russia
Sephardic Jews
Socialism
South Africa
Soviet Union
Spain
Sports
Summer Camps
Survivors, Holocaust
Sweden
Switzerland
Synagogues
Tanganyika
Theater
Tunisia
Turkey
Unions
United States
Uruguay
USSR
Venezuela
Women and Women's Organizations
World War I
Writers
Yemen
Yiddish secular movement
YIVO Institute For Jewish Research (New York)
Youth Groups
Yugoslavia
Zionism
Genres/Forms of Material
Documents - Collection
Finding Aid Revisions: 1994/07/22 ; 1999/07/09
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