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Title: Guide to the Collection on Poland (Vilna Archives), 1850-1939, (bulk 1919-1939), RG 28
Predominant Dates:bulk 1919-1939
ID: RG 28 FA
Extent: 9.5 Linear Feet
Arrangement: The collection consists of a single series arranged geographically and alphabetically. It was organized in the 1950s from the surviving fragments of the pre-war YIVO Vilna archives. Materials are grouped in folders according to locality name. In the present finding aid the locality’s Polish name and the corresponding Yiddish name are shown together in the folder title with the Yiddish name in parentheses, e.g.: “ RZESZOW (Rayshe)”.
The Poland (Vilna Archives) Collection is comprised of documents that were amassed at the YIVO in Vilna, mainly as a result of collecting work by the volunteer YIVO “zamlers” (collectors). The bulk of the collection relates to Jewish communities in over 260 cities and towns in interwar Poland (1919-1939). Documents of earlier years are also included.
The Poland (Vilna Archives) Collection consists entirely of ephemera and fragmentary materials. Included are printed materials, announcements, invitations, leaflets, notes, minutes, correspondence, newspaper clippings, and posters. The materials are loosely linked by the fact that they derive from the same town or city. The following topics are included: political organizations such as Agudas Yisroel, Bund, Hehalutz, Mizrachi, Poalei Agudas Yisroel, Poale Zion; community elections, elections to the Sejm (Polish Diet); business and economics: banks, credit unions, taxes; labor: trade unions, strikes; cultural activities and groups: Yiddish cultural organizations, publishing houses; religious matters: synagogues, ritual slaughter (shekhitah), rabbinical figures; sports clubs, games; historical events: pogroms, German occupation of Poland during World War I. Of special interest are town histories compiled by YIVO correspondents who took part in a project by the YIVO Historical Commission for Poland to research and write Jewish communal history in the places where they lived.
Although fragmentary in nature, the documents in this collection reflect in considerable detail the period between the two world wars and the situation of the Jewish minority in reborn independent Poland. In the course of twenty years, the Jewish community in Poland led the existence of a national minority whose status was formally vouchsafed by the Minority Treaties which Poland signed, but which was largely ignored. In reality, hostility toward Jews from both the government as well as from large segments of the population prevailed. At the same time, Jewish communities strived to develop and maintain a host of internal institutions and organizations which served the most crucial needs of the people, such as health care, education, and economic needs. Jewish autonomy was a fact of life despite the government’s reluctance to recognize it as such.
Of singular importance were the community councils (kehillah, kehiles) which constituted an internal administration for the Jewish population on a local level. kehillah elections (in which the majority of Jewish political groups participated) are richly illustrated in this collection through election announcements, leaflets, appeals, and other forms of electoral campaigning. Elections to the Sejm (Polish parliament) are well documented in a similar manner through electoral propaganda materials published by the political parties, which participated in the elections individually or allied as blocs with other groups. A significant number of documents pertain to the 1930s, which were years of a worsening political and economic situation for Jews in Poland.
Belarus, Documents - Administrative reports, Documents - Correspondence, Documents - Financial records, Education, Europe, Eastern, Fraternal organizations, Jewish population studies, Lithuania, Poland, Political campaigns, Posters - Political posters, Russia, Ukraine
Access Restrictions: Permission to use the collection must be obtained from the YIVO Archivist.
Use Restrictions:
Permission to publish part or parts of the collection must be obtained from the YIVO Archives. For more information, contact:
YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, Center for Jewish History, 15 West 16th Street, New York, NY 10011
email: archives@yivo.cjh.org
Acquisition Method: These records were part of the YIVO Vilna Archives which were taken by the Germans during World War II and recovered by YIVO New York after the war.
Separated Materials: There is no information about materials that are associated by provenance to the described materials that have been physically separated or removed.
Related Materials: Related material can be found in various collections in the YIVO Vilna Archives which contain similar geographic and historical content about Polish Jewry. Related materials are also found in RG116-Poland, a territorial collection created in New York in the post-war period, which is of similar structure and provenance to RG28.
Preferred Citation: Published citations should take the following form:Identification of item, date (if known); Collection on Poland (Vilna Archives); RG 28; folder number; YIVO Institute for Jewish Research.
- Document from the office of the Governor of Vilna Province about sale of possessions of a Jew who failed to pay wartime taxes, 1915
- Appeals re: municipal election, 1927; 4 flyers
- Poster about a lecture: The Role of the Woman in Jewry
- Poster about a lecture at the TOZ
- Poster about protest meeting: The appalling legal murder in Erets-Yisroel
- Flyer about a lecture: The Trial over Modern Woman
- Flyer about a lecture: “Obligation, Love and Jealousy”
- Flyer about a lecture “The Jews of Poland”
- Lecture “The Purpose of Human Life”, 1925, with a short note about the presenter
- Invitation from the Jewish Culture and Education Society to a Family Costume Event
- Poster from the Jewish Culture and Educational Society to a presentation by Dr. Prylucki on the topic “The Developmental History of the Yiddish Language and Literature”
- Poster for the presentation by Bella Pevzner: “My Personal Impressions of Jewry in Faraway Places”; “Woman as a Creator and Destroyer of Worlds”
- Flyer from the Social Labor Youth “Frayhayt”
- A Purim wish from the Women’s Association
- Correspondence
- Open letter to the Jewish population about activities of city prominent, Samuel Zurawicki
- Elections to the Sejm, the Jewish Merchants’ Association, List no. 36 for Zakheym
- Voting slips and correspondence about elections
- Elections to the Jewish Kehillah, appeals from:
- Jewish Artisans Union
- Retail Merchant Association
- Butchers’ List
- Non-partisan Union “Akhdes”
- Elections to City Council
- Appeals from the Merchants Association (2);
- Bund (1); Poalei Zion–Tseyre Zion(2);
- Retail Merchants (4); WIZO (3);
- Artisans Union (1);
- Jewish Democratic Committee (1)
- Oversized
- kehillah documents re: finances, 4/10/1937
- Lists from emigration office
- Orphanage
- Kashrut
- Announcement about a child prodigy cantor
- Correspondence
- City Council Elections, 5/20/1935; Appeals from BUND (4); Poalei Zion(5); Merchants’ Association (1); Jewish National Bloc (2); Bloc to defend Jewish rights (1); Jewish General National Economic Bloc (1); Flyers to the unemployed, 5/6;
- Announcements re: lecture by Yoel Mastboym, “Man and Woman, Who is Right?”
- City Council elections: Election flyers from BUND (6), 9/4/1927; Artisan Association (1); Poalei Zion (1); Poalei Emuney Yisroel (2); Non-partisan committee (4); Religious Workers (1); A group of Belchatow women who returned from Eretz-Yisroel; Flyers from Bund about antisemitism, December 1937; Announcement from Bund about the “ghetto–seats” for Jewish students
- A Circular from Tseirey Agudas Yisroel;
- Miscellaneous
- Sejm elections, 1931
- Appeals by the BBWR (Government list)
- Article from “Der Morgn”, 10/31/1930
- Appeals from rabbis to vote for the BBWR
- Miscellaneous
- City Council elections, 7/24/1927, flyer from general Jewish list;
- kehillah elections, 7/1/1928, flyers from Democratic People’s list; National Zionist Artisans
- Certification from local War-Invalid Association, about two performances, 3/12/1926
- Sejm elections, 1927: Flyers from Bund, (2)
- Poalei Zion, (1); Artisans Union, (1);
- Petty Merchants Union, (2); National Jewish List
- Flyer from the Union of Young Agudas Yisroel about a lecture “The obligations of the religious Youth in our time”
- Financial reports from the Jewish Kehillah, 1917-1925
- announcements and letters
- Trade unions: reports, 1925-1929
- announcement, 1926
- questionnaire forms
- School and Culture
- School Reports, 1920
- Library of Yugnt-Fareyn (Youth Society), reports
- Orphan Care:
- Minutes of a Conference, 1926;
- Report of a visit to Slonim, Baranowicze and Nieswiez area;
- Minutes of Conference of Orphanage Committee, 29 and 30 May, 1923;
- Circulars and Miscellaneous
- Report of Situation of Male Nurses
- Shelter for the Poor
- Newspaper clippings; Printed Materials “Unzer Lebn”
- Letters to the “Vilner Tog”
- Letters to Chaim Grade
- Miscellaneous documents;
- Manuscript: “Rokhele di Rebetsin”, author unknown
- Appeal from Bielsk Help-Committee, 1936;
- Financial report from the Kehillah;
- Communal materials;
- Announcement to elections (Polish), 11/16/1938;
- Announcement from Jewish National Bloc;
- Journal of Minutes, Meetings of General Assembly,
- Poalei Zion (Tseyre Zion), 1933
- A greeting note for Shavues from Rabbi Kron, sent to the cooperative Jewish Bank (1930)
- Copy of an official letter stating that Rabbi Kron is destitute
- Miscellaneous
- Status of Jewish Hospital
- TOZ Flyer
- Depositions from residents about the of Polish soldiers
- City Council elections
- Plan of designating electoral districts
- Election leaflets, various groups
- Political Parties: Bund, Poalei Zion and others
- Activities of Peretz-Library, Sholem-Aleichem Library - announcements
- “TOZ” Society
- Document regarding a conflict in the Khelemer Shtime and the termination of an editor
- Flyers about Sejm elections
- Flyers, re: the Kehillah elections, 1928, 1936
- Letters from the Rabbi of Belz re: Sejm elections
- Flyer about lecture by Dr. L. Hoffman (Almoyni)
- Flyer about a meeting of the Artisans’Association
- Poster to the unemployed about the library
- Flyer about Jewish workers’ Sport Clubs “Kraft”
- Regarding a dance-evening, 20 October, 1929
- Flyers and Posters from the Bund
- Hehalutz-League for Labor-Erets Yisroel
- Activities of Artisans Union; Hehalutz announcements
- Announcements re: public lecture about the development of Yiddish literature
- Membership card of the Ansky Arts Society
- Announcement about the establishment of Music and Drama Sections
- Kehillah flyer
- Sejm Elections
- City Council Elections
- Kehillah Elections
- Sick-Benefit Fund
- Activities of Artisans Union
- Poster about a lecture, 1913
- Financial Report for 1912 – Free Loan and Savings Association
- Flyers from Co-op Bank
- By-laws of the Society to disseminate Education among Jews (Russian)
- Activities of the trade unions Jewish Agricultural Society
- TOZ Society: Financial Report, 4/1/1930 to 3/31/1931;
- newspaper article in Polish: 5 years of TOZ, 1925-1929
- Miscellaneous items
- Correspondence regarding Tshenstokhover Prese
- Kehillah elections
- Appeals from the parties
- I. L. Peretz Society's posters for public readings
- Hehalutz activities
- Bylaws of Oyse-Khesed (Welfare) Association of 1893
- Form letter regarding 1930 elections
- Polish Invitation to a gathering of Orthodox voters in 1928
- Correspondence from the Hatsefira Society and Linas-Tsedek
- Letters from the Rabbi to the Railroad Company regarding discount train fare
- Advertisement booklet
- History of the town
- Appeal from the Kehillah about a flood in the town, the condition of Jewish Youth, and Budgets for eventual workshops
- Letters and other miscellaneous materials
- Letters about hospital maintenance, 1932-1934
- Elections Flyer to Sejm Elections from a number of organizations about voting for Jan Piotrkowski on 11/6/1938
- Kehillah printed matter
- Photographs of gravestones
- Announcement to the Sejm election, Polish
- Flyer for the Kehillah elections, 1928
- Contract about renting a mill belonging to the church
- Report from the elementary school for 1928-1929
- Article about Glubok
- Miscellaneous material
- Flyer from Zionist to Kehillah Elections
- Flyer for the “Non-partisans”
- Flyer from rural Jews
- Flyer for list number 7, by Rabbi Eliezer Landa
- The situation of Yiddish in Western and Central Malopolska, by Avrom Kornfeld of Gorlice, with language diagram
- Kehillah elections:
- By-laws
- Flyers from the Artisans, United Socialist Workers Party; Agudas-Yisroel; Folkspartei; Bund; Zionists; Poalei Zion; Shomrey-Shabes; Jewish Women
- Jewish Kehillah
- Report to Starosta (City chief), 1929
- Financial report
- List of Yiddish books to sell
- Various materials and printed matter
- Political Parties and Organizations:
- Bund flyer about Sacco and Vanzetti
- Cultural Arm of the Professional Associations
- Strike at the Fuch factory
- Flyer from Grodno Workers and Peasants
- Soviet, circa1919
- Flyers from the Left groups
- Needle workers
- About the strike in the Szereszewski factory, 1910
- Documents regarding social aid
- News and correspondence from Merchants Association
- Artisans’school at the Jewish Kehillah
- Miscellaneous
- TOZ Health Care Society
- Miscellaneous
- Announcement from City Hall about full
- recognition of Yiddish language
- Cultural Events
- History of Grodzhisk
- Announcements from the Jewish Cultural Society of Grodzhisk
- Announcements in Polish from Polish Socialist Party (P.P.S.), Christian Unity Front
- Copies of pinkassim of the societies “Ner Kedushe” and “Medresh”
- Elections to Kehillah; Public announcements
- Flyers: various parties
- Financial report of the orphanage, 1924
- Letters from the Jewish Kehillah to the district committee of the YEKOPO (Jewish Committee for aid to war refugees) about impoverished children
- Appeal to the Jewish communities in Poland to aid the victims of the fire in Iwie
- Greetings from Yiddish Writer’s Union, 1938, in honor of the 20th anniversary of the local library
- Minutes from the Kehillah Education Committee, 1922
- Memoirs from World War I
- Request to establish a library
- List of impoverished population
- Letter from town-rabbi
- Wedding invitation
- Invitation to 10th Anniversary of Artisans Union, 16 March, 1930
- Invitation to a lecture
- Resolution to vote for list no. 1 in the Sejm elections, 1930
- Appeal to vote list no. 17
- Request to establish a library
- City Council Elections, Flyers from: Poalei Zion; Bund; Artisans; Zionists; Artisans Union; Poalei Agudas Yisroel; Mizrachi
- Kehillah elections, 1924, Flyers; Poalei Zion; Bund; Religious Artisans; Aguda
- Bund: flyers, invitations, announcements
- Union of Clothing Workers, flyers; membership rolls, Hehalutz Hamizrakhi invitation
- Flyer from Artisans Union re: City Council elections, 1939
- Flyer from Bund, April 1929
- Kehillah Elections, 9/7/1927: Flyers from Zionists
- Letter from wojewoda, the province governor, regarding the establishment of a Jewish Kehillah in the city, Polish, 5/31/1928
- Elections to Municipal Council, November, 14, 1926
- PPS Jewish list
- Sejm elections, 1928: Appeals from Bloc of National Minorities;
- Kehillah Election flyers, various years
- Announcements of literary presentations
- Religious Schools and Study Houses
- Kehillah Announcement, 1931
- Kehillah elections, 1928: flyers from Merchants Association; Artisans; Religious; Religious Artisans; Butchers’ List
- Kehillah announcements: Free-loan fund, Women’s Society, Library ledger, 1914
- City Council elections, flyer from Merchants’ Union
- Kehillah elections, flyer by Agudas Yisroel
- Kehillah elections, flyers from butchers, merchants, artisans
- Printed forms from the Artisansbank
- Excerpts from the vital records books, 1911
- Minutes of meetings of elections committee, 5/13/1929, Polish
- Hebrew letter from the town Rabbi
- Kehillah elections, flyers
- appeal to the Landslayt in New York
- Sejm elections, city council elections, 1929 flyers from:
- Poalei Zion; Petty Merchants, Zionists, Bund, National Bloc
- Bund invitations and announcements
- Hehalutz invitations
- Protest-meeting against the Sejm Deputy
- Yitskhak Grunbaum: appeal from religious Jews
- Regulations and announcements from the Jewish town library
- Flyers of cultural events
- Letters, Polish
- Sejm elections, rules, flyers: Bloc for cooperation with the government; Poalei Zion; National Bloc; Zionists; Aguda, academics
- City Council elections: flyers from Bund, Poalei Zion
- Kehillah elections, 8/5/1928: Flyers: Zionists;Young Agudas Yisroel; Economic Bloc; Artisans; Religious parties; Poalei Zion; Non-partisan Bloc; Bund; Mizrakhi;Yad khareydis; Petty Merchants; Zionists; others
- Kehillah activities, financial reports, 1929 and 1930
- Artisans Union, invitations to events; obituaries for deceased members
- Religious work of synagogues and study houses
- Bund, announcements re: lecture; invitations from Medem Library
- Invitations from the “Jutrzenka” Sports Club
- Subscription card from Dov Liebman Library
- Correspondence from Hehalutz Hatsair
- Kehillah elections, 4/1927
- Flyer from Poalei Zion
- Jewish Public Library: Reports for years 1905-1920; miscellaneous printed matter
- Jewish Workers’ Society: financial report, April 1, 1919 to December 31, 1919
- Printed Materials from the Bronislaw Grosser Club’s Tea Room
- Announcements about lectures; membership applications from “Maccabi”
- Correspondence between the town Rabbi with other rabbis, Russian, 1912
- Report of the committee to assist war-victims, 8/1/1916 – 2/1/1917, Russian
- Announcements from Military Commander of Korzec Russian
- Announcement to create an organization Akhdus
- Receipt for contribution from the Kehillah on behalf of the Polish insurgents in Upper Silesia, 1921, Polish
- Letter from Icchak Grunbaum about the Kehillah issue in Eastern Poland and the Sejm, Hebrew
- Jewish Kehillah: announcement re: public auction of bathhouse, 1929; taxes; letter to Jewish parents about education
- Hehalutz: announcements and invitations
- Kehillah Committee for Reconstruction: plea for help to the Jewish communities
- Free-Loan Society and Co-op Bank
- City Council elections, 1928, flyers
- Announcements about lectures
- Donations for Pesakh
- Letters to YIVO, 1937
- Election materials
- Kehillah elections, 1925
- City Council, 1933
- Sejm ,1928
- Bund posters and invitations
- Jewish Social-Democratic Party in Galicia, materials
- Flyers from Religious parties
- Public Education Association, announcement
- 1935; membership card, 1935
- Bronislaw Grosser Library
- Letter exchange between the Society “Ognisko” of Jewish students from the Jagiellonian University and Tsemakh Shabad re: inappropriate attitude of the newspaper Vilner Tog towards Society for writing a letter to the newspaper in Polish instead of Yiddish, 1928
- A note from I. Grunbaum to the Jewish deputies in the Sejm, 1928, with enclosed letter by Ignacy Daszynski
- City Council elections, 7/3/1927
- Flyers from Poalei Zion
- Questionnaire from “Hehalutz”
- Informational flyer from Free Loan Association
- City Council elections, 4/28/1929: Flyers from United Artisans; Jewish National Bloc; Zionists; Orthodox; Zionist Merchants
- Kehillah elections, flyers
- City Council elections, 1927: Flyers from: National Bloc; Non-partisan, Bund; Artisans, 1928
- Kehillah elections: Flyers from Poalei Zion; Bund; Zionists, others
- Permits for Jews to conduct business, pre-1916, Russian
- Questionnaire to answers for Jewish farmers, Kremenits district
- City Council elections, flyers from Renters and Landowners; National Bloc; workers and impoverished list
- Kehillah elections, flyers and announcement regarding lecture by B. Aisurowicz
- Financial Report to the JOINT of Purchases and Expenses for orphans care, 1/25-2/25, 1923
- Report by Hehalutz
- City Council elections, 1929: Flyers from Bund; Poalei Zion; Leftwing Labor list; letter about registration, Polish
- Kehillah elections: Flyers from Bund, Poalei Zion, Democratic Bloc of the Petty Merchants’ Association; PoaleiAgudas Yisroel; Folkists; Artisans; Religious Bloc; Zionists
- Political Parties and Organizations
- Bund: invitations; article in the “Folkstsaytung” about an evening commemorating Beinish Michalewicz
- Zionists, Hehalutz; announcements, flyers, invitations; Tseirey-Emuney-Yisroel, and Bnoys-Agudas Yisroel
- “Faraynigte” financial report of election campaign, 1919
- Women’s Association, copies of letters
- Artisans’ Society, invitations
- Trade Union of Needle-workers, flyers from Morgnshtern Sports Association
- Yiddish Literary Society invitation
- I. L. Peretz Library, printed matter
- Society of Friends of YIVO, flyer about Yiddish, 11/30/1931
- Kehillah elections, flyers
- Letters
- Report on situation of Jews, fragment
- Reports from “YEKOPO”,
- Kulture-Lige, 1920
- Financial report from the Kehillah for the month of April 1920
- Sejm elections – announcements
- Kehillah elections, 1928 and 1932: announcements and other materials
- Kehillah activities:
- Ritual slaughter: letters, flyers
- Announcements
- Jewish People’s Bank invitation to general gathering
- Literary and cultural events; posters
- Histories of Jews in Lodz – fragments
- Includes statistical survey of Jewish Lodz in the interwar period
- Elections to Sejm, Kehillah
- Flyers from political parties and organizations
- Bund announcements and flyers
- Medem Library activities
- Elections to City Council, 1919-1923: flyers and materials
- Financial report of election-campaign of the Progressive Party
- Activities of Zionist Organization, 1917-1919: announcements; minutes of general meeting, 26 August, 1917
- Song-book
- Youth Society: financial report for 1915; other reports
- Annual report of Credit Society for 1913
- General census, 1916
- Seyfer takones of the society Keren Hatorah
- Lectures on Jews under the German occupation in the First World War; situation of Jews in German principalities; schools in Lowicz
- Sport activities
- Statute and other materials of the Jewish Gymnastics Association, Russian; Club “Bar-Kokhba”; “Hazemer”
- Kehillah elections, 1931-1936
- Announcements from the Revisionists, Judenstaat Party Zionist list; Mizrakhi and Independent Orthodox, Religious List;- Poalei Zion, Bund, others
- Announcement from Governor General about establishing a Polish government, November 9, 1916
- Flyer re: Senate elections from Jewish National Economic Bloc
- Clippings from Yiddish press about Lublin
- HekHehalutz – letters and circulars
- Tseirey-Agudas Yisroel communication
- Questionnaire from Jewish Sport Club Hapoel
- Artisans Union
- Cooperative Bank for artisans
- Circulars and Invitations
- 1930 Sejm elections flyers
- Kehillah elections , announcements: Zionists; Communist Party; lists of candidates
- Credit Association
- Advertisements
- Artisans Union: invitation to Union anniversary, 1925
- Poster for lecture by Alter Kacyzne ,“The Gap between Poet and Reader”
- Announcements from Keren Hehalutz
- Letter from khazn Teichtel, 1/17/1928
- “Voliner Prese”, “Lutsker Tsaytung” - correspondence, announcements
- Announcements for Sejm elections
- Flyer from Artisans Union
- Flyer from Union” of Needle-Trade workers
- Kehillah elections flyers:
- Zionists, artisans, Petty Merchants
- Jewish Kehillah: election flyers, statutes, activities
- Artisans Union registration form
- TOZ announcements
- Announcement of a Bund event
- Appeal from organizing committee of the trade unions
- Announcement from the Hehalutz, League for Labor Eretz-Yisroel
- Flyers from Bund
- Obituary poster at death of Beynish Michalewicz
- Flyers from trade unions
- Circular from Hehalutz
- Announcement from Culture Institution
- Kehillah flyer
- Artisans Union
- TOZ activities
- Lists of eligible voters
- TSBK: correspondence with the School
- Committee
- Kehillah finances
- Sejm elections, 11/16/1930: flyers for the Pilsudski list
- Kehillah elections flyer
- Invitation to a dance
- Appeal for elections to Sejm
- Report of TOZ activities, October 1926 to October 1, 1927
- Financial report of organization Briyut, 1924 -1925
- Sejm elections, 1928: appeal from Jewish National Bloc
- Kehillah elections, announcements from political parties
- Contract with soyfer (scribe) to write a Torah scroll dated 30 September 1912
- Memoirs by a member of the “Khevre Shokdey Melokhe,” circa 1880
- Miscellaneous
- Senate elections, 1922: appeal from United Jewish Elections Committee
- Invitation to a meeting of Independent Socialists, 1916
- YEKOPO Committee to aid war-victims:
- Correspondence, circulars, list of aid distributed
- financial report for January 1920
- Report of the Kehillah, 1920
- Activity of People’s Bank
- Activities of ORT
- List of teachers employed in Yiddish elementary schools, 1923-1930
- Flyers from Bund
- Flyers from Clothing Workers Trade Union
- Sejm elections: appeals from Elections Committee
- Kehillah elections: appeals from Poalei Zion, Orthodox, Zionist Mizrakhi, Zionist Labor-Party Hitakhdut
- Kehillah flyers
- Flyer of Merchant Association about purchasing patents, 12/14/1928
- Report of a Purim play at the Yiddish folk-shul elementary school
- Elections to City Council in 1926:
- Appeals in Polish: PPS (Socialists),
- Democratic Union
- Appeals from, Jewish People’s list, merchants and business owners United religious Youth Elections Committee; United National Youth Bloc
- Flyer from the Society “Postep” about Announcing a general meeting for December 18, 1926
- Receipt from the Agudas Tseirey Yisroel (Young Agudas Yisroel)
- Hehalutz correspondence with the central committee
- “Opatover Nayes” (Opatov-News), a mimeographed poster-newspaper, 1924
- City Council Elections; appeals for list no. 5, Mizrachi, list no. 1
- Elections to city Council, 1927: flyers from Jewish Petty Merchants’ association, non-partisan list, non-party bloc (Pilsudski), list no. 11
- Invitation from Merchants’ Association to a general meeting
- TOZ flyers and invitation
- History of the town, in Russian
- City Council Elections, 1927: Appeals from Poalei Zion – Tseyre Zion
- Appeal from Kibbutz “Brit-Hapoel” about jobs
- Elections to City Council:
- Announcements from National United Bloc,
- Orthodox Jewish National Bloc, Bund
- Announcements from Zionist Organization about restrictions on emigration of the Hehalutzim to Palestine
- Appeals of Artisans Union about the Sejm elections
- Flyers about cultural events, lectures
- Appeal from the Kehillah, 1925
- Appeal from the Rabbi about the Sejm elections, 1928
- Announcements from the Kehillah about the cemetery
- Announcement about the selection of the town Rabbi
- Announcement from the Kehillah about taxes, 1926
- Elections to the City Council, 1927, and to the Kehillah:
- Appeals from the associations of artisans, retail merchants, Jewish National List, Central Merchants’ Association, Agudas Yisroel, Non- partisan bloc, Poalei Zion – Tseyre Zion
- Two student notebooks from the TSYSHO school, 1937
- Announcement from the Oshmene election-committee about the Sejm election
- Appeal from the Worker’s Union List to City Council Elections
- Appeal from Bund about the City Council elections, 1921
- Appeal from the National list
- Appeal from the Orthodox list
- Obituary flyers re: the pogrom victims in Palestine
- Weekly children’s magazine “Shprotsungen” (“Sproutings”), 10 July, 1920
- Children’s wall-newspaper, 25 July 1920
- Minutes of TSYSHO (Central-Yiddish School Organization), 1927-1928
- Correspondence with TSYSHO, 1922-1928
- Minutes of a Zionist group
- Appeal from Bund about the City Council election, 1927
- Appeal from Poalei Zion re: City Council election, 1927
- Appeal from General Zionists re: City Council election
- Appeal from Agudas Yisroel and unaffiliated employers re: City Council elections
- Kehillah election: Appeal from the United Bloc of all the Synagogues
- Kehillah activities
- Association of Artisan Weavers
- Kehillah elections, 1926: leaflets
- Printed matter from ArtisansAssociation
- Permit for a dramatic presentation in the Sholem-Aleichem Library
- Sejm elections, 1930: appeals
- Kehillah elections: appeals
- Sejm elections: flyer for unification of Ukraine, Russian
- Elections for City Council, 3/27/1927 and 8/31/1930: flyers and announcements
- Kehillah elections, 11/1/1936: Flyers from Poalei Zion; Bund; Artisans; Petty Merchants; Mizrahi; Zionists; other
- TOZ, printed matter
- “Hakoah” Sports-club, financial reports, 3/10/1925 and 4/15/1926
- documents regarding the Great Synagogue
- Reports from City Administration, 1927-1933, Polish
- “Pinsker Shtime”, correspondence
- Child-care:
- Reports from committee for orphan care from 10/1/1930 to 1/1/1934
- Centos of the Polesie region: report, 1936
- Letters from the orphanage to City Administration, 3/2/1927
- Centos summer camps: statistical charts for 1926 to 1936
- Call to a Bund meeting, 1918
- Poster re: Sejm elections, 1930 and a lecture by Z. Katz
- Call to help build a trades school
- Announcement from Emigration Office of the Kehillah
- Letter from Rabbi Meyer Shapira to Agudas Shlomey Tseire of Lomzhe
- Makabi Sports Club poster and program
- Trade Union of Office Workers, invitation to a gathering, 24 May 1924
- Kehillah announcements, election flyers
- Jewish Artisans Union: activities, flyers about cultural events and lectures, 1924-1927
- Announcements from the Bund of its 30th anniversary
- Maccabi flyers
- Miscellaneous
- Kehillah elections, 1936: appeals from: Poalei Zion, League for Labor Palestine, Artisans
- Membership card of the Sports-Club “Shtern”
- Appeal for Sejm elections, 1928
- Letter from Khone Zalts, Anarchist activist, November 10, 1932
- Budget of the Trade School for Tailoring; list of students
- Invitation to 25th Anniversary of the Public Library
- Anti-Jewish propaganda leaflets and postcards describing a wealthy fat Jewish couple vis-a-vis an emaciated Polish family ; a Polish peasant unloads a barrel full of Jews near the signpost “To Palestine; A Jew gets a Pole to crawl into a cage for a meager 1 grosz
- Lleaflet describing victorious Trotzky gazing upon Polish victims being executed by the Reds
- Leaflet calling on Poles not to let the Jews grab their money
- Leaflet describing a Jew in the Red Army uniform bringing a herd of sheep to the slaughterhouse, includes a quote from the Protocols of the Wise Men of Zion about conquering the world
- Municipal elections
- Appeals from workers and independents; the Bund and artisans; the National Bloc
- Description of the town and its Jewish population in 1937
- A letter from the town Rabbi
- Acknowledgements for contributions to build the town Synagogue, 1920
- Announcement from Artisans Association
- Kehillah elections, 1928: flyers by the Orthodox; letters from Agudas Yisroel; documents regarding Khesed shel-emes (care, handling, burial of the poor); National Bloc; Poalei Agudas Yisroel
- Sejm elections: announcement by the National Bloc
- Posters and flyers from the Kehillah about sale of matza and other items
- Rules for kehillah representatives
- Information about the Hehalutz in Radom
- Political leaflets
- Business papers of Jews of Rawa, 1847-1856
- Announcement from Agudas Yisroel for Kehillah elections
- Announcement about lecture by Yoel Mastboim, 18 June 1930
- Letter to a Rabbi from Agudas Yisroel
- Correspondence with Kultur Lige re: economic situation, 1921
- Announcement about lecture by Professor Zaretsky
- Announcement by the Union of Clothing Workers
- Newspaper clippings about the fire in which the home of the Radoshits Rebbe R’Ber “Saba Kadisha” went up in flames
- Membership book of the Co-op Bank
- Sick Benefit Fund of the Artisans Union
- Documents regarding Ryki kehillah from the archive of Noah Prylucki
- Description of the town
- JOINT Questionnaire
- Materials from Bnei Zion
- Materials from Youth Help Committee
- Financial report from evening courses
- Budget of Public Library, 1920
- Flyers for City Council elections, August 31, 1930
- Appeal from the Rebbe of Strzyzow (Strizhev) to vote for Jozef Pilsudski
- Membership card of the Jewish workers’ Association “FOROYS”
- Trade Union of Clothing Workers minutes, Ocotober 14, 1928-December 1928
- Polish Announcement of a lecture by Yoel Mastboim
- Questionnaire about theatre
- Letter to the YIVO Terminology Committee, 1932
- Materials regarding the kehillah, 1927: Election materials from United People’s Bloc, General Religious Elections Committee, List no. 1, Dr. Fentsik
- Appeals for Support for Yad Kharutsim, which posts obituary announcements in the newspapers
- Appeal for aid to the victims of violence in Palestine, 1929
- Zionist activities, "Yidishe Shtime", 3 issues, 1-21-1928 and 21-1921 and undated
- Poster for a Reading, 1924
- Poalei Zion party
- Invitation to a lecture at Hehalutz
- Correspondence and Circulars
- Appeal from the Committee "For the sake of the wall” regarding Erets-Yisroel
- Kehillah elections flyers
- Kehillah activities, including campaigning against the Shekhita law
- Call to the mass meeting of the Relief
- Committee for the Khevre Bris-Akhim, Anshey-Semiatits”, December 1914
- City Council elections, May 29, 1927
- Flyers for Sejm elections, November 16, 1930
- Flyers for Kehillah elections, November 6, 1936
- 25 years since the founding of the Jewish Arts Organization: appeal, April 4, 1926
- Co-op Bank: announcements and financial reports, 1926-1927
- TOZ communication regarding summer camp
- TOZ invitation to mask and costume ball, December, 1927
- Excerpts from the by-laws of the Khevre-Khaitim (Tailors’ Association), 1798-1884, in Hebrew
- Membership card of Women’s Society
- Membership card of the Cultural Society “Progress”
- Lottery ticket
- Letter to the Central Historical Commission in Munich, ca. 1946 regarding actions of the Soviets in Slonim, 1939-1941
- History of Slonim, manuscript
- Talks by a yeshive-bokher about life in yeshiva
- TOZ activities
- Appeal from Bloc for Labor Palestine
- Announcement of a literary evening
- Announcement re: Kehillah elections, 1928
- Announcement from National Bloc regarding elections
- Appeal from United Shoemakers’ Guild
- Flyer re: Kehillah elections
- Invitation from Bund
- City Council elections, 1929, Flyers: Poalei Zion; General Zionists; Poverty-list; Renters; Economic Bloc; Agreement between Bund and elections committee of the Tanners
- Kehillah elections 1928 Flyers: Merchants Association;
- Artisans; Poalei Zion; Linas Hatsedek; Socialist-Zionists
- Kehillah printed matter
- Elections to the Town Council: Leaflets from political parties
- Elections to the Kehillah, 1931, 1936 Election appeals
- Letters from 1939
- Admission ticket to a dance of the women’s society, 1926
- Sejm elections, 1934
- Appeals from Non-partisan Bloc Committee to defend Jewish rights
- Kehillah elections:
- Announcement from religious Economic Bloc
- Non-partisan workers, artisans, religious
- Agudas Yisroel, Poalei Zion, National Bloc, Proprietiors’ Elections Committee, Revisionists, Mizrahi, Zionists, Labor Zionists
- Jewish Kehillah, announcements
- Announcement from Bund
- Appeals from Clothing Trade Association, Artisans Union
- Announcements from Association Hakhnosas Orkhim
- Flyers against the restrictive decrees by the Mandate (Palestine) Government
- Kehillah elections, 1926: flyers
- Invitation to the founding meeting of the Sholem Asch Cultural Society, 1931
- Letter in German, 1936
- Sejm elections, call to vote, for the Pilsudski list, 13 November, 1930
- Kehillah elections, 1928 and 1936
- Appeals from elections committee of the TSYSHO (Central Yiddish School Organization); Artisans; Petty Merchants; Non-partisan national groups; Poalei Zion
- Kehillah, religious work
- Announcement about lectures
- Financial report from the Kehillah regarding the homeless for December 1920
- Announcements re: Sejm elections, December 1930
- Announcement regaring Kehillah elections
- Professional (Artisans) Society for clothing workers
- Announcement regarding Summer Camp for children
- Invitation from EZRA Committee to a masquerade, 2/26/1927
- Announcement from the Kehillah
- Election Announcements
- Memorial for Pilsudski
- Announcement to elections of Sejm, 1930, 1938
- Announcement to Kehillah elections
- Financial Report from Young Agudas Yisrael
- Appeals about events in Palestine
- Announcement from Kehillah administration about the National Polish Loan
- Miscellaneous – Societies for tourism and the sports
- Jewish Kehillah: Kehillah Elections
- Election-literature: Bund; Poalei Zion, Non-partisan United Religious Activists Non-partisan Religious Jews; Democratic Fund for Labor; Mizrakhi; Bloc of Religious Workers, Akhdes-Yisroel; Non-partisan Study Houses; Yitzkhok Blum List; Other
- Aid; a letter from a Jew expelled from Germany, 8/16/1939, to the resettlement committee in Vilna to the needy, various years
- Professional Organizations
- Central Commission of Polish Professional Associations
- Announcements for the years 1920, 1931 and 1937
- Newspaper clipping showing statistical data about professional associations in 34 countries in 1922
- National Council of Class Trade Unions, Jewish Division (Kultur-amt) announcements and circulars, 1920-1938;
- invitations to cultural events and gatherings; printed matter
- Petitions to Russian Governor of Warsaw, 1915
- List of members of the State Council of the Polish Kingdom
- Invitation from President Moscicki to Noah Prylucki
- paper clippings from various newspapers on anti-Semitism, economic condition of Jews
- “Moment” - Materials about the history of the paper; “Haynt”; “Naye Folkstsaytung”; “Undzer Expres”
- Communiques from Jewish Telegraphic Agency (JTA)
- Various newspapers and printed matter; The Shadkhan, the Orphan, Domestic Life Jewish Artisans, Theatre, Married Bliss The Child, Awakening, Jewish Annals, Morgenshtern, Undzer Velt, Frayland, Art and Culture
- Hebrew Journals: Haaretz; HeAtid
- “Literarishe Bleter” – Questionnaire (survey) conducted December 1928 among readers yielding some 200 responses
- Two letters to the readers
- Announcement from the Jewish Kehillah about elections in May 1931
- Announcement from Poalei-Zion to an election rally
- TOZ materials
- Kehillah elections: flyers from unaffiliated business owners, Religious workers
- Admission ticket and invitation to a gathering of Poalei Zion
- Materials of the Workers’ Society for Physical Education “Gwiazda – Shtern”
- Appeal to the Jewish population from the Kehillah about giving aid, 1929
- Letter concerning a court battle with the church
- Meeting of the Zionist organizations, Artisans and petty merchants, 29 February, 1928, concerning the Sejm elections
- List of candidates for Kehillah elections
- Kehillah Materials
- Orphan Care
- Elections to the Sejm and Senate
- Flyer from Non-partyBloc
- Jewish Kehillah
- Jewish Election Committee for P.P.S.
- Jewish National Economic Bloc
- Bloc to Fight for Jewish Equal Rights
- General Jewish National Bloc
- Kehillah Elections
- Announcement and Rules
- Appeals: Zionists, Poalei-Zion, National Religious Bloc, Agudas Yisroel, Revisionists
- Artisans Union
- Supplementary Elections to City Council
- Announcements – Poalei-Zion, United Jewish Committee
- Kehillah Announcements and Flyers
- Announcements supporting State Loans
- Flyers about events in Palestine
- Appeals about Child Care
- Yiddish School Organization (Tsysho)
- YIVO
- Artisans Union, Correspondence
- Hospice for Sick
- Maccabi Sports Club
- Items from Horontchik’s Archive:
- A letter from Horontchik about the excesses in Wloclawek
- A passionate announcement to every Jewish heart about not buying and eating “treyf” food at Bund
- Announcement from provisional Kehillah committee
- Information from Hakhnose Orkhin Society
- Kehillah activities
- Religious activities – Study houses, Shokhtim
- Activities of People’s Bank
- Poster from 1913 (Russian)
- Leaflet from Artisans Union
- Academic Society , cultural events: film “From Egypt to Erets-Yisroel”; meeting re: the opening of Hebrew University in Jerusalem
- BUND events: Fascism and Anti-Semitism; trial of Motke Ganev
- Financial Report of Linas Kholim, January 1921-April 1922
- Letter(s) (Polish) to the Police Commandant about a dispute between two Jews
- Program of math-studies for the 7th grade in gymnasium
- Letters from Merchants Association, 1926
- Letters from Rav Ma-Yofis
- Flyer re: the Kehillah elections
- Letter to Zalman Reisen about a man who abandoned his wife in 1926
- Letter about building a synagogue
- Kehillah election: announcement by BUND re: election meeting
- Elections, 1929
- Announcements from “Zenith”- Sports-Club
- Appeal re: Sejmelections
- Letters to YIVO
- Announcement from the Culture Society, regarding workers’ Congress against anti-Semitism, 1936
- Depiction of the shtetl for YIVO (Vilna)
- Announcement about election meeting
- Letter from Rabbi Sorotskin
- Balance for 1 January, 1930 of the Cooperative Folks bank
- Invitation from the Gmina to town Rabbi to a Consultation about the unemployed, 1937
- Invitation to commemorate Pilsudski
- People’s Cooperative Bank in Zelwa: balance as of January 1, 1930
- Assessment of a Jewish-owned household in Zelwa, 1921
- Announcement re: City Council elections in 1917
- Announcement re: Kehillah Elections
- Artisans Club for Literary Events
- Announcements from Rabbi of Zgierz
- Appeal re: Sejm elections
- Appeal re: Kehillah elections
- Oversize
- Business papers and court records pertaining to Jews in Zolkiew, Galicia, 1834-1856, particularly from Yankev Apter
- Letters from the Free Loan Fund, financial report covering April 1, 1937-March 31, 1938
- Letter from Joint about the Fund, 12/29/1938
- Article by Borukh Shefner about Zhirardov