Processed and cataloged by Chaim Borodiansky, Berlin, 1930s. Original Yiddish/Russian finding aid transcribed and typed by Shaindel Fogelman and finding aid translated and edited by Marek Web and Chava Lapin with the assistance of a grant from the Gruss Lipper Family Foundation. Encoded by Rachel Harrison as part of the CJH Holocaust Resource Initiative, made possible by the Conference on Jewish Material Claims against Germany.
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Title: Guide to the Papers of Simon Dubnow (1860-1941), 1589-1938, 1961, (bulk 1700-1900), RG 87
Predominant Dates:bulk 1700-1900
ID: RG 87 FA
Extent: 3.17 Linear Feet
Arrangement:
Dubnow organized the papers himself before giving the collection to Elias Tcherikower, who made a preliminary listing of the papers intended for YIVO. Chaim Borodiansky later compiled an inventory that superseded the Tcherikower list, also in the 1930s. In 1972, YIVO archivist Zosa Szajkowski added a listing of Dubnow’s correspondence. The English finding aid was created by Marek Web and Chava Lapin in 2008. Additional processing completed in November 2011.
The collection is arranged in series, according to Dubnow’s own classification: Pinkasim, Civilia, Communalia, Pogrom Materials, Miscellaneous, Literaria, and Letters to Dubnow. The first three series have been formed entirely from documents collected in the 1890s, while the other series contain later materials as well.
The documents have been paginated. The Simon Dubnow Papers, RG 87, while being a separate record group, has been cataloged as part of the Tcherikower Archive, RG 80-89, along with several other collections belonging to that section in the YIVO Archives. Therefore, the folder and page numbering of this record group begins at the point where the preceding collection’s numbering ends. Thus the first folder in the RG 87 bears number 913 and the first page is number 72795.
The first two folders, number 913 and 914, contain the Yiddish finding aids compiled by Elias Tcherikower, Chaim Borodiansky and Zosa Szajkowski. The current English-language inventory is an edited translation of these lists. Every attempt has been made to standardize the translations and transliterations of individual and place names. Alternate geographical names are in parentheses.
Each document is identified by its folder number, e.g. 915, and page numbers, e.g. 73067-73100. In addition, when available, the old document numbers used by Dubnow are inserted alongside the present numbers in brackets, e.g. I.1.
This collection consists of materials of Simon Dubnow, a historian, political thinker, educator, collector of historical and ethnographic documents in Russia and Poland, writer, and an activist. These materials include community registers (pinkasim) and other communal documents, historical documents relating to restrictions and privileges issued by governments to Jewish populations, blood libel trials and the Chmielnicki massacres of 1648-1649, documents from the Russian Justice Ministry and Senate, materials on pogroms in the Russian empire, and Dubnow’s family and general correspondence. The collection demonstrates Dubnow’s importance in helping to establish the idea of Jewish ethnographic history.
The core of the materials in this collection are the hundreds of historical documents Dubnow received from communities in Russia and Poland in response to his 1891 article, “On the Study of the History of Russian Jews and the Establishment of a Russian Jewish Historical Society,” and the 1892 Hebrew version, “Let Us Search and Study.” Following these articles, Dubnow continued to build his archive for most of the rest of his life. This collection also contains important additions acquired in later years in connection with Dubnow’s subsequent research projects and a large group of documents added to the collection after the 1917 revolution. At that time, Dubnow was able to make use of the former imperial archives in St. Petersburg that previously had been closed to him, and he made copies of selected documents about Russian-Jewish relations and anti-Jewish pogroms. Finally, while living in Berlin, Dubnow added a large collection of his own personal correspondence of some forty-five years.
The correspondents include Shmuel Alexandrovich, Yitzhak Antonovski, Shloyme-Meyer Bernshteyn, Martin Buber, Shim’on Goldlast, Avraham Taub, Yehudah-Leib Vaysman, Maxim Vinaver, Max Weinreich, Chaim Zhitlowsky, Shmuel Zilbershteyn, and Khayim Ziskind.
Materials include records of Jewish communities, originals and copies of community registers (pinkasim), and other historical documents from Mstislavl, Pinczow, Piotrowice, Stary Bychow, Tykocin, Zabludow, Birzai, Dubno, Lublin, Mezrich, and Novy Ushitsa. There are parts of the pinkas of the Council of Four Lands (Va'ad Arbah Aratsot) and other historical documents relating to restrictions and privileges issued by governments to Jewish populations, to blood libel trials and to Gezerot Takh-ve-Tat (the Chmielnicki massacres of 1648-1649). In addition, there are documents from the Russian Justice Ministry and Senate and materials on pogroms in the Russian empire, including pogroms in Kishinev (1903), Homel (1903) and Bialystok (1906). There are also materials on Hasidism, such as extracts of books, correspondence and documents by and about Hasidic rabbis and about Hasidism. Family papers and records include those of Rabbi Ben-Tsion Dubnow, grandfather of Simon Dubnow.
As Dubnow moved from Odessa to Vilna, St. Petersburg, Kovno, Danzig, and Berlin, he took along the entire archive. Faced with the necessity of yet another move in 1933, this time from Berlin to Riga, Latvia, he decided to donate the larger part of the archive to the YIVO Institute in Vilna. Dubnow resolved to take along with him to Riga the smaller part of his archive, which consisted of documents he needed for writing his memoirs and excerpts of the series which he named “Hasidiana,” which included documents related to the history of the Hasidic movement. It was his intention to continue writing the history of Hasidism while in Riga, a project which preoccupied him until his last years.
In the end, the records destined for the YIVO never reached Vilna. In Berlin, Dubnow left the YIVO collection in the care of his disciple and Berlin compatriot Elias Tcherikower. Tcherikower, who was a member of the YIVO Executive Committee and the chairman of YIVO’s Historical Section, had been entrusted with many other collections destined for the YIVO in Vilna, but he delayed their transfer. In 1933 Tcherikower was forced to move these collections (subsequently known as the Archive of the YIVO Historical Section, or the Elias Tcherkower Archive) to Paris in a hurry. During World War II, the archive was kept in hiding in southern France. Finally, in 1944, the Tcherikower Archive, including the Dubnow Papers, was recovered intact and shipped to the YIVO in New York. The part which Dubnow took to Riga was confiscated by the Germans at the time of Dubnow’s arrest. At least a fraction of the Riga consignment, about 3 linear feet of papers, was recovered from Germany after the war and placed in the Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People in Jerusalem. However, the fate of the “Hasidiana” series remains unknown, as does the fate of Dubnow’s library, which he had bequeathed to YIVO as well.
While still in Berlin, Tcherikower drafted a preliminary listing of the papers destined for YIVO, but including also the Hasidiana that Dubnow wished to keep at the time. Later on in the 1930s, the historian Chaim Borodiansky compiled a fairly extensive inventory of the Dubnow papers that superseded the Tcherikower list. Around 1972, YIVO archivist Zosa Szajkowski added a listing of Dubnow’s correspondence. This combined inventory serves today as the original Yiddish finding aid to the collection (f. 913, 914). The English-language finding aid is an edited translation of the above.
The Dubnow collection is registered in the YIVO Archives as Record Group 87: Papers of Simon Dubnow. The collection is part of the Elias Tcherikower Archive, RG 80-89, and comprises folders 913 to 1043 of the Tcherikower Archive. The total number of folios in the collection exceeds 5,450. The collection dates from 1589-1961, with the bulk of materials dating from 1700-1900.
Dubnow was born on September 10, 1860 in Mstislavl, Russia (now Belarus) to a large, poor and religiously observant family. His father, Meyer Ya’akov, was a lumber merchant and his grandfather Ben-Tsion, in whose house the family lived, was an esteemed rabbinic scholar and teacher, who taught according to the methods of the Vilna Gaon. Dubnow received a traditional Jewish education in kheyder and yeshiva, however he also began to read secular literature at a young age, including novels by Avraham Mapu and poetry by Mikhah Yosef Lebensohn, later moving on to the more daring Hebrew authors of his time such as Mosheh Leib Lilienblum. He soon began to rebel against formal religion and what he considered its superstitious beliefs and obsolete practices. He later wrote an article specifically criticizing the kheyder system and calling for its abolishment. He entered the state Jewish school in Mstislavl at age 14, where he learned Russian and French and was first exposed to the ideas of the Russian positivists, such as Dmitrii Pisarev and Nikolai Chernyshevskii, French and English intellectuals, including Charles Darwin, Thomas Buckle, John Draper, John Stuart Mill, and Herbert Spencer, and the German materialists, among them Jacob Moleschott, Karl Vogt and Ludwig Buchner. He ultimately discarded his religious background and although he remained a devout secularist for the rest of his life, he came to appreciate the historical role of religion in maintaining Jewish identity.
Dubnow spent four years in Vilna, Dvinsk, and Mohilev before he used forged documents to move to St. Petersburg in 1880, where he lived illegally, since St. Petersburg was outside the Pale of Settlement. He failed to pass the entrance examinations to attend a gymnasium and was thus unable to acquire a university education. The May Laws of the 1880s eliminated the Jewish state schools, further disrupting Dubnow’s education, however he continued to educate himself independently, particularly focusing on history, philosophy and linguistics as well as the ideas of Heinrich Graetz and the Wissenschaft des Judentums movement.
Dubnow wrote articles and book reviews for Russian Jewish periodicals, primarily Voskhod (Dawn) and Russkii evrei (Russian Jews), calling for extensive Jewish cultural reforms in Russia. These articles include “What Kind of Auto-Emancipation do the Jews Need?” and “What is Jewish History?” both published in 1893, as well as many other articles. Dubnow and his wife, Ida Friedlin, whom he had married in St. Petersburg, were forced to leave in 1884, at which time they returned to Mstislavl. While in Mstislavl, Dubnow came to realize that a Western model of Jewish emancipation was unlikely in Russia and an approach more rooted in the historical and social realities of Eastern Europe was necessary instead.
In 1890 the Dubnow family moved to Odessa, where Dubnow became part of an illustrious group of intellectuals committed to a nationalist conception of Jewish identity but distanced from religion. This group included Mendele Moykher-Sforim (Sholem Ya'akov Abramovitsh), Ahad Ha-Am (Asher Ginzberg), Hayim Nahman Bialik, and other eminent Jewish literary figures and Zionist intellectuals. Dubnow continued to publish studies of Jewish life and history, coming to be regarded as an authority in these areas.
While in Odessa, he shifted his position from the spiritual nationalism of Graetz and instead developed the idea of a historic Jewish will to survive, a national will that repeatedly drove the Jews to adapt creatively to their changing environments. The surge of minority nationalism in the Russian Empire and the Russian populists’ orientation toward the masses rather than towards the elite sparked Dubnow’s appreciation of the psychological strengths of the still largely traditionalist and ethnically distinct Jewish masses.
In October 1891, Dubnow published his essay “On the Study of the History of Russian Jews and the Establishment of a Russian Jewish Historical Society,” in Voskhod , in which he issued a call for the collection of Russian Jewish historical sources, one of the first to do so. In 1892 Dubnow rewrote his essay in Hebrew, and published it in the Hebrew anthology Pardes under the title “Let Us Search and Study”. The Hebrew article was reprinted as a separate brochure and distributed free of charge throughout the Pale. Between 1893 and 1895 Dubnow received hundreds of historical documents, including minute books of the local and regional communities (pinkasim), community registers, memorabilia, letters, manuscripts, legends and folklore materials, rare books, government documents, inscriptions, martyrological texts, and Hasidic literature. In addition, Dubnow’s correspondents sent him extensive bibliographic and historical notes on sources that they had uncovered.
In 1896, Dubnow published his first comprehensive history of the Jews, Vseobshchaia istoriia evreev (A General History of the Jews) based on the model of German Jewish works, particularly those of Heinrich Graetz, but structured according to Dubnow’s theory of a sequence of cultural “hegemonies” exerted by one or two key Diaspora communities in any given period. This work, rewritten and expanded several times, eventually became Dubnow’s 10-volume World History of the Jewish People , which appeared in German, Russian, Hebrew, and other languages in the 1920s and 1930s, and had a huge impact on Russian Jewish youth and the reading public. Dubnow labeled his historiographical approach “sociological,” as it emphasized how Jewish social institutions served as substitutes for a state for the otherwise stateless Jewish people. These quasi-political forms were a manifestation of Judaism’s ability to transcend the usual physical requirements of nationhood and thus, in Dubnow’s theory, exemplified the subjective nature of national identity, an identity essentially based on feelings of unity and a common historical memory. Following Heinrich Graetz, Dubnow was the first to publish a comprehensive history of the Jews that covered recent historic developments.
In 1897, the year of the formation of the world Zionist movement and the Bund, Dubnow began to publish a series of essays in Voskhod , defining his own position of Diaspora Nationalism. Dubnow later also wrote a series for Voskhod on the origins of Hasidism, published in 1888-1893. He argued that because Jews were already a diaspora nation, they did not require a physical homeland outside Europe but rather needed to modernize their communal institutions and gain constitutional recognition for them in a multinational state. He rejected Zionism on the grounds that it was an illusory solution to the pressing problems of the Jewish masses, especially in Eastern Europe. He also rejected Socialism, especially the Marxist form that was both the foundation of Bundist ideology and a growing influence among young Zionists. He felt that Marxism wrongly held as all-important the struggle of the working class against the bourgeoisie, whereas it was the Jewish people as a whole that was under attack, not just the workers.
By 1905, Dubnow and his family had settled in Vilna and during the early months of the 1905 Russian Revolution he became active in organizing a Jewish political response to the opportunities arising from the new civil rights that were being promised. In this effort he worked with people holding a variety of opinions on the solution to the Jewish question, including those favoring diaspora autonomy, Zionism, Socialism, and assimilation. He welcomed the creation of a parliamentary Duma as a result of the Russian Revolution of 1905 and the Jewish participation in the elections, as it seemed to indicate that Russia might be finally on the way to becoming a liberal, multinational state.
In 1906 Dubnow was allowed back into St. Petersburg, where he participated actively in the development of Russian Jewish historical research in the immediate period before World War I. In 1907 Dubnow collected and published his essays on contemporary issues as Pis’ma o starom i novom evreistve (Letters on Old and New Judaism), which he had originally published serially under the same title in Voskhod between 1897 and 1903. That same year, Dubnow and Israel Efrojkin founded the Jewish People’s or Folkist party (Folkspartey) in order to espouse a combination of political liberalism and cultural autonomy for Jews as a fully legitimate national minority, including the right to vote. The Folkspartey successfully worked for the election of members of parliament and municipal councilors in interwar Lithuania and Poland and existed until the 1930s in the Ukraine, Russia, Poland, and the Baltic countries. While the Folkspartey found limited support in interwar Poland, Dubnow’s ideas profoundly affected the Bund there (one of whose leaders, Henryk Erlich, was married to Dubnow’s daughter Sophia), including Dubnow’s ideology of cultural autonomy and the importance of Yiddish.
Dubnow was active in the Society for Equal Rights of the Jewish People in Russia and in 1909 helped to found the Jewish Literature and Historical-Ethnographic Society that issued the quarterly scholarly journal Evreiskaia starina (Jewish Past), of which he was the editor. He taught at the Institute of Jewish Studies, supported by Baron David Guenzburg. Dubnow also continued publishing ever more comprehensive editions of his history of the Jews, as well as specialized works on the Russian Jewish past. He rejoiced in the overthrow of the tsarist regime in 1917 but was adamantly hostile to the Bolshevik takeover and its destruction of independent cultural institutions and personal freedom. After 1917 Dubnow became a Professor of Jewish history at Petrograd University.
Dubnow was given permission to leave Russia in 1922. He emigrated first to Kovno, Lithuania and then settled in Berlin. Although he lived among a prominent group of East European Jewish intellectuals while in Berlin, he lived in relative seclusion while working on a new edition of his World History of the Jewish People , first published in German translation in 1925-1929. During this period, he also prepared an edition of the minute book (pinkas) of the Lithuanian Jewish va‘ad (council) from 1623 to 1762, published a Hebrew version of his History of Hasidism in the Period of its Rise and Growth (Toldot ha-hasidut), 1930–1932, which he dedicated to his friend Ahad Ha-Am, and continued to write essays on Yiddish and the East European Jewish past. He was a co-founder of the YIVO Institute in Vilna in 1925 and became the chairman of its Historical Section and a loyal supporter of the institute, which was in large part the creation of his ex-students and disciples. During 1927 Dubnow initiated a search in Poland on behalf of YIVO for record books kept by kehillot and other local Jewish groups (pinkasim), ultimately collecting several hundred writings. He delivered the plenary address at YIVO’s tenth anniversary conference in Vilna in 1935, the same year that branches of YIVO’s historical division organized lectures in different cities devoted to Dubnow’s work.
When Hitler came to power in 1933, Dubnow and his wife moved to Riga, Latvia, where he continued many of his literary activities and began to publish his autobiography Kniga zhizni: Vospominaniia i razmyshleniia; Materiali dlia istorii moevo vremeni (Book of Life: Reminiscences and Reflections; Material for the History of My Times) published in 3 volsumes in 1934–1940. In his autobiography Dubnow presented reports and commentaries by his contemporaries from the centers of intellectual society and documented key events in Jewish and general history from the late 19th into the first half of the 20th century, in the process revealing the ruptures and contradictions in his own scholarly thinking and political action. In July 1941 Nazi troops occupied Riga. Dubnow was transferred to the Riga ghetto, losing his entire library. He was among thousands of Jews to be rounded up there for the Rumbula massacre. Too sick to travel to the forest, he was executed by a Gestapo officer on December 8, 1941. Several friends then buried him in the old cemetery of the Riga ghetto.
Based upon: Seltzer, Robert M. "Dubnow, Simon." YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe . New York: YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, 2010, pp. 432-434.
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:
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Acquisition Method: The Simon Dubnow Papers, RG 87, were received by the YIVO Archives in New York in 1944 as part of the Elias Tcherikower Archive.
Separated Materials: There is no information about materials that are associated by provenance to the described materials that have been physically separated or removed.
Original/Copies Note: The collection is on 8 reels of microfilm (MK 470.73 - 470.80)
Related Materials: The Simon Dubnow Papers are part of the Elias Tcherikower Archive, RG 80-89, with which they share a provenance. The YIVO Archives and Library also have several books by and about Dubnow, including several of the pinkasim that Dubnow collected, his autobiography and his historical works. His correspondence is also represented in several archival collections, including David Mowshowitch, Abraham Liessin, Jacob Lestchinsky, Joseph Opatoshu, and Elias Tcherikower’s personal collection.
Preferred Citation: Published citations should take the following form:Identification of item, date (if known); Papers of Simon Dubnow; RG 87; folder number; YIVO Institute for Jewish Research.
The communal registers were Dubnow’s most prized possessions. In his essay “On the Study of History,” Dubnow singles out pinkasim as being the most important documents for the history of Jewish communal relations. Even after many years of diligent search he could gather no more than seven originals and about a dozen copies. These include the pinkasim of the communities of Mstislavl (1702-1823), Sloboda (Novy Mstislavl, 1760-1795), Piotrowice (1726-1809), Pinczow (1632-1740), Stary Bychow (1686-1869), Kedainiai (1806-1819), Tykocin (1589-1816), Birzai (1784-1836), Dubno (1670-1671), Zabludow (1650-1827), Lublin (1685-1695, 1777-1785), parts of the Pinkas medinat Lita (Pinkas of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania), and the six extant pages of the Pinkas Va’ad Arba Aratsot (Pinkas of the Council of the Four Lands). In addition, there are excerpts from many pinkasim that for various reasons were not copied in full.
The series Hasidiana is not included here. According to Tcherikower’s list, forty-two documents of the total forty-five remained in Dubnow’s possession. Readers of Dubnow’s History of Hasidism will find many of those documents incorporated in his text.
communal register from the year 5486 to 5569, Hebrew, quarto, 61 pp.
the first 26 pp. are missing, as is the end
the older pagination continues to pp. 68, the newer pagination, in pencil to pp. 92
missing: pp. 28, 31, 33, 36, 55
the outer half of pp. 76 is torn away
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communal register, partial copy
the original is 92 pp. long, Hebrew and Yiddish
copies of documents, 1685-1695, 1777-1785
the introduction and a few documents reprinted in Nisnboym, Le-korot ha-yehudim be-Lublin (Chronicles of the Jews in Lublin), published in Lublin in 5660 (1900)
Reel 73
royal decree by King Stanislaw August, appointing the rabbi of Ostroh, R’ Meyer Hirshl Margolius, the rabbi of Bratslav and the Ukraine, January 1775, Polish
copied from the original by his grandson, Avraham Rabinovitsh in Mohilev Podolsk, with an addendum about R’ Meyer Margolius written by Menahem Nahum Litinsky, Mohilev Podolsk, 13 Elul 5652
Reel 74
elders are Yehezkel Lipsky, Avraham Rosenthal, Moshe Epshteyn, from Warsaw
about projects regarding the status of the peasantry
history of the Jews of Sniadow, written by Pinhas Turberg, Jedwabne, Lomza Province, 4 pp.
Reel 74
a) letter from Ya'akov Barit (Kovner) to Yehoshua Heshel Levin in Vilna, Monday, 12 Tishrei 5623, about the Jewish delegation from Vilna to St. Petersburg for the 1000-year celebration of Russian empire in September 1862
excerpts from the book “Pleitat sofrim,” by Yehoshua Heshel of Vilna, 1863, Hebrew, 4 pp.
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a) Shabtai Katz, introduction to Penitential Prayers and Lamentations for the Evil Events in Ukraine, Volhynia and Podolya, and in Lithuania in the years 1648-1649, copy from a selihot, printed in Amsterdam by Yohanan Levi Rofe, Hebrew, 3 pp.
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b) same as above, copied and with comment by Shalom Aleksander Rivkin of Homel, Mohilev Province, 23 December, Hebrew, 8 pp.
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c) selihot, composed by R' Yehiel Mikhel of Nemirov, following the events of Takh-ve-Tat (1648-1649)
copied from the book Kol Ya'akov (The Voice of Jacob), Venice, 5418, Hebrew, 2 pp., folio
Yalkut Hiyug (Hayim Yonah Gurland) of Kuntres, pp. 32, note 29
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d) selihot, copied by Eliezer Yitzhak Feygin, Bialystok, from Seder ha-Selihot (Book of Mourning/Penitential prayers), printed in Poritsk, Hebrew, 2 pp., folio
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e) selihot, written in Kol Ya'akov by Ya'akov Kopl, son of Tzvi Margolies, Amsterdam, 5468
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f) R’ Ya'akov Emden’s reports about the horrors of Takh-ve-Tat, derived from his autobiographic text, Megillat sefer, by Hayim Eliezer Dubnikov of Tulczyn, 11 June
supplement from Tiferet Yisrael by Yisroel Zuta about the 1648-1649 catastrophe, Hebrew, 8 pp.
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Gezerot Takh-ve-Tat and Gezerot Gonte (Gonta), 5528
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a) folksongs about the persecutions in Podolia
Memorial Chronicles of Jews in Podolia in the days of the Cossack Uprising
sent by Menahem Nahum Litinsky
detailed reproduction with citations from the Russian and Yiddish folksongs about the factual historic events of the atrocities, with a Hebrew translation, Hebrew, 4 pp.
Reel 74
b) From the History of Jews in Podolya, a rare document regarding Gezerot Gonte, by Menahem Nahum Litinsky, Mohilev Podolsk, 22 June 1890
printed in Russian translation by Dubnow in Voskhod in 1893, as Platsh ukrainskogo evreia
Reel 74
a) Sha'ar ha-melekh by R’ Mordekhai, chief of the beit din of Vilkotch, printed Horodno 1790
copy from the book, by Pinhas Ha-kohen Turberg, 7 Elul 5652, Jedwabne
about the atrocities of 5528 (1768) in Uman and other places, 4 pp., Hebrew
with Dubnow’s reference to Hayim Yonah Gurland’s Chronicles of the Horrors, Odessa, 5653, 81 pp.
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b) blood libel in the City of Turzysk, Volhynia and Kovel, 5551
two stories about the cases in Turzysk and in Kovel, Yiddish, 4 pp.
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a) Rosh Hodesh Tevet 5655
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b) 10 Av 5655, with excerpt from various books:
Beit lehem Yehudah
She'elot u-teshuvot heishiv Eliezer: responsa by Mordekhai Ziskind Rutenberg
teshuvot of the great scholars
Emunat Yisrael
other excerpts, about the massacres and persecutions in Moscow, Bychow, Mohilev, Pereyaslav, and others, Hebrew, 3 pp.
Reel 74
for the victims of Takh-ve-Tat (1648-1649); and of the Gonta rebellion (1743) in Pavlitsh, Tvarov, Mohilev, Nesvizh, and Chernigov
memorial prayer for the many righteous victims, reproduced from an old pinkas of Nesvizh by Shmuel David Faynberg’s son, with a comment by Shmuel David Faynberg, dated 7 Shevat, 5655, 4 pp., Hebrew
Reel 74
thank you letter for Dr. Lilienthal in regard to his mission on behalf of the Ministry of Public Education, signed by Minister Perovsky, St. Petersburg, 29 July 1842
copy, 1 pp. Russian
two more letters attesting to the importance of Lilienthal’s mission, June 22, 1842
letters to Lilienthal, Yiddish, German, St. Petersburg, 10 July 1842
Ukase by the Tsar to the Minister of Public Education, 13 November, 1844
Reel 74
Zalmen Posner to the councilors /parnasim of Suwalki, copy, 1844 (1843?), Hebrew, 2 pp.
compare to II.8 above
a) list of inscriptions on gravestones from the Bialystok cemetery for the years 5570-5620 (1810-1860), with remarks by Dr. Yosef Chazanovitsh, Bialystok, Hebrew, 5 pp.
Reel 74
b) rabbinic certification for Shlomo Zalman Tiktin in Bialystok, dated 5549, copy, Hebrew, 4 pp.
Reel 74
a) excerpts from the Senate proceeding compiled by Dubnow in the form of a notebook titled Zapiski Velizhe, June, 82 pp., Russian
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b) three letters to Dubnow about the Velizh blood libel, by L. N. Etinger, Velizh, 19 April, 26 May and 29 June, Russian, 16 pp.
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c) two letters to Dubnow about the Velizh Trial from Hayim Rivkin, Velizh, 21 November and 9 January, Russian, 16 pp.
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d) Dubnow’s remarks and bibliographic notes appended to the Velizh proceedings, Russian, 10 pp.
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a) Chronicles of the City in Vizhun, a letter to Dubnow from Nahum-Ber Garb, dated 4 February, Vilkomir, with excerpts from the statutes of the Hevra Tehillim in Utian (Kovno Gubernia), Hebrew, 8 pp.
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b) materials about the martyr, R’ Menahem Man of Vizhun
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c) letter from Azriel Yafat and Ben-Tzion Tsun Yehaya and materials about R’ Menakhem Man, 7 February, Russian and Hebrew, 10 pp.
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a) listing of 26 gravestones, in the Lublin cemetery, sent to Dubnow by R' Yosef Levinshteyn, rabbi of Serock, Adar 5654, Hebrew, 4 pp.
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b) massacre of 5417 (1657) from old responsa
the fire of 5367 (1607)
in a letter by Ya'akov Shapiro, Mezrich, Tishrei 5656, Hebrew, 3 pp.
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c) letter from Tuva Habavli, Kovno, 16 December, with passages from responsa Yosef da'at (Mounting Knowledge), about Lublin, Hebrew, 3 pp.
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d) letter and card from Shlomo Nisnboym of Lublin, 12 February and 3 March
with inscription on the 5396 (1646) gravestone of the martyr R' Nahman
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a) income and expense ledger for the Kehilla of Mezrich, covering the years 5492-5563 (1732-1803), copied and sent to Dubnow by Ya'akov Shapiro of Mezrich, 8 pp., Hebrew
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b) letter from Ya'akov Shapiro about the apostate Meyer (Paul) the Informer, 15 Sivan 5653, Hebrew, 5 pp.
Reel 74
c) the story of the City of Vahun, near Mezrich, a folk-tale recorded and annotated by Ya'akov Shapiro in Mezrich, Hebrew, 4 pp.
other letters from Shapiro and A. Bialostotsky about this matter
Reel 74
a) excerpts from Mohilev archival records
excerpts from the book Belorussian Archive of Older Records, 1824, with annotations by S. Dubnow, Russian, 16 pp.
Reel 74
b) excerpts from the description of the Mohilev Province, pp. 716 in a book, Russian, 4 pp.
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c) Azkarah for the martyrs of the year 1655, Mohilev Province, copied from a manuscript at the Shupol Synagogue by Shim'on Volkov, Hebrew, 2 pp.
Reel 74
excerpts from the pinkas of the Funeral Society for the year 5568 (1808), excerpts made by S. Dubnow
a) story about Vashtsile, 4 Shevat, 5504 (1744), published in 5678 (1818) in He-avar, volume I
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b) A Story of Miracles that Occurred in the year 5604 (1844) in Mstislavl, Hebrew, 5 pp.
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c) a few chapters about the Mstislavl miracle of 1844 (The Purim of Mstislavl) sent by Yitzhak Malkin of Smolensk, with remarks by Dubnow, Hebrew, 10 pp.
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a) three halakhic decisions in the case between the kehillot of Nezvizh and Snov, copied by David Slutski of Snov, Hebrew, 4 pp., with remarks by Dubnow
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b) claims of the kehilla of Brisk (Brest Litovsk) in the dispute between Nesvizh and Snov, dated (5547) 1787, as told by David Slutski in a letter dated, 12 December, 1892
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a) excerpts of statements by Boni Originis, 25 August 1739, about residential permits for Jews in Nowogrodek, Polish and Russian, copy of a copy
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b) excerpt of pinkas mishnayot about the martyr R' Meyer, killed in Nowogrodek
letter from Ya'akov Hirshovski, Vilna, 23 January
text Hebrew, letter Russian, 4 pp.
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c) clippings from Hamelitz, #116, about the martyrs of Velma, Sha’ul Aharon Rubinshteyn
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a) Megillat Tamuz, 5552, about the miracle in the war between Russia and Poland in Ostroh, 4 pp., Yiddish, calligraphy, 2 copies, Russian
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b) elegies for the martyrs of Zaslav, copy of an old manuscript, Hebrew, with an appendix by the copyist Mendelberg, 1 pp.
printed in Hamelitz, 5652, #195-198, also used by Galant, in 1912
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c) two letters from Mendelberg of Ostroh, dated Wednesday, week of zot ha-brakhah, about Zaslav, Stepan and Olik, in Hebrew, 3 pp.
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d) Megillat Stepan (The Scroll of Stepan) about the libel cast on R’ Yoel of Lutsk, Hebrew, 7 pp.
information about Stepan and Olik, by Mendelberg, Hebrew, 4 pp.
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e) inscription on the gravestone of R' Shmuel Eliezer son of Yehudah (Maharsha) in Ostroh, 7 Heshvan, 5501, and his family, Hebrew, 2 pp.
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a) Siddur Pintshev, copies of an old prayer book, manuscript from the Pintshev Beit Midrash, dated 5375 (1614), copies made by S. Dubnow, July 1894, 6 pp. Hebrew
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b) letter from the rabbi of Herzog, R’ Yosef Bera, about the Pintshev Siddur, Hebrew, 2 pp.
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c) two El mole rakhamims for the martyrs of Pintshev, copies by Yitzhak Meyer Levinshteyn of Koszyce
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a) two documents from years 1754 and 1792, about the persecutions and murder of the Plock Jewish elders by the town administration, Polish translations of Hebrew texts excerpted from the synagogue records, 3 pp.
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b) letter from Israel Nozyca, 14 February, about the persecutions and murder of the Plock Jewish elders by the town administration
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a) chronicles of the City of Poznan about the persecutions in 1704, 1717, 1736, drawn from Kuntres (notebook, logbook) of Poznan, referred to by Perles in the History of the Jews of Posen (German), Hebrew, 2 pp.
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b) elegy for the Fire of Posen, from the book P'nei Yitzhak by R’Yitzhak Khayes, Krakow, 5351, 6 pp., Hebrew
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c) penitential recitations for the 5th of Av, the persecutions of 5476 (1706-1707) taken from Kuntres, Dyhernfurth, 5556, 8 pp, Hebrew
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d) Even ha-shoham the Onyx Stone, excerpts from the book of responsa, by Eliyakum Getz, Dyhernfurth 5493, regarding the persecutions of 5460-5478 (1700-1718), prepared by Ya'akov Shapiro of Mezrich, Hebrew, 4 pp.
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e) excerpts from "Ma'aseh ha-shem" (God’s Deeds), Roedelheim 5513 (1753) about the false accusation in Posen, Shevat 5563, 6 pp., Hebrew
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[III.27 not used]
a) selihot (penitential/mourning) prayers for the martyrs of Ruzhana, 5420, copies by Dr. Yosef Chazanovitsh from a general ledger in Ruzhana
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b) Da'at kedoshim al harugei Ruzhana 5420 (1660) ve-yihusam, recognizing the victims of Ruzhana killed in 1640 and their lineage, Hebrew, 39 pp., pp. 19, 20 missing
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c) selihot for the martyrs of Ruzhana, written by R’ Shim'on Khozok, transcribed from a manuscript owned by R’ Eliyahu Yafe in Ruzhana, with remarks by S. Dubnow, Hebrew, 4 pp.
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d) copy of the 5635 (1875) monument for the Ruzhana martyrs of the blood libel of 5420 (1600), R’ Yisrael and R’ Tuviah, plus some notes about the blood libel, in a letter to Dubnow dated 12 Tishrei 5653, sent by Aharon Moshe Mazursky, Ruzhana, with remarks appended by Dubnow, Hebrew and Russian, 4 pp.
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regarding attacks by local Jews against Jewish informers
a) proceedings of trial, 16 pp., Russian, with Dubnow’s remarks, copy, first 2 pp. are missing
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b) report of the trial in a letter account of the Litnivetser Mayse, written on stationery of Sh. A. Hornshteyn, Odessa, Russian, 7 pp.
printed in the book Perezhitoe, volume I
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a) lists of Prayers about the Cruelty, translated from a manuscript from Lublin including about the history of Jews in Lublin
copy by Dubnow from a copy by Sh. Nisnboym, Adar 5662, Hebrew, 3 pp.
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b) letters from the kehilla of Lublin dated 1709 (5469), also from 2 Av, 5469 to R’ Aharon Avraham Ber, shtadlan, (intercessor and advocate for the Jewish community) in Oyrikh, regarding help, especially in this difficult time
with great and lavish recommendations, copy to Dubnow, according to a copy sent by Dr. Chazanovitsh, Hebrew, 1 pp.
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a) information from police precincts, from German newspapers and from miscellaneous reports, April-May 1881, largely in Russian, 68 pp.
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b) reports about pogrom agitation and orders, related to the trial of the pogrom perpetrators, May 1881- January 1882, Russian, printed copy, 17 pp.
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a) about the pogroms of June 1881 in Bessarabia, Poltava Province, and Kiev Province
report by Jews of Yelizavetgrad about the pogroms in Southern Russia, in Kherson Province, printed copies, Russian, 99 pp.
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b) addendum to Kutaisov report, 3 pp., Russian
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pogroms in Minsk, Saratov, Vitebsk, Skidele, Vilna, Yekaterinoslav, Kishinev, Bessarabia in general, Saratov, Bialystok, Grodno, Kiev, Berdichev, Uman, and Rostov
various circulars prepared by the police department in 1905, about the pogroms, copies, 66 pp., Russian
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a) Zvenigorodok, Kishinev, regarding Jewish recruits, Bialystok Pogrom, Siedlce pogrom, the situation in Podolia and Volhynia, copies, typescript, 4 pp., Russian
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b) telegram to the Ministry of Justice about the pogrom in Melitopol, copy, typescript, 1 pp., Russian
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a) contract with Michal Parczewski regarding building a house on his parcel of land, Polish, 2 pp., original
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b) contract, 17 April, regarding leasing a parcel of land in Mstislavl, Polish, 1 pp., original
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c) script of an administrative decision in connection with a request by Velki (Volf?) Dubnow, son of Ben-Tsion, 21 August, regarding a house
VD was a resident of Mstislavl
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d) decision about a rental by Velki (Volf?) Dubnow, 29 September, Russian, 2 pp.
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e) will and testament of Victor (Avigdor), son of Volf Dubnow, 24 August, Russian, 4 pp.
pagination starts with pp. 3, first and second sheets missing
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f) fragment of will, Hebrew, written in Avigdor (Victor) Dubnow’s hand
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g) certificate issued to Ben-Tsion Dubnow by the Mstislavl magistrate concerning his father’s (Avigdor’s) will, Russian, 22 January, 4 pp.
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h) blank check, signed by Avigdor Dubnow, Russian
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i) power of attorney for handling matters in the name of the Christian and Jewish merchants in Mstislavl and requesting permits for brick houses, April, draft, Russian, 2 pp.
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j) contract between Avigdor (Victor) Dubnow and Yisrael-Isser, son of R’ Mordekhai Khazanov, 23 August, presented to the Mstislavl police, with signatures and approvals, Russian, 2 pp.
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k) contract with the signatures of Avigdor, son of Rabbi Volf Dubnow, Yisrael-Isser, son of R’ Mordekhai Khazanov, and others, Hebrew, 2 pp., 6 Elul 5598, Mstislavl
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l) five documents concerning the Jewish School in Mstislavl
(1) to Ben-Tsion Dubnow regarding using his home as a school building, December 3, 1856
(2) to Ben-Tsion Dubnow regarding housing the school in his home, 31 June, 1856
(3) outlines Ben-Tsion Dubnow's role as honorary chairman of the school, 28 January, 1857
(4) request to Ben-Tsion Dubnow to send his annual contribution to the school, 23 January, 1858
(5) receipt for that money
these documents are written on the stationery of the directorship of the Mstislavl school, 12 February, 1858, Russian
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m) ledger of Ben-Tsion Dubnow as honorary chairman of the Mstislavl Jewish school for the year 1856, 2 pp., Russian
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n) letter from Avigdor Dubnow to his brother Moshe regarding his rights to the house in Mstislavl, November, Russian, 2 pp.
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o) certified notice from Hillel Rapoport to Ya'akov, son of David Yakubson, 9 December, regarding decisions of the court in Vilna concerning a house, Russian, 2 pp.
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p) (1) request from Ben-Tsion, son of Avigdor Dubnow, to borrow money to rebuild his house that had burned down, on the grounds of the royal decree of 1859
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p) (2) request from Ben-Tsion, son of Avigdor Dubnow, to the head of the Mohilev Province, 31 October, related to the fires of 1858 and 1863 in Mstislavl
written in Mohilev, where Dubnow was temporarily residing, Russian, 2 pp.
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q) (1) request from Nahman, son of Mordekhai Kahanov of Mstislavl, regarding a debt of 150 rubles, September
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q) (2) loan document from Leib, son of Avrom Kahanov, dated 14 July, regarding the obligation of Nahman, son of Mordekhai Kahanov, Russian, 2 pp.
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r) certification to Ben-Tsion, son of Avigdor Dubnow, December, granting permission to live anywhere in Russia, Russian, 2 pp.
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s) contract regarding residence in the house of Ben-Tsion Dubnow, between himself and Leib Lipshits, dated 1 May, originals with signatures of Dubnow, Lipshits and witnesses, Russian, 2 pp.
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t) mortgage document
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u) contract drawn by the Mstislavl community about installing a new shoykhet, Shneyer Yitskhok, son of Shmuel Halevy, with signatures of a large number of town balebatim (bourgeoisie), among them Ben-Tsion Dubnow, 2 pp., Hebrew
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v) petition for help for Pesach from the community of Mstislavl to Countess Saltykova, as their protector, in connection with the banishment of 1843, 3 pp.
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w) response to a request to the Mohilev governor from the Mstislavl citizens and merchants’ association, 4 pp.
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x) listing of ma'ot hittim donations in Mstislavl with many names of local balebatim (bourgeoisie), Hebrew
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y) beit din of Mstislavl, judgement dated Monday, 26 Sivan, 5666, regarding house belonging to David, son of Meyer Frumkin and his sister-in-law, shows signatures of beit din and witnesses, Hebrew, 2p.
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excerpted from the municipal books of Vilna county, 1799, Polish, 8 pp. numbered 216-220, with signature
Russian translation of the document, 6 pp. numbered 210-215
also copy of the Russian translation written partly by Dubnow himself, undated
another Polish copy of the above excerpt, made on July 12, 1807, pp. 196-203
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copied and transcribed in a notebook, 40 pp., Russian
a) translation from a Polish book by the priest Tikulski, Zlosc zydowska (Jewish fury), published in Lemberg (Lvov), pp. 1-7, 15-36
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b) excerpt from the book Talmud Stories, Polish, pp. 8
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c) excerpt from Jewish seforim by the priest Pazdzierski, translated from the Polish into Russian
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d) listing of 48 Jewish and Christian prisoners arrested in connection with the Velizh trial, Russian
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e) letter from the Minister of Education, Count Golitsin, to the Governor of Grodno, dated 6 March, about the annulment of the Velizh blood libel, Russian copy
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table of contents of Jewish-related documents, 93 pp., text and prefatory page, Russian, assembled by Dubnow
supplements: two notes by Dubnow regarding documents in the Vilna Archives
a letter from Gurshovsky of Vilna, about the Jewish statutes, Russian, 2 pp., 26 February
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a) proposal for establishing a Jewish religious institute in St. Petersburg, 4 pp., typed, Russian
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b) minutes of the three meetings of the Pedagogic Council of the Baron Guenzburg Higher Courses in Oriental Studies, St. Petersburg, 3 pp., Russian
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c) program of the Baron Guenzburg Higher Courses in Oriental Studies, 2 pp., Russian
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a) report of executions of Jews in Yekaterinoslav jails, Russian, typescript, 2 pp.
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b) letter from the Yekaterinoslav Police Chief to the rabbi, 20 November
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c) letter to the rabbi regarding burial of expropriators, Russian, 4 pp.
the matter occurred in May, the letter is dated 16 December
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d) copies of letters by B.Y. Toporovsky, who sent the above documents to Dubnow
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a) report by Georg Brandes on the situation in the war zone on the eastern front, Politicken, 26 October, No. 299, Russian, typescript, 6 pp.
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b) description of the grave situation by a 13 year-old girl, Russian translation, typescript, 2 pp.
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excerpts from various documents, prepared by the Archeographic Commission (continuation from V.9) assembled by Dubnow, Russian
primarily about the Vilna kehilla and its trial, 1799-1800
also about the Jewish delegation to St. Petersburg in 1798
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a) text of a gravestone, dated Thursday, 17 Iyar 5407
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b) text of memorial to the martyrs (victims) of Zaslav
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c) Kedoshei Zaslav by Yosef Kantortshik, issues #195 and #198
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d) R’ Matityahu Delakrut, by Aharon Kaminka, issue #234, 23 October
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e) salhonim (supplications, prayers), eloquent texts from the pinkas of the bikur holim, dated 5524 (1764)
note from Lvov, about the victims Hayim and Yehoshua Reytsis, Hamelitz #143, dated 23 June
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f) chronicles of Jews from the Horodno area for the year 5524 (1764) by Sh. Viner, Hamelitz #148
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g) Memorial Day, by Hillel Shteynshnayder
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h) listings of the Jewish events in Volhynia, by Yehiel Zatulovsky
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a) from Der Veg (The Road), 21 June, about economic terror
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b) from Der Veg, 28 July, a letter from Laufman, about anarchism
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c) from Fraynd (Friend), about Murafa, in Podolia Province
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d) from Hazman, call from a former member of the Duma of Wyborg, 14 July
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e) from Hazman, 10 June, about Bialystok pogrom
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f) from Fraynd, about the martyrs of Pavoloch
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about various rabbis in Poland, starting with RaShal (R’ Shloyme Luria) and ReMa (R’ Moshe Isserlis), and also about the earliest Hasidic leaders (R’ David of Makow, the Tishevitser “Moshiakh”), the martyrs of Lublin from 1636, and R' Nahman Adler, Serock, 11 letters, Hebrew
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by R’ David Lida from the year 1680-1681, about the pogrom in Lvov of 5424 (1664) and the names of the rabbis of that time
written by Meyer Itkin of Kastsyukovitski, Mohilev Gubernia, in a Hebrew letter to Dubnow, 8 pp.
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copy of the book, Altona, Hamburg and Wandsbeck, dated 5475, clothing laws, from the copy in the Strashun Library in Vilna
with comments by Shteynshnayder on Kirya ne’emanah (The Faith of the City), copied by Gershovski, Vilna, 7 pp., Hebrew, with Yiddish mixed in
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sons of R’ Avraham Yehudah-Leib Segal (aka Laybl Vilkiyer) and a request for their support, in the time of their trials in court, issued by the beit din and kehilla of Vilna, with signatures and a seal, 21 Kislev, 5592, original, 1 pp.
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by Menahem Nahum Litinsky, dated 5656, in the form of a drama, Hebrew, 12 pp.
supplemented by a letter in Hebrew from Litinsky, dated 10 Tamuz 5656, about printing this song as a present to the Emperor, with a remark by Dubnow: “I advised the writer not to commit such a folly,” 1 pp.
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by Yehudah Leib Gordon, composed in 5638, not printed for reasons of censorship
copy by Ya’akov Bohuslavsky of Nikolayev, Hebrew, 3 pp.
supplementary letter from Y. Bohuslavsky about the manuscript and a remark by Dubnow that it is to be printed in the future as a “curiosum” with a short introduction
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includes a last will, and documents related to disposition of real estate property in Vilna, Polish and Latin
several documents regarding properties in Warsaw and Nowy Dwor belonging to the couple Leib vel Ludwik Feigin and Braindel vel Barbara Muhlrad Feigin
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about establishing a national Jewish school network in Russia
includes letters by F. Lander, secretary of the Odessa branch, to Dubnow, about initiating teacher training courses and Dubnow’s suggestion about reforming the program in line with the spirit of the Jewish schools
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Isaac Hirsch Weiss, Zikhronotai (My Memoirs), Warsaw 5655 (1895)
Be’er Yitzhak (Isaac’s Well) by David Ber Natansohn, Warsaw, 1899, with Dubnow’s marginalia
the two books were bought in December 1950 from the bookstore of Veri Fisher who had acquired it from Dr. Louis Levin, Breslau
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Barukh Bobis, (1), 1893
Martin Buber, (1), 1931
Ben-Tsion Baranov (1), 1891
A. B. Bialostotski, Mezrich, (2), 1891
M. Buber, Ostroh, Volhynia, (4), 1894
Shmaryahu Beylin, (4), 1893-1897
Shakhnah-Meyer Bernshteyn, Ozorkow, (2), 1892
Shloyme-Meyer Bernshteyn, Kedainia, (1)
Mathias Bersohn, Warsaw, (5), 1895
A. Bramson, (3), and documents, 1899-1900
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Eliahu ha-Levi Gabrielev, Nesvizh, 1893
Shim'on Goldlast, Lomza, (1), 5652 (1892)
Hirsh-Leib Goldenberg, Bohuslav (2), 5655 (1895)
Yitzhak-Meyer Granetman, Pinczow, (1)
Nahum Grinhauz, and Simhah Koptshik
Trakiai, (1), 5654 (1894) and Dubnow’s answer
Shakhnah Grinfeld, Barandovka, (2), 5654 (1894)
Grinfeld hareini ba-sadeh, (2)
Yuli Gessen, (13)
Girshovsky, (10), 1895
L. Gots, Gorodok (3), 1893-1894
Ila Galant, (6), 1896-1927
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D. Z. Zakharin, Odessa, (1), 1896
A. Zaks, Lubashovka (1)
Shmuel Zilbershteyn, Warsaw, (1), 1893, also a copy of a letter from Zilbershteyn to A. E. Landau
Khayim Ziskind, Berdichev, (1), 1897
N. Zlatkin, Rostov, (2), 1892
M. Khazan, Polonaya, (2), 1894
Shalom ha-Kohen Kharif, Zaslav, (1)
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A. Leon (1), 1892
Mordekhai-Nahum Litinsky, Mohilev, Podolski (2), 1892
Yisrael Levi, St. Petersburg, (3), 1889-1890
Yitzhak-Meyer Levinshteyn, Kosice, (1), 5654 (1894)
Aharon Levit, Kishinev, (1)
Ya'akov Marshak, Warsaw, (1) 1896
Hayim Volf Margolis, Dubno, (2), 1893-1894
Mendel Bik, Ostroh, (2), 1888
Aharon-Moshe Mazurski, Ruzhana, Brody Gubernia, (1), 1898
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Yitzhak Nisenbaum (1), 1895
Shlomo Nisenbaum, Lublin (1), 1899
Moshe Nashburg, Avrutch, (1), 1893
Isser Nastoshkin (1), 1895
Semyon M. Stanislavsky, Yekaterinoslav, (2), 1894
B. Segal, Zagare, Kovno Province, (2), 1894
L. N. Etinger, Velizh, Vitebsk Province, (1), 1892
Moshe Ehrlich, Lublin, (4), 1928
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Shmuel Figit, Yekaterinoslav (1)
D. Pinsker, Odessa, (1), 1893
V. D. Pevzner (1), 1893
Pinhas Pesis, Kovel (1), 1892
Avraham-Leib Faynshteyn, Brest-Litovsk, (1), 1892
Yosef-Zundel Finkelshteyn (1), 1892
Hayim Dov-Berish Fridberg, (5), Antwerp, (3), 1931
L. Fridland, St. Petersburg, (1), 1893
Yisrael Fridlander, Berlin, (2), 1898
Bernard A. Fridman, Birzai, (5), 1891-1892
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Sha'ul Kazarnovsky, Lyadi, (2), 1893
Moshe Kalmasohn, (2), 1888-1889
Yosef Kantortshik, (1), 1896
Ben-Tsion Katz, Dobre, (1), 1894
A. Kraushar, Warsaw, (1), 1896
Hirsh Krasnik, Petropavlovsk, (1), 1898
Koszycki, Ostroh, (1), 1896
M. Kreynin, Moscow, (2), 1894
Fadya M. Kreynin, Kritshev, Mohilever Gubernia, (1), 1895
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M. Rabinovich, Jerusalem, (1), 5691 (1931)
Shalom Rabinovich (Sholem Aleichem), Odessa, (1), 1892
Sha'ul B. Rabinovich, Pinsk, (1), 1903
A. R. Rosenthal, Vilna, (1), 1895
Ber-Leib (Dov-Yehudah) Rasin, (2), 1892
Emanuel Ringelblum, Warsaw, (1), no date
Ben-Tsion, Vorovel, (1), 1892
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