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The Edward Blank YIVO Vilna Online Collections

RG1.1: YIVO - Vilna Administration Records

Series IV: Departments and Activities

Subseries 1: Building Committee

Folder 454: Documents of the Building Committee

Folder 454:

Documents of the Building Committee

Description

Certificates of donation

Preliminary budget

Clipping of speech at celebration of beginning construction

List of substantial U.S. donors

Speech in Polish on the importance of the new building

Circular asking for donations, January 1933

Letter to members of the Central Board about building dedication, July 1930

Proposal from Max Weinreich regarding building dedication

Appeal to public from Amopteyl for donations for building fund

Letter from Max Weinreich to Amopteyl, 4/24/1928

Minutes of meeting between Building Committee and Central Board, 5/8/1929

List of the founders of the YIVO building

Address to the Jewish public, 6/30/1931 and October 1931

Digitized File Available:

Folder 40.91MB view digital file

Archival Reference Information

Archival identifier

RG1.1 F454

Date

1928-1942

Source of original

YIVO Archives

Collection

Archon

Part of Record Group

YIVO - Vilna Administration Records

Part of Series

Series IV: Departments and Activities

Part of Subseries

Subseries 1: Building Committee

Detailed Subjects

Europe, Eastern

Yiddish language

Yiddish philology

Organizations

Yidisher visnshaftlekher institut

YIVO Archives

Yivo Institute for Jewish Research

Document Types

Newspaper clippings

Administrative reports

Correspondence

Membership lists

Minutes (Administrative Records)

Pamphlets

Enabled

Yes

Places

New York (N.Y.)

Vilnius (Lithuania)

Warsaw (Poland)

People

Kalmanovitch, Zelig, 1885-1944

Prilutsḳi, Noaḥ

Rejzen, Zalman, 1887-1941

Weinreich, Max, 1894-1969

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The Edward Blank YIVO Vilna Online Collections project is an international project to preserve, digitize, and virtually reunite YIVO’s prewar library and archival collections located in New York City and Vilnius, Lithuania, through a dedicated web portal. The project will also digitally reconstruct the historic, private Strashun Library of Vilna, one of the great prewar libraries of Europe.

This project is a partnership between the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, the Lithuanian Central State Archives, the Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania, and the Wroblewski Library of the Lithuanian Academy of Sciences, and includes the cataloging, conservation, and digitization of documents and books in both New York and Vilnius.

In May 2017, some 170,000 pages of previously unknown documents, lost to history for almost 70 years, were discovered in Vilnius, significantly expanding the scope of our project.

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