Project Collections Available Online

Approximately 1 million of the expected 1.5 million pages of archival documents have been digitized as part of the project. At present, 915,000 pages from 51 collections are available to view online.

These collections contain YIVO administrative records from when YIVO was located in Vilna, Yiddish theater and literature, Jewish community council records, and the personal papers of historical figures like Simon Dubnow and Shalom Schwarzbard. 

Available collections include:

• RG 1.1: YIVO - Vilna Administration Records
• RG 1.3: Records of the YIVO - Vilna Aspirantur
• RG 2: Lithuanian Jewish Communities Collection
• RG 3: Collection of Yiddish Literature and Language
• RG 4: Autobiographies of Jewish Youth in Poland
• RG 6 Papers of Siegfried Bernfeld
• RG 8.1: Esther-Rachel Kaminska Theater Museum Archive, Part I
• RG 9 Photographs (Vilna Archives)
• RG 11: Records of the VILBIG (Vilner Yidishe Bildungs Gezelshaft/Vilna Jewish Education Society)
• RG 12: Records of the Minsk Jewish Community Council
• RG 13: Records of the Ostrowo Jewish Community Council
• RG 14: Records of the Krotoszyn Jewish Community Council
• RG 15: Records of the Briesen Jewish Community Council
• RG 17: Isaac Leib Goldberg Papers
• RG 18 Records of the Farband fun di Yidishe Studentn Fareynen in Daytshland (Verband Jüdischer Studentenvereine in Deutschland; Union of Jewish Student Associations in Germany)
• RG 19 Papers of Zemach Shabad
• RG 21: Records of the ORT Vocational School (Technicum) in Vilna
• RG 22: Records of Hevrah Mefitsei Haskalah Society (Vilna)
• RG 23: Records of the Tarbut Hebrew Teachers Seminary
• RG 24: Records of the Rabbinical School and Teachers’ Institute, Vilna
• RG 25: Records of the Vaad Hayeshivot (Vilna, Poland)
• RG 27: Eliyahu Guttmacher Papers
• RG 30: The May Cohn Russia and Soviet Union Collection (Vilna Archives)
• RG 31: Germany (Vilna Archives) Collection
• RG 33: Territorial Collection (Vilna Archives)
• RG 36 Abraham Moshe Bernstein Collection
• RG 37 Jewish Music Societies Collection
• RG 40: Karaites Collection
• RG 44: Genealogy and Family History (Vilna Archives)
• RG 46 Records of the Lithuanian Consistory of the Russian Orthodox Church
• RG 47 Records of the ORT Society, Vilna
• RG 48: Records of the TSYSHO and TSBK School System
• RG 50: Records of the Yidisher lerer fareyn (Yiddish Teachers' Union), Vilna
• RG 52: Records of the Jewish State Schools in the Vilna School District
• RG 53: Records of the OZE-TOZ (Obshchestvo Zdravookhraneniia Evreev/ Society for the Protection of the Health of the Jews)
• RG 54: Records of the Association of Jewish Deaf-Mutes in Poland
• RG 55: Records of the Union of Yiddish Writers and Journalists in Vilna
• RG 56: Vilna Chief of Police Records
• RG 58: Papers of Khaykl Lunski
• RG 59: Papers of Lev Aizenberg
• RG 80: Mizrakh Yidisher (Tcherikower Archive)
• RG 83: Papers of Marc Ratner (Tcherikower Archive)
• RG 84: Papers of Maxim Vinawer (Tcherikower Archive)
• RG 85: Shalom Schwarzbard Papers
• RG 86: Papers of Abraham Charasch  (Tcherikower Archive)
• RG 87: Papers of Simon Dubnow (Tcherikower Archive)
• RG 88: Papers of Grigori Gurevitch (Tcherikower Archive)
• RG 89: Baron Horace (Naftali Herz) de Gunzburg Papers (Tcherikower Archive)
• RG 223.2: Abraham Sutzkever-Szmerke Kaczerginski Historical Collection
• RG 8000: Records of the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research in the Lithuanian Central State Archives
• RG 8001: YIVO materials at the Wroblewski Library in Lithuania