Featured Vilna Collection Artifacts

A Yiddish hiking manual from 1927 provides detailed instructions on how to take children on nature walks.

A self-taught mathematician and astronomer, Hayyim Zelig Slonimski sought to debunk popular fears associated with Halley’s Comet.

The little-known history of the pogroms of the Russian Civil War.

A modernist Yiddish poet addresses God.

A cartoon demonstrates the raucousness of Jewish communal politics before the war.

A satirical ditty by two leading lights of the Jewish avant garde in interwar Poland.

The first Hebrew novel was an attack on Hasidism by a follower of the Haskalah.

A late 19th-century work on the properties of air, air pressure, and wind, published during a time when there was an increased appetite and audience for Yiddish books on secular subjects.

An application to a course in Vilna hints at the appeal that universalism held for some young Polish Jews.

A Yiddish Translation of an American Classic