Featured Vilna Collection Artifacts

In the vision of the participants of Yiddish theater of interwar period, translation created cultural bridges through which creativity traveled in both directions.

One of the oldest documents in the Edward Blank YIVO Vilna Collections

A woman in a shtetl in Grodno sings an anti-tsarist song for a researcher.

This early 19th-century Yiddish book gives first aid instructions for how to treat victims of life-threatening accidents.

An anthology of avant garde poems by Melech Ravitch from the shelves of a library in Vilna.

A cultural event in Poland during World War I marks the beginning of a new era for Yiddish theater.

A Yiddish book suggests a cure-all for anything that ails you.

A 1937 list recommends books that every good Yiddish library should have on its shelves.

A chronicle of Jewish persecutions in Spain translated into Yiddish.

Rediscovery of the actor’s Yiddish memoir in the Vilna Collections.