Featured Vilna Collection Artifacts
An Evening in Chicago: A 1925 Photo from the Vilna Collections
A photograph from the Esther Rokhl Kaminska Theater Museum provides a glimpse of Jewish life in Chicago in the 1920s.
Scraps of Paper Illuminate Life As It Was Lived
YIVO’s VILBIG collection sheds light on education for the Jewish masses in prewar Eastern Europe.
Calculating the Rhythms of Jewish Life
Very few of the Hebrew books in the Strashun Library collection have illustrations. But this one does: beautiful charts for calculating Jewish time.
“This is What Researchers Dream About Finding”: A Fragment About "The Dybbuk"
A review of a Hebrew-language performance of “The Dybbuk” provides the occasion for a manifesto on language in the performing arts.
How Jewish Scholars Helped Save Karaites from the Nazis
A YIVO collection bears witness to the quiet heroism of Jewish scholars who helped Karaites evade murder by the Nazis.
Early Example of Modern Jewish Scholarship Digitized
The Strashun Library contains many important secular Hebrew works.
The Artifact as World Traveler
An American trade journal travels back and forth across the Atlantic.
Work in Progress at the Lithuanian Central State Archives
Samples of some of the documents our archivist is working on in Vilnius.
Jews and Tsarist Military Service
1839 document threatening those who harbored runaways from tsar’s army.