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The synagogue from BL Or 2884, f. 17v

The synagogue from BL Or 2884, f. 17v

Full-page miniature: service in the synagogue, a bearded man, probably the ~hazan~ (cantor) standing on the ~bimah~ (a platform in the synagogue from which the Torah is read), surrounded by the congregation. Im... More

Seder table from BL Add 14762, f. 6

Seder table from BL Add 14762, f. 6

Detail of a page: miniature of a spread Seder table surrounded by the participants. Image taken from f. 6 of Haggadah for Passover (the 'Ashkenazi Haggadah'), German rite with the commentary of Eleazar of Worms... More

Synagogue and Ecclesia from BL Royal 3 D VI, f. 93

Synagogue and Ecclesia from BL Royal 3 D VI, f. 93

Historiated initial 'Q'(uinta) of Synagogue and Ecclesia, at the beginning of Deuteronomy, with an instruction to an illuminator in the margin. Image taken from f. 93 of Historia scholastica (The 'Ashridge Petr... More

Synagogue and Ecclesia from BL Royal 3 D VI, f. 93

Synagogue and Ecclesia from BL Royal 3 D VI, f. 93

Detail of an historiated initial 'Q'(uinta) of Synagogue and Ecclesia, at the beginning of Deuteronomy. Image taken from f. 93 of Historia scholastica (The 'Ashridge Petrus Comestor'). Written in Latin. The BL... More

King David playing the harp from BL Add 15282, f. 302

King David playing the harp from BL Add 15282, f. 302

Detail of an initial-word panel with King David playing harp in the middle flanked by a lion and a stag. Image taken from f. 302 of Pentateuch (the 'Duke of Sussex's German Pentateuch') with Targum Onkelos (ff.... More

Christ from BL Royal 20 B IV, f. 52v

Christ from BL Royal 20 B IV, f. 52v

Detail of a miniature of Christ opening the roll in the synagogue. Image taken from f. 52v of Meditationes vitae Christi (Le Livre doré des meditations de la vie de nostre seigneur Jesu Christ). Written in French.

Christ praying from BL Royal 20 B IV, f. 40v

Christ praying from BL Royal 20 B IV, f. 40v

Miniature of Christ praying in the synagogue, while two elders are reading from a roll. Image taken from f. 40v of Meditationes vitae Christi (Le Livre doré des meditations de la vie de nostre seigneur Jesu Chr... More

Initial-word panel from BL Add 14761, f. 65v

Initial-word panel from BL Add 14761, f. 65v

Historiated initial-word panel: ~Halleluyah~ (Praise the Lord) of a service in the synagogue, at the beginning of the Hallel. Image taken from f. 65v of Haggadah, liturgical poems and biblical readings for Pass... More

Christ praying from BL Royal 20 B IV, f. 40v

Christ praying from BL Royal 20 B IV, f. 40v

Detail of a miniature of Christ praying in the synagogue, while two elders are reading from a roll. Image taken from f. 40v of Meditationes vitae Christi (Le Livre doré des meditations de la vie de nostre seign... More

Destruction of the synagogues from BL Royal 16 G VI, f. 334

Destruction of the synagogues from BL Royal 16 G VI, f. 334

Detail of a miniature of the destruction of the synagogues of the Jews. Image taken from f. 334 of Chroniques de France ou de St Denis. Written in French. The BL Royal Manuscript Collection, also known as the ... More

Historiated initials from BL Eg 3277, f. 117

Historiated initials from BL Eg 3277, f. 117

Text page with a bar border and historiated initials 'L'(audate): the devil departs from Christ, historiated intial 'M'(aria): Christ arrives in Nazareth; historiated initial 'O': Christ in the synagogue at ... More

Shabbat in the synagogue from BL Harley 5686, f. 28

Shabbat in the synagogue from BL Harley 5686, f. 28

Detail of a miniature of a congregation praying in the synagogue. Image taken from f. 28 of Festival prayer book (~mahzor~) with miscellaneous works in the margins. Written in Hebrew. The "BL Harley Manuscript... More

Shabbat bride from BL Harley 5686, f. 28

Shabbat bride from BL Harley 5686, f. 28

Miniature divided into two scenes, at the order of the services for Shabbat. In the upper register, men are praying in the synagogue; in the lower register, the Shabbat bride is under the ~huppah~ (wedding cano... More

Christ from BL Harley 2943, f. 127v

Christ from BL Harley 2943, f. 127v

Miniature of Christ outside the synagogue with a crowd, including a Jew holding the tablets of the law. Image taken from f. 127v of Prayer book. Written in Dutch. The "BL Harley Manuscript" refers to a collect... More

synagogue from "The Jew at Home. Impressions of a summer and an autumn spent with him in Russia and Austria. [Reprinted with additions from “The Illustrated London News.”] ... With illustrations by the author"

synagogue from "The Jew at Home. Impressions of a summer and an autumn...

This image has been taken from scan 000067 from "The Jew at Home. Impressions of a summer and an autumn spent with him in Russia and Austria. [Reprinted with additions from “The Illustrated London News.”] ... W... More

Helga Rome's Passport, World War II photo

Helga Rome's Passport, World War II photo

"After Kristallnacht, my grandmother went to Brazil and then we sponsored her to come here. It was difficult at the beginning for me. School was difficult, language was hard. But we graduated at 16. My father h... More

Horrors of Jewish Holocaust Remembered

Horrors of Jewish Holocaust Remembered

Spc. David Scanlan, 708th Medical Company, reads information about Kristallnacht and the Jewish Holocaust, at Camp Arifjan, May 1.

Letter to ---- Berliner motion picture

Letter to ---- Berliner motion picture

Taken from mylar sleeve labeled: " Document #11 Jacob Berliner's military pass 1870/71. 6.16.1871 letter from a fellow soldier from Lubeck regarding return of victorious troops & peace and thanksgiving services... More

Ordnung des Dankgottesdienstes zur friedensfeier in der Synagogue zu Hannover am 18 Juni 1871, vormittags 9 12 Uhr

Ordnung des Dankgottesdienstes zur friedensfeier in der Synagogue zu H...

Taken from mylar sleeve labeled: " Document #11 Jacob Berliner's military pass 1870/71. 6.16.1871 letter from a fellow soldier from Lubeck regarding return of victorious troops & peace and thanksgiving services... More

Feier des Dank - und Friedensfestes in der neuen Synagoge, Kohlhofen, mittwoch, den (22. Marz) 29 Ador

Feier des Dank - und Friedensfestes in der neuen Synagoge, Kohlhofen, ...

Taken from mylar sleeve labeled: " Document #11 Jacob Berliner's military pass 1870/71. 6.16.1871 letter from a fellow soldier from Lubeck regarding return of victorious troops & peace and thanksgiving services... More

Jacob Berliner's military pass, ca. 187071

Jacob Berliner's military pass, ca. 187071

Printed on cover: "Armee-corps." Top of first page reads: "Bestimmungen fur die Mannischeaften des Beurlaubtenstandes." Extensively annotated by hand throughout. Taken from mylar sleeve labeled: " Document #11 ... More

Yankele geht in shul arain, Yiddish-American song

Yankele geht in shul arain, Yiddish-American song

"Little Yankel (Jacob) goes into the synagogue" from the opera "Keynig Akhasverus" ("King Ahasuerus".) Source: Heskes, Irene, Yiddish American Popular Songs 1895-1950. (General)

Letter to David ---? motion picture

Letter to David ---? motion picture

Originally grouped with other misc. materials incl. army pass, letter, and two synagogue programs (?) in German. Letter in German, by Jacob Berliner to unknown David.

Ordnung des Dankgottesdienstes zur friedensfeier in der Synagogue zu Hannover am 18 Juni 1871, vormittags 9 12 Uhr

Ordnung des Dankgottesdienstes zur friedensfeier in der Synagogue zu H...

Taken from mylar sleeve labeled: " Document #11 Jacob Berliner's military pass 1870/71. 6.16.1871 letter from a fellow soldier from Lubeck regarding return of victorious troops & peace and thanksgiving services... More

Letter to ---- Berliner motion picture

Letter to ---- Berliner motion picture

Taken from mylar sleeve labeled: " Document #11 Jacob Berliner's military pass 1870/71. 6.16.1871 letter from a fellow soldier from Lubeck regarding return of victorious troops & peace and thanksgiving services... More

Feier des Dank - und Friedensfestes in der neuen Synagoge, Kohlhofen, mittwoch, den (22. Marz) 29 Ador

Feier des Dank - und Friedensfestes in der neuen Synagoge, Kohlhofen, ...

Taken from mylar sleeve labeled: " Document #11 Jacob Berliner's military pass 1870/71. 6.16.1871 letter from a fellow soldier from Lubeck regarding return of victorious troops & peace and thanksgiving services... More

Jacob Berliner's military pass, ca. 187071

Jacob Berliner's military pass, ca. 187071

Printed on cover: "Armee-corps." Top of first page reads: "Bestimmungen fur die Mannischeaften des Beurlaubtenstandes." Extensively annotated by hand throughout. Taken from mylar sleeve labeled: " Document #11 ... More

Yankele geht in shul arain, Yiddish-American song

Yankele geht in shul arain, Yiddish-American song

"Little Yankel (Jacob) goes into the synagogue" from the opera "Keynig Akhasverus" ("King Ahasuerus".) Source: Heskes, Irene, Yiddish American Popular Songs 1895-1950. (General)

Letter to David ---? motion picture

Letter to David ---? motion picture

Originally grouped with other misc. materials incl. army pass, letter, and two synagogue programs (?) in German. Letter in German, by Jacob Berliner to unknown David.

Feier des Dank - und Friedensfestes in der neuen Synagoge, Kohlhofen, mittwoch, den (22. Marz) 29 Ador

Feier des Dank - und Friedensfestes in der neuen Synagoge, Kohlhofen, ...

Taken from mylar sleeve labeled: " Document #11 Jacob Berliner's military pass 1870/71. 6.16.1871 letter from a fellow soldier from Lubeck regarding return of victorious troops & peace and thanksgiving services... More

Jacob Berliner's military pass, ca. 187071

Jacob Berliner's military pass, ca. 187071

Printed on cover: "Armee-corps." Top of first page reads: "Bestimmungen fur die Mannischeaften des Beurlaubtenstandes." Extensively annotated by hand throughout. Taken from mylar sleeve labeled: " Document #11 ... More

Yankele geht in shul arain, Yiddish-American song

Yankele geht in shul arain, Yiddish-American song

"Little Yankel (Jacob) goes into the synagogue" from the opera "Keynig Akhasverus" ("King Ahasuerus".) Source: Heskes, Irene, Yiddish American Popular Songs 1895-1950. (General)

Feier des Dank - und Friedensfestes in der neuen Synagoge, Kohlhofen, mittwoch, den (22. Marz) 29 Ador

Feier des Dank - und Friedensfestes in der neuen Synagoge, Kohlhofen, ...

Taken from mylar sleeve labeled: " Document #11 Jacob Berliner's military pass 1870/71. 6.16.1871 letter from a fellow soldier from Lubeck regarding return of victorious troops & peace and thanksgiving services... More

Jacob Berliner's military pass, ca. 187071

Jacob Berliner's military pass, ca. 187071

Printed on cover: "Armee-corps." Top of first page reads: "Bestimmungen fur die Mannischeaften des Beurlaubtenstandes." Extensively annotated by hand throughout. Taken from mylar sleeve labeled: " Document #11 ... More

Yankele geht in shul arain, Yiddish-American song

Yankele geht in shul arain, Yiddish-American song

"Little Yankel (Jacob) goes into the synagogue" from the opera "Keynig Akhasverus" ("King Ahasuerus".) Source: Heskes, Irene, Yiddish American Popular Songs 1895-1950. (General)

Feier des Dank - und Friedensfestes in der neuen Synagoge, Kohlhofen, mittwoch, den (22. Marz) 29 Ador

Feier des Dank - und Friedensfestes in der neuen Synagoge, Kohlhofen, ...

Taken from mylar sleeve labeled: " Document #11 Jacob Berliner's military pass 1870/71. 6.16.1871 letter from a fellow soldier from Lubeck regarding return of victorious troops & peace and thanksgiving services... More

Jacob Berliner's military pass, ca. 187071

Jacob Berliner's military pass, ca. 187071

Printed on cover: "Armee-corps." Top of first page reads: "Bestimmungen fur die Mannischeaften des Beurlaubtenstandes." Extensively annotated by hand throughout. Taken from mylar sleeve labeled: " Document #11 ... More

Yankele geht in shul arain, Yiddish-American song

Yankele geht in shul arain, Yiddish-American song

"Little Yankel (Jacob) goes into the synagogue" from the opera "Keynig Akhasverus" ("King Ahasuerus".) Source: Heskes, Irene, Yiddish American Popular Songs 1895-1950. (General)

Feier des Dank - und Friedensfestes in der neuen Synagoge, Kohlhofen, mittwoch, den (22. Marz) 29 Ador

Feier des Dank - und Friedensfestes in der neuen Synagoge, Kohlhofen, ...

Taken from mylar sleeve labeled: " Document #11 Jacob Berliner's military pass 1870/71. 6.16.1871 letter from a fellow soldier from Lubeck regarding return of victorious troops & peace and thanksgiving services... More

Jacob Berliner's military pass, ca. 187071

Jacob Berliner's military pass, ca. 187071

Printed on cover: "Armee-corps." Top of first page reads: "Bestimmungen fur die Mannischeaften des Beurlaubtenstandes." Extensively annotated by hand throughout. Taken from mylar sleeve labeled: " Document #11 ... More

Yankele geht in shul arain, Yiddish-American song

Yankele geht in shul arain, Yiddish-American song

"Little Yankel (Jacob) goes into the synagogue" from the opera "Keynig Akhasverus" ("King Ahasuerus".) Source: Heskes, Irene, Yiddish American Popular Songs 1895-1950. (General)

Feier des Dank - und Friedensfestes in der neuen Synagoge, Kohlhofen, mittwoch, den (22. Marz) 29 Ador

Feier des Dank - und Friedensfestes in der neuen Synagoge, Kohlhofen, ...

Taken from mylar sleeve labeled: " Document #11 Jacob Berliner's military pass 1870/71. 6.16.1871 letter from a fellow soldier from Lubeck regarding return of victorious troops & peace and thanksgiving services... More

Jacob Berliner's military pass, ca. 187071

Jacob Berliner's military pass, ca. 187071

Printed on cover: "Armee-corps." Top of first page reads: "Bestimmungen fur die Mannischeaften des Beurlaubtenstandes." Extensively annotated by hand throughout. Taken from mylar sleeve labeled: " Document #11 ... More

Jacob Berliner's military pass, ca. 187071

Jacob Berliner's military pass, ca. 187071

Printed on cover: "Armee-corps." Top of first page reads: "Bestimmungen fur die Mannischeaften des Beurlaubtenstandes." Extensively annotated by hand throughout. Taken from mylar sleeve labeled: " Document #11 ... More

Jacob Berliner's military pass, ca. 187071

Jacob Berliner's military pass, ca. 187071

Printed on cover: "Armee-corps." Top of first page reads: "Bestimmungen fur die Mannischeaften des Beurlaubtenstandes." Extensively annotated by hand throughout. Taken from mylar sleeve labeled: " Document #11 ... More

Jacob Berliner's military pass, ca. 187071

Jacob Berliner's military pass, ca. 187071

Printed on cover: "Armee-corps." Top of first page reads: "Bestimmungen fur die Mannischeaften des Beurlaubtenstandes." Extensively annotated by hand throughout. Taken from mylar sleeve labeled: " Document #11 ... More

Jacob Berliner's military pass, ca. 187071

Jacob Berliner's military pass, ca. 187071

Printed on cover: "Armee-corps." Top of first page reads: "Bestimmungen fur die Mannischeaften des Beurlaubtenstandes." Extensively annotated by hand throughout. Taken from mylar sleeve labeled: " Document #11 ... More

Jacob Berliner's military pass, ca. 187071

Jacob Berliner's military pass, ca. 187071

Printed on cover: "Armee-corps." Top of first page reads: "Bestimmungen fur die Mannischeaften des Beurlaubtenstandes." Extensively annotated by hand throughout. Taken from mylar sleeve labeled: " Document #11 ... More

Jacob Berliner's military pass, ca. 187071

Jacob Berliner's military pass, ca. 187071

Printed on cover: "Armee-corps." Top of first page reads: "Bestimmungen fur die Mannischeaften des Beurlaubtenstandes." Extensively annotated by hand throughout. Taken from mylar sleeve labeled: " Document #11 ... More

Jacob Berliner's military pass, ca. 187071

Jacob Berliner's military pass, ca. 187071

Printed on cover: "Armee-corps." Top of first page reads: "Bestimmungen fur die Mannischeaften des Beurlaubtenstandes." Extensively annotated by hand throughout. Taken from mylar sleeve labeled: " Document #11 ... More

Jacob Berliner's military pass, ca. 187071

Jacob Berliner's military pass, ca. 187071

Printed on cover: "Armee-corps." Top of first page reads: "Bestimmungen fur die Mannischeaften des Beurlaubtenstandes." Extensively annotated by hand throughout. Taken from mylar sleeve labeled: " Document #11 ... More

Jacob Berliner's military pass, ca. 187071

Jacob Berliner's military pass, ca. 187071

Printed on cover: "Armee-corps." Top of first page reads: "Bestimmungen fur die Mannischeaften des Beurlaubtenstandes." Extensively annotated by hand throughout. Taken from mylar sleeve labeled: " Document #11 ... More

Jacob Berliner's military pass, ca. 187071

Jacob Berliner's military pass, ca. 187071

Printed on cover: "Armee-corps." Top of first page reads: "Bestimmungen fur die Mannischeaften des Beurlaubtenstandes." Extensively annotated by hand throughout. Taken from mylar sleeve labeled: " Document #11 ... More

Jacob Berliner's military pass, ca. 187071

Jacob Berliner's military pass, ca. 187071

Printed on cover: "Armee-corps." Top of first page reads: "Bestimmungen fur die Mannischeaften des Beurlaubtenstandes." Extensively annotated by hand throughout. Taken from mylar sleeve labeled: " Document #11 ... More

Rene Frydman recounts her late husband’s experience

Rene Frydman recounts her late husband’s experience

Rene Frydman recounts her late husband’s experience as a Holocaust survivor during a during a Voices of the Holocaust forum at the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, M... More

Pioneering Scouts Youth Organization Hashomer Hatzair in Lithuania

Pioneering Scouts Youth Organization Hashomer Hatzair in Lithuania

Founded in 1913, as a merger between Tse’ire Agudat Tsiyon and Ha-Shomer, the organization Hashomer Hatzair was a Zionist-socialist youth movement that trained young people to immigrate to kibbutz in Palestine.... More

Union of Food Workers Lozovsky Club - Public domain map

Union of Food Workers Lozovsky Club - Public domain map

The Lozovsky referred to in this stamp is most likely Solomon Lozovsky, a prominent Bolshevik and, during the times he was expelled from the Bolshevik Party (in 1914 and 1918), a Mezhraionets (a Russian Social ... More

Bookstore G Gutman Kovno Birstono Street no 10

Bookstore G Gutman Kovno Birstono Street no 10

A census of Kovno from 1923 indicated that 27 percent of the city’s population was Jewish – and the city was the scene of a thriving Jewish community that would befit such a high percentage. The city was home t... More

Bookstore G Gutman Kovno Birstono Street no 10

Bookstore G Gutman Kovno Birstono Street no 10

A census of Kovno from 1923 indicated that 27 percent of the city’s population was Jewish – and the city was the scene of a thriving Jewish community that would befit such a high percentage. The city was home t... More

Library of the Riga Infantry School - Public domain map

Library of the Riga Infantry School - Public domain map

A census of Kovno from 1923 indicated that 27 percent of the city’s population was Jewish – and the city was the scene of a thriving Jewish community that would befit such a high percentage. The city was home t... More

Bookstore G Gutman Kovno Birstono Street no 10

Bookstore G Gutman Kovno Birstono Street no 10

A census of Kovno from 1923 indicated that 27 percent of the city’s population was Jewish – and the city was the scene of a thriving Jewish community that would befit such a high percentage. The city was home t... More

Library of the Metropolitan Flavian - Public domain map

Library of the Metropolitan Flavian - Public domain map

Born Nikolai Gorodetsky into an aristocratic family in Orel, Russia in 1840, the future Metropolitan (the 3rd highest class of rank in the Russian Orthodox Church) dropped out of law school at Moscow University... More

House of Ethics Rabbi Yisrael Salanter

House of Ethics Rabbi Yisrael Salanter

House of Ethics. The Foundation, Our Master, Our Teacher, and Our Rebbe (admur) Rabbi Yisrael Salanter. Kovno..Born in Lithuania in 1810, Rabbi Yisra’el ben Ze’ev Volf Salanter (also known as Lipkin) was a pro... More

Central Yiddish School Organization_Central Secretary Vilna

Central Yiddish School Organization_Central Secretary Vilna

In 1921 the Central Yiddish School Organization (Tsentrale Yidishe Shul Organizatsye – often known by the acronym TSYSHO) was founded in Warsaw to advance and administrate a network of secular Yiddish schools. ... More

Estate of Rabbi Gaon Reb Dob Baer Ratner

Estate of Rabbi Gaon Reb Dob Baer Ratner

According to the entry in the 1901 edition of the Jewish Encyclopedia, Rabbi Dov Baer Ratner was a “Russian Talmudist; born at Wilna about 1845. He is the author of “Mebo la-Seder ‘Olam Rabbath,” on Josef ben H... More

Library of the Union of Russian Teachers in Latvia

Library of the Union of Russian Teachers in Latvia

The Union of Russian Teachers in Latvia was established in January 1919 during the Latvian War of Independence against Soviet Russia. It served mostly as a professional and scientifically-oriented organization.... More

Saltykov-Shchedrin Library

Saltykov-Shchedrin Library

This library was named after one of the most prominent satirists in the history of Russian literature, Mikhail Yevgrafovich Saltykov-Schedrin. His writing focused on social issues such as serfdom, corruption, ... More

Foreign Delegation of the Russian Socialist Revolutionary Party

Foreign Delegation of the Russian Socialist Revolutionary Party

The Socialist Revolutionary Party was a major political party in Russia in the early twentieth century. It was a revolutionary socialist party espousing a democratic and agrarian socialist platform. It was no... More

Baruch Kunstadt Dayan, Israel

Baruch Kunstadt Dayan, Israel

Rabbi Baruch Kunstadt was born in Pressburg (Bratislava, Slovakia) in 1884 and as a young man he studied in that city’s yeshiva – he was the grandson of Rabbi Lippman Kunstadt. From 1907 to 1939 he was the Av-B... More

Jewish Democratic Teachers' Association

Jewish Democratic Teachers' Association

The cultural openness that was often attributed to the Latvian capital of Riga, made the city an appealing destination for many Jews. After 1842, when the Jewish community received formal recognition by the aut... More

People's Commissariat of Defense of the USSR

People's Commissariat of Defense of the USSR

On June 20th, 1934, the older People’s Commissariat of Military and Marine Affairs became the People’s Commissariat of Defense of the U.S.S.R. In December 1937, naval affairs were handed over to the new People’... More

Jewish Bookstore Aaron Beker No 20 Herren Street

Jewish Bookstore Aaron Beker No 20 Herren Street

In the 1800s the Latvian city of Riga developed a reputation for being culturally open which proved an appealing draw for many Jews who came to settle in the city. Throughout the 1800s the city’s Jewish populat... More

Fundamental Library of the Volhynia Theological Seminary

Fundamental Library of the Volhynia Theological Seminary

The Volhynia Theological Seminary was founded in 1796. It is a Ukrainian Orthodox Church institution. It was moved several times in the 1800s, and by the mid 1800s, when it was located in the small Ukrainian ... More

Russian Social Deomcratic Workers' Party

Russian Social Deomcratic Workers' Party

This party was formed in 1898 and attempted to combine all Marxist revolutionary groups in the Russian Empire. The three main original constituents were the League of Struggle for the Emancipation of the Worki... More

Uman Public Library - Public domain geographic map

Uman Public Library - Public domain geographic map

The city of Uman remains an important location for Jews due largely to its connection to the famed Rabbi Nahman of Bratslav who lived in Uman in the months previous to his death. The Jewish population of Uman w... More

Democratic Zionists Guild Hakhsharah

Democratic Zionists Guild Hakhsharah

Many Zionist groups throughout Europe worked to actively prepare their members for eventual immigration. Therefore, numerous “Haksharah” (Zionist Training Farms) were set up to provide young Zionists with the t... More

Uman Public Library - A stamp with the name of a city on it

Uman Public Library - A stamp with the name of a city on it

The city of Uman remains an important location for Jews due largely to its connection to the famed Rabbi Nahman of Bratslav who lived in Uman in the months previous to his death. The Jewish population of Uman w... More

Society for the Guarding of the Health of the Jewish Population

Society for the Guarding of the Health of the Jewish Population

At the beginning of World War I, as many Jewish (as well as non-Jewish) refugees poured away from the Western boundaries of the Russian Empire where fighting with the German and Austro-Hungarian Empires was tak... More

Seal of the Rabbi of Riga S. Pukher

Seal of the Rabbi of Riga S. Pukher

Seal of the Rabbi of Riga S. Pukher..Solomon Pukher was born in 1829 in Vladislavov, a town then in the Russian Empire. It is currently in modern-day Lithuania and is called Kudirkos Naumiestis. He was educat... More

Communist Academy Library - Public domain map

Communist Academy Library - Public domain map

Communist Academy Library ..A research institute and institution of higher learning established in Moscow in 1918 as the Socialist Academy, it was renamed the Communist Academy in 1924. It had an implicit riva... More

Bronislav Grosser Jewish Workers Club Kharkov

Bronislav Grosser Jewish Workers Club Kharkov

Jewish Workers Club “Bronsilav Grosser” Kharkhov .This Jewish workers’ club located in Kharkov, Ukraine was named after Bronislav Grosser. Bronislav Grosser was a well-known Bundist, writer, and theoretician o... More

Library of the Destroyer Artem

Library of the Destroyer Artem

This destroyer was originally built for the Baltic Fleet of the Russian Empire in 1916 and named “Azard.” It held this name until 1922 when it was renamed “Zinoviev” after Grigoriy Zinoviev, a prominent Soviet ... More

Kiev Workers School no 85

Kiev Workers School no 85

After the Russian Revolution, and the subsequent civil war, the Communist leaders in the Soviet Ukraine embarked on a project to reconstruct the devastated regions along Marxist-Leninist lines. Part of this pro... More

Yakov Yehusha Son of Zvi Shulman - Public domain map

Yakov Yehusha Son of Zvi Shulman - Public domain map

The city of Yelisavetgrod (Kirovohrad) was the site of many notable anti-Jewish pogroms including ones that took place in 1881, 1905 and several pogroms that took place during the Civil War which followed the B... More

Communist University of the Toilers of China Library

Communist University of the Toilers of China Library

The Communist University of the Toilers of China, known as the Sun-Yat Sen University of the Toilers of China until September 17th, 1928 was a Communist International school for Chinese revolutionaries from bot... More

Justingrad Library Society - Public domain map

Justingrad Library Society - Public domain map

Justingrad was a shtetl created after Jews were expelled from the nearby village of Sokolovka in 1825 in accordance with a decree by Nicholas I of Russia which expelled non-farmer Jews to special Jewish settlem... More

Central Jewish Library of the State - Public domain map

Central Jewish Library of the State - Public domain map

On April 1, 1919 the Council of People’s Commissars of the Ukrainian SSR issued a decree that transferred control of numerous historical and cultural institutions, including libraries, to the People’s Commissar... More

Jewish Central Education Committee in Vilna

Jewish Central Education Committee in Vilna

As home to a large Jewish community the city of Vilna (Lithuania) offered a variety of educational institutions that catered to different parts of the city’s Jewish population. The Central Education Committee (... More

Latvian SSR Yiddish Theater, Israel

Latvian SSR Yiddish Theater, Israel

After the Soviet Army occupied the Republic of Latvia it renamed the territory the Latvian Soviet Socialist Republic (Latvian SSR) – it was a region that saw heavy fighting throughout the Second World War as co... More

Library of the factory committee of the factory Red Vyborger

Library of the factory committee of the factory Red Vyborger

The “Red Vyborger” is one of the largest facilities for the processing of non-ferrous metals and alloys (those that do not contain a significant amount of iron) in Russia today. It was founded in 1857 by a mec... More

Library of the factory Proletarian Victory

Library of the factory Proletarian Victory

This shoe factory was built in Saint Petersburg in 1914 and later changed its name to “Proletarian Victory.” It employed a large number of workers. In 1926, they began making women’s shoes. During the war, i... More

Baltinava Jewish Culture Society - Public domain map

Baltinava Jewish Culture Society - Public domain map

Though the village of Baltinava’s Jewish community never numbered higher than a few hundred the village was still home to Jewish mutual aid and cultural societies – as this book stamp demonstrates. In the years... More

Rostselmash Technical Library - Public domain map

Rostselmash Technical Library - Public domain map

Rostselmash is a Russian agricultural equipment company based in Rostov-on-Don and founded in 1929. It started out as a as a government contractor. In 1941 they evacuated their factory from Rostov to Tashkent ... More

The Lounge Bookseller_b

The Lounge Bookseller_b

This stamp is not from a library but from a bookstore called “The Lounge”, which was located on Rue Etats-Unis (United States), in Cannes. This particular street is renowned for luxury, high end shopping establ... More

The Lounge Bookseller_a - Public domain map

The Lounge Bookseller_a - Public domain map

This stamp is not from a library but from a bookstore called “The Lounge”, which was located on Rue Etats-Unis (United States), in Cannes. This particular street is renowned for luxury, high end shopping establ... More

Rabbi Chaim Lubotski - A stamp with the name of a person on it

Rabbi Chaim Lubotski - A stamp with the name of a person on it

Rabbi Chaim Lubotski. City of Rezhitsa, Vitebsk Governorate. ...Rabbi Chaim Lubotski was a rabbi in the city of Rezhitsa. Rezhitsa was part of the Russian Empire from 1772 to 1917.It was part of the Vitebsk Go... More

Vitebsk Governorate Statistical Committee

Vitebsk Governorate Statistical Committee

Vitebsk Governorate Statistical Committee. 28 December 98. ...The Vitebsk Governorate Statistical Committee was the organ of government statistics in the Vitebsk Governorate for most of the 19th and the beginn... More

Press of the Minsk Agricultural Society

Press of the Minsk Agricultural Society

Press of the Minsk Agricultural Society. ...The Minsk Agricultural Society was formed in 1876. It was formed to discuss the economical problems of the region. It held agricultural exhibitions, organized purc... More

Library of the Kovno Kollel - Public domain map

Library of the Kovno Kollel - Public domain map

Library of the Kovno Kollel...In 1877, Rabbi Yisroel ben Ze’ev Wolf Lipkin – also known as Yisroel Salanter – founded a Kolel (a yeshiva for young, but married, men) in the city of Kaunes (Kovno), Lithuania. T... More

Library of Free People - A stamp with a picture of a man holding a tennis racquet

Library of Free People - A stamp with a picture of a man holding a ten...

Library of Free People, 4th District (arrondissement), Paris...This library was located in Paris, in the 4th arrondissement; an arrondissement is an administrative district, of which Paris is divided into 20. T... More

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