Guide to Using the Library & Archives
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The YIVO Archives holds manuscripts, private papers, organizational files, photographs, films, posters, artworks, artifacts, and sound recordings; while the YIVO Library holds books, periodicals, and newspapers.
Most materials in YIVO’s collections have not yet been digitized. However, there are a growing number of YIVO collections online on YIVO’s family of websites and on other research portals.
The majority of books and periodicals in the YIVO Library have been cataloged and descriptions for most of YIVO’s 1,900 record groups can be found online, so we urge you to begin your research online.
Beginning February 20, 2023, the following collections will be closed for the first phase of YIVO’s Jewish Labor and Political Archives Project in order to prepare them for digitization. Please check back periodically for announcements about which collections have been reopened for use by researchers.
Should you need materials from these collections during their closure, please contact reference@yivo.org. Using our remote reference and reference photograph services, we will make every attempt possible to provide researchers with copies of requested materials in a timely manner.
Thank you for your patience as we work to conserve, process, and digitize these collections in order to enhance discoverability and access for all users.
- 1400 Bund Collections
- 1401 Bund Foreign Committee
- 1402 Photographs
- 1403 Tsemakh Kopelson
- 1404 American Representation of the Jewish Labor Bund in Poland
- 1405 Mark Leiber
- 1406 Zundeleivich
- 1407 Jack Goldman
- 1408 Bund in Poland
- 1409 Latvian SDRP
- 1410 Party of Socialist Revolutionaries in Russia
- 1411 Russica
- 1412 Russian Emigres
- 1413 Menshevicks
- 1414 Latvia SDRP
- 1415 Transcaucasia
- 1416 Russian Centrist
- 1417 American Socialism
- 1418 Jacob Ross
- 1419 Kleit
- 1451 B. Demblin
- 1452 Bono Wiener Papers
- 1453 YY Trunk
- 1454 Papers of Shmuel Mordkhe (Artur) Zygielbojm
- 1455 Bernard Goldstein
- 1456 Raphael Abramovitch
- 1457 Zukunft Monthly
- 1458 Lucjan Blit
- 1459 Erlich-Alter Case
- 1460 Congress for Jewish Culture
- 1461 Liebmann Hersch
- 1462 Dina Blond
- 1463 Jacob Sholem Hertz
- 1464 Jerzy Gliksman
- 1465 Tsivyon
- 1466 Grigori Aronson
- 1467 Israel Zajd
- 1468 Camp Hemshekh
- 1469 Rose Pesotta
- 1470 David Shub
- 1471 TSYSHO Records
- 1472 Emanuel Nowogrodzki
- 1473 William Zuckerman
- 1474 Medem Sanatorium
- 1475 Lazar Epstein
- 1476 Roman Blit
- 1477 Spanish Civil War
- 1478 Emanuel Scherer
- 1479 Simon Palevsky
- 1480 Julius Kuehl
- 1481 Nusach Vilne Records
- 1482 Documents pertaining to the Lodz Ghetto
- 1483 Menukha and Gershon Zalcman
- 1484 Arthur Nunberg
- 1485 Voltairine de Cleyre and Joseph Jacob Cohen
- 1486 Boruch Shefner
- 1487 Leon Oler
- 1488 Henryk Bursztyn
- 1489 Jacob Celemenski
- 1490 Finesilver
- 1491 Charles Zimmerman
- 1492 Labor Zionism
- 1493 Slutsky
- 1494 Abraham Unger
- 1495 Comintern
- 1496 Merritt
- 1497 Pergamin
- 1498 Joseph Zeigelbojm
- 1499 Lenin/Stalin Subject Collection
How to Begin Your Research Online at YIVO
Most of the holdings of the YIVO Library are cataloged in the Online Public Access Catalog (OPAC) of the Center for Jewish History. Descriptions of most of the over 1,900 record groups of the YIVO Archives are available in the Guide to the YIVO Archives. There are also more detailed finding aids (guides to the collections) for a growing number of the collections.
Onsite Research Appointments
If you would like to consult YIVO archives materials in person in the Lillian Goldman Reading Room at the Center for Jewish History, walk-ins are permitted, based on availability, though appointments are recommended. Please see our hours of operation.