YIVO Archives Digital Resources
Are you a researcher? Want to explore what YIVO’s Archives and Library have to offer? Begin your research online by consulting our archival collections, many of which are digitized, or searching the YIVO Library in the online public access catalog of the Center for Jewish History.
Access thousands of digital images and more on the YIVO family of websites.
The YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe Online
encyclopedia.yivo.org
Guide to the YIVO Archives
Facilitating online access to information about more than 23 million documents, photographs, recordings, posters, and films in the Archives of the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research.
The Edward Blank YIVO Vilna Online Collections Project
vilnacollections.yivo.org
YIVO Digital Archive on Jewish Life in Poland
The Ruth Rubin Legacy: Archive of Yiddish Folksongs
The Ruth Rubin Legacy highlights the renowned vocalist and scholar's collection of over 2,000 Yiddish songs performed by some of the most extraordinary traditional singers of the 20th century, including Rubin herself.
Milstein Family Jewish Communal Archive Project
View documents and images from YIVO's collection of organizational records for the 92nd St Y, the Educational Alliance, the New York Association for New Americans (NYANA), FEGs, and Surprise Lake Camp.
milsteinjewisharchives.yivo.org
People of A Thousand Towns: Online Photographic Catalog
Search and view over 50,000 images of Jewish life in pre-WWII Eastern Europe.
yivo1000towns.cjh.org
One Thousand Children
onethousandchildren.yivo.org
Jewish Immigration to America
YIVO has extensive migration collections: rich sources of information about the experiences of some of the over 2.5 million Jews from Eastern Europe who immigrated to America from 1881-1924, Jewish refugees who sought refuge from Hitler in the 1930s-40s, and later waves of Jewish immigrants.
A Tale of Two Museums: Ester Rachel Kaminska Theater Museum Collection
Explore an audio-visual story of two Yiddish theater museums, both founded in 1926.
The Strashun Library of Vilna: Rescued from the Ashes
This website presents some of the treasures of the library and tells the dramatic story of its destruction in World War II, the rescue of some of its books, and a project to digitally reunite the collection online.
Shaul Goldman: Educator, Labor Leader, Bundist, Bialystoker
This website was created to explore the legacy of Shaul Goldman, the Bund, and the Yiddish secular schools in Bialystok.
Educational Program on Yiddish Culture (EPYC)
epyc.yivo.org
Other YIVO digital resources
Yiddishland: Countries, Cities, Towns, Rivers
Yiddishland is the first attempt to collect and publish all Yiddish place names of Central and Eastern Europe in one book. We have now made available place names found in all the countries of Eastern Europe.
Other websites with digital images from YIVO
YIVO in the Center for Jewish History Digital Gallery
View over 1,000 digitized items from YIVO's library and archival collections, including rare films of Jewish life in prewar Eastern Europe.
access.cjh.org
Rare Books and YIVO Scholarly Journals
Read and download PDFs of rare books from the YIVO Library, as well as YIVO's scholarly journals and other publications.
hebrewbooks.org
Yiddish Children's Books
Explore digitized Yiddish children's books on the web sites of the International Digital Children's Library and the Center for Jewish History.
childrenslibrary.org
Yiddish Theater Works
Read and download PDFs of Yiddish theater works, including many exclusively rare editions of Yiddish plays, operettas and comedy skits, on the YIVO Library page in the Internet Archive.
archive.org/details/yivoinstitutelibrary