NEW! People of A Thousand Towns Photo Catalog

A new, Internet edition of YIVO's People Of A Thousand Towns, consisting of 17,000 photographs of Jewish life in Eastern Europe, is now available at http://yivo1000towns.cjh.org.

Drawn from the large photographic collections of the YIVO Archives, the photos document Jewish life in large Jewish centers as well as many smaller towns and villages from the late nineteenth century to the early 1940s.

YIVO Library Catalog Now Available Online

The YIVO Library is pleased to present the first phase of its online catalogue. This first edition includes 60,000 database records, mostly for monographic books, in all European languages, as well as in transliterated ("Romanized") Yiddish and Hebrew.

Please note that the online catalog represents only a portion of our extensive holdings and is very much a work in progress! (Please continue to consult the card catalog in the Reading Room at the Center for Jewish History for the major portion of the library's holdings.)

Computerization of the YIVO Library Catalog was made possible by the very generous support of

The Michael Baker Family Foundation

The Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany, Inc.

Mr. and Mrs. Sol Neil Corbin

Mr. and Mrs. Irwin Jacobs

The Waber Fund

Click here to access the catalog, which is on the Center for Jewish History web site.

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