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YIVO's photographs of Jewish Life in
are frequently consulted by researchers. Among the approximately 250,000
photographs in the Archives are thousands of images from Poland, Russia, the Baltic
countries (Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia), Rumania, Czechoslovakia, and Hungary.
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A Jewish woman, Warsaw, ca. early 1890s |
Yiddish writer Isaac Leib Peretz, ca. 1890s | Siyem ha-Torah ceremony, Dubrovna, ca. World War I |
Boys returning from a soup kitchen after a pogrom, Lwow, 1918 |
Horses donated by the JDC to a Jewish colony, Kherson, Crimea, 1920s |
A vocational school for yeshiva students, Sighet, Rumania, 1930s |
Students of a Yiddish school performing a play, Swislocz, Poland, 1927 or 1928 |
Saddler's wife in her kitchen, Wolomin, Poland, 1920s-1930s
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