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Explore our digital collection, bringing together artifacts scattered across the globe and research that sheds light on Belarusian Jewish culture and history.

Empty marketplace, shut down by Soviet restrictions against private trade, Shklov, USSR (now in Belarus), 1920s. YIVO.
Photograph

[Empty market place in Shklov]

Oral history interview

Ronya Schwaab interview

Popular autobiographical novellas depicting the life of a middle-class Jewish family in Shklov of the 1890s [Dan Miron, YIVO encyclopedia] first published in weekly installments in Forverts, then as two volumes (Shklover Yidn 1929 and Feter Zhome 1930).
Literature

Shklov Jews

Audio book

Shklov Jews [audio book]

Photograph

Bimah of Slonim synagogue

Photograph

Bimah of Slonim synagogue

A rectangular sheet of paper painted in watercolor in shades of gray, black, green, and brown, depicting a village courtyard with a figure. In the lower right corner, the signature in blue pencil and the date. On the back, in pencil, the artist's name, the date, the title, and the technique are written in Russian, and the artist's name is also written in Latin characters at the bottom.
Artwork

A courtyard in Lahoysk

Photograph

Pediment of the Holy Ark of the [Slonim] synagogue

Photograph

Mural paintings inside the Slonim synagogue

Photograph

Synagogue [of Slonim]

Black and white photograph of the western facade, people standing in front of it.
Photograph

Synagogue of Wolpa

Portrait in a medallion with a lyre, roses, an inkwell and books. Biographical text in Hebrew about Z. Shneour, born in Shklov.
Postcard

Zalman Shneur

Manuscript of the autobiography of Ben Israel (pseudonym of Pejsach Kozłowski) from Ashmyany. 70 pages. Part of the YIVO project “Autobiographies of Jewish Youth in Poland”.
Memoir / autobiography

"Ben-Israel", Oszmiana, Yugfor #5, 1932

Manuscript of the autobiography by ‘Der yunger zoken’ (pseudonym of Chaim Raskin) from Ashmyany, 59 pages. Part of the YIVO project “Autobiographies of Jewish Youth in Poland”. Titled in YIVO colection: "Der yunger zoken", Oszmiana, Yugfor #8, 1932
Memoir / autobiography

My way of life

Manuscript of the autobiography of M. G. (Mojżesz Goldsztejn), from Slonim, born 1913. 57 pages. Part of the YIVO project “Autobiographies of Jewish Youth in Poland”.
Memoir / autobiography

A few words for an autobiography

Four postcards in Hebreu sent from Chervyen’ to Mandatory Palestine
Postcard

Four postcards in Hebreu sent from Chervyen’ to Mandatory Palestine