Jewish archives

Rare documentation of a community destroyed by the Mongol horde.

Yitzhak Tesler
May 18 2023 12:01AM

The borough was once 49-percent Jewish.

Julia Gergely
Nov. 18 2022 12:01AM

Building upon the world’s largest collection of Jewish family trees.

Jerusalem Post
March 2 2022 12:01AM

Archivists have restored and preserved an extraordinary trove of documents.

Alyssa Quint
Feb. 3 2022 12:01AM

And the sleuth who discovered it.

Asaf Shalev
July 29 2021 12:01AM

Ancestry records, memorial books, and more.

Tim Fitzsimons
July 26 2021 12:01AM

Documents and wax cylinders nearly destroyed by the KGB.

Jake Marmer
July 31 2018 12:01AM

Some highlights from prewar Vilna.

Josefin Dolsten
Nov. 16 2017 12:01AM

The Günzburg collection.

Ofer Aderet
Nov. 15 2017 12:01AM

He repeatedly stole archival materials.

Lisa Leff
July 27 2015 12:01AM

Jews have a reputation for taking books seriously, so it should come as no surprise that Israel is an interesting place for librarians. Where else. . .

Anne Roiphe
Dec. 23 2014 12:01AM

A new, easily searchable digital archive of documents offers important access to the religious and secular world of prewar Polish Jewry. 

Marjorie Backman
May 21 2014 12:01AM