Edward Blank YIVO Vilna Collections Project

FAIN: PW-264162-19

YIVO Institute for Jewish Research (New York, NY 10011-6301)
Jill Strykowski (Project Director: July 2018 to May 2020)
Stefanie Halpern (Project Director: May 2020 to present)

The digitization of 170,000 pages (113 linear feet) of recently discovered archival materials covering Jewish life in Eastern Europe dating from the seventeenth century to the immediate post-Holocaust period.

The Edward Blank YIVO Vilna Collections Project is a 7-year international preservation and access project launched in 2015 to preserve, digitally reunite, and provide free, online access to YIVO’s original archival and library collections, currently housed at the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research in New York City and in Vilnius, Lithuania at three institutions: the Martynas Mažvydas National Library, the Lithuanian Central State Archives, and the Wroblewski Library of the Lithuanian Academy of Arts and Sciences. The project is also preserving and digitally uniting the scattered remnants of the Strashun Library, one of the great Jewish libraries of prewar Europe.

Associated Products

Records of the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research in the Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania (Database/Archive/Digital Edition)
Title: Records of the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research in the Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania
Author: Beata Kasiarz
Author: Jessica Podhorcer
Author: Yakov Sklar
Author: Violet Lutz
Abstract: This fully searchable ArchivesSpace resource provides all descriptive metadata for the collection of pre-war YIVO materials in the custody of the National Library of Lithuanian that form a part of the Edward Blank YIVO Vilna Online Collections Project. This resource also provide links to the digital images of all collection materials which can be viewed, downloaded, and printed free-of-charge.
Year: 2022
Primary URL: http://archives.cjh.org/repositories/7/resources/20150
Primary URL Description: This is a direct link to the ArchivesSpace resource (finding aid) created for the collection materials. This includes all descriptive metadata as well as links to all digital objects.
Secondary URL: http://vilnacollections.yivo.org
Secondary URL Description: This is the customized Primo discovery layer that pulls results only from materials digitized for the Edward Blank YIVO Vilna Online Collections Project. Catalog records include links to ArchivesSpace resources.
Access Model: open access

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