Video testimonies of Jewish soldiers who fought on the Eastern Front in World War II, and ephemera items from their personal archives. Interviews include transcripts and translations.
Yiddish and Russian USSR propaganda posters, theater and concert posters, and movie posters from the USSR and Mandate Palestine, as well as anti-Semitic posters in Serbian.
Personal archive of Jewish actors Iustina Minkova and Solomon Zil'berblat: 147 photographs and 434 documents.
Image-forward propaganda leaflets targeted at German soldiers during World War II.
84 issues of weekly anti-Dreyfusard journal published from February 1898 until September 1899, collected by art historian Alexander Kantsedikas.
Postcards in German, French, Russian, Hungarian, Czech, and English featuring anti-Semitic imagery and messages, late 19th through early 20th century.
Postcards illustrating Jewish life and culture in the late 19th and mid-20th century, published in Western and Eastern Europe, Palestine and Israel, North Africa, and the United States.
Pamphlets, journals, books, postcards, letters, and other documents related to Jewish soldiers in armies around the world from 1814 through the mid-20th century.
Illustrated, photo, and text postcards, primarily Soviet, but also Finnish, German, Italian, Czech, and French, as well as Soviet writing paper, military leaflets, and commendations.
Illustrated and photo postcards published between 1941 and 1944 in besieged Leningrad. Used postcards include transcripts and translations of the messages.
Photo and illustrated postcards in German, French, Russian, and English, dealing with topics ranging from from military actions and leaders to wartime relationships and hardships.
Boris Efimov's caricatures and other drawings responding to global events during World War II and the Cold War.
Letters exchanged between a Soviet Jewish officer and his wife during World War II, and photos and documents reflecting the family's history from the early 20th to early 21st century.
Photographs, letters, books, and personal objects of one of the best-known Yiddish writers of Eastern Europe, and documents related to his arrest and rehabilitation.
Evgenii Kogan's original sketches and hand-drawn and printed illustrations, as well as newspaper clippings and documents related to his work.
Boris Kudoyarov's photographs, taken mostly during World War II on the Leningrad Front and in besieged Leningrad.
Russian Jewish periodicals, including four Russian-language and one Yiddish-language, published between 1899 and 1948.
Over 1,000 paper-based items related to modern Jewish history collected by art historian Alexander Kantsedikas.
Spanning from 1899 through the end of World War II, the collection highlights how mass media was manipulated to influence virtually every aspect of Soviet society.
Manuscripts, proofs, and draft notes of Soviet Russian writer Mikhail Zoshchenko's short story compilations “Stories about Lenin,” “Stories for Children,” and “Smart Animals" (1939-1945).
The Solomon Mikhoels Collection is a unique, rich resource on the life and work of Solomon Mikhailovich Mikhoels (1890-1948), the brightest star and director of Soviet Yiddish theater.
Personal letter and photo archive of Rosa Kurtz (1908-2003), actress of the Moscow State Yiddish Theater (GOSET) and later various Yiddish theaters in the United States.
Personal photo archive of Nekhama Sirotina-Lakhman (1919-1986), actress of the Moscow State Yiddish Theater (GOSET) and later the New York Jewish Theater Folksbiene.
