YIVO Catalogs 500 Collections

The YIVO Archives has just completed a project to catalog 500 collections that were donated over the past several years. Descriptions of these collections are now available through our online catalog, making them fully discoverable and available for use by researchers in the Reading Room.

Some notable materials include:

• the papers of prominent Yiddish writer and granddaughter of Sholem Aleichem, Bel Kaufman, consisting of manuscripts, photographs, and sound recordings;
• the Harry Kamel Collection which contains nearly 2,500 slides containing images of 500 synagogues from the United States and Eastern Europe;
• the Jody Rosen collection containing antisemitic drawings, cartoons, postcards, and sheet music from the late 1800s to the 1920s; and
• the Lazare Saminsky Collection which includes manuscript and published music scores, programs, photographs, and correspondence from the well-known composer of Jewish music.