Metadata: Baron D. G. Gintsburg
Collection
- Country:
- Russia
- Holding institution:
- The National Library of Russia
- Holding institution (official language):
- Российская национальная библиотека. Отдел рукописей
- Postal address:
- 91069, Russia, St. Petersburg, ul. Sadovaia, д. 18, main building
- Phone number:
- (812) 310-28-56
- Web address:
- http://www.nlr.ru
- Email:
- office@nlr.ru
- Reference number:
- F. 183
- Title:
- Baron D. G. Gintsburg
- Title (official language):
- ГИНЦБУРГ, бар. Д. Г.
- Creator/accumulator:
- Baron D. G. Gintsburg
- Date(s):
- 1776/1917
- Language:
- Russian
- Hebrew
- Yiddish
- Polish
- French
- German
- Italian
- Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE); Imperial Aramaic (700-300 BCE)
- Extent:
- 2,339 storage units
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Photographic images
- Scope and content:
-
[See also the description of Russian State Historical Archive (RGIA) f. 1009, Baron D. G. Gintsburg.] The fonds contains a significant set of materials on Jewish history and culture distributed throughout the six main sections of the inventory. The inventory’s first section, “Materials pertaining to D. G. Gintsburg’s biography,” includes the following subsections: the first subsection “Personal documents,” which includes records of memorable dates of the family of the barons Gintsburg, poems, etc. (1876-77); D. G. Gintsburg’s notebooks (1878-79); invitations (addressed to D. G. Gintsburg) to meetings, concerts, and banquets, including to the thirteenth International Congress of Orientalists in Hamburg, 1902 (1896-1910); “ex libris" bookplates of D. G. Gintsburg; etc. The second subsection, “Documents on public activities,” contains materials of various Jewish public organisations, including the Society for the Promotion of Culture among the Jews of Russua (OPE) (1867-1909), the Society for Handicraft and Agricultural Work among the Jews (ORT) (1903-09), the Jewish Colonization Society (EKO) (1897-1909), the Society for the Care of Indigent Persons of the Karaite Religious Confession in St. Petersburg (1897, 1907), the Society for Affordable Sanitary Apartments for the Jewish Population (1906-09), and the Special Congress of the Rabbinical Commission (1910); an appeal to the Jewish intelligentsia by the central committee of the Bund (1899); materials of the Congress of Zionists in Basel (1896-97); D. G. Gintsburg’s opinion regarding the possibility of opening “courses in Semitic languages at his [St. Petersburg] residence for persons of the non-Christian confessions” (1894); a report on violations of the charter of the Odessa Yeshiva (1898); a proposal regarding the right of Jews to “come and settle in Siberia” (1899); a draft resolution regarding certain amendments in legislation on Jews (1903); reports read at a general assembly of the Council of Religious Boards of Synagogues and Houses of Worship of the city of Odessa (1910); etc. The third subsection, “Property and business documents,” includes statements, promissory notes, notifications, commercial agreements, and other financial documents of D. G. Gintsburg; and lists and memos regarding the acquisition of books for D. G. Gintsburg’s library (1897-1910).
The second section, “Works of D. G. Gintsburg,” consists of the following subsections: 1) “Studies, articles, etc.” has manuscripts and offprints of research works by D. G. Gintsburg: “Historical Grammar” (after 1872); “The Kabbalah – the Mystical Philosophy of the Jews” (1894), “On Spinoza’s Conscious and Unconscious Connection with Jewish Thinkers” (1890s); “Notes on the Hebrew Language” (undated); “On Jewish Art” (undated); “Eighteenth-Century Evidence of Jews Using Russian Amongst Themselves” (undated); on medieval Jewish philosophers (a fragment of an article with quotes in Hebrew; 1890s-1900s); “Quelques remarques sur le texte des lamenations de Jeremie et des Elegies” [“Certain Remarks on the Texts of the Lamentations of Jeremiah and Elegies”] (1903); “L’Ornement Hebreu” [“Hebrew Ornamentation”] (1904); etc.; poems dedicated to the collection creator’s wife M. Iu. Gintsburg (1879-1910); an obituary of the sculptor M. M. Antokol’skii (1902); etc. 2) The second subsection, “Speeches and talks,” includes an address dedicated to M. M. Antokol’skii marking his thirty-five years as an artist (1896); a speech for a session devoted to the hundredth anniversary of the birth of Samuel David Luzzatto (1900); etc. 3) The third subsection includes reviews by D. G. Gintsburg, and in particular, of S. A. Katsenellenbogen's book The Law of the Jewish Faith for Jewish Youth (1898), D. L. Rishman’s The Religious Practice of Jews (1906). etc. 4) The fourth subsection, “Materials pertaining to works,” includes copies of documents, outlines of books, reference materials, excerpts, and notes by D. G. Gintsburg, including materials pertaining to his involvement in the publication of The Jewish Encyclopedia (1901-06); “Information on persecutions of Jews” (1905); “Notes on Hebrew manuscripts” (1890s); copies of documents on the history of Poland in the 18th c.; etc.
The third section, “Correspondence,” includes letters and various materials distributed among the following subsections: 1) “Letters of D. G. Gintsburg” – this subsection contains his correspondence with such organisations as the Petersburg Committee to Aid Pogrom Victims, and in particular, on financial support for the main hospital in Jerusalem (1906); the Petersburg Burial Society (1902); the Taganrog Jewish Religious Board (1902); the editorial office of the Warsaw newspaper Der Fraynd (undated); and a letter on the activities of the Russo-Jewish Committee (on the resettlement of Jews to America; undated); etc. 2) The second subsection, “Letters to D. G. Gintsburg,” houses a considerable set of correspondence with Jewish religious and public figures, philanthropists, Jewish writers, artists, and cultural figures, and in particular, Rabbi P. Averbukh (1905); Rabbi M.-L. G. Aizenshtadt (1895-1906); I. L. Al’tshuller (1906); M. M. Antokol’skii (1903-05); M. Sh. Antokol’skii (1902-03); M. Z. Arenson (1895); I. L. Asknazii (1899); L. S. Auer (1886-1903); I. Iu. Akhron (1905-08); M. B. Balaban (1910); Rabbi Z. Bendovich (1905-06); Ben-Avigdor (real name: A. L. Shalkovich; 1903-04); V. L. Berman (1892); L. Ia. Berman (undated); Rabbi U. B. Berzhin (1902); A. M. Bramson (1902); A. I. Braudo (1896-1909); L. I. Brodskii (1906); M. M. Vavel’berg (1905); P. I. Veinberg (undated); S. A. Vengerov (1902-07); V. Vysotskii (1907); Rabbi G. Halbershtadt (1902); A. Ia. Harkavy (1879-1908); Ia. H. Harkavy (1906); Rabbi I. Geller (1904-10); D. M. Gertsenshtein (1902-09); F.-M. B. Gets (1903-06); S. M. Ginzburg (1900-08), Baron G. O. Gintsburg (1877-1905), and E. G. Gintsburg (1874), as well as other members of the Barons Gintsburg family; Rabbi H. Gol’dshtein (1890s-90s); Rabbi M. M. Gol’dshtein (1904); I.-L. Gordon (1877-85); Rabbi A. M.-M. Goterman; a group of Jewish colonists from Argentina (1900s); M.-Z. Gurvich (1906-09); Rabbi A. N. Drabkin (1902-06); Simon Dubnow (1889-1906); I. A. Efron (1898-1908); residents of the town of Zhvanets (Podolia province) and the city of Kremenchug (1906); M. M. Zalmanovich (1902); F. Ziv (1908); Rabbi M. S. Kagan (1910); A. Kagan (1903); I.-D. Kamenetskii (1904); S. L. Kamenetskii (1908); A. Kaminka (1894-1908); Rabbi I.-L. Kantor (1895-1902); E. Ts. Kaplan (1904); Rabbi A. B. Kats (1895-1906); S. A. Katsenellenbogen (1898); A. G. Kovner (1896); Rabbi S. G. Kogan (1904); I. Kofman (1910); I. I. Kulisher (1906); A. E. Landau (1894-95); A. I. Levenshtein (1910); L. (I.) Levin (1908); Rabbi I. Libshits (1905); M.-L. Lilienblium (1904); Rabbi A. I. Lurie (1906); A. I. Magid (1910); D. G. Maggid (1895-1909); Rabbi Ia. I. Maze (1902-09); I. Ia Margolin (1897); M. M. Margolin (1902); I.-D. Markon (1909); S. Ia. Marshak (1903-06); I.-E. Melamed (1903-06); S. M. Abramovich (Mendele Moykher-Sforim) (1902); M. G. Morgulis (1904-08); O. K. Notovich (1906-08); Rabbi O. B. Obchinskii (1903); A.-Ia Paperny (1906); L. O. Pasternak (1902-09); N. A. Pereferkovich (1906-08); G. N. Prilutskii (1906-10); S. Rudnitskii (1908); I. I. Sirkis (1909); Cantor G. Sirota (1905); G. B. Sliozberg (1901-06); Kh-Z. Slonimskii (1888); M. Slutskii (1900); P. M. Smolenskii (Smolenskin) (1885); G. Ia. Syrkin (1906); V. V. Stasov (1893-1906); V. S. Solov’ev (undated); S. M. Solov’ev (1903); I. (Iu.) Solodukha (1908); N. Sokolov (1896-1906); Ia. L. Teitel’ (1906-09); I. I. Tolstoy (1906); M.-Kh. Trivaks (1897-98); teachers of Jewish schools of the city of Vitebsk (1910); A.-L. Fainshtein (1887); D. F. Feinberg (1889-1910); Shimen Frug (1886-1901); I. Khazanov (1910); D. A. Khvol’son (1883-1908); O. D. Khvol’son (1893); Rabbi L. (I.-L.) M. Tsirel’son (1902-10); D. A. Chernomordikov (1897); [B. I.] Shats (1908); M. I. Sheftel’ (1905-06); the Tzadik Sh.-N. Schneerson (1910); A. M. Shtein (1901); L. Ia. Shternberg (1906); Ia. B. Eiger (1906-09); Rabbi M.-G. Eidel’shtein (1898); I. G. Eizenbet (1906); and others; also included are letters from correspondents abroad: А. Blum (1893); R. A. Brandes (1902); H. Brody (1908); S. Buber (1902-04); J. H. Cohen (1904); S. Eppenstein (1900); Baron L. de Rothschild (1906); A. Warburg (1906); and others.
Also housed in this subsection are letters and telegrams from Russian and foreign Jewish organisations and institutions, including the publishing house Akhiasaf (1896-1903); The Widow and Brothers Romm (1904); Calvary S. und Co. (Berlin; 1899-1902); Jewish Comment Publishing (Baltimore, 1906); etc.; from the editorial offices of such periodicals as Voskhod [The East] (1901-06); Die Welt (1897); etc.; from the boards of synagogues in St. Petersburg (1899), the town of Dombrovits (1904), the city of Biarritz (1896); from the Jewish communities of St. Petersburg (1890) and the town of Zvenigorodka (1910); from branches of the Society for the Promotion of Culture among the Jews of Russia (OPE) (1896, 1907); from the Committee of Yemeni Jewish Communities (1908); the Committee to Organize the Jubilee Celebration of the Writer N. Sokolov (1904); the Committee to Establish a Free Jewish Hospital in the city of Romny (1900s); from the Society of Lovers of the Hebrew Language (1910); the Society to Aid Poor Jews in the city of Priluki (1903); the Hebrew Literary Society (Leeds) (1904); from the boards of the Or-Olam [Eternal Light] yeshiva in the city of Gaisin (1906); a yeshiva in the city of Lida (1908); a Talmud-Torah in the city of Uman’ (1896-1898), in Jerusalem (1906), and the Or-Thora-Schule in Istanbul (1907); from the Jewish Orphans’ Court in St. Petersburg (1909-10); etc.
The inventory’s fourth section, “Materials of relatives of G. O. Gintsburg,” contains materials of D. G. Gintsburg’s father Baron G. O. Gintsburg, including documents pertaining to the celebration of his seventieth birthday: invitations, a program of the evening’s events, congratulatory verse, and newspaper clippings (1903); a request submitted to the minister of education asking that the question of “who should be penalised for secret instruction in the western provinces” be clarified (1892); property and business documents of G. O. Gintsburg, including an inventory of his property (1908); documents pertaining to the acquisition of a land plot and the construction of a home on St. Petersburg’s Admiralty embankment (1881-84); reports on the operations of the Rossiia insurance company (1896-97) and the Society to Increase Funding for the St. Petersburg Medical Institute (undated); a copy of a work by Baron G. O. Gintsburg titled “On Zionism” (1901); and his correspondence with M. M. Antokol’skii (1892-96), S. L. Poliakov (1882), L. Rozental’ (1882), and others; and with the Jewish religious board of the town of Orekhov (Kherson province) (1901); the Ashkenazic “Perushim” Community in Jerusalem (1862); farmers of the Jewish colony Bobrovyi Kut (1903) and the Jewish religious associations Sabbath and Holiday (Odessa) (1903) and Poalei Tsedek [Righetous Workmen] (the town of Krynki, Grodno province) (1903); etc. The fourth section also houses personal documents and correspondence of other members of the Barons Gintsburg family.
The fifth section, “Graphic Materials,” includes photographs of D. G. Gintsburg and members of his family (1890s-1910s); of Rabbi I.-G. Levin (1863); S. Ia. Marshak (1890s); photographs of the gravestones of M. D. Gintsburg (1890s), L. O. Gintsburg (1890s), and M. M. Antokol’skii (1902); a photograph captioned “Jews praying at the Wailing Wall in Jerusalem” (1908); etc.
The sixth section, “The D. G. Gintsburg collection,” consists of three subsections: 1) The first subsection contains mainly copies of documents from the late 18th-early 20th c., including on the history of Poland (1776-1818); pogroms against Jews (1882-1908); the arrangement of education among Jews (1891-1908); women’s professional education (1903-06); circular letters to governors permitting the activities of associations that had arisen prior to 4 March 1906; etc. 2) The second subsection, “On the activities of particular institutions and societies,” contains reports, draft and expense budgets, draft charters, appeals, petitions, invitations to sessions and concerts, and posters and announcements of shows and evening events of such Jewish organisations and institutions as the Vil’na Jewish school (1908); the Kamenets-Podol’skii Jewish hospital and almshouse (1905-06); the Committee to Aid Jewish Pogrom Victims in Russia (1905-06); the Committee to Assist the Jewish National Library in Jerusalem (1902); the Talmud-Torah in the town of Murovannye Kurilovtsy (Podolia province) (1908); the Society of Defenders of the Judaic Religion in Russia and Poland (1906); the Society for the Promotion of Culture among the Jews of Russia (OPE) (1907); the Society for Handicraft and Agricultural Work among the Jews (ORT) (undated); the board of the Vil’na Jewish community (1902); etc. 3) The third subsection, “Materials of various persons,” contains biographical materials (personal documents, letters, recommendations, and diplomas; certificates; applications to the ORT, the Jewish National Fund, the Committee to Aid Jewish Pogrom Victims in Russia, etc.) of such persons as D. A. Khvol’son (undated), M. G. Aizenshtadt (1893-99), M. M. Antokol’skii (1902), Ia. Sh. Gurevich (1901), Ia. B. Rapoport (1884-1905), M. Kh. Rozenblium (1910), and others, and also a memorandum by an undetermined person titled “On the spread of the Jewish religion in Japan by Jewish missionaries” (undated); there are works in verse, in particular, Mordekhai Tsevi Mane’s long narrative poem “The Tabernacles of the Feast” in Hebrew (1881); the text of a recitative in memory of M. M. Antokol’skii, written by S. Ia. Marshak to music by A. K. Glazunov and A. K. Liadov (1901); a poem by Ia. M. Masarskii written in the style of a Hebrew liturgical chant titled “The Prayer of the Daughter of My People (1902-03); a poem by the 11th c. poet Solomon Ibn Gabirol titled “Your Teardrops Were Dashed to Pieces,” with commentary by S. Zaks (1860s); and other poetry, mainly written for anniversary occasions; prose works include G. Meer’s feuilleton “The Overcoat,” written for the editors of the newspaper Evreiskaia zhizn’ [Jewish Life] (1905); etc.
The fond also houses works on linguistics, theology, and biography, including the 15th c. philosophical treatise Lev Adam [The Heart of Man] by Berakiel ben Meshullam Kafman, prepared for publication by D. G. Gintsburg; a series of articles by the sculptor I. Ia. Gintsburg: “A Russian Scholar on Jews and the Jewish Nationality,” “V. V. Stasov on Jewish National Art” (1903-05); A. Shein-Fogel’s “On the Significance of Canaanite-Hebrew (Phoenician-Iberian) Fleeting or Liquid Consonants,” with an appended table of verbs (undated); etc.; proofs of articles for the Jewish Encyclopedia, section “A,” with notes and corrections made by D. G. Gintsburg (undated); etc.; texts of lectures on ancient history, the history of literature, and jurisprudence (1850s-1910s); reports and speeches dealing with issues of pedagogy (1910s); reviews of books and articles, and in particular by E. L. Radlov (1894); bibliographic works on Jewish history (1900s); catalogues and lists of books and manuscripts designated to be used for D. G. Gintsburg’s research or acquired for his library, including bibliographic notes by an undetermined person on editions of Kabbalistic works in the D. G. Gintsburg library titled “‘The Book of Creation” among Treasures of the Lineage of David” (1895); as well as letters by S. Ia. Abramovich (1861), A. Berliner (1889), I. Bril’ (1879), Rabbi Ia.-D. Vilovskii (1896), the Jewish congregation of Kovel’ (1910), O. K. Notovich (1905), Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy (1900), A. Sharfshtein (1897), the Chernigov Rabbi I. Z. Shneerson (1910), and others.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- Baron David Goratsievich Gintsburg (1857-1910) was a Middle Eastern studies scholar, writer, public figure, and mining executive. He was homeschooled. In 1877 he was conferred the degree of kandidat at St. Petersburg University; he attended courses in Middle Eastern studies in Paris and St. Petersburg, and studied Arabic poetry in Greifswald. His studies culminated in the publication of the book Tarshish by Rabbi Moses ibn Ezra and the preparation of an annotated translation of this work. He was a contributor to the journals Notes of the Oriental Department of the Archeology Society, Works of the Neo-Philological Society, and Journal of the Ministry of Education; and he collaborated with V. V. Stasov to publish the album Hebrew Ornamentation in Manuscripts of the Imperial Public Library in St. Petersburg (Berlin, 1903). He described and catalogued the manuscripts of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs’ Eastern Languages Institute. He assembled one of the most significant library collections in Europe, containing rare books and manuscripts on Jewish history and literature. He was chairman of the Petersburg Jewish community, a member of the Society for the Promotion of Culture among the Jews (OPE) and the Society for Handicraft and Agricultural Work among the Jews (ORT), and chaired the central committee of the Jewish Colonization Society (EKO). He was also a founder of the Oriental Studies Society and chair of the Hoveve Sefat Ever (Lovers of the Hebrew Language) society; a member of the research committee of the Ministry of Education’s special department; a lifetime member of the Imperial Russian Archeological Society and the Society for Scholarly Jewish Publications; and served as one of the editors of the Jewish Encyclopedia. He was the driving force behind the Higher Courses on Oriental Studies in St. Petersburg, of which he was not only dean but also taught several courses (on Talmudic, rabbinical, and Arabic literatures; and on Semitic linguistics and medieval religious philosophy). He founded the Society to Aid Poor Jews in St. Petersburg and other institutions, and was a trustee of Jewish orphanages in Petersburg, the Minsk Model Agricultural Farm, and the Novopoltavka Agricultural School for Jewish Colonists. In 1910 he was elected chair of the first Jewish Congress on Issues of Everyday Religious Life. He is buried at the Preobrazhenskii Jewish cemetery in St. Petersburg.
- Access points: persons/families:
- Abramovich, S. Ia.
- Aizenshtadt, M. G.
- Aizenshtadt, M.-L. G.
- Akhron, I. Iu.
- Al’tshuller, I. L.
- Antokol’skii, M. M.
- Antokol’skii, M. Sh.
- Arenson, M. Z.
- Asknazii, I. L.
- Auer, L. S.
- Averbukh, P.
- Balaban, M. B.
- Ben-Avigdor
- Bendovich, Z.
- Berliner, A.
- Berman, Ia. L.
- Berman, V. L.
- Berzhin, U. B.
- Blum, А.
- Bramson, A. M.
- Brandes, R. A.
- Braudo, A. I.
- Bril’, I.
- Brodskii, L. I.
- Brody, H.
- Buber, S.
- Chernomordikov, D. A.
- Cohen, J. H.
- Drabkin, A.
- Efron, I. A.
- Eidel’shtein, M.-G.
- Eiger, Ia. B.
- Eizenbet, I. G.
- Eppenstein, S.
- Fainshtein, A.-L.
- Feinberg, D. F.
- Geller, I.
- Gets, F.-M. B.
- Gintsburg, D. G.
- Gintsburg, E. G.
- Gintsburg, G. O.
- Gintsburg, L. O.
- Gintsburg, M. D.
- Gintsburg, M. Iu.
- Ginzburg, S. M.
- Glazunov, A. K.
- Gol’dshtein, H.
- Gol’dshtein, M. M.
- Gordon, I.-L.
- Goterman, A. M.-M.
- Gurevich, Ia. Sh
- Gurvich, M.-Z.
- Halbershtadt, G.
- Harkavy, A. Ia.
- Harkavy, Ia. H.
- Ibn Gabirol, Solomon
- Jeremiah
- Kafman, Berakiel ben Meshullam
- Kagan, A.
- Kagan, M. S.
- Kamenetskii, I.-D.
- Kamenetskii, S. L.
- Kaminka, A.
- Kantor, I.-L.
- Kaplan, E. Ts.
- Kats, A. B.
- Katsenellenbogen, S. A.
- Khazanov, I.
- Khvol’son, D.
- Khvol’son, O. D.
- Kofman, I.
- Kogan, S. G.
- Kovner, A. G.
- Kulisher, M. I.
- Landau, A. E.
- Levenshtein, A. I.
- Levin, I.-G.
- Levin, L. I.
- Liadov, A. K.
- Libshits, I.
- Lilienblum, M.
- Lurie, A. I.
- Luzzatto, Samuel David
- Maggid, D. G.
- Magid, A. I.
- Mane, Mordekhai Tsevi
- Margolin, I. Ia
- Margolin, M. M.
- Markon, I.-D.
- Marshak, S. Ia.
- Masarskii, Ia. M.
- Maze, Ia. I.
- Meer, G.
- Melamed, I.-E.
- Mendele Moykher-Sforim
- Morgulis, M.
- Notovich, O. K.
- Obchinskii, O. B.
- Paperny, A.-Ia
- Pasternak, L. O.
- Pereferkovich, N.
- Poliakov, S. L.
- Prilutskii, G. N.
- Radlov, E. L.
- Rapoport, Ia. B.
- Rishman, D. L.
- Rothschild, L.
- Rozenblium, M. Kh.
- Rozental’, L.
- Rudnitskii, S.
- Schneerson, Sh.-N.
- Shalkovich, A. L.
- Sharfshtein, A.
- Shats, B.
- Sheftel’, M. I.
- Shein-Fogel, A.
- Shneerson, I. Z.
- Shtein, A. M.
- Shternberg, L. Ia.
- Sirkis, I. I.
- Sirota, G.
- Sliozberg, G. B.
- Slonimskii, Kh-Z.
- Slutskii, M.
- Smolenskii (Smolenskin), P. M.
- Sokolov, N.
- Solodukha, I. (Iu.)
- Solov’ev, S. M.
- Solov’ev, V. S.
- Spinoza
- Stasov, V. V.
- Syrkin, G. Ia.
- Teitel’, Ia. L.
- Tolstoy, I. I.
- Tolstoy, L. N.
- Trivaks, M.-Kh.
- Tsirel’son, L. M.
- Vavel’berg, M. M.
- Veinberg, P.
- Vengerov, S. A.
- Vilovskii, Ia.-D.
- Vysotskii, V.
- Warburg, A.
- Zaks, S.
- Zalmanovich, M. M.
- Ziv, F.
- Subject terms:
- Agriculture
- Aid and relief
- Aid and relief--Philanthropy and charity
- Antisemitism
- Antisemitism--Antisemitic measures
- Art
- Art--Artists
- Bund movement
- Cemeteries
- Cemeteries--Gravestones
- Chabad
- Education
- Education--Talmud Torah
- Education--Yeshivot
- Financial records
- Health and medical matters
- Health and medical matters--Hospitals
- Hevrah kadisha
- Historical research
- Jewish colonies
- Jewish languages
- Jewish languages--Hebrew
- Kabalah
- Karaite Judaism
- Literature
- Literature--Novels, poetry, and plays
- Literature--Writers, poets, and playwrights
- Manuscripts
- Migration
- Migration--Emigration
- Newspaper clippings
- ORT (Organisation for Rehabilitation through training)
- Personal records
- Photographs
- Pogroms
- Posters
- Professions
- Professions--Scholars (secular), scientists, and academics
- Publishing
- Rabbis
- Residency issues of Jews
- Synagogues
- Yiddish periodicals
- Zionism
- Zionism--Zionist Congress
- System of arrangement:
- The fonds includes a single inventory (in 4 parts) systematised by structure and in part alphabetically; the inventory includes a separate sheet listing files of the fonds that have been lost.
- Finding aids:
- An inventory is available.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Theological Seminary