Looking back upon the Eastern European Jewry
20.6.2010
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The YIVO
Encyclopedia of
Jews in
Eastern Europe
The only resource of its kind, this encyclopedia provides the most complete picture of the history and culture of Jews in Eastern Europe from the beginnings of their settlement in the region to the present. This Web site makes accurate, reliable, scholarly information about East European Jewish life accessible to everyone: 40 audio recordings — Yiddish musical theater, davening, klezmer bands, even excerpts from wedding services and badkhan (jester) routines; 70 video clips — of outdoor markets, urban and shtetl scenes, brass bands, schools and summer camps; and 192 documents — letters and notes from the greatest Yiddish writers, historical figures such as Leon Trotsky, ration cards from the ghetto, and dozens of photographs and holiday cards, almost as if written from your great-grandparents to the children they never met.
An example.
Jewish student members of the Sejmist Party who gave lectures
at courses for workers, Polotsk (now in Belarus), 1906.
Jewish Wedding.
Most of the documents are in Yiddish or Russian
SOURCE: http://www.yivoencyclopedia.org/
Kopjik International Daily Yiddish Edition 
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