Yivo Institute for Jewish Research. Library. Slavic Judaica Project

The collection consists of approximately 350 books and pamphlets in the Russian language, from the Yivo Library's Vilna and Elias Tcherikower collertions. Most of the books, pamphlets, and offprints contained in this collection were printed in Central and East Europe during the 19th and 20th centuries (all of them before 1940, and most before 1917). The topics covered in this collection are: Jewish religious traditions, Jewish history, the struggle for equal rights for Jews under the Tsarist regime, political movements among Jews in Russia, Jewish community organizations, intergroup relations in Russia and Poland, anti-Semitism, and emigration to America.