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Explore our digital collection, bringing together artifacts scattered across the globe and research that sheds light on Belarusian Jewish culture and history.

Empty marketplace, shut down by Soviet restrictions against private trade, Shklov, USSR (now in Belarus), 1920s. YIVO.
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[Empty market place in Shklov]

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Oral history interview

Ronya Schwaab interview

Popular autobiographical novellas depicting the life of a middle-class Jewish family in Shklov of the 1890s [Dan Miron, YIVO encyclopedia] first published in weekly installments in Forverts, then as two volumes (Shklover Yidn 1929 and Feter Zhome 1930).
Literature

Shklov Jews

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Audiobook

Shklov Jews [audio book]

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Bimah of Slonim synagogue

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Bimah of Slonim synagogue

A rectangular sheet of paper painted in watercolor in shades of gray, black, green, and brown, depicting a village courtyard with a figure. In the lower right corner, the signature in blue pencil and the date. On the back, in pencil, the artist's name, the date, the title, and the technique are written in Russian, and the artist's name is also written in Latin characters at the bottom.
Artwork

A courtyard in Lahoysk

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Pediment of the Holy Ark of the [Slonim] synagogue