ווילנע / Vilna – Theater and Film, undated, 1919-1920, 1928, 1933-1936
Scope and Contents
This subseries comprises approximately 1,000 oversize posters stored in map drawers. In Jonas Turkow's arrangement and cataloging of the items in the collection, oversize posters were fully integrated with the playbills found in Subseries 3; the item numbers they received fall within the same sequence as those of the playbills. Both types of items were categorized under the Yiddish heading "afishn" (posters, playbills; related to the French: affiche). The arrangement of the posters, therefore, mirrors that of the playbills in Subseries 3, with correponding folder titles and numbers (the folders containing posters are distinguished with the addition of a suffix "P" to the folder number).
Dates
- undated, 1919-1920, 1928, 1933-1936
Language of Materials
In Yiddish, German, Russian, English, and Polish, with scattered items in or using Hebrew, French, Romanian, Belarusian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Spanish, Portuguese, Hungarian, Czech, Slovak, Finnish, Ukrainian, Dutch, Danish, and Arabic.
Access Restrictions
The collection has been digitized and is available online without restrictions. The physical collection is closed.
Extent
From the Series: 17.9 Linear Feet (43 boxes; 829 folders; also includes approximately 1,000 posters stored in map drawers)
Repository Details
Part of the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research Repository