YIVO Institute for Jewish Research

The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research will digitize materials from two collections that are part of its Jewish Labor and Political Archives: The Workmen’s Circle Collection and the Photograph Collection. The Workmen’s Circle Collection is comprised of 38.5 linear feet of materials from a Jewish labor fraternal order of immigrants to the United States from Eastern Europe. The Photograph Collection includes 15,000 photographs that visually represent the activities of major United States political and labor organizations and their Jewish immigrant members. These collections, which include scrapbooks, correspondence, meeting minutes, photographs, and other archival materials, document the history of Jewish communities and associated labor movements in America and will be rehoused to create better intellectual control through metadata and digitization.