print email comment close "People of a Thousand Towns": The Online Catalog of Photographs of Jewish Life in Prewar Eastern Europe URL: http://yivo1000towns.cjh.org/ Description: This collection of 17,000 photographs from the YIVO archives is a visual record of pre-World War II Jewish communities. In some cases, the pictures are all that remains. Online albums document holiday observance, Yiddish writers, immigration, women's roles, and formal studio portraits. Users must register to search the full catalog. Author: YIVO Institute for Jewish Research Publisher: Center for Jewish History Library of Congress Subject Headings: Jews -- Europe, Eastern Jews -- History Jews -- Social life and customs Photograph collections -- New York (State) -- New York LII Database Information: Record 10776 created by Barbara Bibel on 02/04/2003 Last modification on 02/05/2003 Published: 02/04/2003   Funding agency: California State Library LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/10776