{"id":5104,"date":"2025-09-10T15:53:33","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T12:53:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/libtest1.haifa.ac.il\/extprojects\/DolginCenter\/?page_id=5104"},"modified":"2025-09-16T19:01:42","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T16:01:42","slug":"maps-and-photographs-vilna-governorate","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/lib.haifa.ac.il\/extprojects\/DolginCenter\/maps-and-photographs\/maps-and-photographs-vilna-governorate\/","title":{"rendered":"Vilna Governorate"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"5104\" class=\"elementor elementor-5104\" data-elementor-post-type=\"page\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-2513a0c e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"2513a0c\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;,&quot;jet_parallax_layout_list&quot;:[]}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-1abd692 elementor-widget elementor-widget-spacer\" data-id=\"1abd692\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"spacer.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer-inner\"><\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-478fd92 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"478fd92\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;,&quot;jet_parallax_layout_list&quot;:[]}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-c9c1f01 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"c9c1f01\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h1 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.loc.gov\/\">Library of Congress Online Catalog - Vilna<\/a><\/h1>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-4bbfde7 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"4bbfde7\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;,&quot;jet_parallax_layout_list&quot;:[]}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-d6eee26 elementor-widget elementor-widget-spacer\" data-id=\"d6eee26\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"spacer.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer-inner\"><\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-d939fb9 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"d939fb9\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;,&quot;jet_parallax_layout_list&quot;:[]}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-a08b743 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"a08b743\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\" data-settings=\"{&quot;jet_parallax_layout_list&quot;:[]}\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-38710d9 elementor-position-top elementor-widget elementor-widget-image-box\" data-id=\"38710d9\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image-box.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-image-box-wrapper\"><figure class=\"elementor-image-box-img\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.loc.gov\/item\/2021668292\/\" tabindex=\"-1\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2560\" height=\"2130\" src=\"https:\/\/lib.haifa.ac.il\/extprojects\/DolginCenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Division-of-the-Land-of-Israel-Within-its-Borders-Copied-from-the-Great-Luminary-the-Famous-and-Pious-Gaon-Our-Teacher-and-Rabbi-Rabbi-Eliyahu-from-Vilna-the-Capital-scaled.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-image-7287\" alt=\"Eliyyahu ben Shelomo Zalman, Drawing, Division, Land of Israel, 12 tribes\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lib.haifa.ac.il\/extprojects\/DolginCenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Division-of-the-Land-of-Israel-Within-its-Borders-Copied-from-the-Great-Luminary-the-Famous-and-Pious-Gaon-Our-Teacher-and-Rabbi-Rabbi-Eliyahu-from-Vilna-the-Capital-scaled.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/lib.haifa.ac.il\/extprojects\/DolginCenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Division-of-the-Land-of-Israel-Within-its-Borders-Copied-from-the-Great-Luminary-the-Famous-and-Pious-Gaon-Our-Teacher-and-Rabbi-Rabbi-Eliyahu-from-Vilna-the-Capital-300x250.jpg 300w, https:\/\/lib.haifa.ac.il\/extprojects\/DolginCenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Division-of-the-Land-of-Israel-Within-its-Borders-Copied-from-the-Great-Luminary-the-Famous-and-Pious-Gaon-Our-Teacher-and-Rabbi-Rabbi-Eliyahu-from-Vilna-the-Capital-1024x852.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/lib.haifa.ac.il\/extprojects\/DolginCenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Division-of-the-Land-of-Israel-Within-its-Borders-Copied-from-the-Great-Luminary-the-Famous-and-Pious-Gaon-Our-Teacher-and-Rabbi-Rabbi-Eliyahu-from-Vilna-the-Capital-768x639.jpg 768w, https:\/\/lib.haifa.ac.il\/extprojects\/DolginCenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Division-of-the-Land-of-Israel-Within-its-Borders-Copied-from-the-Great-Luminary-the-Famous-and-Pious-Gaon-Our-Teacher-and-Rabbi-Rabbi-Eliyahu-from-Vilna-the-Capital-1536x1278.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/lib.haifa.ac.il\/extprojects\/DolginCenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Division-of-the-Land-of-Israel-Within-its-Borders-Copied-from-the-Great-Luminary-the-Famous-and-Pious-Gaon-Our-Teacher-and-Rabbi-Rabbi-Eliyahu-from-Vilna-the-Capital-2048x1704.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><div class=\"elementor-image-box-content\"><h4 class=\"elementor-image-box-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.loc.gov\/item\/2021668292\/\">Division of the Land of Israel Within its Borders: Copied from the Great Luminary, the Famous and Pious Gaon, Our Teacher and Rabbi, Rabbi Eliyahu from Vilna, the Capital, c. 1800-1820<\/a><\/h4><p class=\"elementor-image-box-description\">Part of the National Library of Israel Collection.<\/p><\/div><\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-fea0bfb e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"fea0bfb\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\" data-settings=\"{&quot;jet_parallax_layout_list&quot;:[]}\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-97d3064 elementor-position-top elementor-widget elementor-widget-image-box\" data-id=\"97d3064\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image-box.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-image-box-wrapper\"><figure class=\"elementor-image-box-img\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.loc.gov\/item\/2018688640\/\" tabindex=\"-1\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"2560\" height=\"2134\" src=\"https:\/\/lib.haifa.ac.il\/extprojects\/DolginCenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/LC-Maps-Vilna-Governorate-scaled.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-image-242\" alt=\"Vilna Governorate Map, Vilnius, Historical Map, Belarus, Lithuania, Russian Empire, Gubernia, Guberniya\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lib.haifa.ac.il\/extprojects\/DolginCenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/LC-Maps-Vilna-Governorate-scaled.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/lib.haifa.ac.il\/extprojects\/DolginCenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/LC-Maps-Vilna-Governorate-300x250.jpg 300w, https:\/\/lib.haifa.ac.il\/extprojects\/DolginCenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/LC-Maps-Vilna-Governorate-1024x854.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/lib.haifa.ac.il\/extprojects\/DolginCenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/LC-Maps-Vilna-Governorate-768x640.jpg 768w, https:\/\/lib.haifa.ac.il\/extprojects\/DolginCenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/LC-Maps-Vilna-Governorate-1536x1281.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/lib.haifa.ac.il\/extprojects\/DolginCenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/LC-Maps-Vilna-Governorate-2048x1707.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><div class=\"elementor-image-box-content\"><h4 class=\"elementor-image-box-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.loc.gov\/item\/2018688640\/\">General Map of Vilnius Province: Showing Postal and Major Roads, Stations and the Distance in Versts between Them. <\/a><\/h4><p class=\"elementor-image-box-description\">Part of the  larger work \"Geograficheskoi\u0306 atlas\u02ba Rossii\u0306skoi\u0306 Imperii, T\ufe20S\ufe21arstva Pol\u02b9skago i Velikago kni\ufe20a\ufe21zhestva Finli\ufe20a\ufe21ndskago\". <\/p><\/div><\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-ac05b81 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"ac05b81\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\" data-settings=\"{&quot;jet_parallax_layout_list&quot;:[],&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-75d0f9c elementor-widget elementor-widget-spacer\" data-id=\"75d0f9c\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"spacer.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer-inner\"><\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-a198a1b e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"a198a1b\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;,&quot;jet_parallax_layout_list&quot;:[]}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-a5f6bbd e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"a5f6bbd\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\" data-settings=\"{&quot;jet_parallax_layout_list&quot;:[]}\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-f15219d elementor-position-top elementor-widget elementor-widget-image-box\" data-id=\"f15219d\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image-box.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-image-box-wrapper\"><figure class=\"elementor-image-box-img\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.loc.gov\/item\/2014706489\/\" target=\"_blank\" tabindex=\"-1\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"732\" src=\"https:\/\/lib.haifa.ac.il\/extprojects\/DolginCenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Vilna-Photograph-c.-1915-1920.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-image-7151\" alt=\"Vilna, Lithuania, 1915, Photograph\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lib.haifa.ac.il\/extprojects\/DolginCenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Vilna-Photograph-c.-1915-1920.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/lib.haifa.ac.il\/extprojects\/DolginCenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Vilna-Photograph-c.-1915-1920-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/lib.haifa.ac.il\/extprojects\/DolginCenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Vilna-Photograph-c.-1915-1920-768x549.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><div class=\"elementor-image-box-content\"><h4 class=\"elementor-image-box-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.loc.gov\/item\/2014706489\/\" target=\"_blank\">Vilna - General View of the city,  1915<\/a><\/h4><p class=\"elementor-image-box-description\">Part of George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).<\/p><\/div><\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-5c3bf8a e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"5c3bf8a\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\" data-settings=\"{&quot;jet_parallax_layout_list&quot;:[]}\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-ce012e0 elementor-position-top elementor-widget elementor-widget-image-box\" data-id=\"ce012e0\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image-box.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-image-box-wrapper\"><figure class=\"elementor-image-box-img\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.loc.gov\/item\/2018680061\/\" target=\"_blank\" tabindex=\"-1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"915\" src=\"https:\/\/lib.haifa.ac.il\/extprojects\/DolginCenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Vilna-Section-across-the-river-1912.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-image-7164\" alt=\"Vilna\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lib.haifa.ac.il\/extprojects\/DolginCenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Vilna-Section-across-the-river-1912.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/lib.haifa.ac.il\/extprojects\/DolginCenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Vilna-Section-across-the-river-1912-300x268.jpg 300w, https:\/\/lib.haifa.ac.il\/extprojects\/DolginCenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Vilna-Section-across-the-river-1912-768x686.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><div class=\"elementor-image-box-content\"><h4 class=\"elementor-image-box-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.loc.gov\/item\/2018680061\/\" target=\"_blank\">Vilna - Section across the river, 1912<\/a><\/h4><p class=\"elementor-image-box-description\">Photograph from the collection of Serge\u012d Prokudin-Gorskii\u0306 (1863-1944). Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.<\/p><\/div><\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-bb0d541 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"bb0d541\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\" data-settings=\"{&quot;jet_parallax_layout_list&quot;:[],&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-5dc9a35 elementor-widget elementor-widget-spacer\" data-id=\"5dc9a35\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"spacer.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer-inner\"><\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-ec5738f e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"ec5738f\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;,&quot;jet_parallax_layout_list&quot;:[]}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-62c6d72 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"62c6d72\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\" data-settings=\"{&quot;jet_parallax_layout_list&quot;:[]}\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-d3ef1aa elementor-position-top elementor-widget elementor-widget-image-box\" data-id=\"d3ef1aa\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image-box.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-image-box-wrapper\"><figure class=\"elementor-image-box-img\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.loc.gov\/item\/88715858\/\" target=\"_blank\" tabindex=\"-1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1716\" height=\"697\" src=\"https:\/\/lib.haifa.ac.il\/extprojects\/DolginCenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Old-Jewish-cemetery-Vilna-1922.png\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-image-7176\" alt=\"Jewish Cemetery, Vilna\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lib.haifa.ac.il\/extprojects\/DolginCenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Old-Jewish-cemetery-Vilna-1922.png 1716w, https:\/\/lib.haifa.ac.il\/extprojects\/DolginCenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Old-Jewish-cemetery-Vilna-1922-300x122.png 300w, https:\/\/lib.haifa.ac.il\/extprojects\/DolginCenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Old-Jewish-cemetery-Vilna-1922-1024x416.png 1024w, https:\/\/lib.haifa.ac.il\/extprojects\/DolginCenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Old-Jewish-cemetery-Vilna-1922-768x312.png 768w, https:\/\/lib.haifa.ac.il\/extprojects\/DolginCenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Old-Jewish-cemetery-Vilna-1922-1536x624.png 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1716px) 100vw, 1716px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><div class=\"elementor-image-box-content\"><h4 class=\"elementor-image-box-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.loc.gov\/item\/88715858\/\" target=\"_blank\">Old Jewish cemetery, Vilna, 1922<\/a><\/h4><p class=\"elementor-image-box-description\">Frank Carpenter Collection, Library of Congress.<\/p><\/div><\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-02488e0 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"02488e0\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\" data-settings=\"{&quot;jet_parallax_layout_list&quot;:[]}\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-b3f0c69 elementor-position-top elementor-widget elementor-widget-image-box\" data-id=\"b3f0c69\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image-box.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-image-box-wrapper\"><figure class=\"elementor-image-box-img\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.loc.gov\/item\/88715861\/\" target=\"_blank\" tabindex=\"-1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/lib.haifa.ac.il\/extprojects\/DolginCenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Papershop-in-Jewish-ghetto-Vilna-1922.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-image-7186\" alt=\"Paper shop, Jewish stationary trade, Vilna, 1922\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lib.haifa.ac.il\/extprojects\/DolginCenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Papershop-in-Jewish-ghetto-Vilna-1922.jpg 425w, https:\/\/lib.haifa.ac.il\/extprojects\/DolginCenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Papershop-in-Jewish-ghetto-Vilna-1922-199x300.jpg 199w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 425px) 100vw, 425px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><div class=\"elementor-image-box-content\"><h4 class=\"elementor-image-box-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.loc.gov\/item\/88715861\/\" target=\"_blank\">Papershop in Jewish ghetto, Vilna, 1922<\/a><\/h4><p class=\"elementor-image-box-description\">Frank Carpenter Collection, Library of Congress.<\/p><\/div><\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-21c2519 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"21c2519\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;,&quot;jet_parallax_layout_list&quot;:[]}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-197effc elementor-widget elementor-widget-spacer\" data-id=\"197effc\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"spacer.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer-inner\"><\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-4bdec31 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"4bdec31\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;,&quot;jet_parallax_layout_list&quot;:[]}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-9c5c67b e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"9c5c67b\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\" data-settings=\"{&quot;jet_parallax_layout_list&quot;:[]}\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-9c0001e elementor-position-top elementor-widget elementor-widget-image-box\" data-id=\"9c0001e\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image-box.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-image-box-wrapper\"><figure class=\"elementor-image-box-img\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.loc.gov\/item\/2021670919\/\" tabindex=\"-1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1766\" src=\"https:\/\/lib.haifa.ac.il\/extprojects\/DolginCenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Favus-Patients-and-Their-Caregivers-in-a-Jewish-Treatment-Center-Isolation-Ward-in-Vilna-1921-scaled.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-image-7205\" alt=\"Favus, Jewish Children, Treatment Center Isolation Ward, Vilna, Aftermath of World War I, American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lib.haifa.ac.il\/extprojects\/DolginCenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Favus-Patients-and-Their-Caregivers-in-a-Jewish-Treatment-Center-Isolation-Ward-in-Vilna-1921-scaled.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/lib.haifa.ac.il\/extprojects\/DolginCenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Favus-Patients-and-Their-Caregivers-in-a-Jewish-Treatment-Center-Isolation-Ward-in-Vilna-1921-300x207.jpg 300w, https:\/\/lib.haifa.ac.il\/extprojects\/DolginCenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Favus-Patients-and-Their-Caregivers-in-a-Jewish-Treatment-Center-Isolation-Ward-in-Vilna-1921-1024x706.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/lib.haifa.ac.il\/extprojects\/DolginCenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Favus-Patients-and-Their-Caregivers-in-a-Jewish-Treatment-Center-Isolation-Ward-in-Vilna-1921-768x530.jpg 768w, https:\/\/lib.haifa.ac.il\/extprojects\/DolginCenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Favus-Patients-and-Their-Caregivers-in-a-Jewish-Treatment-Center-Isolation-Ward-in-Vilna-1921-1536x1059.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/lib.haifa.ac.il\/extprojects\/DolginCenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Favus-Patients-and-Their-Caregivers-in-a-Jewish-Treatment-Center-Isolation-Ward-in-Vilna-1921-2048x1413.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><div class=\"elementor-image-box-content\"><h4 class=\"elementor-image-box-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.loc.gov\/item\/2021670919\/\">Favus Patients and Their Caregivers in a Jewish Treatment Center Isolation Ward in Vilna, 1921.<\/a><\/h4><p class=\"elementor-image-box-description\">The physician (standing, rear right) treating the children has been identified as Mahmud Kajabi.<br>The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC), a humanitarian organization created at the start of World War I by American Jewish groups to provide wartime relief to Jewish communities, continued its work after the war, including support for the establishment of Jewish hospitals, child care institutions, food distribution stations, and other institutions throughout Poland, including this treatment center in Vilna. <\/p><\/div><\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-b9bf766 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"b9bf766\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\" data-settings=\"{&quot;jet_parallax_layout_list&quot;:[]}\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-33c10d0 elementor-position-top elementor-widget elementor-widget-image-box\" data-id=\"33c10d0\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image-box.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-image-box-wrapper\"><figure class=\"elementor-image-box-img\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.loc.gov\/item\/88715891\/\" target=\"_blank\" tabindex=\"-1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"460\" src=\"https:\/\/lib.haifa.ac.il\/extprojects\/DolginCenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Jewish-water-carrier-standing-in-street-in-Vilna-Russia-1922.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-image-7225\" alt=\"Jewish water carrier, Vilna, 1922\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lib.haifa.ac.il\/extprojects\/DolginCenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Jewish-water-carrier-standing-in-street-in-Vilna-Russia-1922.jpg 640w, https:\/\/lib.haifa.ac.il\/extprojects\/DolginCenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Jewish-water-carrier-standing-in-street-in-Vilna-Russia-1922-300x216.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><div class=\"elementor-image-box-content\"><h3 class=\"elementor-image-box-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.loc.gov\/item\/88715891\/\" target=\"_blank\">[Jewish water carrier standing in street in Vilna], 1922.<\/a><\/h3><p class=\"elementor-image-box-description\">Frank Carpenter Collection, Library of Congress.<\/p><\/div><\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-0eb762e e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"0eb762e\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;,&quot;jet_parallax_layout_list&quot;:[]}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-16f34c3 elementor-widget elementor-widget-spacer\" data-id=\"16f34c3\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"spacer.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer-inner\"><\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-eeb9144 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"eeb9144\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;,&quot;jet_parallax_layout_list&quot;:[]}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-4cb9901 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"4cb9901\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\" data-settings=\"{&quot;jet_parallax_layout_list&quot;:[]}\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-fa0d534 elementor-position-top elementor-widget elementor-widget-image-box\" data-id=\"fa0d534\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image-box.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-image-box-wrapper\"><figure class=\"elementor-image-box-img\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.loc.gov\/item\/2014686625\/\" tabindex=\"-1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"747\" src=\"https:\/\/lib.haifa.ac.il\/extprojects\/DolginCenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Sirota-Cantor-of-Warsaw-Leo-Loev-Secy.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-image-7229\" alt=\"Gershon-Itskhok Sirota, Leo Loev, Sec&#039;y, Vilna\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lib.haifa.ac.il\/extprojects\/DolginCenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Sirota-Cantor-of-Warsaw-Leo-Loev-Secy.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/lib.haifa.ac.il\/extprojects\/DolginCenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Sirota-Cantor-of-Warsaw-Leo-Loev-Secy-300x219.jpg 300w, https:\/\/lib.haifa.ac.il\/extprojects\/DolginCenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Sirota-Cantor-of-Warsaw-Leo-Loev-Secy-768x560.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><div class=\"elementor-image-box-content\"><h4 class=\"elementor-image-box-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.loc.gov\/item\/2014686625\/\">Sirota, Cantor of Warsaw &amp; Leo Loev, Sec'y<\/a><\/h4><p class=\"elementor-image-box-description\">Photo shows cantor Gershon-Itskhok Sirota (1874-1943) known as the \"Jewish Caruso\", who was chief cantor of Vilna and the Great Synagogue in Warsaw. He died in the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in 1943.<br>Part of George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).<\/p><\/div><\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-315f40f e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"315f40f\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;,&quot;jet_parallax_layout_list&quot;:[]}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-775189b elementor-widget elementor-widget-spacer\" data-id=\"775189b\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"spacer.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer-inner\"><\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Library of Congress Online Catalog &#8211; Vilna Division of the Land of Israel Within its Borders: Copied from the Great Luminary, the Famous and Pious Gaon, Our Teacher and Rabbi, Rabbi Eliyahu from Vilna, the Capital, c. 1800-1820 Part of the National Library of Israel Collection. 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