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Manuscript by Grigorii Aronson (1887-1968), a prominent member of the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party (Mensheviks) and journalist. Emigrated to USA and lived in New York.

Arkadii Frantsevich Koshko was a chief of Moscow Criminal Investigation Department. This excerpt from his memoirs concerns the Beilis ritual murder case. On March 20, 1911, the mutilated body of a twelve-year-old boy was discovered in a cave near…

Title translates as "Wars of the Dark Forces", written by Nikolai Evgen'evich Markov. He was the influential leader of the Kursk branch of the Union of the Russian People and Union of Michael the Archangel, chauvinist, and member of the anti-Semitic…

Petition demanding that Jews be prohibited from serving in the Army.

Pavel Miliukov (1859-1943) was one of the founders of the liberal Kadet (Constitutional Democratic) party, represented in the State Duma, and a prominent Russian liberal…

Petition, with signatures, addressed to Pavel Miliukov and signed by Jewish officers and soldiers who had already served in various military campaigns. They opposed the law prohibiting Jews from serving in the Army.

Pavel Miliukov (1859-1943) was…

A vicious anti-Jewish propaganda letter accusing the entire Jewish community of ritual murders and collaboration with evil. Letter addressed to Pavel Miliukov.

An instruction manual on how to translate The Protocols of the Elders of Zion.

The Protocols of the Elders of Zion is the infamous Russian literary hoax published by the Tsar's secret police. A key element of anti-Semitic thought has been the…

Appeal by the Central Jewish Committee for Help Victims of the War, addressed to the "Jewish Citizens". The Committee is asking for assistance for victims of the numerous pogroms in Tsarist Russia.

An appeal to elect the Soi︠u︡zʺ russkago naroda (The Union of the Russian People) candidates to the State Duma.

Appeal of the Cyril and Methodius Fraternity in Uman, Ukraine. Large numbers of pogroms were registered in the small Uman, where women and children were killed and wounded. This appeal from the members of the Cyril and Methodius Fraternity calls for…

The anonymous author of the article describes the uprising on the battleship Potemkin and a riot in the city of Odessa in 1905, for which he blames the Jews.

"Appeal to Christians of Odessa" by Dmitrii, Archbishop of Kherson and Odessa, to save thousands of Jews wrongly accused of various acts.

Second issue of the satirical Yiddish journal Der Shlang (The Snake) published in the small Ukrainian shtetl of Berdichev (cover page, pages 15-16, and back page are on display)

Postcard with photograph of young man in soldier's suit; back of postcard has writing in English and Russian.

Postcard, one side a photo of man in army uniform, other side has writing in Russian and English.

Portrait of Emma Goldman, published on the frontispiece of Anarchism and other essays, by Emma Goldman, with biographic sketch by Hippolyte Havel.

Emma Goldman wrote to Edna Kenton to ask for help advertising a series of lectures at the Berkley Theatre.

Poem on birth control, written by Fred A. Pease in Mother Earth magazine.