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HISTORY OF POLISH JEWRY
Collection-level Record
Territorial Photographic Collection. Poland.
.
Territorial Photographic Collection. Poland.
Thousands of photographs of Jewish life in Poland before WWII
Annopol-Rachów, 1912.
Dovid Elye
the
sofer
(ritual scribe) at work with a quill on a Torah scroll.
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Baranowicze, 1930s. The children at mealtime, in the dining room of the YEKOPO Orphanage.
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Bedzin, 1923. Thousands of Hasidim of the Gerer
Rebbe,
gather for his son's wedding.
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Bedzin, 1935.
Mordkhe
Markowitz, an 82 year old man in his prayer shawl and phylacteries.
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Berezne, 1930. Outdoor portrait of pupils and teachers of the
Talmud Torah
Yavne.
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Berlin, 1930. Album cover of photographs of OSE activities in interwar Poland.
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Bialystok, 1905. The corpses of victims of the "Bloody Sabbath" pogrom.
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Bialystok, 1915. Portrait study in profile of four sisters; Masza on the left, Berta, Fania, and Sonia Lewin.
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Bialystok, 1918 . Two well-dressed young men, posing in the woods.
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Bialystok, 1919. Children from
the Yugnt Fareyn Folkshul
, in costume for a play.
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Bialystok, 1919. Students and faculty, of the sixth grade class, at the Yiddish
Folkshul
of the
Yugnt Fareyn
.
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Bialystok, 1924. Outdoor group portrait, of the mandolin orchestra of the I. L. Peretz School.
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Bialystok, 1925. Formal class portrait in a yard, of the well-dressed children of Dore Volabrinsky-Frank's private kindergarten.
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Bialystok, 1928. Group portrait, of the soccer teams of the Grodno Maccabee Sports Club (in solid jerseys), and the Bialystok Jewish Sports Club.
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Bialystok, 1930. "Summer Colony" of OSE-TOZ.
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Bialystok, 1930. Portraits of the board of directors of the Jewish Sports Club.
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Bialystok, April 16, 1919. A man poses in uniform with his bicycle, in front of a painted backdrop.
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Bialystok, ca. 1900.
Mashe
Zilberlat-Arodisht; a young woman in a dress, holding a book.
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Bialystok, ca. 1905. Outdoor portrait of
Hershl
Jacobson, the gymnastics teacher at a school of the Union for Jewish Youth, presenting a pyramid formation.
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Bialystok, ca. 1906.
Yoyne
the tanner, bids his bride goodbye before his death, after being attacked by pogromists.
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Bialystok, ca. 1906. Four-year-old boy, brutally beaten by the pogromists, is in his mother's arms.
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Bialystok, ca. 1915. Outdoor portrait of
Yugnt Fareyn
members during calisthenics.
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Bialystok, Feb. 27, 1918. A
folkshul
gymnastics group, poses in formation.
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Bialystok, Feb. 27, 1920. Portrait of students of the Yiddish
Folkshul
(secular elementary school), in a gymnastics pyramid, wearing ballet slippers.
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Bialystok, June 14-15,1929. The Bialystok Jewish Sports Club soccer team, plays the Warsaw Polonia team (wearing "v" jerseys).
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Bialystok, Nov. 20, 1932. Housewives carry pots of
cholent
, to the baker's oven on a Friday afternoon.
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Bialystok, Oct. 2, 1923. Members of the Bialystok Jewish Sports Club soccer team, pose on the field in uniform.
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Bialystok. A boy poses in uniform, with his hand in his jacket.
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Bialystok. A boy poses with his hand in his jacket.
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Bialystok. A group of young men and a woman, in a discussion.
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Bialystok. A gymnastics group.
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Bialystok. Children in costumes.
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Biecz, ca. 1922. Outdoor class portrait of
Talmud Torah
children.
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Bransk, 1903. Portrait of four members of the Zagelbaum family, in formal clothing.
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Bransk, 1920. Portrait of four children of the Zagelbaum family.
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Brody, 1881. Portrait of The Committee in Charge of Relief and Migration Activities.
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Brzesc Litewski, 1924. Water carriers, filling up their barrels from the river.
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Brzesc Litewski, 1930. Portrait montage forming a Star of David, of the teachers and students of the
Torat Chesed
Yeshivah.
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Brzesc Litewski. Portrait of a couple, standing on either side of a small covered table.
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Brzezany, 1929. A row of tombstones, in the old Jewish cemetery.
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Brzezany, ca. 1910. Portrait of Melech Chmelnitzky, with his arm around his friend.
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Brzeziny, 1910. Portrait of a group of young men, successful businessmen in the dress industry.
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Brzeziny, 1918. Yehuda Fuks, a Hebrew teacher, center, and others, pose with students of the
Beit Sefer Yavne.
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Brzeziny, 1920s-1930s. Portrait of Yehuda Fuks, a Hebrew teacher, with his students from the
Yesodei Ha-Torah
kheyder.
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Brzeziny, 1931. The soccer team of the Brzeziny Sports Club.
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Carlsbad, 1931. The
Belzer Rebbe,
being escorted to drink the curative mineral waters.
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Chelm, 1920s. Portrait of Sara Berlan, and Rosa Karpenkop.
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Chelm, 1927. Studio portrait of the Zimmerman family.
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Chelm, 1930. Y. Beker, addressing the crowd at the funeral procession for Jewish City Councilman Yitschok Ivri, murdered by Polish right-wing extremists on July 29, 1930.
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Chelm, 1934. Jewish students at the State Gymnasium.
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Chelm, ca. 1900. Portrait of
Avrom
,
Srulka
, and
Khalev
Braun.
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Ciechanow, 1915. The leaders of the local branch of
Tse'irei Tsion
, a Zionist youth organization.
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Ciechanow, 1928. Young men, at the the completion of the writing of a new Torah scroll.
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Ciechanowiec, 1920s-30s. At the resort, merchants from the Nalewki commercial district of Warszawa, relax around a table outdoors.
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Czestochowa, 1916. People with Yiddish placards, on a municipal election day.
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Czestochowa, 1916. People with Yiddish voting placards, on a municipal election day.
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Czestochowa, 1920s-1930s. Festive gathering of Jewish soldiers in the Polish army, and Jewish community leaders.
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Czestochowa, 1927. Cyclists of a Jewish sports organization.
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Czestochowa, 1928. Members of the Jewish Sports Club's bicycle team, pose in front of a fence.
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Czestochowa, May 1919. Victims of the pogrom of May 27th, 1919, awaiting burial.
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Czortków. Carte-de-visite portrait of Rabbi Menahem Mendel Rosenzweig.
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Deblin, August 1920. A delegation of Jews greeting Pilsudski with bread and salt, after the Polish Army captured the town from the Bolsheviks.
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Dlugosiodlo, 1920s-1930s. Boys playing chess, at the
Yehudia
summer camp for religious children.
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Domaczewo, 1936. Exercising by the water, at a summer camp run by CENTOS.
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Drobin, 1926. Portrait of members of the Drobnianka Jewish Sports Club, with a soccer ball.
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Drohiczyn, 1917. Musicians lead a wedding procession to the synagogue, from Khaykl Milner's house.
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Drohobycz, 1930. Photomontage of the graduating class and staff, of King Wladyslaw Jagiello School.
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Druskieniki, 1926. A group of vacationers at the resort, pose on a porch with a large fish.
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Druskieniki. Portrait of a woman and three children, at the resort.
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Drzewica, April 28, 1931. After a flood, two men pose on the lower roof of a house, partially submerged in water on Potocka Street.
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Dubno, 1920s-1930s. Part of the hospital, maintained by the
Kehile.
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Ejszyszki, 1897 (?). A teacher poses her class outside the
Folkshul
.
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Ejszyszki, 1936. Photomontage of the jubilee committee for the 100th anniversary of the birth of Mendele Moykher Sforim, at the I. L. Peretz Jewish Library.
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Gabin, 1909. Four young leather workers, at work outdoors.
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Gabin, 1914-1918. The busy market square.
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Gabin, 1921. A front view of the exterior of the wooden synagogue, built in the early 18th century.
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Gabin, 1925. Portrait of Henokh Goldschmidt, member of the Bund, reading its newspaper, the
Folkstsaytung
.
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Gdansk, 1937. Students from the Zygmund August High School in Vilna, pose on a boat at the mouth of the Vistula River.
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Glebokie, 1923-1924. Girls in a class at an ORT trade school for seamstresses, in the first year that the courses existed.
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Gora Kalwaria, 1927. Youthful Hasidim of the
Gerer Rebbe,
arriving from other towns to spend
Shabbes.
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Grajewo, May 25, 1920. Outdoor portrait of members of
Poalei Tsiyon
.
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Grodno, 1920. Members of a Hechalutz agricultural group, sharing a meal in a field.
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Grodno, 1920s-1930s. Portrait of Francesca Moyerman, a teacher.
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Grodno, 1920s-30s. Children and staff, sunbathing by the shore of the Nieman River.
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Grodno, 1920s. Children in a TOZ summer camp, pose in hammocks during a rest period.
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Grodno, 1924. A group of young women, who are on strike against the Szereszewski Tobacco Factory.
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Grodno, 1925. Five young members of Ze'irei Zion, posing outdoors.
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Grodno, 1926 . A patient and doctors in a treatment room, at the Jewish Hospital.
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Grodno, 1926. Medical personnel and administrators, pose in an office at the Jewish Hospital.
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Grodno, 1926. Young members of the Sheskin family, at the grave of Bezalel , 1904-1926, a cultural activist.
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Grodno, 1929. Portrait of a young woman.
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Grodno, 1933. Children posing in the water and on the shore, of the TOZ "Summer Colony" in Grodno.
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Grodno, 1935. A building damaged in a pogrom.
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Grodno, 1935. After the pogrom of June 14th, children pose in the windows of a school in the suburbs, that sustained broken windows.
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Grodno, April 1922. A portrait of a young woman named Eva.
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Grodno, ca. 1906. Jacob Sheskin and his brother
Mordkhe,
posing at the grave of their father.
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Grodno, ca. 1930s. The mother of Leon Arkin, of the Chicago bureau of the
Forverts
, poses at the gravestone of her husband.
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Grodno, March 10, 1928. Group portrait at a costume ball for children, at the TOZ health care facility.
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Grodzisk Mazowiecki, 1925. Hasidic musicians outside the
rebbe
's house, on the day of his daughter's wedding.
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Grzymalów. Picture postcard view of the synagogue.
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