jewish life in poland
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Jewish Life In Poland. ( in the early 1900s ). A street in Jeziory, circa 1900. The store of Yankev and Perl Rebejkow on a street in Jeziory, circa 1900 The sign in Russian advertises their wares: grain, flour, groats, and bran. The home of Yankev and Perl Rebejkow. The Gerer Rebbeh - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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( in the early 1900s )
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A street in Jeziory, circa 1900
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The store of Yankev and Perl Rebejkow on a street in Jeziory, circa 1900
The sign in Russian advertises their wares:grain, flour, groats, and bran
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The home of Yankev and Perl Rebejkow
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The Gerer Rebbeh Abraham Mordecai Alter
(died 1948 )the great-grandson of
the founder of one of the most famous and powerful hasidic
dynasties in Poland
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Klezmorim - traditional musicians, most of them members of the Faust family .
Klezmorim frequently appeared with a ‘badkhen ’(traditional wedding jester ,)who improvised humorous
and sentimental rhymes - Rohatyn, 1912
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Dovid Elye, the soyfer (scribe) Annopol, circa 1912 The soyfer prepared Torah scrolls, phylacteries, mezuzoth ,
amulets, and wedding certificates
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Zabludow, 1916 A town famous for its seventeenth-century wooden synagogue
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Sholem David Unger (died 1923 ,)
the Zhabner Rebbeh of Zabno
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Sale of clothing at the market in Kazimierz nad Wisła (Yiddish: Kuzmir ,)circa 1920
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Jews and peasants in a village in the
Carpathian mountains, 1921
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Galician Jew
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Mountain Jews in Rosachacz, a village in the Eastern Beskid range of the Carpathian mountains
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Mountain Jew in Rosachacz, a village in the Eastern Beskid range of the Carpathian
mountains
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Moyshe Pinczuch, a shames (sexton)
for forty years
The shames served many functions, the main one
was to care for the synagogue
He might also serve as leader of prayer, charity collector ,
notary, clerk, or bailiff
Wysokie Litewskie, 1924
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Reading the Tsene-rene ,a Yiddish version of the
Pentateuch
Vilna
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The melamed uses a special pointer to teach the Hebrew alphabet
Boys' cheyder Lublin, 1924
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Market day in Hrubiesz, 1925
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Market day in Kremieniec, 1925 One of the oldest settlements in eastern Poland
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Berl Cyn, age 87, the oldest blacksmith in the town
Nowe Miasto, 1925
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Ezrielke the shames (sexton) was also the shabbes-klapper
He knocked on shutters to let people know that the Sabbath was
about to begin
Biala, 1926
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Professional mourners (klogerins)
in the cemetery in Brody
During the month of Elul, it was customary to visit the graves
of relatives and of very pious Jews to pray
for eternal rest for the deceased and to beg them
to intervene with God on behalf of the living
Professional mourners were sometimes hired
to improvise prayers and entreaties in Yiddish ;
they wailed and fell upon the graves ,
in a show of mourning
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A shoemaker
Warsaw, 1927
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Lomza, 1927
Khone Szlaifer, 85-year-old grinder, umbrella maker, and folk doctor
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A family gathered ata tombstone in the cemetery
in Wloszczowa
The tombstone bears the inscription :
A righteous man who led a life of good deeds
who lived from the fruits of his labor all his years
who died youngwho was a giver of charity
the worthy one Yisroel Yitskhok
son of Shmuel Zindl may his memory be blessed
May his soul be tied in the knot of life
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Chayim, an old ferryman ,on the Vistula River near
Kazimierz nad Wisla
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An elderly wanderer and his grandson en route between Warsaw and
Otwock ,one of the many rural
towns that surround the capital, 1928
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Naftole Grinband, a clockmaker
Gora Kalwaria (Yiddish: Ger )1928
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Yeshivah students on Nalewki Street
Warsaw, 1928
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Hassidim and others at Krynica-Zdroj ,
the most famous spa in Poland in 1930
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Zisl, the street musician
Staszow, 1930s
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Interior of the old mikveh (ritual bath) in Zaleszczyki, both for men and women, especially before the Sabbath and other holidays .
Ritual immersion was required of women after menstruation
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Women's executive board of the Orla Talmud Torah, 1930s
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C. Nachumowski, the Jewish propietress of an inn shown with her family and a guest, Dr. Jacob Wygodski,
a Zionist leader and member of the Polish Parliament. Lubcza, 1930s
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Housewives in Bialystok carry "tsholent“ (a dish of meat, potatoes ,and beans) to the baker's oven on Friday afternoon .
The heat retained by the oven walls at the end of the day slowly cooked
the tsholent and kept it hot for the main meal on the Sabbath ,when cooking was prohibited. November 20, 1932
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Rabbi Binyomin Graubart, with teachers and students of the Mizrachi Talmud Torah on Lag ba'Omer, Staszow, 1930s.
Lag ba'Omer is a spring festival commemorating the revolt led by Bar Kokhba against the Romans. Children traditionally
carry bows and arrows or toy guns on this holiday .
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Water-carrier in Staszowcirca 1935
His father and grandfather were also water-carriers
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Wooden foot bridge in Maciejowice, one of the oldest Jewish settlements in Lublin province
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A well in a rural area of Volhynia ,not far from the Polish-Russian border
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Wysock, a tiny village in Volhynia, 1937
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Jews and peasant on market day in Otwock, 1937
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Worshipers leaving the Altshtot (Old City) Synogogue
on Wolborska Street, Lodz, 1937
On November 11, 1939, the twenty-first anniversary of
Poland's independence, this and three other great
synagogues and the Kociuszko monument in Lodz were
destroyed by the Germans
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Men studying the Talmud in the study room of a home for the aged at 17 Portowa Street, Vilna, 1937
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On Succot, Jews eat, sleep, and study in temporary dwellings like those in which their ancestors lived in the wilderness
after the Exodus from Egypt Kracow, 1937
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Chair-mender in Vilna
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Zelig, the tailor in Wolomin
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Yisroel Lustman, weaver of peasant linen
in Wawolnica
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Purim-shpiler in Szydlowiec, 1937
Purim-shpiler performed traditional plays on Purim ,
a Jewish holiday celebrating the deliverance of the Jews
from Haman's plot
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Yitskhok Erlich, the belfer (helper of the melamed ,)
carries youngsters to cheyder in Staszow
The belfer was responsible for bringing the children
to school and for keeping order once they were there
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Entrance to the Jewish Quarter
in Kracow, 1938
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The Jewish Quarter in the old section of
Lublin, 1938
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Woman spinning cord 1938
She is making cord
for ‘tsitses ,’the knotted tassels
attached to the four corners of the
‘arbekanfes‘(undergarment worn by
Orthodox males )and to the ‘talles’
(prayer shawl)
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Cheyder boy Warsaw, 1938
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Girls' cheyder in Laskarzew
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Sign on a store:
Very good and nice challahs for the Sabbath
Also egg challahs
Kracow, 1938
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Hassidim outside a synagogue on the Sabbath
Kracow, 1938
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Returning from the synagogue
Chodorow, 1938
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The synagogue in the free city of Gdansk (Danzig), built in 1881 and destroyed by the Nazis in 1940. In 1939, the Jewish community in
Gdansk, realizing that war was imminent, sent the treasured objects from
the Gdansk synagogue to the Jewsih Theological Seminary in New York for safekeeping .
Today these objects are at the Jewish Museum in New York
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Water pump in the fish market in Otwock, twenty-eight kilometers southeast of Warsaw
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Jatkowa (meat market) Street in the old Jewish Quarter of Vilna
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Jews praying at the tombstone of REMA (Rabbi Moses Isserles) on Lag ba'Omer, the anniversary of his death .
REMA, who died in 1572, is buried near the synagogue in Kracow that bears his name
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The tomb of Rabbi Elijah (1720-1797), the Bilna Gaon According to legend, the tree behind the tomb sprang from the
graveside of Walentyn Potocki, a Polish nobleman and convert to Judaism
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Tombstone of Jacob Meshullam ben Mordecai Ze'ev Ornstein
(1775-1839 ,)the great Talmudist ,in the old cemetery in Lwow
The relief on the tombstone shows
the four volumes of his famous work ,
the Yeshu'ot Yakov ,a commentary on the
Shulhan Arukh
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Tombstones in the old Jewish cemetery in Stryj
The 18th-century tombstones in the foreground are decorated with a relief of the Polish eagle
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Interior of the magnificient seventeenth-century wooden synagogue in Zabludow, showing the bimah, the raised podium from whichthe Torah is read and, on Rosh Hashanah, the shofar sounded
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Interior of the old synagogue of Kazimierz (Kracow)
Built in the late fourteenth
century, it is the oldest remaining
synagogue in Poland
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The great fortress synagogue of Luck, built during the seventeenth century
on the site of an older wooden synagogue It was constructed in the form of a fortress to help defend the city
against the invasions of the Cossacks and Tatars
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The synagogue in Orla Originally a Calvinist church, the building was sold to the Jews of
Orla in 1732, after the failure of the Calvinist movement in Poland
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The Tlomackie Synagogue in Warsaw Built between 1872 and 1878, designed by Leandro Marconi ,
an Italian architect, and was destroyed by the Germans
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Exterior of the famed eighteenth-century wooden synagogue in Wolpa
The interior is elaborately carved and decorated
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Exterior of the eighteenth century wooden synagogue
in Jeziory
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Yisrolik Szyldewer, a hassid and baldarshin
(preacher)in Staszow
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New Year's Greeting Card Blessing the Sabbath candles
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New Year's Greeting Card
Reform Jew wishes a hassid a Happy New Year
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New Year's Greeting Card
Tashlikh - and thou wilt cast all their sins into the depth
of the sea Micah 7:19
On Rosh Hashanah, Jews pray at a stream; and, according
to custom, empty the contents of their pockets into the water,
symbolically casting away their sins
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New Year's Greeting Card
Shlogen kapores - a rite performed on the day before Yom Kippur .
A person's sins are symbolically
transferred to a fowl, which is sacrificed on his behalf
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New Year's Greeting Card
Hanikke-gelt -- coins are given to children on Hanukkah ,
a holiday celebrating the victory of the Maccabees
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Examining the etrog (citron) for imperfections
The etrog is one of the" four species" of plants
blessed on Succot
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Buying flags for children to carry
in the Torah procession on the eve of
Simhat Torah, the last day of Succot ,
when the year-long reading of the Torah scroll
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Airing the bedding and cleaning house for Passover
In preparation for this holiday, Jews remove all traces of leaven and during the holiday period, eat unleavened bread
( matzot )like that prepared on the flight from Egypt
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Sime Swieca, a feather plucker ,in Kosow
Feathers, especially goose
down ,were highly valued ,
and bedding made from them usually formed part of the
dowry
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