Przasnysz, Poland [Pictures and Documents]

Pictures and Documents

Excepts from Polish Encyclopedias and History Books	9,11,12,14,16,19
The Town in 1915 (picture)	21
A Gravestone from 100 years ago	23
Front page of "Heint" [Today], 1915	25
Front page of "Moment," 1915	26
Excerpt from "Moment," 1916	27
Proshnitz in 1917 (photograph)	29
Receipts for Torah scroll corrections	31
The Synagogue in Proshnitz (drawing)	33
Eliyahu Porsitzky – Receipts from the Synagogue's Construction	36
The Beis Yosef Yeshiva	37
"Peter Mendel," Rosenzweig	42
Bertshe Ludvinovitz	42
Major Shmaya Friedman	44
Youth Pageant, 1901	47
Louis Hertzberg	48
Chaim and Sarah-Gittel Blum	52
Admiral Rickover and President Johnson	53
Admiral Rickover on the Nautilus	55
'Shayahu-Yechiel Pertzelina	59
The Bachrach family	63
A Postcard from 1942, from Rivka Bachrach	64
Soccer team, 1921	66
Invitation from the "Arlozerov Home"	69
"HeChalutz" Committee, 1932	71
Aharon Pertzelina-Charsina – Yosef Kalfus	73
A Group of Jewish tradesmen	75
The Polish Press on the Beilis Case	76
Moshe Bramson, Yisrael Laufer, Eliezer Pianka	76
Invitation to a JNF bazaar	77
Postcard from Rabbi M. M. Levkovitz, 1915	79
Sign Announcing a Reading by Arye Fried	82
The cemetery Morgue	84
Except from "HaTzefirah" [The Siren]	89-91
Large Group of Zionist Communal Activists	90
Library Committee of the Zionist Organization, 1926	91
"HaShomer HaTza'ir" Leadership, 1916	92
"HaShomer HaTza'ir" Leadership, 1925	93
Two Photographs of "Shomer HaTza'ir"	94
Two Photographs of "Shomer HaTza'ir," 1922
The "Bund" leadership	97
Workers' Circular, Y. I. V. O., 1928	99
Leftist-"Poalei Tzion" Activists	101
Excerpt from "HaTzefirah" [The Siren], 1918	102
Yosef Laufer and Wife	103
"HaPoel" Sports Club, 1937	104
Excerpt from "Das Wort," 1936	104
Beitar Activists, 1931	105
Beitar in Proshnitz, 1939	106
Excerpt from "HaMizrachi"	107
Excerpt from "HaTzefirah"	108
A Group of "Beis Ya'akov" Children	109
A Group of "Beis Ya'akov" Girls	110
"HaShomer HaLeumi," 1930	111
"HaShomer HaIvri," 1935	111
Programs from Drama Circulars, 1916, 1923, 1925	112
Shalom-Getzel Holzman	115
Shlomo-Yitzchak Fisher	118
The Kindergarten	119
Raphael Reich's classroom, 1918	119
Tel-Aviv Memorial Ceremony, 1967	120
Yitzchak Leib Allenstein	121
The cemetery Entrance, 1947	121
Rabbi Yisachar Berish Groibart	125
Frontispiece of "Two Dibbuks"	130
Receipt from Rabbi M. M. Levkovitz, 1923	131
Letter from Rabbi M. M. Levkovitz	134
Posfrom Rabbi Y. Perzhentzavsky	136
Frontispiece from the book "Imrei Pi"	137
Tel-Aviv Memorial Ceremony, 1965	140
Cantor H. B. Borstein	141
Taking Leave of Ida Levkovitz	142
"HaMagid," "HaLevanon," "HaTzefirah"	145-147
Drawing by Yaffa Talarak	164
Leah Yerachem, husband and child	165
Chaim Yalowiec	180
Gedaliah Amsterdam	188
Malka Holtzman	190
Nosson Alshever at the cemetery, 1946	190
Shlomo Akansky – Michoel Gozevatzker	192
A Group of the "Teheran Children," 1942	195
Yechezkel Prager and Wife	203
Party for Louis Hertzberg	205
L. Hertzberg, Cornerstone of the Beer Factory	206
Free-Loan-Fund Receipt	207
David Bachrach and Family	213
The Poetess Rosa Yakobovitz	214
Two Fashion Photographs	215
Mindel Morzhan Strumen	216
Isser Partchak	217
Major Yosef Partchak	218
Rachel Hertzberg	218
Benny Bachrach in Proshnitz, 1955	222
Dina Rosenzweig in Proshnitz, 1966	223
Houses on the "Bologna," 1966	224
A Group of Soldiers in the Polish Military	228
Refugees from Proshnitz in Reichenbach, 1947	229
Memorial Ceremony in Reichenbach, 1947	230
The Crowd at a Memorial Ceremony, Tel-Aviv 1957	231
Lighting Candles at a Memorial Ceremony, 1966	232
At a Memorial Monument in Martyr's Forest, 1958	232

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