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First print shop opened
Rabbi Aron Halewi Horowic opened Bialystok’s first print shop in 1804.
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... Rabbi Aron Halewi Horowic opened the first print
shop in Bialystok in 1804. In 1807, about 6,000 inhabi-
tants lived in the city, 4,000 of them Jews. Bialystok was
declared the capital of the region in 1808. By 1897,
42,000 inhabited Bialystok, the Jews constituting 64%
of the population. ...