A. S. Herszberg

... In Hebrew literature, art and theater, Bialystokers left their mark: Chajele Grober, the actress; Nochum Cemach, founder and director of the Habimah National Theater Company; Professor Israel Halperin, historian and author; Yosef Serlin, the late Minister of Health; Professor Lipa Sukenik, noted archaeologist and presi- dent of the historical society that published A. S. Hersz- berg’s two volume Pinkas Bialystok; Dr. Shlomo Kaplan-Kaplanski, a founder and director of the Tech- nion in Haifa; and numerous others who enriched the religion, politics and economy of Israel. ...

... Almost every day, Barasz tried to intervene with the Gestapo to save prominent Jewish leaders such as A.S. Herszberg, the historian of Bialystok, Awrom Tyktin, former head of the Jewish community, and his nieghbor, Dr. Bejlin. All these efforts were unavailing. ...

... It was impossible to carry on an extensive cultural program. Zionist, Socialist, and Communist activities, which blossomed in Bialystok before the Nazi occupa- tion, now could only be carried on underground, their main purpose opposition to the Nazis. These groups fashioned the beginnings of the later resistance in the Bialystok ghetto and maintained contact with other opposition cadres in the Wilno and Warsaw ghettos. A few individuals — including Pejsach Kaplan, A.S. Herszberg, the historian, and Jehoszua Heszl Klemen- tynowski, founder of the Linas Hatzedek and senior Zionist activist in Bialystok — clandestinely advanced ...

... 1913 - The first daily newspaper Bialystoker Tageblatt appears, edited by A.S. Herszberg. David Sohn is the American correspondent. ...

... subject was the bleak, declining Lithuanian-Polish shtetl; J.G. Sztejnsapir — humorist and founder of a weekly Yiddish publication; Oszer Czanowicz and Josef Rubinlicht — The former originally wrote for the War- saw Express. The latter was a folk humorist; Jakow Waks and Cwi Wider — Freelance writers on labor issues for Unzer Leben; Mordechaj Zabludowski and Dr. Cwi Lukaczewski — specialists on engineering and medicine, respectively, whose articles appeared in the Friday Unzer Leben; Nojach Zabludowski — known for his meticulous use of language; A.S. Herszberg — his- torian of Jewish life in Bialystok; Awrom Tyktin — scientist, publicist and philosopher. Many of the above ...

... ‘ the well-known researcher, author and specialist on Bia- lystok, A.S. Herszberg, who was exterminated by the Nazis. His memoirs about Jewish life in Bialystok in the last century may be found in the second volume of his Pinkas Bialystok, in an article titled “‘Review and Over- view, excerpted below.) ...