Białystok
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Shabsaj Rudkowski
Organizer of the Chovevei Zion party.
Chaim Margolis
Organizer of the Chovevei Zion party.
Jehuda Josef Jelin
Organizer of the Chovevei Zion party.
Jechiel Goldsztejn
Organizer of the Chovevei Zion party.
Awrom Lejbowicz
Organizer of the Chovevei Zion party.
Menachem Mendel Kreczmer
Organizer of the Chovevei Zion party.
Izchok Jafe
Organizer of the Chovevei Zion party.
Isroel Chaim Sztimer
Organizer of the Chovevei Zion party.
Ben-Cion Lyfszic
Organizer of the Chovevei Zion party.
Don Lewin
Organizer of the Chovevei Zion party.
Lipa Kaganowicz
Organizer of the Chovevei Zion party.
Cwi Jehuda Brajnski
Organizer of the Chovevei Zion party.
Simcha Bunim Halewi Hurwic
Organizer of the Chovevei Zion party.
Meir Markus
Bialystok Zionist figure who helped lead the movement.
Jakow Wolf
Bialystok Zionist figure who helped lead the movement.
Izchok Ajzik Ben Towim
Bialystok delegate to the 1890 Odessa convention.
Society to Support Jewish Land Workers in Syria and Palestine
Organization formally recognized by the Russian government in 1890.
Hatzfirah
Hebrew newspaper with a circulation of four hundred in Bialystok.
Haskalah movement
Jewish cultural and intellectual movement mentioned in Bialystok history.
Herszberg’s daughter
Unnamed daughter led out with Herszberg during the ghetto liquidation.
Prewar Jewish Kehilla
Jewish communal organization whose secretary was Mr. Bachrach.
Hebrew Language Society
A society organized by Awrom Szmuel Herszberg.
Synagogue court
An area containing most Jewish communal institutions and later becoming part of the ghetto.
Awrom Szmuel Herszberg’s death
Herszberg perished during the liquidation of the ghetto in 1943.
Bialystok ghetto area
The area where the synagogue court was located and which later became the ghetto.
Sonja Zadrunski
Comedienne who entertained at weddings in Bialystok.
Sonja der Badchen
Alternative name given for the comedienne Sonja Zadrunski.
Count Jan Klemens Bronicki II
Inherited Bialystok village from his father during the eighteenth century.
King August III
Raised Bialystok from village to town in 1742.
Jewish labor movement
Movement that demanded human rights and opposed Czarist police.
Pinkas Bialystok
Publication containing Herszberg’s memoirs about Jewish life in Bialystok.
MHatzfirah
Haskalah-oriented newspaper that attracted four hundred subscribers.
Separate synagogue
Synagogue established by the repressed Maskilim minority.
Batei midrashim
Study halls central to religious, educational, civic, and social life.
Bialystok’s elevation from village to town
King August III raised Bialystok’s status from village to town in 1742.
Z. Segalowicz
Author of a poem titled “My Bialystok.”