Białystok
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Moses Levin
Teacher who translated Russian books into Hebrew.
Adolf Hitler
The passage refers to Hitler's plan against Jewish history and culture.
Yedidya L. Hamburg
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Paul Shokhet
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Isaac Ribalovsky
Person named in the second row of a caption.
Sal Krim
Person named in the third row of a caption.
Meishel Kremer
Person named in the third row of a caption.
Jacob Beren
Person named in the third row of a caption.
Jan Klemens Branicki
Count Jan Klemens Branicki invited Jews to settle and helped develop Bialystok.
Aaron Halevi Horowitz
Rabbi credited with opening Bialystok’s first printing house in 1804.
Nahum Mints
A Jewish manufacturer who introduced steam looms in Bialystok.
Sender Bloch
A Jewish manufacturer who introduced steam looms in Bialystok.
Charity collectors
Charity collectors gathered donations from householders and distributed them to people in need.
Female charity collectors
Female charity collectors gathered donations and distributed them to people in need.
Z. Segalovich
A Bialystok-born poet and landsman who lived his final years in New York and died in 1949.
Nahum Tzemach
Nahum Tzemach was a Bialystoker artist and founder of Habima.
Peter Veselovsky
Peter Veselovsky held the Bialystok estate and was associated with Tykocin.
King Sigismund
King Sigismund is said to have granted the starost office to Veselovsky.
Kristofor Weselawski
Marshal and hetman associated with Tykocin and Bialystok revenues.
Peter Weselawski
Mentioned as Kristofor Weselawski’s successor.
Astranski
Tykocin starosta involved in a dispute with Weselawski heirs.
John Casimir
King who granted Bialystok to Stefan Czarniecki in 1659.
Alexandra Catherine
Daughter of Stefan Czarniecki who married Jan Klemens Branicki.
Stefan Branicki
Son of Alexandra Catherine and Jan Klemens Branicki.
Eliezer Feigin
Name printed beneath the chapter heading.
Varvara
Stanislaw Gashtald’s widow who married King Sigismund Augustus.
Sigismund Augustus
A Polish king who married Varvara and later owned Bialystok.
Weselowski
A starosta associated with rebuilding the church.
Duke Branicki
Duke Branicki owned or controlled property in Bialystok.
Chaim
A Jewish man named Chaim paid a deposit for the property.
Leib Weinreich
Leib Weinreich is credited with establishing New World Street.
Mateusz Gashtald
A Krakow and Smolensk voivode who received the Bialystok estate.
Stanislaw Gashtald
The last member of the Gashtald family mentioned here.
King Sigismund
A king who donated land for the church.
Branicka widow
Named as retaining ownership of Bialystok during her lifetime.
Clemens Branicki
Named as the last duke of Bialystok.