Białystok
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Bialystok street
A quiet street in Bialystok where the narrator encountered an elderly man.
Workers' strikes in Bialystok
Strikes targeted contractors rather than manufacturers during the 1890s.
Kotik
Person associated with a widely known Jewish library.
The two libraries
Two libraries that influenced social and Jewish national consciousness.
Bund
A Jewish political and labor movement active in Bialystok.
Bund Central Committee
The Bund central committee mentioned in connection with its seat.
Bundist Voice
A Bund central committee publication mentioned as appearing periodically.
Bialystok Voice
A newspaper addressing workers’ interests in Bialystok.
Shmuel Mohliwer
Rabbi Shmuel Mohliwer is named among important Zionist figures.
Litman Rosenthal
Litman Rosenthal is named among important Zionist figures.
Yakutsk
Yakutsk is named as the destination of a 1897 journey from Siberia.
Zionist movement
The Zionist movement occupied an important place after the First Zionist Congress.
Sholem Aleichem
Sholem Aleichem is listed among classic authors whose works were circulated.
Abraham Reisen
Abraham Reisen is listed among classic authors whose works were circulated.
Di Tsukunft
Di Tsukunft is named among illegal pamphlets and articles studied at meetings.
Abraham Kotik
Person associated with a library on Pawietschizna Street.
Gumiener Street
Street associated with Rabbi Mohilever's apartment and Hebrew library.
Poalei Zion in Bialystok
The first Poalei Zion group in Bialystok was established around late 1902.
Novolipie Street
Street where Edat Yisuron Synagogue was located.
Memories of the Distant Past
Memoir title appearing beneath Tevel Bloch's name.
L. Zamenhof
Teacher of German and French who later worked in Warsaw.
Levin-Epstein family
Family members who owned a bookshop in Warsaw.
Levin-Epstein bookshop
Bookshop in Warsaw whose books required censorship.
Faive Blokh
Father of the narrator and a former student of Zamenhof.
Gatlober's daughter
An educated woman who taught German and French.
Eliezer Halberstam
A blind older man, poet, and longtime friend of Gatlober.
Isaac Zabludovsky
A Bialystok-associated teacher called Reb Itsele the wealthy man.
Washlikower Street
A street opposite the Halberstam residence and prayer house.
Washlikower prayer house
A prayer house opposite Halberstam's residence.
Rabbi Lipele
Rabbi who arrived in Bialystok as a rabbi.
Yisrael Halpern
Man remembered as returning from Russia after the First World War.
Kovsky
City leader who attended the meeting before Rabbi Lipele’s departure.
dacha
A summer residence where Rabbi Lipele stayed and held prayer services.
Polieser railway
A railway near which Rabbi Lipele traveled.
Haim Hertz
A man who came with his family to the dacha community.
Petersburg
A city where a chicken was sent for laboratory examination.