CONTENTS Book Cominittee To Our Bialystoker Landsleit and Friends ... V List of Contributors ........... 0000. c ee enee VII Max Ratner 18 א ינש 8 2 טיט 22 - FPOPEWORG‏ BIALYSTOK OF OLD I. Shmulewitz Bialystok, A Historical Survey ............... 3 Elijezer Fejgin Bialystok, The Beginning .................... 5 Awrom Szmuel Herszberg One Hundred Years Ago ..............000005 6 The Rise of Zionism ...........0.. cece eee ees 10 Dr. Szoul Refoel Landau Rabbi Szmuel Mohilewer ..................05 11 Mordechaj Pogorelski The Jewish Labor Movement ................ 12 Litman Rosental Dr. Josef Chazanowicz — A Profile .......... 13 Dr. M. Sudarski | Dr. Ludwig Zamenhof and Esperanto ....... 14 Mordechaj Pogorelski Pogroms in the 19th Century ............... 15 David Sohn The Pogrom Against the Jews ............... 16 The Martyrs of the 1906 Pogrom ........... 18 BIALYSTOK THE MODERN PERIOD Pejsach Kaplan Recalling Our Proud Past .................... 21 Emanuel Nowogrodsi The “Bund” in Bialystok ..................05. 22 Dowid Klementynowski The Labor Zionist Movement ............... 24 Ossip Dymow The Habimah National Theater .............. 26 Maks Babicz The First Jewish Art Exhibition .............. 27 M. Sirota Torah Institutions and Leaders .............. 28 The Athletes and Heroes .................4-. 29 Y. H. Kancypolski The Growth of the Silk Industry ............ 30 Pynchos Ginzburg The Jewish Sports Movement ............... 31 The Bialystoker Memorial Book Szeftel Zak The Jewish Theater 1919-1939 .............. 33 ON THE EVE OF THE HOLOCAUST Y. H. Kancypolski Under Polish Jurisdiction 1919-1939 ......... 37 Dowid Klementynowski The Community Before the War ............ 38 Zwi Klementynowski The Last Kehillah in Bialystok ............... 41 Dr. Jacob Sokol Remembering the Jewish Hospital ........... 42 Jewish. שש הורע טסן‎ gcc 6 2c 6b, io eb 64 42 B. Tabaczynski The School and Education ................... 43 Jewish Printers Association ...............05. 43 Dowid Klementynowski A Historical Calendar ....................000. 44 Maxim Litvinov — Our Landsman .......... 45 THE TRAGIC BEGINNING Jakow Pat As the Borders Go Up in Flames ............ 49 Awrom Szewach The Yahrzeit Caridle 2:3665644גע46..2226.....‎ 49 Awrom Zbar The Rise and Fall of Bialystok ............... 50 li Tings: שיט ,הע‎ 0 sd 0 שיק‎ aes 50 The Suffering Commences ...............005 51 The Jewish War Refugees ...............005. 53 Chaim Lejb Fuks | The Jews Welcome the Refugees ............ 55 UNDER NAZI OPPRESSION The Beginning of the Holocaust ............. 59 Pejsach Kaplan Rivkele the Shabbosdike ..................4.. 62 Isaac Czesler | The Judenrat’s Minutes and Orders ......... 63 The Yellow Badge Ordinance ................ 64 The sitter: 1 פצעשטאפפטאע:ג- טוט‎ eo an cave אטא‎ 6 66 Between Life and Death ..................... 67 AGONY BEFORE THE END Pejsach Kaplan’s Ghetto Diary ............... 71 203