Bricklayers Benevolent Association — 1905 Branch 88, Workmen’s Circle — 1905 Young Mens Association — 1906 Branch 127, Workmen’s Circle, Chicago — 1906 Branch 137, Workmen’s Circle, Philadelphia — 1906 Branch 121, Workmen’s Circle, Paterson, N.J. — 1908 Branch 256, Workmen’s Circle, Newark — 1908 Ladies Aid Society, Harlem and the Bronx — 1909 Kranken Unterstitzungs-Verein, Newark — 1912 Relief Committee, Chicago — 1919 Relief Committee, Paterson, N.J. — 1919 Bialystoker Culture Society — 1921 Bialystoker Social Club, Chicago — 1922 Bialystoker Ladies Auxiliary, New York — 1923 Bialystoker Ladies Auxiliary, Chicago — 1925 Rabbi Brodsky Ladies Auxiliary, Newark — 1927 Bialystoker Home for the Aged, New York — 1927 Social Center, Los Angeles — 1928 Bialystoker Credit Union, New York — 1933 Bialystoker Painters Club, New York — 1934 Bialystoker Operators Club, New York — 1934 Bialystoker Cutters Club, New York — 1935 Bialystoker Aid Society, Detroit — 1936 Bronx League of the Bialystoker Home — 1936 Bialystoker Ladies Auxiliary of Borough Park — 1937 Bialystoker Branch 142, Workmen’s Circle, Paterson, N.J. — 1939 Bialystoker Benevolent Society, Milwaukee, — 1940 Bialystoker Branch 202, Workmen’s Circle, Newark — 1940 Bialystoker Social Club, New York — 1942 Bialystoker Victory Club, New York — 1942 Bialystoker Center, Montreal, Canada — 1943 Bialystoker and Vicinity Aid Society, Toronto, Canada — 1944 4 ALT Ae LOUIS DAVIS ER KUSHES The Bialystoker Memorial Book - Founders and Leaders of the Bialystoker Center PHILIP ROSENTHAL President of the Home Bialystoker Young Womens League, New York — 1944 Club of Bialystoker Friends — 1946 Bialystoker Historical Society — 1947 Kiryat Bialystok Foundation — 1949 (established by the Bialystoker Center in New York) BIALYSTOK RELIEF WORK One of the vital organizations established by Bialy- stoker .ews in the United States in 1919 to assist needy landsleit in Bialystok was the Bialystoker Relief Com- mittee in .America. David Sohn and others founded it to alleviate hunger and poverty among Bialystoker Jews. Soon after World War I, when news of their difficult circumstances reached the United States, J/andsleit in America raised $5 million, which they sent to their kins- men in Bialystok. Moreover, Jews in more than sixty towns around Bialystok also were granted financial support. Finally the Bialystoker Relief Committee in New York sent half a million dollars to strengthen var- ious institutions in Bialystok. This relief committee grew out of the old Bikur Cholim that helped /andsleit in need. The committee was housed after World War I in a cellar at 246 East Broadway. In addition to relief work, it conducted var- ious activities for the /andsleit and other Jews in New York. Indeed, the Bialystoker Center, which grew into a major Jewish organization in the United States, evolved from the Bialystoker Relief Committee. David Sohn expressed the committee’s humanitar- ian ideals in the following way: ‘“‘From the depths of the ‘Bialystoker Cellar,’ the noble ideal of an organized landsmanschaft that would serve as a model for Jews from other origins who came to America emerged, unit- ing our diverse constituency from the strictly Orthodox to the radically assimilated, from conservative to pro- gressive, from first-generation immigrants to second- ! generation American-born Jews. We seek to blend all of them within the melting pot of fraternal solidarity, mutual assistance and philanthropy.” JACOB COHEN President of the Home 167