Drohiczyn
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Joseph Shub
Listed in the volume credits.
Yitzhak Siderov
Listed among rabbis and ritual slaughterers.
L. Krawetz
Named in an entry about Jewish revenge.
Drohichin: Five Hundred Years of Yiddish Life
Yizkor book title shown in the supplied book metadata.
Yeven Metsulah
Historical document about Jewish victims of Cossack forces under Khmelnytsky.
Bohdan Khmelnytsky
Leader whose Cossacks are described as causing Jewish casualties in 1648–1649.
Sefer-Drohitshin
A memorial book whose surviving copy is imagined in a museum, archive, or library.
Dov G. Warsawsky
Named in a colophon dated 15 Shevat 5714.
Sefer Drohitchin
A book mentioned as addressed to readers and friends.
Hungarians
One of the population groups living in Polesia.
Kabryn group
A Belarusian regional group influenced strongly by Polish culture.
Luninyets group
A Belarusian regional group influenced strongly by Polish culture.
Pruzhany group
A Belarusian regional group influenced strongly by Polish culture.
Minsk group
A Belarusian regional group strongly influenced by Russian language and culture.
Mogilev group
A Belarusian regional group strongly influenced by Russian language and culture.
Unnamed river
A river to which timber was brought for floating downstream.
Sigismund Augustus
Polish king and Lithuanian grand duke associated with the Pinsk principality.
Nagariye
Place named in a territorial description adjacent to an older Drohitchin name.
Railway construction workers
Workers building the railway near Drohitchin who attacked Jews in 1883.
Vaksal
Place at one end of a road leading into town.
Mordechai Yafe
Rabbi associated with the title Baal HaLevushim.
Abraham Eisenstein
A rabbi referenced in a cited Drohitchin article.
Meir Kaplan
Named as an initiator of a 1912 yeshiva.
Pinsk State Records
Publication cited among the source works.
Jewish Encyclopedia
Reference work cited among the source works.
Gralia Kaplan
Person named at the end of the reference list.
Yehezkel Baril Valivelski
Named at the end of the Hachnasat Orchim account.
Zvi Zelig son of Moshe
A distinguished person who died on 15 Tevet 5647.
Pinsk-Janowe
A place on the route leading through Drohitchin.
Antopol-Kobrin
A destination on the route from Drohitchin and beyond.
New Town
A smaller settlement or neighborhood near Drohitchin.
Krasnaulitsa
A smaller settlement or neighborhood near Drohitchin.
Starasilie
A village adjoining Drohitchin, inhabited by Belarussian peasants.
Small oil mills
Small mills extracted oil from sesame for farmers.
Jewish-made clothing for farmers
Farmers increasingly commissioned tailored clothing from Jewish craftsmen.
Jewish rimmers
Jewish rimmers also made a living from farmers.