Drohiczyn
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Moriah Hebrew public school
Hebrew public school serving nearly all Jewish children in town.
Small yeshiva
A small yeshiva that existed in the Beth Midrash before the Talmud Torah was founded.
Powszechna School
A Polish state school attended by many Jewish children.
Drohiczyn library
A well-organized town library held many hundreds of books.
Library
The library installed a radio and loudspeaker and operated a listening business.
Old study house
Old study house recalled in Drohitchin.
Old synagogue
A synagogue where the narrator obtained a place to study and pray.
Hasidim Prayer Room
The sole surviving prayer room where the study group relocated during World War I.
Yeshiva
A yeshiva was founded in 1905 for students needing advanced study.
Old Beth Midrash
The old beth midrash was dismantled for building materials.
New study house
New study house reportedly built with American landsmen’s assistance.
Town Committee
A committee meeting attended or approached by the narrator and Shchana.
Temporary hospital
A temporary hospital established in three houses for sick people.
New town committee
A newly established committee discussed in the passage heading.
Town committee of four
Four people were designated as the town committee and assigned food distribution.
Mikveh
Damaged mikveh repaired using revenue from sugar.
House of Study
A house of study whose construction people began considering.
Russian gymnasium
Gymnasium attended by four named people in a photograph caption.
Beit midrash
Community members gathered there to recite lamentations and discuss the political situation.
Commandantura
Military office that prohibited entry to and departure from Drohitchin.
Folk Bank
A bank whose director was Zekharyah Shmid.
Leather factory
Factory purchased by the Warszawski brothers in 1911 and expanded.
Temporary lazaret hospital
Temporary hospital established in three Jewish houses near the monastery.
Beit Vaad HaKlali
Jerusalem institution where Abraham worked for twenty years.
Kamowe Yeshiva
Yeshiva described as having many students.
Modern mikveh in Drohitchin
Modern mikveh described as the first in the region at that time.
Large synagogue
Large synagogue built on the site of the burned Old Beit Midrash.
Mir Yeshiva
A newly established yeshiva attended by the narrator’s grandfather among its first students.
Volozhin Yeshiva
Yeshiva attended by Rabbi David Mordecai after traveling from Vilna.
Yitzhak’s rabbinical court
Rabbinical court where Zev Miller served as dayan.
Tavriger Shul Anshei Emunah
Nah Kahn was appointed rabbi of this Baltimore synagogue.
Isaac Elchanan’s Yeshiva
Nah Kahn’s older son studied there and prepared to receive rabbinic ordination.
Grodno Yeshiva-Kibbutz
Yeshiva where the narrator studied around 1923.
Grodno Minor Yeshiva
Institution headed by Asher Eisenstein around 1923.
Street Beit Midrash
House of study where Rabbi Eliyahu Velvel unofficially conducted rabbinic functions.
Mishmar Beit Midrash
Yehuda David Goldman studied independently at Mishmar Beit Midrash in Brisk.