Drohiczyn
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Rabbi Eliyahu Velvel Altvarg
Rabbi who served in Vidz and later settled permanently in Drohiczyn.
Eliyahu Velvel's family
Family accompanying Rabbi Eliyahu Velvel to Drohiczyn.
Vidz
Town where Rabbi Eliyahu Velvel served as rabbi before World War I.
Street Beit Midrash
House of study where Rabbi Eliyahu Velvel unofficially conducted rabbinic functions.
Rabbi Noah Kahn
Rabbi representing the Polish side in Drohiczyn.
Rabbi Eliyahu Velvel's wife
Rabbi Eliyahu Velvel's wife, described as capable and active in communal affairs.
Rabbi Eliyahu Velvel
A rabbi whose father was murdered near his home.
Hershel
Yosef David Shochet’s brother and longtime yeshiva student.
Sender Shuster
Yosef David Shochet’s father and a seller of footwear to peasants.
Zisl
Sender Shuster’s wife and mother of his children.
Maryashe Hofman
Yosef David’s first wife and daughter of Rabbi Benjamin Moses, the slaughterer.
Rabbi Benjamin Moses
Maryashe Hofman’s father and ritual slaughterer in Drohitchin.
Rabbi Yosef David Shuv
A ritual slaughterer, community activist, lecturer, and Gemara teacher.
Nehama
Yosef David’s daughter, who married during the period described.
Hershel
Yosef David’s youngest brother, who married in Ruzhany.
Asher Berezavski
Rabbi Asher Berezavski was born in Drohiczyn and later perished with his family and community.
Yitzhak Berezavski
Yitzhak Berezavski was Asher’s father and owned a house near the bridge on Kobriner Street.
Kobriner Street
Kobriner Street was the location of Yitzhak Berezavski’s house near the bridge.
Asher Berezavski’s family and community
Asher Berezavski’s family and community perished.
Yitzhak Sidorov
Yitzhak Sidorov was a cantor and ritual slaughterer in Drohiczyn in the early nineteenth century.
Yitzhak son of Abraham
Yitzhak son of Abraham was a cantor and ritual slaughterer in Drohiczyn at the beginning of the nineteenth century.
Yitzhak Sidorov, the Old Cantor
Yitzhak Sidorov was a renowned cantor known as “the Old Cantor” and died around 1910.
Eliyahu Goldman
Eliyahu Goldman was Yehuda David Goldman’s father and a known scholar and maskil.
Mishmar Beit Midrash
Yehuda David Goldman studied independently at Mishmar Beit Midrash in Brisk.
Rabbi Simcha Zelig
Rabbi Simcha Zelig delivered lessons attended by Yehuda David Goldman in Brisk.
Rabbi Moshe Sokolovsky
Rabbi Moshe Sokolovsky delivered lessons attended by Yehuda David Goldman in Brisk.
Ludmir
Ludmir was the location of a yeshiva where Yehuda David Goldman studied.
Lomzhe
Lomzhe was the location of a yeshiva where Yehuda David Goldman studied.
Mizrachi
Mizrachi was founded by Rabbi Yitzhak Yaakov Reines.
Rabbi Shlomo Poliatchik
Rabbi Shlomo Poliatchik delivered lessons attended by Yehuda David Goldman.
Knesset Beit Yitzhak Yeshiva
Yehuda David Goldman studied for three years at Knesset Beit Yitzhak Yeshiva in Slobodka.
Rabbi Baruch Ber Leibowitz
Rabbi Baruch Ber Leibowitz headed Knesset Beit Yitzhak Yeshiva in Slobodka.
Yehuda David Goldman
Rabbi who studied in yeshivas, served in Chicago, and migrated there with his family in 1921.
Yitzhak Yaakov Rabinowitz
Rabbi known as the Panovezher Gaon.
Sarah Esther
Wife of Yehuda David Goldman, married in 1913.
Nudey Brusiya
A work authored by Mordechai Zundel Rubinstein.