Drohiczyn
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Rabbi Tzvi Ari
Religious educator who founded schools and authored a book.
East Flatbush
New York neighborhood where the yeshiva was located.
Agudat Ahim Anshei Drohitchin
Organization whose cemetery in New York received Rabbi Tzvi Ari's burial.
Mendel
An advocate who defended Jewish gardeners in a legal case.
Bereza
Town whose Jews received funds distributed by Eisenstein in 1921.
Tiferet Zion Synagogue
Synagogue where Moshe Velvel sometimes delivered a Talmud lesson.
Shkalnik family
Family of Chava Leah Shkalnik, with five children listed in the passage.
Hershel Zelig Shkalnik
Known insurance broker in Chicago and one of the Shkalnik children.
Elikim Getzel Kaplan
Father of Shmuel Yisrael Kaplan and respected resident of Drohitchin.
Shkud
Lithuanian town whose rabbi was Yehiel Mikhel Hovsha.
Heysheishok Yeshiva
Yeshiva near Vilna where Abraham Yehuda Kaplan studied and received ordination.
Abraham Yehuda Kaplan
Rabbi who led a yeshiva in Babruysk and served in Yanovke.
Ekron
Colony where the subject taught and later served as secretary.
Brownsville
New York neighborhood where the yeshiva was founded.
Yeshivat Rishon LeZion
Yeshiva established in East Flatbush and existing at the passage's time.
Boro Park
Neighborhood where Machane Shmuel was organized.
Rabbi Mendel Satinetza
Scholar profiled in the passage.
Gradino
City containing the governor’s palace where Mendel appealed a case.
Plevna
A Turkish fortress reportedly captured by the Russians.
Asher Weitzel
A rabbi known as the Kozianer rabbi.
Mordechai Weitzel-Rozenblat
Asher Weitzel’s father, known as Mordechai the Slonimer.
Asher
Rabbi Asher managed Drohiczyn’s civic registration books before World War I.
the rabbi’s house
House visited in the narrator’s dream.
rabbinical court room
Front room in the rabbi’s house, identified as a court room.
the rabbi
Rabbi imagined sitting in the rabbinical court room.
Aizik Yaakov Kalenkawitch
Rabbi remembered as a learned, compassionate community leader.
The rabbi's home
The rabbi's home was described as the writer's second home.
His congregation
The congregation served by Rabbi Kalenkawitch.
The Germans
The passage condemns the Germans as murderers.
Zalman Shevinsky
Author of the section about rabbis, Hasidim, and the Hasidic prayer house in Drohiczyn.
Drohiczyn Hasidic community
Hasidic community described as small in number but strong in quality.
Kobriner dynasty
Hasidic dynasty identified with the Hasidim of Drohiczyn.
Kobriner rabbis
Rabbis described as spiritual guides and leaders of Drohiczyn Hasidim.
Drohitchin Hasidic shtibl
A Drohitchin Hasidic prayer house described as spiritually influential and later destroyed by fire.
Kobriner Hasidim
A small group of Kobriner Hasidim in Drohitchin lacked a dedicated place to pray.
Leizer Adler
A person consulted about establishing the Hasidic prayer house.