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Layzer Levin
Leader of the Right Poale Zion.
Goldin
Leader of the Right Poale Zion.
Chaim Brand (Mietek)
Named activist of the Left Poalei Zion.
M. Edelman
Named activist of the Left Poalei Zion.
Arieh Holendersky
Named activist of the Left Poalei Zion.
Baruch Shapiro
Named activist of the Left Poalei Zion.
Shmuel Milman
Named Bund activist in Lodz.
Dr. Margolis
Named Bund activist in Lodz.
Artur Zygelbojm
Named Bund activist in Lodz.
Roze Aikhner
Named at the beginning of the passage and associated with Bund women's organization leadership.
Shmuel Zygelboim
Named as a Bund figure who committed suicide in London in 1949 as a protest.
Yisrael Lichtenstein
Named individual.
Sh. Ranozhinfki
Named author of a Lodz recollection.
Kazimierz Kowalski
Antisemitic Endecja leader in the Łódź city council.
Unnamed young jurist
Narrator who studied and practiced law but was excluded from legal advocacy.
M. Eisenberg
Person named in the passage’s closing attribution.
Narrator
First-person narrator describing arrival in Lodz and student life.
Hidushei HaRim
A rabbi said to have received a blessing from the first Radoshitzer Rebbe.
Dr. Alexander Margolis
A Bund activist reportedly shot in December 1939.
A. M. Kenigsberg
Identified as an important activist among the Alexander Hasidim.
Henekh Rus
Identified as an important activist among the Alexander Hasidim.
Yosef Veitsman
A lawyer and prominent Folkist politician in the community.
Hershlik
A lawyer among the Folkist leaders.
Wladyslaw Grabski
Wladyslaw Grabski served as finance minister in the Polish National Democratic government.
Adolf Hitler
Adolf Hitler's rise to power worsened conditions for Jews in Poland.
Hitler
Leader referenced in connection with Germany and Poland’s anticipated fate.
Narrator
First-person narrator arriving in Lodz with relatives there.
Radomsker Rebbe
A rabbi identified as a student of the first Radoshitzer Rebbe.
Rabbi Yissachar Ber, the first Radoshitzer Rebbe
The first Radoshitzer Rebbe and founder of the Radoshitzer dynasty.
Rabbi Yissachar Ber
A Radoshitzer rabbi whose grave was in Lodz and who died in 1920.
Dr. Y. Rapoport
Named in a chapter heading about a Jewish gymnasium in Lodz.
Dr. Markus Braude
Rabbi Dr. Markus Braude led the modern school association.
Feinstein
A classmate who principally spoke Hebrew when Polish was unnecessary.
Bunin
A classmate whose father was a Hebrew teacher in a Lodz Jewish school.
Bunin’s father
Bunin’s father was a Hebrew teacher at a Jewish school in Lodz.
Maroyla Shur
A girl invited by the narrator to dance at a gymnasium evening.