Łuków
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Berek Yameliwicz Street
Official name of Mezritcher Street.
Attic room on the second floor
An attic room opposite the Chainie restaurant where a sharpener lived.
The sharpener
A tall, thin man who sharpened knives, shaved, and lived alone.
Market
Market area where Blashki’s hat shop stood.
Blashki’s Hat Shop
Hat shop located near the market opposite Trishlem’s shop.
Schoolyard
Site containing a clock and the prayer house.
Prayer House
Prayer house visible from the Guild Alley.
Bakeries
Several bakeries located in the Guild Alley.
R. Hersh
Resident who owned an oil press and flour mill.
R. Hersh’s House
House near the Guild Alley, associated with R. Hersh.
Oil Press
Oil press owned by R. Hersh.
Flour Mill
Flour mill owned by R. Hersh.
Abraham
Mizrahi worker, fundraiser, prayer leader, and former school director.
Old market bell
Bell used to summon people during a fire.
Electric siren
Electric siren present during the narrator’s time.
Narrator
The unnamed narrator wrote letters for Mralik and later visited him.
Mralik's wife
An unnamed woman whom Mralik said he married after receiving the narrator's letters.
Isaiah Cohen
Named author or subject of a passage about Lukow in 1920.
Bolsheviks
Reportedly captured Brest and approached Lukow.
Polish military
Withdrawing Polish military marched through Lukow streets.
Workers’ Militia
A militia formed after the new authority arrived.
Market Square
The site of a meeting held that day.
Europe
The region described as the destination of revolution.
Vladimir Lenin
A political leader praised in the meeting slogans.
Leon Trotsky
A political leader praised in the meeting slogans.
Hersh Rubin
A merchant whose flour and sugar stores were requisitioned.
Trotsky
A political figure invoked in the commissar’s concluding greeting.
Isaiah Cohen
A 15-year-old narrator who described fleeing amid wartime upheaval.
House of study in Siedlce
House of study where the narrator prayed and borrowed phylacteries.
Lukow
Community associated with the narrator and its militia.
Lukow militia
Militia wearing red armbands and carrying rifles.
The narrator's family
The narrator hopes residents may recognize his family from Łuków.
Lukow Jews
A group of Lukow Jews preparing to leave the beth midrash.
Red Guards
The prisoners were identified to soldiers as Red Guards.
Police station
A detention site where prisoners were beaten by soldiers.
Trotsky
Trotsky was invoked as an alleged Bolshevik identification.