Sokółka
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Kozhnitsa
Administrative office location and one of nine district towns.
Novi-Dvor
One of nine towns in the district.
Sidera
One of nine towns in the district.
Vasilkov
Administrative office location and one of nine district towns.
Sukhovoliya
Administrative office location and one of nine district towns.
Kruglany
Village assigned to the Kozhnitsa administrative area.
Makoblany
Village assigned to the Kozhnitsa administrative area.
Kaminiya
Village assigned to the Kozhnitsa administrative area.
Bagna
Village assigned to the Sukhovoliya administrative area.
Trofimovka
Village assigned to the Sukhovoliya administrative area.
Ostrogora
Village assigned to the Sukhovoliya administrative area.
Romanovka
Village assigned to the Sukhovoliya administrative area.
Charna-Vish
Village assigned to the Vasilkov administrative area.
Ostrov
Village assigned to the Vasilkov administrative area.
Zaborzhitsa
Village assigned to the Vasilkov administrative area.
Kuzhnitsa
A town in the Grodno Governorate visited by the narrator.
Sokolka wooden synagogue
A wooden synagogue known for its distinctive Jewish folk architecture.
Jews of Grodno
The Jewish community aided after Grodno’s great fire in 1885.
Karliner Shtibl
A Karlin Hasidic prayer house in Sokolka.
Kotsk Hasidic Shtibl
A Kotsk Hasidic prayer house in Sokolka.
Rabbi Chaim-Chaikel
A righteous leader whose headquarters were in Amadur.
Karlin
A place associated with the Hasidism controversy and movement.
Zionist associations
Associations that attracted Sokolka’s youth as Hasidism weakened.
Pinsk
Jewish community described alongside Karlin as a borderland center between Hasidism and Lithuanian scholarship.
Karlin
Community described as an early bridgehead of Hasidism in Lithuania.
Volhynia
Region described as a popular center of Hasidism.
Rabbi Elijah of Vilna
Leader associated with the Lithuanian scholarly opponents of Hasidism.
Rabbi Aaron the Great
Founder of the Karlin dynasty, described as establishing its spiritual world.
Rabbi Levi Isaac of Berditchev
Rabbi who served briefly in Pinsk and emphasized love of Israel.
Shneur Zalman of Liadi
Hasidic teacher described as emphasizing love of Torah.
Dr. Zeev Rabinowitz
Author of a cited book on Lithuanian Hasidism.
Lithuanian Hasidism
Book by Dr. Zeev Rabinowitz cited in a footnote.
Rabbi Avigdor
Opponent of Hasidism described as militant and zealous in Pinsk.
Rabbi Yechiel Margalit
Rabbi appointed in Grodno in 1746, according to the passage.
Chaim-Chaikel of Amdur
Hasidic rabbi who established a center in Amdur and taught Hasidism.
Horodna
Main Jewish community near Amdur and beyond Sokolka.