Sokółka
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Rabbi Nahum Grinhaus
Rabbi who helped arrange his son-in-law's appointment as Sokółka's rabbi.
Rabbi Yitzhak Halevi
Rabbi of Sokółka from 1908 until the community's final days.
Sokółka Talmud Torah
Talmud Torah headed by Rabbi Yitzhak Halevi, with a preparatory yeshiva program.
Rabbi Avraham Dovber Kahana-Shapiro
Chief rabbi of Kovno who attended the first Agudath Israel world conference.
Agudath Israel
Movement whose first world conference was attended by Rabbi Yitzhak Shuster.
Zurich
Swiss city hosting Agudath Israel's first world conference.
Yitzhak Ha-Levi Shuster
Rabbi connected with overseas charitable institutions and aid organizations.
Agudat Israel
Religious party that established branches in local towns.
Mizrahi
Religious party that established branches in local towns.
Ezrat Torah
New York aid organization connected with Rabbi Yitzhak Ha-Levi Shuster.
New York
Location of Ezrat Torah.
Zalman Kosovsky of Yanovi
Rabbi from Yanovi who received aid through regional charitable connections.
Jewish National Fund
Organization whose Warsaw office established a department for the ultra-Orthodox.
Zionist Organization
Organization whose activities and funds Rabbi Shuster did not publicly oppose.
Meir Markus
Rabbi appointed by the government in Sokolka and later Bialystok.
School for Jewish children in Novogrudok
School founded by Meir Markus for Jewish children.
Yad Harutzim
Organization supporting vocational training for orphans and abandoned youths.
Support for the Poor
Charitable organization whose founding leaders included Meir Markus.
Hovevei Zion
Zionist movement supported by Meir Markus in Bialystok.
Pinkas Bialystok
Book by A. S. Hershberg discussing Meir Markus's work.
Samson Katzenellenbogen
Rabbi identified as a Zionist leader in Sokolka.
Y. Nissenbaum
Rabbi who wrote about his visit to Sokolka.
Rabbi Baruch Lavsky
A rabbi and Talmudic scholar who opposed Zionist activities publicly.
Minhat Baruch
A work associated with Rabbi Baruch Lavsky.
Karlin Hasidim
A Hasidic group identified as opposing the Zionist movement in Sokolka.
Kotsk Hasidim
A Hasidic group identified as opposing the Zionist movement in Sokolka.
Rabbi Shimshon Katzenellenbogen
A Sokolka-born rabbi who led a yeshiva and supported Zionism.
Rabbi Ephraim Katzenellenbogen
The father of Rabbi Shimshon Katzenellenbogen and an established resident of Sokolka.
Sokółka
Town where the yeshiva operated.
Yeshiva in Sokółka
A yeshiva reduced to home study with several select students.
Lida
Town where Rabbi Raines founded a large yeshiva.
Zalman Sander Kahana-Shapira
Rabbi associated with the founding of the Etz Chaim branch yeshiva.
Etz Chaim
Large yeshiva near Sokółka attended by select students.
Municipal slaughterhouse in Sokółka
Location beside which Rabbi Katzenellenbogen taught at home.
Samuel Mohilever
Rabbi of Białystok who promised funding for the Sokółka yeshiva.
Isaac Yaborkovsky
Scholar sent to Sokółka to help manage and expand the yeshiva.