Sokółka
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Sarah-Rivtze Rozental
Named as treasurer among the society’s founders.
Esther Ashkevitz
Named as secretary among the society’s founders.
Chava Broide
Named among the founders of the charitable society.
Joseph play
A theater performance organized by young men from Sokolka around the early twentieth century.
Avraham Shlomo Goldshmid
Remembered as a participant in the Joseph play.
Yaakov Friedberg
Remembered as a participant in the Joseph play.
Hetzkl Yotam
Remembered as a participant in the Joseph play.
Muli Dembe
Remembered as a participant in the Joseph play.
Yakov Sasnabski
A butcher whose house hosted a children’s institution on Dombrover Street.
Dombrover Street
Street where a children’s institution was established.
German authority
Authority from which food was obtained for the institution’s kitchen.
Jewish population
Jewish population experiencing spiritual and national revival during the period described.
Center
A political youth organization influenced by Zionists and led by Young Zion.
Shimshon Sidronsky
Hosted the Literary Society’s first premises.
Eliukim Rabinovich
Provided the society’s later, larger premises.
Zundl Chinsky
Named participant in a dispute between Zionists and Yiddishists.
Waiskavsky
Named participant in a dispute between Zionists and Yiddishists.
Yaakov Goldshteyn
Identified as Waiskavsky’s son-in-law.
Berkavsky
Named participant in a dispute between Zionists and Yiddishists.
Meir Bubrik
Identified as Berkavsky’s father-in-law.
Fishel Katzenelbogen
Named Yiddishist participant and later Bundist organizer.
Eli Glagovsky
Named participant on the Yiddishist side.
Amateur Theater Circle
The Literary Society’s theater group staged plays and dramas.
Elke Katzenelbogen
Participant in the society’s theatrical performances.
Wave Nordwind
Elke Katzenelbogen’s husband and theatrical participant.
Moshe Ahrens
Father of Meir Shteyn.
Moshe Kremer
Participant in the society’s theatrical performances.
Shprintze Kundzinske
Theatrical participant later residing in Israel.
Hettl Pekar
Theatrical participant later residing in Israel.
Feigl Grabshteyn
Theatrical participant and daughter of a shochet.
Bund organization
Organization renewed by Fishel Katzenelbogen before his 1916 departure for Bialystok.
Perl Wilenski
Directed a kindergarten home in Sokolka and later lived in Israel.
Kerensky
The passage says Kerensky took power in Russia.
Yiddish school
A Yiddish school existed for only three years.
Religious Talmud Torah
The religious Talmud Torah existed until the final day of the Holocaust.
Heshl Farbshteyn
Was the first Jewish deputy from the region in the Polish Sejm.