Misnagdic and Hasidic centers in East European Jewry, early nineteenth century.
The Pale of Settlement, ca. 1855.
The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and the Partitions of Poland. Boundaries shown are ca. 1795.
Centers of Bund activity. Boundaries shown are ca. 1935.
Pogroms. Sites of major pogroms, 1881–1884 and 1903–1906.
Russian Empire, ca. 1914.
Belarus, ca. 2000.
The Polish Republic in the Interwar Period, ca. 1930s.
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, 1922–1991 (European regions).
City now in Belarus; also known in Polish and Russian as Grodno and in Yiddish as Horodno or Grodne. … In the 1890s, Grodno became an important center for the Zionist movement, whose adherents lent …
Patient undergoing treatment at the Jewish Hospital, Grodno (now Hrodna, Bel.), 1926. Photograph by L. Gelgor.
Zajczyk, a lumber merchant, reading a copy of the Yiddish newspaper Moment, Grodno, Poland (now Hrodna, Bel.), 1920s.
View of the Koloza neighborhood, whose woods were a popular place for Sabbath walks, Grodno (Hrodna), ca. 1915. Photograph by A. Fialko.
Postcard with scenes of Grodno (now Hrodna, Belarus), home of the nineteenth-century Polish writer Eliza Orzeszkowa (portrait, center), author of Meir Ezofowicz and other books with sympathetic …
Group portrait of students of the First Jewish Real Gymnasium, Grodno, Poland (now Hrodna, Belarus), 1925. Languages of instruction were Polish and Russian, with one hour for instruction in Hebrew …
… His appearance in Warsaw was a big success and he will soon be heading off to Bialystok and Grodno. Noah Pryłucki will help get Manger’s visa extended. Yiddish. RG 107, Letters Collection.
… as Har Shalom (or by the acronym Hash), Avraham Shalom Friedberg was born in Grodno, Lithuania. … In 1858, Friedberg returned to Grodno and subsequently became the leader of the maskilim in that city …
… authorities asked Shkop to head the Sha‘ar ha-Torah Yeshiva in Grodno that had been established during the war and was now … in 1926, Shkop also served as rabbi of the Grodno suburb of Vorstadt …
… 1619), Polish rabbi, probably born in Grodno or nearby Tykocin, possibly in the territory disputed by both communities, for he was called Binyamin Horodno (Grodno) on the title page of the 1606 Italian …
… ben Aharon was attracted to the preaching of the Sabbatian prophet Tsadok ben Shemaryah of Grodno, a former brandy distiller who appeared around 1694, traveled through Eastern and Central Europe, and …