A well in a rural area of Volhynia not far .from the Polish-Russian border
Mountain Jews in Rosachacz a village in the Eastern Beskid range of the Carpathian
Mountain Jews in Rosachacz a village in the Eastern Beskid range of the Carpathian
Jews and peasants in a village in the .Carpathian mountains 1921
An elderly wanderer and his grandson en route between Warsaw and Otwock one of the many rural towns that surround the .capital 1928
Wooden foot bridge in Maciejowice one of the oldest Jewish settlements in Lublin
The store and home of Yankev and Perl Rebejkow on a street in Jeziory ca. 1900. The sign in Russian advertises their wares - grain flour
The store and home of Yankev and Perl Rebejkow on a street in Jeziory ca. 1900. The sign in Russian advertises their wares - grain flour
The store and home of Yankev and Perl Rebejkow on a street in Jeziory ca. 1900. The sign in Russian advertises their wares - grain flour
Zabludow 1916. A town famous for its .seventeenth-century wooden synagogue
.Market day in Hrubiesz 1925
Water pump in the fish market in Otwock twenty-eight kilometers southeast of
Entrance to the Jewish quarter in .Cracow 1938
Jatkowa (Meatmarket) Street in the old .Jewish quarter of Vilna
The Jewish quarter in the old section of .Lublin 1938
Market day in Kremieniec 1925. One of .the oldest settlements in eastern Poland
Sale of clothing at the market in Kazimierz .nad Wisa (Yiddish: Kuzmir) ca. 1920
Jews praying at the tombstone of REMA (Rabbi Moses Isserles) o Lag baOmer the anniversary of .his death REMA who died in 1572 is buried near the
The tomb of Rabbi Elijah (1720-1797) the Bilna .Gaon Behind the tomb can be seen the tree which sprang according to legend from the graveside of
Tombstone of Jacob Meshullam ben Mordecai Zeev Ornstein (17751839) the great Talmudist in the old cemetery in Lwow. The relief on the tombstone shows the four volumes of his famous work the Yeshuot Yakov a commentary on the .Shulhan Arukh
Tombstones in the old Jewish cemetery in .Stryj The 18th-century tombstones in the foreground is decorated with a relief .of the Polish eagle
Family gathered at a tombstone in the cemetery in Wloszczowa. The tombstone bears the inscription: "A righteous man who led a life of good deeds who lived from the fruits of his labor all his years who died young who was a giver of charity the worthy one Yisroel Yitskhok son of Shmuel Zindl may his memory be blessed...May his soul
Proffessional mourners (klogerins) in the cemetery in Brody. During the month of Elul it was customary to visit the graves of relatives and of very pious Jews to pray for eternal rest for the deceased and to beg them to intervene with G-d on behalf of the living. Professional mourners were sometimes hired to improvise prayers and entreaties in
Interior of the Old Synagogue of Kazimierz (Cracow). Built in the late fourteenth century it is the oldest remaining synagogue in .Poland
The great fortress synagogue of Luck built during the seventeenth century on the site of an older wooden synagogue. It was constructed in the form of a fortress to help defend the city against the .invasions of the Cossacks and Tatars
The synagogue in Orla. Originally a Calvinist church the building was sold to the Jews of Orla in 1732 after the failure of the Calvinist movement in
The Tlomackie Synagogue in Warsaw. Built between 1872 and 1878 and designed by Leandro Marconi an Italian architect it was
The synagogue in the Free City of Gdansk (Danzig) built in 1881 and destroyed by the Germans in 1940. In 1939 the Jewish comunity in dgansk realizing that war was imminent sent the treasured objects from the Gdansk Synagogue to the Jewsih Theological Seminary in New York for safekeeping. Today these objects are at the Jewish
Worshipers leaving the Altshtot (Old City) Synogogue on Wolborska Street Lodz 1937. On November 11 1939 the twenty-first anniversary of Polands independence this and three other great synagogues and the Kociuszko monument in Lodz were destroyed .by the Germans
Exterior of the famed eighteenth-century wooden synagogue in Wolpa. The interior is .elaborately carved and decorated
Interior of the magnificient seventeenth-century wooden synagogue in Zabludow showing the bimah the raised podium from which the Torah is .read and on Rosh Hashanah the shofar sounded
Exterior of the eighteenth-century wooden synagogue in Jeziory
Moyshe Pinczuch a shames (sexton) for forty years. .Wysokie Litewskie 1924 The shames served many functions. His main function was to care for the .synagogue He might also serve as leader of prayer charity collector
Yisrolik Szyldewer a Hasid and baldarshn (preacher) in .Staszow
.Dovid Elye the soyfer (scribe). Annopol ca. 1912 The syfer prepared Torah scrolls phylacteries .mezuzoth amulets and wedding certificates
The Gerer rebe Abraham Mordecai ( Alter (d. 1948 the great-grandson of the founde