buc504a.jpg [24 KB] - A lesson at the Beit Midrash
A lesson at the Beit Midrash
This picture was drawn by Eliezer (Lazar) Karstin in the year 5666 [1906]
(he was born in 1868 in Kovner. He taught drawing at Bezalel in Jerusalem
before the First World War. This drawing is taken from his book of pictures).

Next to the pillar from left:
Head of the Yeshiva Rabbi Abraham Leiblin, author of “KeKaf Mezukak.”
The next three men are unidentified.
Standing: Haim Shapira, grandson of Rabbi Yosef Stern on his mother's side,
and grandson of the Rabbi of Czortkow Rabbi Yeshayahu Meir Shapira on his father's side.
Sitting, second line:
The first is unidentified; the second – Peretz, the attendant at the bath-house;
third: Itzi Schechter; fourth: unidentified; fifth: Yakov Levi, a merchant.

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buc504b.jpg [17 KB] - The wall of the Great Synagogue
The wall of the Great Synagogue

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buc504c.jpg [18 KB] - The tombstone of Rabbi Yitzhak
The tombstone of Rabbi Yitzhak Kahen
 (father of Yisrael Cohen)
Next to the tombstone stand his widow and the cantor

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