Book of Lida

Photographs

Caption	Page
Map of Lida, 1940	6
Lida Fortress	16
Aron HaKodesh of the Great Synagogue (drawn by a Jewish soldier)	27
Yeshiva of Rabbi Reines (1913)	29
Girl's High School of Novitzky (1912)	30
The “Hazimir” Zionist Club (Lida, about 1913)	31
The municipal election committee of the “Royal Duma” (1906)	33
Teachers of “Tarbut” (of the late Moshe Levit)	44
The Hebrew “Tarbut” High School in 1923	44
Group of “Tarbut” supporters	45
The “Tarbut” School, 3rd degree, in the year 1927	45
Yosef Haftman in the company of a group of Zionist Youth, 1928	45
”Tarbut” Kindergarten (1930) managed by Yehudit Zilbersztajn (Landau)	46
Tamar Yeruslimski's kindergarten (1930)	46
Elementary school named after Shalom Alechem in Lida – 1931	48
Membership card for the ”Hashomer Haza'ir” branch in Lida	48
The “Yasha”{?} elementary school named after Shalom Alechem	49
Kindergarten established by “Yasha” near the Shalom Alechem school	49
Shalom Alechem Kindergarten, 1929	50
Jewish students in the municipal high school with teacher	50
State elementary school for Jewish children	51
State elementary school - fifth grade (at the end of the nineteen twenties)	51
The Jewish library management with guest, the writer, Sh. Niger	54
Town council of the city of Lida (at the beginning of the twenties)	54
”TOZ” Camp (1938), teacher Luna	62
Camp in Rushlaki of the kindergarten founded by “Yasha”	62
Camp in Rushlaki of the elementary school established by “Yasha”	62
A group of students of the State Jewish elementary school	63
Class of the State Jewish elementary school	63
A class celebration of the school “Tarbut”	64
Sixth grade of “Tarbut” school (1936-1937)	64
Youth sports troop of “Macabee “1923	65
Physical education. Class of third graders “Tarbut school”,1936	65
Macabee of Lida. The coach is Chaim Kiblovicz	65
Group Macabee girls with the coach	65
Group Macabee girls, 1923	65
Tarbut School Certificate, 1935	66
Front Pages of the Weekly “Lider Woch” 1933–1934	67
Flower Day in Lida, 1925, collecting money for JNF	68
”To the Jewish population of Lida...”	69
Henya Rabinowitz, sister of the Lida Rabbi	100
Rabbi R' Aharon Rabinowitz and family	100
Rabbi Itzak Yakob Reines	106
Lida Yeshiva (1910)	108
The genius rabbi: R' Shlomo Poliachek	109
Pinchas Shifman (Ben-Sira)	110
Moshe Cohen (Kagan)	110
Dr. Hirsh Leib Gordon (1896 - 1969)	111
The Mayatzazer “Eiloy” (rabbi Shlomo Poliachek)	114
Staff and Students of the Yeshiva	120
Rabbi Itzhak Yakob Reines	125
Rabbi Reines with the graduating class of the Yeshiva	126
Moshe Biten (Bitensky)	130
Way of life	133
Yakob Ilutowitz	137
Postcard: Sadova [Garden] Street as seen from the Yeshiva	138
Postcard: the Great Synagogue on in the center of Sadova Street	139
Tarbut School of Lida, 1927/28	141
Mikal Evensky	149
R' Yosef Bielogrodsky (Yoshy the Torah Scribe) and daughter Batya (1920)	151
R'Yosef Epshtein and the students of the youngest class	161
Tarbut School of Lida, 1931	167
Tarbut School, 1937	168
The cultural committee of the Tarbut school, 1929	169
The play “Joseph was sold” written by Y. Catzenelson (1917)	174
The singing teacher Shiman and his chorus, 1923	175
Concert Program, 1922	175
Performance: “Dvora Hanevia” (Dvora the prophet) at the Tarbut School, 1932	176
Dramatic Society at the time of the German Occupation in WWI	177
Amateur Drama Circle in Lida with Kheikl Visnevsky's Children's Choir	178
Notes: “The blind beggar's song” and “From Meir Lideer's compositions”	178
The River Lideika, drawing by E. Sander	179
Itzak Halevi Dimitrovsky	183
Reception for Jewish soldiers at Passover, in Mrs. Rudnitzky's restaurant	183
The Hertziliah Orphanage in Lida, staff and children	184
A letter in Yiddish, probably referring to TOZ	187
TOZ in Lida	187
Summer camp for Jewish children from Lida organized by TOZ in Rashlaki	188
Firemen about 1926	191
Firemen	191
The Volunteer Firemen 1932	191
Jubilee Medal of the Volunteer Firemen of Lida 1832-1932	191
no caption; probably the author, A. Guelman	192
Tarbut Ein-Yakob of Chasids of Lida	196
Matza making in Lida	215
On the Way to Zion and Zion as a Way	220
Rabbi Shimon Tzvi Horowitz	221
Itzak Yosef Zhimitrovsky	224
Yosef Yudelowitz	224
Chaim Kropsky (Ariav)	225
Elimelik Zlikowitz (Abner)	225
Yakob Shifman (Ben-Sira)	226
“HeChalutz” garden, year 1919	228
A group of the first pioneers from Lida, immigrated to the land in Av of 5680	228
A group of members from the “HeChalutz” organization	228
Class B or 2nd Grade, Tarbut School	228
Young WIZO	228
Haneuer Ha-Zion	228
Hashomer Hetzeir of Lida, Yula Zeitzik	230
The Kinereth Group of Hashomer Hetzeir, Lida, 1928	231
The organization “Freiheit” (Freedom) at the beginning of the 1930's	232
“HaShomer HaTzair“ (The Young Guardians)	233
“Zionist Youth” in Lida	233
The “Oved” union committee at the beginning of the 1920's	233
General meeting of “HaShomer Hetzeir”	235
“Hashomer Hetzeir” summer camp in Lida	236
The “Carit” (pillowcase) group of “HaShomer HaTzair”	236
“HaShomer HaTzair” - “Yehuda” group 1928	236
The “Baderech” (on the road) group of “HaShomer HaTzair”	236
Rayon (district) conference of “Poelei Tzion” (Workers of Zion) in Lida 1930	237
Dvoshe (Dorit) Volpinsky, Minya Krinik, Abigel Boyarsky, Ester Khetzkalowitz, Letzki, Eruzlimsky, Sklotzky, Kaplinsky	239
The committee for “Eretz Ysrael Ha'ovedet”	241
no caption	241
“Hachalutz” about 1925	241
A group of “Poaley Zion” (the Workers of Zion) party members	241
“Beitar” in Lida (1932)	243
Founders of “Brit Trumpeldor”	244
The “Zahar” [Revisionists] in Lida (1932)	244
“Beitar” of Lida members in a parade in the city streets	244
Zev Zabotinsky in Lida 1932	245
Shmuel Rubinowitz, “Beitar” of Lida	245
“Hachalutz” on flower day in Lida	246
“Kibbutz Hachshara” [Training kibbutz] in Lida	247
“Hachalutz” Histadrut about 1924	248
In the “Hachalutz” garden of Lida about 1919	248
“HaChalutz Hetzeir” with a photo of comrade Wismonski	249
“HaChalutz Hetzeir”	250
“Hachalutz Hetzeir” 1923	251
“Hachalutz Hetzeir” of Lida	251
“The Dying of a City” - A. Shlonsky	253
Tuvia Bielsky commander of the Jewish partisans' camp	286
Shmuel Amrant	288
Itzak Rubinowitz (1943?)	301
Kalman Ozherkovsky (Orcher)	314
Document: Charecteristika (certificate as to character)	319
Menachem Reznik	320
Reuven Rubenstein	344

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