Pictures and Documents

Excepts from Polish Encyclopedias and History Books 9,11,12,14,16,19
The Town in 1915 (picture) 21
A Gravestone from 100 years ago 23
Front page of "Heint" [Today], 1915 25
Front page of "Moment," 1915 26
Excerpt from "Moment," 1916 27
Proshnitz in 1917 (photograph) 29
Receipts for Torah scroll corrections 31
The Synagogue in Proshnitz (drawing) 33
Eliyahu Porsitzky – Receipts from the Synagogue's Construction 36
The Beis Yosef Yeshiva 37
"Peter Mendel," Rosenzweig 42
Bertshe Ludvinovitz 42
Major Shmaya Friedman 44
Youth Pageant, 1901 47
Louis Hertzberg 48
Chaim and Sarah-Gittel Blum 52
Admiral Rickover and President Johnson 53
Admiral Rickover on the Nautilus 55
'Shayahu-Yechiel Pertzelina 59
The Bachrach family 63
A Postcard from 1942, from Rivka Bachrach 64
Soccer team, 1921 66
Invitation from the "Arlozerov Home" 69
"HeChalutz" Committee, 1932 71
Aharon Pertzelina-Charsina – Yosef Kalfus 73
A Group of Jewish tradesmen 75
The Polish Press on the Beilis Case 76
Moshe Bramson, Yisrael Laufer, Eliezer Pianka 76
Invitation to a JNF bazaar 77
Postcard from Rabbi M. M. Levkovitz, 1915 79
Sign Announcing a Reading by Arye Fried 82
The cemetery Morgue 84
Except from "HaTzefirah" [The Siren] 89-91
Large Group of Zionist Communal Activists 90
Library Committee of the Zionist Organization, 1926 91
"HaShomer HaTza'ir" Leadership, 1916 92
"HaShomer HaTza'ir" Leadership, 1925 93
Two Photographs of "Shomer HaTza'ir" 94
Two Photographs of "Shomer HaTza'ir," 1922
The "Bund" leadership 97
Workers' Circular, Y. I. V. O., 1928 99
Leftist-"Poalei Tzion" Activists 101
Excerpt from "HaTzefirah" [The Siren], 1918 102
Yosef Laufer and Wife 103
"HaPoel" Sports Club, 1937 104
Excerpt from "Das Wort," 1936 104
Beitar Activists, 1931 105
Beitar in Proshnitz, 1939 106
Excerpt from "HaMizrachi" 107
Excerpt from "HaTzefirah" 108
A Group of "Beis Ya'akov" Children 109
A Group of "Beis Ya'akov" Girls 110
"HaShomer HaLeumi," 1930 111
"HaShomer HaIvri," 1935 111
Programs from Drama Circulars, 1916, 1923, 1925 112
Shalom-Getzel Holzman 115
Shlomo-Yitzchak Fisher 118
The Kindergarten 119
Raphael Reich's classroom, 1918 119
Tel-Aviv Memorial Ceremony, 1967 120
Yitzchak Leib Allenstein 121
The cemetery Entrance, 1947 121
Rabbi Yisachar Berish Groibart 125
Frontispiece of "Two Dibbuks" 130
Receipt from Rabbi M. M. Levkovitz, 1923 131
Letter from Rabbi M. M. Levkovitz 134
Posfrom Rabbi Y. Perzhentzavsky 136
Frontispiece from the book "Imrei Pi" 137
Tel-Aviv Memorial Ceremony, 1965 140
Cantor H. B. Borstein 141
Taking Leave of Ida Levkovitz 142
"HaMagid," "HaLevanon," "HaTzefirah" 145-147
Drawing by Yaffa Talarak 164
Leah Yerachem, husband and child 165
Chaim Yalowiec 180
Gedaliah Amsterdam 188
Malka Holtzman 190
Nosson Alshever at the cemetery, 1946 190
Shlomo Akansky – Michoel Gozevatzker 192
A Group of the "Teheran Children," 1942 195
Yechezkel Prager and Wife 203
Party for Louis Hertzberg 205
L. Hertzberg, Cornerstone of the Beer Factory 206
Free-Loan-Fund Receipt 207
David Bachrach and Family 213
The Poetess Rosa Yakobovitz 214
Two Fashion Photographs 215
Mindel Morzhan Strumen 216
Isser Partchak 217
Major Yosef Partchak 218
Rachel Hertzberg 218
Benny Bachrach in Proshnitz, 1955 222
Dina Rosenzweig in Proshnitz, 1966 223
Houses on the "Bologna," 1966 224
A Group of Soldiers in the Polish Military 228
Refugees from Proshnitz in Reichenbach, 1947 229
Memorial Ceremony in Reichenbach, 1947 230
The Crowd at a Memorial Ceremony, Tel-Aviv 1957 231
Lighting Candles at a Memorial Ceremony, 1966 232
At a Memorial Monument in Martyr's Forest, 1958 232

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