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Date 1905 City Lida
"The Central Committee of the Socialist-Zionist Party. First from right M. Podolski, now in Everett, Massachusetts." (From a 'Forward' photo essay, 1931: "Jewish Revolutionaries Of The Past.")

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Date World War I City Lida Pupils of a school established by the German occupation authorities. (German caption) "The children were instructed in the German language by German soldiers, and in other subjects by [Jews]... Director Albers stands by the door."

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Date World War I City Lida
Officials (seated at table, right) distribute passes to a line of "residents and Polish Jews" (German caption) outdoors, next to a building marked "109." (Background) trees and stone wall; (center) Yiddish sign, (r, German sign) "Military Passkommando."

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Date Turn of the century City Lida
The student body and staff of a rabbinical seminary. (All in secular dress, some looking out of second-floor windows).

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Date Turn of the century City Lida
Students of a rabbinical seminar

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Rabbinical seminary Date Turn of the century City Lida

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Date pub. March 14, 1926 City Lida Photographer Kacyzne, Alter
"Pesach is coming." "`A matzoh into the oven!' An old-country matzoh setter-in of the famous Lida matzoh bakeries..." ('Jewish Daily Forward' English and Yiddish captions.)

#lid_os-8:

Date pub. March 1, 1936 City Lida "Some of them are now rabbis, some doctors, and some -- Soviet commissars. An interesting picture of a group of students of the Lida Yeshiva. Front center: Rabbi Shloyme Palyatsuk, Head of the Yeshiva, known as the Maytsheter Genius..." ('Forward').

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Date pub. March 1, 1936 City Lida Rabbi Shloyme Palyatsuk, Head of the Yeshiva, known as the Maytsheter Genius..." ('Forward').

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Overhead view of a commercial street in Lida.

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A street scene in Lida

 

#lid_os-12:

Date WWI City Lida; A picture postcard published in Germany during World War I: a German soldier standing outside a cafe with local girls who work there. (Detail, back of photo) Keren Kayemet (Jewish National Fund) stamp depicting Zionist ideologue Moses Hess.

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Date World War I City Lida German soldiers distributing soup to poor children. (Part of a postcard series.)

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Date World War I City Lida Women in the marketplace. (Part of a postcard series.)

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Date World War I City Lida Women in the marketplace. (Part of a postcard series.)

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Date World War I City Lida Jewish peddlers in the marketplace. (Part of a postcard series.)

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Date World War I City Lida A Jewish storekeeper and his family in front of their shop.

#lid_os-18:

Date ca. World War I City Lida A synagogue (background, center) and neighboring houses.