Life in a Shtetl

The market place http://www.novogrudek.co.uk/feature_images/?g=0&id=QJRVEu&theme_colour=blue
Life in a Shtetl




Yankl the water seller http://www.novogrudek.co.uk/feature_images/?g=0&id=OG5h6g&theme_colour=blue


Life in a Shtetl

http://www.novogrudek.co.uk/feature_images/?g=0&id=x8cZqd&theme_colour=blue The town hall

Religion

Rabbi Moshe Harcavy

Rabbi Yechiel Michl Epstein (1884-1908)

Rabbi Yitzchak Elkhanan Spector (1851-1864)

Throughout central and eastern Europe religion was an important element in every day life for all communities.

Many took their ethnic identity from their religion rather than their nationality and the concept of the nation state was still in its infancy in those regions. Ethnic Poles were Catholics, Byelorussians were Orthodox Christians, the Muslims still identified as Tartars despite settlement in the region for a number of centuries. The Jewish community was no different and considered themselves Jews foremost.

Religion was a binding force and focus of community life for everyone. In Novogrudek the Jewish community was divided between a number of synagogues, all orthodox but encompassing a range of political beliefs. The Jewish community lived under the religious guidance of a number of famous and influential rabbis.

In 1905 Rabbi Jozef Yozl Hurvitz opened the famous Musar Yeshiva.

Alexander Harcavy

Emigration from Novogrudek

http://www.novogrudek.co.uk/emigration/ go to the link for information
The First World War

The First World War

Jewish workers working for the Germans in the First World War

 

The First World War

to read about it go to; http://www.novogrudek.co.uk/the_first_world_war/

The Soup Kitchen

http://www.novogrudek.co.uk/interwar_years/

Novogrudek as part of Poland and the position of the Jewish minority

http://www.novogrudek.co.uk/novogrudek_as_part_of_poland/

Novogrudek as part of Poland and the position of the Jewish minority

Gmilat Chesed 'Interest Free Loans'

Szpital Zydowski Jewish Hospital, Doctors and nurses 1921

Jewish Politics and Social Groups

The Central Committee

The central committee in Novogrudek

Tuvia Bielski, Commandeer of the Jewish partisan unit, in the Polish army 1927-29

Leon Pikelny with his father and sister, Novogrudek 1938

Novogrudek help committee in New York

Novogrudek as part of Poland and the position of the Jewish minority

Sheikdey Melocho (ort school)

Jewish Politics and Social Groups

A group of Socialists in Novogrudek

ZionJewish Politics and Social Groupsist election Novogrudek 1935 http://www.novogrudek.co.uk/politics_and_social_groups/

Jewish Politics and Social Groups

Firemen?s band
Jewish Politics and Social Groups

Maccabi Cycling team
Jewish Politics and Social Groups

Maccabi Football Team

Education http://www.novogrudek.co.uk/education/

Miss Portnoy with kindergarden children. 1935

Tarbut Hebrew school



Mr Bruk, religious teacher in Novogrudek