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#vil_p3-1:A
group of Yiddish writers: (standing, l-r) Gershteyn, Zalman Reisen, Maks
Erik, Eliohu-Yankev Goldshmit, Isaac Fridkin; (seated, l-r) Arn Yitzkhok
Grodzenski, Sore Reisen, Moshe (Moses) Kulbak, Boris Kletzkin, Berl Horovitz,
Heilprin. 1928.
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#vil_p3-2:Playwright
David Pinsky at a gathering of Yiddish writers. 1936.
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#vil_p3-3:Board
of the Vilna Yiddish Writers and Journalists Association at a farewell
to S. Ansky on his departure to Warsaw: (seated, l-r) A. Shneider, Leyb
Yafe, Zemach Shabad (Szabad), Ansky, L. Citron, A. Virshubsky, J. Wigodsky;
(2nd row, 2nd from l) M. Weinreich. 1919.
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#vil_p3-4:Studio
portrait of Yudel Pressman, Hebrew poet. 1922.
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#vil_p3-5:Vignetted
studio portrait of Motke Khabad (1820-1880), a story teller, posing with
a bottle of wine. 1880.
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#vil_p3-6:Studio
portrait of actors: (r-l) Chaim Schneur (Hamerow), Eliosha Stein, Aleksander
Azro, Mordecai Mazo, Noach Nachbush and Leib Kadison. 1918.
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#vil_p3-7:Studio
portrait of actor Chaim Schneur ( Hamerow) (standing, right), later a
member of the Vilna Troupe, with a group of friends, members of the Jewish
Socialist Bund.pre-WWI.
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#vil_p3-8:M.
Kovalsky as Ezrielke Mirapoler in "The Dybbuk," a play by S.
Ansky. 1925.
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#vil_p3-9:Ida
Kaminska's Theater Ensemble: Adam Dab, Ida Kaminska, David Helfman, Ida
Natan, Bergman, Sonia Altbojm, Gurwicz, Baradow, S. Blachev, L. Herbst,
Busia Kurc, Josef (Osja) Kamen, M. Melman, Jakub Ginzburg, Khaim Goldzader
and Noah Majzler. 1936.
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#vil_p3-10:Sara
Herman at the tombstone of her husband, theater figure David Herman (1874-1937).
1937-39
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#vil_p3-11:Studio
portrait of Yosef Vinogradov [Winogradoff], opera singer and cantor, founder
of the Jewish Opera Theater.
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#vil_p3-12:Studio
portrait of Yitskhok Pirazhnikow (1859-1933), musician, conductor and
composer. before 1933.
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#vil_p3-13:3
generations of the family of shopkeeper Pesa, daughter of Rabbi Pyeshin,
and Yosef Szabad, a merchant (both seated, center). Their son Zemach Shabad
(Cemach Szabad) (standing, back row, center) was a doctor, a leader of
the Folkist party and a founder of YIVO. 1937.
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#vil_p3-14:Outdoor
portrait of Dr. Zemach Shabad (Szabad), his wife Stefania-Shifra and two
other couples. 1900.
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#vil_p3-15:Studio
portrait Dr. Zemach Shabad (Szabad) with his children Regina, Yasha and
Zhomie. Shabad was a physician, a leader of the Folkist party, and a founder
of YIVO. His daughter Regina married scholar Max Weinreich, another founder
of YIVO.1915.
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#vil_p3-16:Studio
portrait of Dr. Zemach Shabad (Szabad) with his sons Yasha and Zhomie.
(One son is in a soldier's uniform.) Shabad was a physician, a leader
of the Folkist party and a founder of YIVO. post WWI.
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#vil_p3-17:Dr.
Zemach Shabad (Szabad) reading to his grandsons Uriel and Gabriel Weinreich.1931.
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#vil_p3-18:Jacob
Lestschinsky, historian Simon Dubnow (3rd from l), Meir Halevi from Bucharest,
and other delegates to the YIVO Conference pose at the grave of the recently
deceased Dr. Zemach Shabad (Szabad), a physician, leader of the Folkist
party and founder of YIVO. 1935.
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#vil_p3-19:Jacob
Shatzky at the grave of Dr. Zemach Shabad.
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#vil_p3-20:Studio
portrait of engineer Izydor Shabad with his son Michal.1890s.
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#vil_p3-21:Studio
portrait of Michal Shabad in a school uniform. 1908
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#vil_p3-22:Studio
portrait of Jozef and Suzanna Szabad, with Jozef's sisters, Paulina and
Anna Wygodska, founder of the Montessori school.
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#vil_p3-23:Outdoor
portrait of Dr. Elias Sedlis, a medical doctor in the Russian army during
World War I, and director of the Jewish hospital.
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#vil_p3-24:Studio
portrait of Anna Sedlis (nee Pruzan), wife of Dr. Elias Sedlis. During
World War I, she served as a nurse in the Russian army.
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#vil_p3-25:Studio
portrait David and Henrietta Zeldowicz and their daughter Emilia. 1925.
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#vil_p3-26:Studio
portrait of Emilia Sedlis (nee Zeldowicz). 1925.
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#vil_p3-27:Studio
portrait of Emilia Sedlis (nee Zeldowicz). 1930.
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#vil_p3-28:Studio
portrait of Meir Goldsztajn.
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#vil_p3-29:Studio
portrait of Alik Abramowicz, as a young boy. 1928.
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#vil_p3-30:Studio
portrait of Jacob Benjacob, Hebrew scholar, with his wife Rachela. 1905.
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#vil_p3-31:Portrait
Jacob Benjacob, Hebrew scholar, with his wife Rachela in a study. 1925.
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#vil_p3-32:Studio
portrait of the children of Rachela and Jacob Benjacob, a Hebrew scholar:
Nina, Tonia, Tamara, Izaak.1889.
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#vil_p3-33:Studio
portrait of Dovid and Sylvia Garber Nurko with their sons and daughters-in-law.
turn of the century.
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#vil_p3-34:Studio
portrait of Liza Kowarski. 1923.
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#vil_p3-35:Studio
portrait of Lieutenant Ferdynand Beigel. 1925.
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#vil_p3-36:Engagement
portrait of Lieutenant Ferdynand Beigel and Liza Kowarski. 1925.
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#vil_p3-37:Wilhelm
Beigel, son of Ferdynand Beigel and Liza Kowarski, walking along a street.1933.
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#vil_p3-38:Studio
portrait of Wilhelm Beigel, son of Wilhelm Beigel and Liza Kowarski. 1936.
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#vil_p3-39:Khone
Kagan, Liza and Wilhelm Beigel's half brother.1930.
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#vil_p3-40:Studio
portrait of Marysia, Ferdinand Beigel's sister. 1930.
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#vil_p3-41:Zelig
Kowarski, the father of Liza Kowarski Beigel. 1920s.
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#vil_p3-42:Studio
portrait of Musia Kowarski, mother of Liza Kowarski Beigel. 1920s.
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#vil_p3-43:Studio
portrait of Chaim Kowarski with a violin. 1918.
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#vil_p3-44:Sonia
and Lew Badylkies posing near a tree. 1920s-30s.
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#vil_p3-45:Salik
Kagan, Khone's son, a toddler in a crib. 1936.
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#vil_p3-46:Masza,
Izio and Szura Kessler on Pilsudski Street with a friend. 1930.
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#vil_p3-47:Studio
portrait of Masza Kessler. 1937.
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#vil_p3-48:Studio
portrait of Zelman Kessler. 1933.
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#vil_p3-49:
Studio portrait of cantor Khayim Shimon Spiewak, with his daughter Golda.
1919. |
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Studio portrait of Reyzel Spiewak,
daughter of cantor Khayim Shimon Spiewak. 1926. |
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#vil_p3-51: Chana Fajnsztajn nee Zusmanowicz and her husband Jakub Fajnsztajn from
Wilno/Vilnus.
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#vil_p3-52:
Raya Levin
Born in 1923 in the town of Orlov, Poland, she was arrested in 1947, together with her husband Yeshayahu, on charges of attempting to escape from the USSR for Eretz Israel through Poland. Sentenced to 5 years in the Gulag and while still in the Lukishki jail in Vilnius gave birth to her daughter. Served her sentence in Svivdlag. Released in 1952, she got to Israel with her daughter and husband in 1959.
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#vil_p3-53:
Yeshayahu Levin
Born 1918 in Tarsikaj, Lithuania, he was an activist in the religious Zionist movement «HaShomer HaDati» from his early youth until 1939. In 1947 he tried to escape from the USSR for Eretz Israel through Poland, but was arrested and sentenced to 5 years imprisonment in labor camps. After his release, he worked as a veterinary doctor. His wife was also arrested and their daughter was born in a prison in Vilnius. They came to Israel in 1959 and he was a member of the Executive Committee of the Organization of Prisoners of Zion. He died in 1979.
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#vil_p3-54:
Chaya Mazinter
Born on Sept. 14th 1923 in Lithuania, she became a member «HaShomer HaTzair» at an early age. Using her job position and connections, she helped Jews in Vilnius to escape to Poland en route to Eretz Israel. In 1947 she and her husband Gilel Mazinter were arrested on charges of subversive Zionist activities and connections with international Zionism. She was sentenced by "Troika" (a special non-juridical body of 3 KGB persons) to 10 years imprisonment in the Gulag. She served her sentence in Potma, Mordovia. Released in 1956, she managed to get to Israel, together with her husband, in 1966.
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