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Section |
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VOLUME II |
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Introduction |
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From the Editors – History of the Society of Bialystok | 1 | 3 | $60 | $0 | |
Chapter One The Textile Industry of Bialystok up to 1880 |
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A | Bialystok as a business center | 5 | 6 | $120 | $0 |
B | The beginning of textile industry in the region of Bialystok | 11 | 6 | $120 | $0 |
C | The textile industry in the Province of Grodno in 1828 | 17 | 5.5 | $120 | $0 |
D | The reasons for the development of the textile industry in Bialystok | 22 | 5.5 | $120 | $0 |
E |
The first Jewish textile manufacturers in Bialystok [SURNAMES -- PERLIS; BLOCH; MINTZ, HALBERSZTAM, ZABLUDOWSKI; KEMPNER; NOWIK; TRILLING; HUBINSKI; SURAZSKI] For more information, go to detailed Table of Contents |
28 | 10 | $200 | $200 |
F | Jewish factory towns -- Horodok (Grodek); Knyszyn; Ruzhany | 38 | 2 | $40 | $0 |
Chapter Two The Textile Industry in Bialystok in the Years 1880-1900 |
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A | The fast growth of the textile industry of Bialystok | 41 | 3.5 | $80 | $0 |
B | Bank buildings, business buildings (selling merchandise), commissioners | 44 | 2.5 | $60 | $0 |
C | The relationship between manufacturer and commissioner in the textile industry of Bialystok | 47 | 3 | $60 | $0 |
D | The numbers for the year 1898 | 49 | 4 | $80 | $0 |
E | An alphabetical list of manufacturers up to 1900 | 54 | 16.5 | $340 | $0 |
F | An alphabetical list of the cottage industry of home weavers up to 1900 | 70 | 3 | $60 | $0 |
G | The silk-textile industry in Bialystok | 73 | 0.5 | $20 | $0 |
Chapter Three The Jewish Worker of Bialystok up to 1900 |
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A | Knowledge concerning Jewish textile-workers in the year 1828 | 74 | 3 | $60 | $60 |
B | General characteristics of the Jewish textile worker | 77 | 3 | $60 | $60 |
C | The weavers’ strikes | 79 | 5 | $100 | $30 |
D | About the number and condition of Jewish workers in Bialystok in 1900 | 84 | 6.5 | $140 | $140 |
E | The worker becomes drawn into the political struggle | 91 | 4 | $80 | $0 |
Chapter Four The stormy years of 1900-1907 |
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A | The crisis of 1900 | 96 | 2.5 | $60 | $0 |
B | The rise of the Worker’s movement | 98 | 5 | $100 | $0 |
C | The anarchists, their terror, their tactics | 103 | 5.5 | $120 | $0 |
D | The power of the illegal organizations | 108 | 2 | $40 | $0 |
E | Two social organizational goals in Bialystok -- Zionists & Poale Zionism | 111 | 2.5 | $60 | $0 |
Chapter Five The Massacre of 1905 and the Great Pogrom of Bialystok |
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A | The first massacres – July 30, 1905 | 114 | 1.5 | $40 | $40 |
B | The second massacre – October 18, 1905 | 115 | 1 | $20 | $20 |
C | The general reason for pogroms in 1905-1906 | 116 | 1 | $20 | $20 |
D | The Pogrom of June 1-3, 1906 | 117 | 7.5 | $160 | $160 |
E | The sacred martyrs | 125 | 2.5 | Complete | |
F | The aid for those who suffered | 127 | 4 | $80 | $0 |
G | The memorial | 131 | 1.5 | $40 | $0 |
H | The punishment to those who carried out the pogroms | 132 | 2 | $40 | $0 |
Chapter Six In the Years of 1908-1914 |
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A | The textile industry of Bialystok further develops | 135 | 1.5 | $40 | $0 |
B | The Jewish weaver of Bialystok reaches the mechanical loom | 136 | 4 | $80 | $0 |
C | The condition of Jewish work in 1912 | 140 | 2 | $40 | $0 |
D | The old state of just and proper treatment, and our participation, and the Duma elections | 142 | 3.5 | $80 | $0 |
E | The two newspapers of Bialystok | 145 | 1.5 | $40 | $0 |
F | The last two meat tax budgets | 147 | 3.5 | $80 | $0 |
Chapter
Seven The Reconstruction of the Old Community Institutions |
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A | The Talmud Torah | 151 | 7 | $140 | $0 |
B | The city school or the Synagogue | 158 | 5 | $100 | $0 |
C | The hospital for the poor | 163 | 2 | $40 | $0 |
D | The Mikvehs | 164 | 2.5 | $60 | $0 |
E | The sacred cemeteries and Chevra Kadisha | 167 | 7.5 | $160 | $0 |
Chapter
Eight Bialystok during the Years of the First World War |
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A | In the first War year | 175 | 8.5 | $180 | $0 |
B | Bialystok organizes itself under the Germans | 183 | 8 | $160 | $0 |
C | The Hunger regime under the Germans | 191 | 3 | $60 | $0 |
D | The death toll of the Jewish population during the time of the occupation | 194 | 1.5 | $40 | $0 |
E | The strict regulations of the occupation authority | 196 | 2 | $40 | $0 |
F | Businesses during the time of The War | 198 | 1.5 | $40 | $0 |
G | The Jewish textile industry during the time of the occupation | 199 | 4.5 | $100 | $0 |
Chapter Nine Jewish Organized Society during the War Years |
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A | The cooperatives or consumer organizations | 205 | 3.5 | $80 | $0 |
B | The inexpensive and free kitchens | 208 | 2.5 | $60 | $0 |
C | The Women’s committee | 210 | 4 | $80 | $0 |
D | Organizations of merchants and of house owners | 214 | 2 | $40 | $0 |
E | Zionist Activities | 216 | 5 | $100 | $0 |
F | In the Leftist circles | 221 | 3 | $60 | $0 |
G | The awakened striving for fine arts | 224 | 2.5 | $60 | $0 |
Chapter Ten The Community Council and its Activity |
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A | The Community Council becomes organized | 227 | 6.5 | $140 | $0 |
B | The first step and the first crisis | 233 | 3.5 | $80 | $0 |
C | The question concerning an enforcer | 237 | 7 | $140 | $0 |
D | The various incomes of the Community Council | 243 | 5.5 | $120 | $0 |
E | The Community Council as the provider of the Jewish population | 249 | 2.5 | $60 | $0 |
F | The Community Council as a central institution and the battle against it | 252 | 3 | $60 | $0 |
G | The Community Council as the defender of Jewish interests and rights | 255 | 3.5 | $80 | $0 |
H | The Community Council to learn the Hebrew language | 258 | 1 | $20 | $0 |
I | The work house for women | 259 | 1.5 | $40 | $0 |
J | Ups and downs of the finances in the years of 1917-1918 | 261 | 5 | $100 | $0 |
K | The end of the first Central Committee | 266 | 2.5 | $60 | $0 |
Chapter Eleven From 1919 to the mid 1930’s |
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A | The era of the Democratic community | 269 | 12.5 | $260 | $0 |
B | A month under the Bolsheviks | 281 | 2.5 | $60 | $0 |
C | The false-accusations (frame-ups) of Jews of Bialystok | 284 | 3.5 | $80 | $0 |
D | The community in the 1920’s | 287 | 1.5 | $40 | $0 |
E | Jewish participation in industry in the years of 1919-1921 | 289 | 3 | $60 | $0 |
F | Zigzags in industry of Bialystok in the 1920’s and beginning of 1930’s | 292 | 7 | $140 | $0 |
G |
Textile industry of Bialystok in 1936
[SURNAMES -- SOKOL; ZILBERFENIK; CITRON; SZPIRO] For more information, go to detailed Table of Contents |
299 | 4.5 | $100 | $0 |
H | The Jewish moneylender after the War | 303 | 1.5 | $40 | $0 |
Chapter Twelve Jewish Educational Institutions since the Occupation |
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A | The general picture during the occupation | 305 | 1 | $20 | $0 |
B | Improving and modernizing the Talmud Torah | 306 | 3 | $60 | $0 |
C | The Hebrew public schools | 309 | 3 | $60 | $0 |
D | The Hebrew Gymnasium (High Schools) | 311 | 4 | $80 | $0 |
E | The academic public schools | 315 | 2 | $40 | $0 |
F | The “Highly Educated” | 317 | 2.5 | $60 | $0 |
G |
The Jewish schools of the Tsisha (YiddishSchool)
[SURNAMES -- PERETZ; MENDELE] For more information, go to detailed Table of Contents |
319 | 11 | $220 | $0 |
H |
The standardized Cheders of the period after the
War
[SURNAMES -- ECKSZTEJN; ELSON; BOYARSKI; GOLDBERG; RUBINSZTEJN] For more information, go to detailed Table of Contents |
330 | 3 | $60 | $0 |
I | The Yeshivas of Bialystok after the time of the occupation | 333 | 5.5 | $120 | $0 |
J | The Bais Yakov Schools | 339 | 1.5 | $40 | $0 |
K |
Private beginner schools for girls
[SURNAMES -- BOGDANOWSKI; GREENHOJZ] For more information, go to detailed Table of Contents |
340 | 1 | $20 | $0 |
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The Jewish-Polish private high schools
(Gymnasiums)
[SURNAMES -- GUTMAN; DRUSKIN; ZELIGMAN; LEBENHOF; DERETSHINSKI] For more information, go to detailed Table of Contents |
341 | 3 | $60 | $0 |
M | The Polish war time Folkschools in Bialystok | 344 | 0.5 | $20 | $0 |
N | The Jewish libraries of Bialystok | 345 | 4 | $80 | $0 |
Chapter Thirteen Looking Back and General View (survey) |
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A | General impression of Bialystok in 1880 | 349 | 5 | $100 | $0 |
B | The bad situation of the community institutions in 1880 | 353 | 2 | $40 | $0 |
C | Bialystok develops | 355 | 3 | $60 | $0 |
D | General characteristics, features of the Bialystok Kehill | 358 | 8 | $160 | $0 |
E | A word of farewell | 366 | 1 | $20 | $0 |
Index |
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Index of People | 369 | 11 | $220 | $220 | |
ENTIRE VOLUME II |
380 | $8040 |
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