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Family of Weavers
"A Bialystok weaver family, which is now weaving only hopes for a better time" (Yiddish caption). (Part of a photo essay in the "Jewish Daily Forward" entitled "Bialystok, During The Present Unemployment Period.")
Waiting for work.
"Lookouts..." "Textile workers. Waiting for jobs to turn up." ("Jewish Daily Forward' captions in Yiddish and English.) (Part of a photo essay entitled "Bialystok, During The Present Unemployment Period.")
Home of Ludvik Zamenhof
Home of Ludvik Zamenhof
Bundists.
Studio portrait: "Organizers of the [Jewish Socialist] Bundist party in Bialystok... From right to left: Solomon Berditshever, A. Rubin, and Epshteyn (Ben Yakir)." (Part of a photo essay in the "Forward," 1927: "Bundist Men And
Women Of The Past.")
Women Of The Past.")
Jewish Men of Bialystok.
"Jewish beaus of Bialystok... all now in America. The first two on the left (brothers) live in Chicago; the rest in New York." (From a "Forward" photo essay, 1932: "Striking Photographs Of The Vogues Of Yesteryear Submitted By Our Readers.")
Jewish Revolutionaries.
Studio portrait of "Jewish revolutionaries... Far right, Ruvke the Baker, who in 1906 shot the police chief of Bialystok and was later killed in the awful pogrom that June. 3rd from right, Berl the carpenter, now of Detroit." ("Forward" caption,…
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