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Jewish Bialystok and surroundings in Eastern Poland, a guide for yesterday and today, Tomasz Wiśniewski ; translated from the Polish by Lucyna Aleksandrowicz-Pedich ; edited by David and Ellen Elliott and Jill Simonsen ; with a foreword by Mimi Sheraton

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [134]-137)

contains biographical information

illustrationsmaps

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non fiction

Jewish Bialystok and surroundings in Eastern Poland

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Tomasz Wiśniewski ; translated from the Polish by Lucyna Aleksandrowicz-Pedich ; edited by David and Ellen Elliott and Jill Simonsen ; with a foreword by Mimi Sheraton

a guide for yesterday and today

"Countless men and women around the world today think of themselves as "Bialystokers," whether by birth or inheritance. In recent years, growing numbers of them have taken the trouble to make their way to northeastern Poland to visit - or revisit - the region that has been called "the heart of European Jewry," This Guide for Yesterday and Today is for them, as well as for students everywhere of the lost Jewish heritage of Poland. At the outbreak of World War II, more than three-quarters of all the Jews in the world either lived in Poland, or on former Polish lands, or were descendants of Jews who had lived there. The city of Bialystok alone counted at least 50,000 Jews, and refugees from the German invasion of Western Poland nearly tripled that number by November 1939. Today, only half a dozen Jews live in Bialystok...This ... book, which contains: the history of Białystok, Tykocin, and 30 nearby towns and villages; tours of Białystok by foot and auto to suit various time schedules; individual names and dates from cemeteries and and an old guidebook; a chronology of Jewish life in Białystok, starting in the 15th century; short biographies of notable Białystok Jews; 77 photographs and 25 maps... "--Back cover

Appendices: 1. Chronology of Jewish life in Bialystok -- 2. Notable Bialystok Jews [brief biographical notes about individuals who are given less attention elsewhere in the book, alphabetical] -- 3. Growth of Jewish population in Bialystok (city) [1663-1941] -- 4. Bialystok Jewish cemetery names [name and death date from tombstones in the Bialystok cemetery which could be deciphered by the author in 1994] -- 5. Tykocin Jewish Cemetery names [name and death date from tombstones in the Tykocin cemetery which could be deciphered by the author in 1994] -- 6. Jewish communities in the Bialystok region existing before 1939 [nothing survives today]; Villages where the census of 1921 noted more than 10 Jews living -- 7. Some travel basics for the region -- 8. Bibliography -- 9. Working glossary of terms used in the study of Jewish art and architecture