Image before my eyes ================================== mizrachi1.jpg and mizrach1a.gif p.18 Rabbi Yehude Leyb Zlotnik b1887, one of the founders of the Mizrachi movement in Poland; writer and folklorist under the name of Yehude Elzet (compendium of Yiddish sayings and customs.) ==== poor1.gif and jpg p. 45 Elderly wanderer and his grandson en route between Warsaw and Otwock, 1928. Photographer: Menakhem Kipnis. ======= p.49 fishmkt.gif and jpg Water pump in the fish market in Otwock, 28 km southeast of Warsaw. Photographer: Alter Kacyzne/Raphael Abramovitch Collection. ====== p.68 kehill1.gif and jpg Moyshe Pinczuch, a shames (sexton) in a kehillah for 40 years, Wysokie Lietwskie, 1924. Photographer: Alter Kacyzne/Raphael Abramovitch Collection. ====== p.72 chasid1.jpg and gif Hasidim outside of a house of prayer on Saturday, Cracow, 1938. Photographer: Roman Vishniac. ========== p.75 kheyder1.gif and jpg Kheyder boy, Warsaw, 1938. Photographer: Roman Vishniac. ========= p.77 boysch.jpg and gif Boys' kheyder, Lublin 1924. Photographer: Alter Kacyzne/Raphael Abramovitch Collection. ============ p.77 girlsch.jpg and gif Girls' kheyder in Laskarzew. Photographer: Alter Kacyzne/Raphael Abramovitch Collection. ========== p.78 yeshiva.jpg and gif Yeshiva students on Nalewki street. Warsaw, 1928. Photographer: Menakhem Kipnis/Raphael Abramovitch Collection. ========= p. 81 tsholnt.jpg and gif Housewives carry tsholnt to the baker's oven for the Saturday meal. Forward Art Section, November 20, 1932. ========= p. 92 tailor.jpg and gif Zelig the tailor. Photographer: Alter Kaczyne/Raphael Abramovitch Collection. ========= p.93 shoemakr.jpg and gif Shoemaker. Warsaw, 1927. Photographer: Alter Kaczyne/Raphael Abramovitch Collection. ========= p. 100 blcksmth.jpg and gif Berl Cyn, age 87, the oldest blacksmith in town. Nowe Miasto, 1925. Photographer: L. Przedecki/Raphael Abramovitch Collection. ========= p. 126 pilsud.jpg and gif Marshal Josef Pilsudski offered bread and salt by the Jewish community after he captured the town from the Bolsheviks in August, 1920. His signature appears on the photograph. Photographer: M. Fuks/I. Perle Collection. ========= p. 132 govtboys.jpg and gif, govtgirl.jpg and gif Boys' and girls' classrooms in govt schools for Jews in Warsaw. (Szabasowka) ========= p.143 beard.jpg and gif, protest.jpg and gif Jew whose beard was cut off by Polish soldiers. Lodz, 1923. Gustav Eisner Collection Demonstration of 50,000 Warsaw jews protesting British restrictions on Jewish immigration to Palestine. Photographer: H. Bojm/Nasz Przeglad, June 15, 1930. =========== p. 145 pogrom.jpg and gif Family injured during the pogrom in Minsk Mazowiecki in June, 1936. Photographer: Zychlinski/Forward Collection. ============= p. 160 manchest.jpg and gif City of Lodz, the "Polish Manchester." Jozef Pilsudski Institute Collection. ============ p. 162 seamstrs.jpg and gif Unemployed seamstress sitting by her Singer. Bialystok, 1926. Photographer: Alter Kacyzne/Raphael Abramovitch Collection. ============= p. 165 poznansk.jpg and gif Mansion of Poznanski, a nineteenth century textile magnate in Lodz. ========= p. 168 locksmth.jpg and gif Locksmith's workshop in his basement dwelling. Warsaw, 1938. Photographer: Roman Vishniac ========= p. 183 kheyder2.jpg and gif Pupils and teachers of a kheyder in Bogorja, 1930. The kheyder was supported by the Bogorja Relief Association in Chicago. =========== p. 193 jabotin.jgp and gif Vladimir Jabotinski (1880-1940), world leader of the Zionist Revisionist movement and founder of the Jewish Legion in Palestine during World War I. Postcard: Verlag Jehudia, Warsaw. ============== p. 199 mayday.jpg and gif May Day 1933 in Warsaw. Henryk Erlich speaks at the close of the Bund demonstration in front of the party club on Przejazd Street. Bund Archives of the Jewish Labor Movement, New York. ============== p. 202 mandolin.jpg and gif Mandolin orchestra of the I.L. Peretz School, a secular Yiddish primary school, in Bialystok, 1924. Photographer: B. Polski. ============= p. 212 yeshiva2.jpg and gif The Lublin Yeshiva. Founded in 1930 by Rabbi Majer Szapira, it was one of the most distinguished modern Talmudic academies in the Diaspora. From Hilel Seidman, Szalakiem nauki talmudycznej (Warsaw: F. Hoesick, 1934). ============= p. 214 ringel.jpg and gif Emmanuel Ringelblum (1900-1944), historian. He established an underground research institute and archives in the Warsaw Ghetto. =========== p. 216 balaban.gif and jpg Majer Balaban (1877-1942), historian, professor at Warwaw University, and for several years head of the Institute for Jewish Studies. Warsaw, 1930s. Studio: Rembrandt/Forward Collection. ======== p. 216 schiper.jpg and gif Ignacy Schiper (1884-1943), historian, Zionist, and member of the Polish Parliament, at YIVO conference. Vilna, 1929. Photographer: Alter Kacyzne/Raphael Abramovitch Collection. ======= p. 227 singer.jpg and gif Isaac Bashevis Singer (right) and his brother Israel Joshua Singer (d. 1944), distinguished Yiddish novelists. I.J. Singer is noted for his symbolist dramas and epic "family" novels. I.B. Singer came to America in 1935. Many of his works have been translated into English. ======= p. 232 esther.jpg and gif Esther Rokhl Kaminska (1870-1925). She pioneered in the development of the Yiddish art theater and acted in the first Jewish films, which were made in Warsaw at the turn of the century. Photographer: J. Ejgel. ======= p. 238 kaminska.jpg and gif Ida Kaminska as Esmerelda in a Yiddish stage adaptation of Victor Hugo's Hunchback of Notre Dame, a VYKT production directed by Zygmunt Turkow. It had its premiere in Vilna in 1925.