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In 1915, when national-political awakening has started among Jewish youth, it also affected religious youth in Siedlce, including the Hasidic youth. The main initiator of the Hasidic youth movement was Shalom Ialan, Ben-Torah and God-fearing, the son of Moshe Mocher-Sefarim, in whose poor house were no appropriate learning conditions. Ialan, together with Ahron Nelkenboim, Leib Rotbein and […]

Immediately upon the establishment of an independent Poland “Bund” has begun to organize the Jewish workers in Siedlce. “Bund” established the trade unions at 14 Warsaw Street, the “Zukunft” (Future) association at 20 Dluga Street, the “Childrens’ home”, a cooperative grocery store and a library. The branch was headed by Moshe Altsholer, Yaakob Fishman, David Nimark (who later immigrated to America), Abraham […]

מ’ יודנגלויבן: תנועת העבודה השמאלנית בשדלץ בשדלץ, כמו בערים רבות אחרות בפולין, לא היתה תעשייה. מעט הפועלים שעבדו בעיר התרכזו בעיקר במפעלי העור והתפירה, ובכל-זאת, הם מילאו תפקיד חשוב במאבקים המהפכניים של אזרחי פולין נגד הצאריזם. לעתים קורובות, נשאו מאבקים אלה אופי עממי, והאוכלוסיה כולה, בהנהגת מפלגות הפועלים בעותה עת, יצאה לרחובות. בשנת 1905 נהרג […]

During the First World War, and especially after, “Ha’Halutz” movement started training the pioneers of our city for immigrating to Eretz-Israel. In the first pioneer Kibbutz in Kfar Peterkaz and at a farm of the Weiman brothers in Broshkashe, Jewish youths were employed in productive physical work. One of the main tasks of the movement was to get […]

We were all educated on the propaganda pamphlets of the Bund, books and pamphlets about the heroic struggle of the Russian proletariat with Tsarism. We have all contemplated the meaning of the mass strikes of thousands of workers against the capitalists, and we have analyzed in depth the arrests and executions. All this affected our moral sense. We were […]

At that time, a branch of “Ha’Halutz” (pioneer) was established in Siedlce. Its founders were Haiim Socodolski, a man of the highest level who, despite his physical weakness was active and energetic and even paid short visit to the land of Israel; the student Gelbard, Adam Levita, Ada Berg who is in Israel, Kimmel – a Zionist activist who gave lessons to “Ha’Halutz Ha’Tzair” (the young pioneer) and served for a […]

In 1902, the “Tehia” (Rebirth) organization was founded in Warsaw. The organization was headed by Iitzhak Greenbaum, Jan Kirsrat, Yosef Shprintzak, Zelig Weitzman, M. Horowitz, Jacob Alswanger, Noach Pryłucki and others. A branch of the organization was opened in Siedlce and was led by M.Landoi, Moshe Tzoker, Moses Grinfarb, Peretz Kamar, the Niidz’ooidz brothers, Dr. Moshe Temkin, Isaiah Zeidentzweig, and others. The […]

In 1884, when the Biluim made Aliya to Israel with the slogan “Beit Yaacov Lehoo Ve’Nelcha” (O house of Jacob, come ye, and let us walk), and “Hibat Ziyon” movement was founded in the Katowice conference, a secret meeting was held in Siedlce, at the home of Rabbi Yitzhak Nahum Weintroib, to advance the establishment of a […]

Siedlce was known in Poland as a Zionist city in the full sense of the word. In the book “twists of a generation” Abraham Lewinson writes: “When the Central Committee of “Ha’Tehiya” organization was established in Warsaw, two branches – Siedlce and Bedzin – were the strongest and most active in Poland.” Siedlce has rightfully earned its reputation as a […]