Archive for 2017
Dr. Haim Lifshitz: Memories of high school days
The happiest years of my youth were spent in Siedlce, where I came from Warsaw in 1909 to study in high school. The memories of the pogrom carried by the Czar’s armies at the end of the first revolution were still fresh. The grocery shopkeeper, who personally experienced the pogrom, would tell me about the disorders as if it has […]
Moses Mandelmann: The library and “Yiddishe Kunst”
During the German occupation in World War I, there were only two Jewish cultural institutions in Siedlce: the Yiddishe library and the “Yiddishe Kunst” company – Yiddish Art. The library was established in 1901 in the home of scholar Y. Goldwasser, who held a bookcase underground. He did not even know who the readers were. The books were distributed in various circles, in secret meetings. A few […]