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Rabbi Manis lived in the city before Rabbi Eliezer Shalom Fiitrikobr, so called because he later became the Rabbi of multi Fiitrikobr. At the time – the municipal synagogue

Rabbi Eliezer Shalom was a dedicated and loyal public activist. With the consent of the Dozors of the time – Rabbi Meir Nissan Nussbaum, Rabbi Gedalia Zaltzman and R. Nathan Zilbertzweig, he established

One of the first Jewish families, which began to play an important role in Siedlce in the second half of the 18th century, was the Greenberg family. They later

Itzhak Izik came to Siedlce from Kortz’ob, a town near Otwock. He was a great and God-fearing scholar, excelled in many virtues and was a charity seeker, and besides, he

We do not know exactly when Rabbi Moshe Hirsch has arrived to Siedlce. We know he served as the city’s Rabbi before rabbi Rabbi Eliezer Shalom Fiitrikobr, and that

When Maggid Rabbi Manis worked in Siedlce, Rabbi Meir Nissan Nusbaum served as the monthly “Parnas”, one of the three “Dozor”s who led the community, each for one month.

After the Maggid Rabbi Manis, R. Israelkala became preacher in town, circa Tr”h. Israelkala, who wrote many essays, cameto Siedlce from Wongrob, together with Rabbi Itzhak Goldman, who settled in

Rabbi Matithyahu was one of the remnants of the old generation, of the few elders and scholars Kochek Hasidim in Siedlce. He was a man of wit and

On the Twelfth day of the month of Av, Tsi”a – the day the Zionist Congress convened in Jerusalem, the capital of Israel, the cantor

I was requested by friends to talk in memory of Levi Gotgeld, a comrade and a friend, who not live to see the fulfillment of our

The story I’m about to tell you here, like many other stories about Siedlce of time, was not, unfortunately, written down. It was told and retold

There was one family, nicknamed “Demons”. These were not evil or bad people, feared by Siedlce. On the contrary, they were very quiet people. The designation was received

Very few people, especially women, needed Ash’s services. What is the meaning of his services? Today it is acceptable for a woman to buy a readymade

The Bagagon family shop resided on Filsodskigo Street. What goods were sold in this store? Sewing supplies and everything related to tailoring and sewing. They made good livelihood as it was

I knew Hannah (or Hanke) Kramarz even before my father went to work in her father’s sewing workshop, since Hanke learned with me in the same

My mother had a cousin named Mordechai. Mordechai was the son of Abraham, my grandfather’s brother Samuel Ibkobitz. Mordechai was married to a woman named Rachel, known in

Born in Siedlce, the only son of his father, a tailor, who was pious and had dreamed about the Land of Israel all his life. Yehuda was a handsome,

Born in Siedlce in 1913, to a poor family. He attended the “Tarbut” school. After the death of his father, when he was 12 years old, he was forced