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Kacyzne, Alter (1885-1941). Papers.

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Kacyzne, Alter (1885-1941). Papers.

Photographs of Jewish life in Poland in the 1920s-1930s

Piaseczno. Portrait study of two boys at a long table over an open page of Talmud.

Pliskov. At the town pump in the marketsquare, three water-carriers waiting to fill their pails while the women draw water.

Pulawy. Four men in traditional dress talking together on the sidewalk at the corner of a cobblestone street.

Radzyn. View down a cobblestone street on the Sabbath in a Jewish neighborhood.

Rovno. Five men at a meal in an old age home.

Ryki. Girls and women wade in a river at the end of a lane.

Ryki. Hatsellers in the marketplace.

Ryki. Two barefoot children in the busy marketplace.

Rzeszow. 'A Hullabaloo in front of the city hall: the dollar has advanced.'

Rzeszow. A class in session in the Rayshe (Rzeszow) Yeshiva; Among the students is a member of the Teitelbaum family.

Rzeszow. A street scene in the Jewish neighborhood.

Rzeszow. The busy marketplace with shops: 'Obadia Kalter', 'Herman Spielman' and 'Chaim Teitelbaum'.

Smorgon. An unidentified group of people posing on a path with a dog in front of the new 'besmedresh' (house of study and prayer), a wooden building under construction.

Sochaczew. A Jewish woman emptying a soaking pan used or for ritual preparation of meat into the road in front of her house.

Sokolka. Portrait of an unidentified woman sitting in a corner, crotcheting.

Suchestaw. 'The innkeeper and his wife in Suchestaw, eastern Galicia."

Swider. Bathers in the Shvider River on a Saturday.

Unidentified location. 'Children.'

Unidentified location. 'A young boy standing by the door; poverty is hidden by the darkness within the room.

Unidentified location. 'From the series: 'Child and School'. The Eastern Jews' children's colony. Children in little kaftans are already learning gymnastics. Children, wearing kaftans, pose in a field, standing in a double row.

Unidentified location. 'Fully equipped.'

Unidentified location. 'Here's an old Jewish woman with hot peas.'

Unidentified location. 'Jewish classical dancer, Shulamith Ram, one of the three Ram sisters who are now on their way to America.'

Unidentified Location. 'Leonia and Shulamith Ram in their studio.'

Unidentified location. A crowd of people waiting, on a sunny day.

Unidentified location. A little shoeless boy stands in an open door.

Unidentified location. A poor woman is getting ready to cook a meal, while her little daughter (?) observes the preparations.

Unidentified location. Children having a meal in the school's (?) dining room.

Unidentified location. Desks, filled with young students, are in a tight circle around the teacher's seat.

Unidentified location. Group studio portrait including: Melech Ravitch, Joseph Opatoshu, Nachman Meisel, Peretz Markish and I. I. Singer.

Unidentified location. Photograph of Clara Segalowitz with the inscription: 'To Mendl Elkin, as a remembrance' on the reverse.

Unidentified location. Three elderly women wrapped in shawls sit together.

Unidentified location. Women wash pots in a stream in the foreground.

Vilna. Ignacy Schiper (1884-1943) historian, Zionist, and member of the Polish Parliament.

Warsaw. 'Before Passover in Warsaw.'

Warsaw. 'Eretz Israel behind Warsaw.'

Warsaw. 'Half-colony: Jewish school children who are not so well off, spend half of their summer day in the Marysienka Forest behind Warsaw, under the watchful eye of the teachers.

Warsaw. 'Horticulture in the .....; at the hothouses (hotbeds).'

Warsaw. 'Surrounded by faint patterns on the walls, dirt and poverty, a young girl finds a little warmth under blankets on a bed.'

Warsaw. 'The lively multitudes in the Halles at Morowsky Place, before Yontov.'

Warsaw. 'Types of Jewish women: Pearl Sandler, known as a beauty in literary and artistic circles.'

Warsaw. 'View from the third story into a commercial courtyard known as 'Der Mlawers', located on Nalewki Street.'

Warsaw. 'What he got by fighting.'

Warsaw. A boy and a man sit among bundles, waiting to leave for the port in the Free City of Gdansk.

Warsaw. A boy standing by his basket of bagels at the curb.

Warsaw. A group of Yiddish writers in a huddle, pose for a portrait.

Warsaw. A market woman poses with her wares near the Halles.

Warsaw. A porter or wagon driver sitting on the traces of a wagon holding a rope.

Warsaw. A scrap metal dealers' courtyard in a Jewish neighborhood on Bagna Street.

Warsaw. Actors of the Vilna Troupe with the writer Jacob Dineson.

Warsaw. An elderly shoemaker poses at work in his workshop.

Warsaw. Consulting the bulletin board in the HIAS building front courtyard; One of over 100 photographs taken by Kacyzne to document HIAS' emigration aid activities.

Warsaw. Crowds of emigrants inside the shipping office of the Red Star-American Line.

Warsaw. Customers around the stand of a second-hand shoe merchant.

Warsaw. Emigrants living at HIAS headquarters; in foreground, men, women and children in dining room with workers and HIAS staff in rear.

Warsaw. Emigrants pose in the open doorway of the train which will carry them to the port of Gdansk.

Warsaw. Family portrait of Alter Kacyzne, his wife and child.

Warsaw. HAIS waiting room.

Warsaw. Hasidic men and boys walking along a city sidewalk on the way back from 'shul' (synagogue).

Warsaw. HIAS staff workers at work processing emigrants; woman holding papers is on the right; writing implements are on the table.

Warsaw. HIAS staff workers at work processing emigrants.

Warsaw. Khane Kolski, 106 years old.

Warsaw. Leah Noemi as an old woman in a production of 'Der Dybbuk' by Sh. Ansky.

Warsaw. Members of a Jewish Sports Club pose for a portrait in matching white singlets.

Warsaw. Men sitting on a bench.

Warsaw. Mothers with children and baby carriages along a row of benches in Krasinski park, in the Jewish Quarter.

Warsaw. People waiting in line in HIAS building courtyard; One of over 100 photographs taken by Kacyzne to document HIAS' emigration aid activities.

Warsaw. People waiting in line in HIAS building courtyard; One of over 100 photographs taken by Kacyzne to document HIAS' emigration aid activities.

Warsaw. People waiting on line outside the HIAS building; One of over 100 photographs taken by Kacyzne to document HIAS' emigration aid activities.

Warsaw. Portrait of a woman (this may by Menucha Zaltzman).

Warsaw. Portrait of Alter Kacyzne.

Warsaw. Portrait of an elderly Hasid.

Warsaw. Portrait study of an unidentified Hasid looking up from a book.

Warsaw. Scene from the play, 'Der Dukus' (The Duke) by Alter Kacyzne, directed by Avrum Morevski.

Warsaw. Scene from the play, 'He Who Gets Slapped' by Andreyev: Warsaw 1920, Act III.

Warsaw. Studio portrait of Dr. Zemakh Shabad.

Warsaw. Tableau of Bella Belarina (nee Rubinlicht) and her husband, Chaim Sznejer-Hamerow, both actors in the Vilna Troupe, with their infant son.

Warsaw. The funeral of Rabbi A. Perlmutter.

Warsaw. The play, 'Der Dybbuk', by Sh. Ansky, Act III, produced in 1919 by 'The Vilna Troupe'. From right to left: Jacob Waislitz, Noah Nachbush, Miriam Orleska, Avrum Morevski, Leib Kadison

Warsaw. The Vilna Troupe's performance of Shalom Asch's 'Amnon and Tamar', directed by Mendel Elkin.

Warsaw. Toddlers in a Jewish home for abandoned children pose in white smocks at a table in a dormitory.

Warsaw. Vignetted studio portrait of a group of Jewish women intelligentsia.

Warsaw. Vignetted studio portrait of dentist Ruta (Rubinlicht) Karlinska, wife of Jewish writer Boaz Karlinsky, holding her baby Ury.

Warsaw. Voters line up at the polls in a Jewish neighborhood to elect representatives to the Polish Parliment.

Warsaw. Workers in a Jewish Socialist Bundist cooperative workshop pose working with leather and other materials.

Warsaw. Young men and women planting potatoes at a Zionist youth farm in the Grochow suburb.

Wawolnica. Portrait study of Yisroel Lustman, a weaver of peasant linen, seated at a hand loom.

Wilejka. 'Sara Kugel, the baker.'

Wilejka. 'The Polish-Russian border 'type': a Jewish young man.'

Wolomin. 'Malke-Raizl with her daughters.'

Wolomin. A Jewish woman, Rimer's wife.

Wolomin. Portrait-study of Yankev Szeranski, a saddler.

Wolomin. Zelig, the tailor, at work.

Wysokie Litewskie. 'Jewish workers in a mechanical locksmith shop.'

Wysokie Litewskie. A man sitting over a book at a wooden study table in the old besmedresh (house of prayer and study).

Wysokie Litewskie. Portrait study: Moyshe Pinczuk, a shames (sexton).

Wyszkow. 'A Vishkover housewife 80 years old: Itke, the glazier's wife.'

Wyszkow. 'Nahum the carpenter and his wife.'

Wyszkow. 'Wife of the Jewish worker.'

Wyszkow. 'Wyszkow by the bridge.'

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