Saturday, March 30, 2013

Bad Lopuszna, 1870


Franz Xavier Knapp, Bad Lopuszna (1870)
Litho H.Wolf, Vienna

Source: The Romanian Academy Library

Volksgarten,1867


 

 

 
Franz Xavier Knapp, Volksgarten in Czernowitz (1867)
Litho H.Wolf, Vienna

Source: The Romanian Academy Library

Bad Haus, 1867


Franz Xavier Knapp, Bad Haus (1867)
Litho H.Wolf, Vienna

Source: The Romanian Academy Library

Hauptstrasse, 1870


Franz Xavier Knapp, Hauptstrasse in Czernowitz (1870)
Litho H.Wolf, Vienna

Source: The Romanian Academy Library

Monday, March 25, 2013

Haggadah from Czernowitz



Haggadah with the imprint of Czernowitz publisher Sholom Zilber masked by the imprint of a Przemysl publisher.

Source

Friday, March 15, 2013

"Borokhov" kindergarten and sports club


Poale Tzion kindergarten in Cernăuţi, ca.1920 (photo from the YIVO archives)
Ber Borokhov's portrait stands on the cabinet in the background.



Borokhov sports and tourism club, Cernăuţi,1930

Photos from the Ghetto Fighters House Archives

Thursday, March 14, 2013

Czernowitz city theater, 1919-1920 season


Stadttheater-Czernowitz troupe, 1919-1920

Ghetto Fighters House Archives

Czernowitz: playing grown-up


A boy (or a girl?) in pajamas with a cigarette reading Czernowitzer Allgemeine Zeitung.
Photo: Salo Bruell

Ghetto Fighters House Archives

Tuesday, March 12, 2013

Yiddish poets and writers in Cernăuţi, 1934


(left to right): Hersh-Leyb Kazhber, Yoysef Lerner, Shmuel-Aba Soyfer and Naftali Hertz Kon posing with a fresh issue of Tshernovitser Bletter

Photo from the Ghetto Fighters House Archives

Yiddish poets in Chernovtsy, 1948


Seating (left to right): Yoysef Kerler, Moishe Altman, Yoysef Lerner
Standing (left to right): Naftali Hertz-Kon, Meir Haratz

Photo from the Ghetto Fighters House Archives