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School boys learning from an open page of the Talmud before their teacher in one of the many Talmud Torah schools in Novogrodek. The visitor seated left is Alexander Harcavy.
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School boys learning from an open page of the *Talmud before their teacher in one of the many *Talmud Torah schools in Novogrodek. The visitor seated left is Alexander Harcavy.
* Moving Here catalogue reference (JML) 1155.1
One of these emigrants was Alexander Harcavi. Born in 1863, he left Novogrodek in 1878 and settled in New York. He became a successful writer and teacher and, in 1890, published the first Yiddish-English dictionary.

Harcavi raised large sums of money for his home town, and revisited it twice, in 1921 and 1931. The film and extensive photographs that he took offer a detailed and fascinating insight into the way of life that so many Jews left behind to settle in Britain, America and elsewhere, before it was all destroyed in the Holocaust.

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Creators: Carol Seigel

 
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