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Piotrkow Trybunalski, Poland

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...How doth the City sit solitary, 
That was full of people!
How is she become a widow!
She that was great among the Nations,
And princess among the provinces,
How is she become tributary!
My eyes do fail with tears,
For the destruction of my people;

Arise, cry out in the night,
Pour out thine heart before the Lord,
Lift up thy hands toward Him
For the life of thy young children,
That faint for hunger
In the top of every street...
Lamentations of Jeremiah--
1:1; 2:11; 2:19.

 

Organizations and Institutions

Political Parties

Zionist
General Zionists: Al Hamishmar and Et Livnot factions
Socialist Zionists: Poale Zion Right and Poale Zion Left
Religious Zionists of Mizrahi
Revisionists of Jabotinsky and Revisionists of Grossman
several Zionist youth movements
Bund
Agudah
Communists

Charitable

Linat Tzedek (shelter)
Bikur Holim (visiting the sick)
Hachnasat Kalah (marrying the poor bride)
Chevrah Kadisha (burial society)
Hevrat Eruvim (ritual group)

Educational

ORT school (vocational training)
Yesod Torah (for Orthodox boys)
Bet Yaakov (for Orthodox girls)
Mizrahi school (Zionist orientation)
dozens of yeshivot, academies and shtiblech

Cultural

Macabi sports club (formed by the Zionists after World War I); organized sports and a brass band
book clubs 
choirs, bands (especially mandolins), in the tradition of the Zamir band, founded in Piotrkow in 1908
drama clubs and review (especially those by Hashomer Hatzair)
chess tournaments and live chess games in Dobroczynnosc Field

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Source

Giladi, Ben, ed. A Tale of One City: Piotrkow Tybunalski.  New York, NY : Shengold Publishers in cooperation with the Piotrkow Trybunalski Relief Association in New York, 1991.

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