[Cz-L] Young students

This picture was taken in the court of the Rabbi of Wiznitz
(Wiznitzer Rebbe), before WWI, as indicated by the Austrian military
or police uniform of the man in the background. I remember this place
well, my uncle lived a few hundred meters from where the boys are
standing. The wooden shack to the right had been replaced in the
thirties by the Dayan's (Rabbi's assistant and Head of the Yeshiwa)
house. The imposing building to the left was the synagogue, badly
damaged during WWI and never fully restored. The Rebbe's residence
was an imposing building. It was converted into a cheese factory by
the Soviets and used for the same purpose by the Ukrainian
authorities. During the High Holidays, thousands of Chassidim would
converge to this place from distant regions in Hungary,
Czechoslovakia, Transylvania, and Galicia.

Fred Schneider

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Moderator Bruce]
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