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David Sohn
1890
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Bialystoker Bilder Album, Bialystoker Stimme, philanthropist. The creator of Bialystok Center. His father was a famous rabbi. 

David Sohn was born in 1890 in Bialystok, on Jurowiecka Street, as the eight child of the devout Mojsze and Nechome. When he was 21, he moved to the United States. In New York, he was a painter, tailor, furrier, and finally a journalist. He became famous after his ardent speech delivered on July 17, 1919 at East Broadway 246 in New York. He convinced all the feuding Jewish factions that it is necessary to help Białystok, which the First World War had transformed into rubble, and started the transatlantic movement of transporting the suitcases full of American dollars to the poor brothers in Białystok. His greatest work, however, was the creation of the Bialystoker Center. Opened in 1923, it became a model social institution of American Jews. It still exists today, now as a retirement home.
For over half a century, Sohn was the executive director of Bialystoker Center. In the 1940s, after Shoah, when it was known that rebuilding the Jewish community in Białystok would be impossible, David Sohn started collecting documents and pictures from Bialystokers living all over the world, to create a shtetl-like monument for his hometown in the form of a book. "BIALYSTOK. PHOTO ALBUM" is a collection of 1,200 photographs of the Jewish community in Białystok, with laconic descriptions, because the author thought that, to a multilingual diaspora, a picture would mean more than a word.
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