Yiddishland Image 1 At a railway station platform somewhere in Poland. Image 2 Newspaper sellers, 1914-1915. Image 3 Typical daily scenes in the shtetl under the German occupation during the First World War. Image 4 The synagogue in Vilkaviskis, dating from the 16th century. Image 5 ''A typical local man'' enjoying a pinch of snuff. Image 6 Eliezer Yitzhak Perelmann, alias Ben Yehouda, born in Luzhky in 1858, lexicographer of genius who ''invented'' modern Hebrew. Image 7 Kapparot. A chicken is rotated three times over the head of each participant while an expiatory prayer is recited. Image 8 ''A baby abondoned in the ghetto and, to the great joy of the inhabitants, cared for by the Red Cross''.