AUGUSTOW:
By: Herman Rosenthal
District town in the government of Suvalk, Russian Poland, on the River Netta and the Lake Biale. In 1887 the Jewish population was nearly 5,500—about half the total population.
Bibliography:
- Entziklopedicheski Slovar, i., St. Petersburg, 1891;
- Ha-Eshkol, Warsaw, 1887.
