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in Czenstochowa Up to the First World War (cont.)   3. Cultural
History of Czenstochower Jews  It has already been mentioned
that after Warsaw, Czenstochow was the city where the
Enlightenment bloomed in Poland. As early as 1814, a private
Jewish teacher from Germany was there, who taught the children
of well-to-do proprietors. The best teachers from surrounding
cities and shtetlekh, such as Dzialoszyn, Prazka, Wielun and
others, would settle in Czenstochow. For example, one such
person was Shlomoh Dovid Gutengot, a follower of the
Enlightenment from Dzialoszyn, who would give private Hebrew
lessons to the children who went to the public Czenstochower
schools.  The wealthy young Jews would attend the government
schools in Piotrkow, Kalisz and Warsaw. Young Jewish girls from
Czenstochow were found in the schools of Breslau [Wroclaw],
Konigsberg [Kaliningrad] and Berlin. There were private boarding
schools there, “für Izraelitshe Mädchen [for Jewish