On Ruska Street, among the houses and workshops belonging rather to the poorer inhabitants of the city, there were seats of trade unions, among others of carpenters, saddlers, bakers, tanners and stonemasons. In their neighborhood, there was a synagogue of the Bikur Cholim (Hebrew for visiting the sick) brotherhood, a small Hasidic yeshiva of Baruch Kocker, and the Ber Borochow Folk School. This diversity created the unique atmosphere of Ruska Street.Ruska was not a commercial street. Its inhabitants - workers, craftsmen and stallholders - except for the house guards, were all Jewish. Twice a year Rajsze was filled with thousands of Lublin Jews. This happened on Yomkippur evening and on the holiday of Tisha be-Aw. They headed towards the Jewish cemeteries - the old and the new one, but on the holiday of Tisha b'Av, most gathered at the old cemetery.Moshe Kac - Ruska Street - from the Lublin Yizkor Book