Skuodas, Lithuania

Memorial Book of Skuodas
(Lithuania)

56°16' / 21°32'

Translation of
Kihilat Shkud; Kovets Zikaron

Publisher: Former Residents of Skuodas

Published in Tel Aviv, 1958

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This is a translation of: Kihilat Shkud; Kovets Zikaron
(Memorial Book of Skuodas),
Publisher: Former Residents of Skuodas, Tel Aviv, 1958 (H,Y 68 pages)

Note: The original book can be seen online at the NY Public Library site: Skuodas

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Foreword	5
The history of Shkud	7
Financial and industrial institutions	12
The National funds	15
Youth movements	18
Political parties and organizations	22
Sporting organizations	24
Synagogues	26
Learning and educational institutions	28
The Way of Life in Shkud	31
Personalities	34
(HaRav HaShkudi) Rabbi Yechiel Michel Hovsha	34
(HaRav) Rabbi Yaakov Chaim Baruch Terushkin	36
Rabbi Chaim Aharon Hovsha	37
Yisrael (Ben Rabbi) Isaiah Shaf	38
Shlomo Ben Yehuda Yudelman	40
Avraham Kaplanski	41
David Davidov	42
Tzvi Yosselevitz	43
Michal Fogelman	43
Rabbi Yaakov Kaplanski	43
Bera Zusya Peres	44
How Shkud was destroyed (The tragic end)	45

Foreword [Y]	49
Shkud [Y]	51
The tragic end [Y]	58
In memory of the martyrs	63

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