Akkerman and the towns of its district; memorial book

Akkerman and the Towns
of its District; Memorial Book
(Bilhorod-Dnistrovs'kyy, Ukraine)

46°12' / 30°21'

Translation of
Akkerman ve-ayarot ha-mehoz; sefer edut ve-zikaron

Editors: Nisan Amitai Stambul, Society of Emigrants from Akkerman and Vicinity

Published in Tel Aviv, 1983

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This is a translation of: Akkerman ve-ayarot ha-mehoz; sefer edut ve-zikaron (Akkerman and the towns of its district; memorial book),
Editors: Nisan Amitai Stambul et.al., Tel Aviv, Society of Emigrants from Akkerman and Vicinity, 1983 (H, 511 pages).

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

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TOC translated by Sara Mages

Akkerman City Plan		7
Prologue		9
The Jewish community in Akkerman from inception to destruction	Nissan Amitai (Stambul)	11
The pogrom in Akkerman in 1905	Mendel Kumorowski	60
Memories from the days of the pogrom	Yehoshua Harari (Berger) z”l	65

Parties and Movements
The beginning of “Tzeirei Zion” in Akkerman^[1]	Tzvi Menuali	69
The association “Speak Hebrew!” - of the first youth organizations	Nisan Amitai (Stembul)	72
“Maccabi” Federation in Akkerman^[2]	S. Segal and T. Manueli	75
“Gordonia” in Akkerman^[3]	Sheftel Zukerman	81
The uniqueness of “Gordonia” in our city^[3]	N. Amitai	84
“Gordonia” – the last chapter^[3]	Chaim Zamir (Fima Chemerinsky)	90
“Hashomer Hatzair” branch in Akkerman^[4]	Tzvi Giladi (Grisha Misionezhnik)	91
“Betar”^[5] in Akkerman	Shmuel Gaber	94

Chapters of Memories, Lifestyle and Folklore
The Akkerman Steppe	Yakov Kushter	101
In the city I love	Y. Schildkrauth	100
Akkerman - the City of my Birth	Yosef Gur-Arye	106
Big Jabotinsky and “Little Jabotinsky” in our city	Yehoshua Harari–Breger z”l	109
My immigration to Israel in the month of Av 5681	Yehoshua Harari z”l	110
The first immigrants	Noah Zukerman	112
Chapters of memories from the days of my childhood	Binyamin Girshfeld	114
About the landscape and the climate	Yehoshua Harari	117
Akkerman - a corridor to the parlor	Yakov Zukerman	118
Artists and loyalists	S. Yisrael	120
From the bitter and the sweet	Y. Schildkrauth	122
The seven daughters of R' Mendel the carpenter	Y. Schildkrauth	124
Such a “Krishmelanu”	Nisan Amitai (Stambul)	126
Tit-bids from Akkerman (episodes and anecdotes)	Nisan Amitai (Stambul)	128
In bygone days	Chava Barnea (Dorpman)	130
A family tree (a tree and it's view)	Sheftel Zukerman	133
The Rabbi's house	Chaim Zukerman	136
A “note” – a memento	Yisrael Finkel	139
“I remember the days of old”	Efraim Abramowitch	140
Childhood and youth in Shabo and Akkerman	Baruch Kamin	142
Names and Nicknames [Y]	Z.M – Y.S.	145

Our High-School
A Symposium on “Tarbut” Gymnasium	A Shapira, S. Naamani, Y. Brudski	155
The Home, the High-School and the Movement	Baruch Na'amani	160
A “Foreign” Girl in Akkerman	Yehudit Karmi (Frenkel)	164

Artists and Cantors
About the Jewish Theater in our city	Yehudah Zigelvaks	175
The drama clubs	Frima Fejland	177
About Two Artists in our Town - Yosef Chaplin		179
About Two Artists in our Town (cont'd) - David Malchin		181
Cantors and Cantorial Music		182

The Holocaust
Not forgotten [Y] (poem)	S. Yisrolik	190
The destruction of Akkerman	Tzvi Manueli	194
Wartime Memories	Leyoba Asfis	196
The Prayer of the Saved [Y] (poem)	A. Plit	199
On my way home	Miriam Zamir	202
Between anxieties and hopes (Chapters of memories)	Rosa Weitzman (Gordon)	204
In the mission to save the Jews of Romania and Bessarabia	Baruch Kamin	207
The Flag	Shmuel Miniali	211
A Miracle did not Happen in Karnitchka	Berurya Har-Zion	213
A Story of a Name	Asher Shwartzman	215
The “flag-Day” ['tag-day']	Beruria Har-Zion	216
The Akkerman Jews during the War and after it	Kwitko Michael	217
Jewish survivors in the 1980s	Yakov Zigloks	220

Personalities and Characters of blessed memory
Avraham Ravutski z“l		229
Our ministers [Y]		231
Yakov Shmuel Halevi Truchtman z"l		233
Sergei Michaelowitz (Yisrael) Gutnik		234
My brother Yakov Berger z”l		235
Dov Shrira z”l		238
Professor Yitzchak Starec z”l		239
Moshe Hellman z”l		240
Pava Berkov z“l	Yehoshua Harari	241
Our brother Moshe Zukerman of blessed memory	Shmuel, Leib & Noah Zukerman	242
Leib Stambul z“l	Bruriah Ben-Zion	243
My uncle Yehoshua Harari (Berger) z“l	Yossi Shiloh, Ma'ale Shomron	244
Dov Harari z“l		245
Yehoshua Drory (Shura Volovich) z”l	N. Amitai	248
Zev (Wobcha) Kamin z”l	Tzvi Menuali	249
The lawyer Yosef Serper z”l		250
Doctor Shapira z”l	Alexander Shapira	250
Mendel Gellman z”l (Shohat)	Dr. Rachel Gellman–Neiger	251
Characters	Shmuel Geber	252

The Society of Emigrants from Akkerman and the Diaspora
The Society of Emigrants from Akkerman in New–York		257
The Society of Emigrants from Akkerman and the vicinity in Israel		259

Sons who fell in the Israeli Wars
Meir Zaltzhendler z”l		265
Avraham Neiman z”l		266
Avraham Feldman z”l		267
Yisrael (Srulik) Frank z”l		268
Avinoam Schechter z”l		269

The town's in the district

Tarutino
Facts and numbers about the Jews of Tarutino	Eliyahu Feldman	272
Our Town Tarutino	Shmuel Brilliant	273
Notes From A Legacy	Dr. Yosef Laron z”l	283
From My Memories Of Tarutino	Shmuel Rosenberg	288
During The Days Of The Holocaust	Yehuda Bronfman	289
About Beitar^[5] In Tarutino	Eliezer Shulman	292
Personalities And Charcters In Tarutino	Shmuel Brilliant	295
Public Servants and other Active Members of the Jewish Community		296
Eliezer Shulman, The Bible Researcher From Siberia		298

Artsyz
Artsyz	Shmuel (Milya) Gurfil	307
Artsyz my Town	Arie Kleitman	311

Tatarbunar
Tatarbunar		321
Tatarbunar and its Jews	Binyamin Gieker	322
The Tatarbunar Gordonia^[3] Branch	Arie Shochat	325
Dr. Solomon Shalem	Binyamin Gieker	327
My home in Tatarbunar	Riva Zukerman – Silberman	328
The Gordonia^[3] Congress		329
The Keepers of the Flame	Berurya Har–Zion	331
The Double Miracle	Berurya Har–Zion	333

Sarata
Sarata	Zvi Schaechter	337
Sarata	I. Ben–Hur (Altman)	341
About the “Betar”^[5] chapter in Sarata	Tzvi Schechter	344
About “Gordonia”^[3] in Sarata	Elkana Altman	347
The Holocaust	Tzvi Schächter	348
Iziya's Story	Zvi Schächter	351

Byeramtcha
My Shtetl Byeramtcha	Moshe Shochet	357

Shabo
My Shtetl Shabo	Aharon Kaminker	367

Crochmaz
The Village Crochmaz	Yosef Koren	374

Former Residents of Akkerman and the Region in Israel	The Editorial Board	375
Akkerman émigrés in Israel		377
Tarutino émigrés in Israel		379
Artsyz émigrés in Israel		380
Tatarbunar émigrés in Israel		381
Sarata émigrés in Israel		382
Bairamcea émigrés in Israel		383
Shabo émigrés in Israel		383
Necrology		390

Footnotes Beit-Hamidrash- the house of learning. Return Maccabi – a sport's association. Return Gordonia - Zionist pioneering youth movement. The movement's doctrines were based on the beliefs of Aharon David Gordon. Return Hashomer Hatzair - The Youth Guard, a Socialist-Zionist youth movement. Return Betar - the initials of Brit Yosef Trumpeldor- The Covenant of Joseph Trumpeldor, the educational youth movement of the Revisionist Zionist Organization. Return

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