| Town Map |
4 |
| M. Tamari: The Book |
5 |
| Pinchas Bendersky: Generation to Generation speaks |
7 |
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| HISTORY OF THE CITY (from the encyclopedia) |
43 |
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| Fortress and County Seat |
43 |
| At the end of the previous century |
44 |
| In the Margins of “Hamelitz” |
48 |
| Greeting cards |
49 |
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| BETWEEN TWO WORLD WARS |
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| Bella Shreibman-Rab: Jews between the citadel and the bridge |
53 |
| Nachman Lavonsky: Days gone by |
55 |
| Shevach (Sioma) Blei: Days of war and revolution |
58 |
| Michael Landau: Gone, my beloved brothers |
60 |
| Arieh Shreibman: In a sailing boat on a stormy sea |
63 |
| Shmuel Giboa: My life in Bendery |
65 |
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| HASSIDISM IN BENDERY |
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| N.Huberman: Bendery in Hassidic literature |
75 |
| Yonah Balaban (Hulda): Rabbi Moishele and His Hassidim |
77 |
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| THE SECOND ALIYAH |
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| Rivka Machneimy (Cholodenko): In the days of the Second Aliyah |
81 |
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| THE SHWARTZMAN HIGH SCHOOL |
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| Batia Steiner-Faigenbaum: The Kindergarten in the Schwartzman High School |
93 |
| Leah Steiner: The High School day by day and in moments of spiritual uplift |
95 |
| Nachman Levonsky: The Tarbut School, which did not survive long |
98 |
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| YOUTH MOVEMENTS |
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| Sonia Etlis: The Maccabi League |
101 |
| Yitzhak Sverdlik: Years of Expansion |
102 |
| Baruch Kaushansky: Preparation for Aliyah to Eretz Israel |
104 |
| Meri Horodetzky: Hashomer Hatzair |
105 |
| Pinchas Ben Shaul (Pinko): Hashomer Hatzair Among the First Movements |
108 |
| Yonah Balaban: Gordonia Movement |
110 |
| Moshe Horovitz And Mordechai Frank: The Beitar Youth Movement |
112 |
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| THE CITY AND ITS INHABITANTS |
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| Haim Raday: A Branch to Two Trunks |
118 |
| Leah Steiner: The Last Survivor of the Holy Man's Family |
121 |
| Mordechai Sever: Reminiscences of My Father's House |
123 |
| Leah Bat Chaya and Bezalel: A Childhood Affront |
130 |
| Leah Bat Chaya and Bezalel: My Father Reb Bezalel, the Cantor and the Talner Synagogue |
131 |
| Katya Shay (Fein): Memory Fragments of Days Gone By |
133 |
| Abba Sapir (Shaposnick): My Father's House – Open To All |
134 |
| Yehiel Efrati: Ordinary Folk Caught in Reality |
135 |
| Leah Steiner: Road of Suffering |
136 |
| Leah Steiner: My Bendery |
137 |
| Leah Steiner: Yehiel the Cobbler Teaches Me Zionism |
139 |
| Leah Bat Haya: The Intellectual Gentleman (on D.A.Natanzon) |
141 |
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| IN THE FUROR OF THE SHOAH |
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| Rabbi Shimon Efrati: From The Diary of a Wanderer |
145 |
| Zvi (Gersh) Sobol: Testament |
156 |
| Mira Geva: The Valley of The Slaughter Near The Fortress |
157 |
| Dr. T. Lavi–Levinstein: The Tighina Agreement and the Expulsion to Transnistria |
158 |
| Meir Grinberg: Bendery after the destruction |
160 |
| Rabbi Shmuel Bronfman: After the Shoah |
162 |
| Shmuel Delmetzky: Upon the Graves of Our Ancestors |
167 |
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| PERSONAE |
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| I.L. Toibman [Yonatan]: The Wertheim Dynasty |
171 |
| I.L. Toibman [Yonatan]: Reb Yossele Wertheim |
178 |
| Dr. Shlomo Bendersky |
180 |
| David Abramovich Natanzon |
181 |
| Dr. Baruch Nissenboim |
182 |
| Rabbi Efraim Drebrimdiker |
183 |
| Avraham Alexandrov |
183 |
| Baruch Holodenko |
184 |
| Dr. Alexander KhainM |
185 |
| David Prozhansky |
186 |
| Hersh Kogan [Zvi Cohen] |
187 |
| Dr. Zvi Schwartzman |
189 |
| Zelig Sofer |
190 |
| Yaakov Shveidky |
192 |
| Avraham Wertheim |
192 |
| David Wertheim |
193 |
| Aryeh–Leib and Nadia Blank |
194 |
| Israel Blank |
195 |
| Noah Lifshitz |
195 |
| Hanina Krachevsky |
196 |
| Haya Glass |
198 |
| Yitzhak Reznikov |
199 |
| Dr. P. Yaroslavsky |
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| THE THIRD ALIYAH |
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| Yoseph Raviv: Bendery in the Past and Under the Soviet Regime |
203 |
| David Weiser: Signposts to Eretz Israel |
206 |
| Leah Shteiner: On a New Road |
209 |
| Leah Shteiner: The Saga of the Shrybmans–Sweetness out of Bitterness |
210 |
| David Carmel: Miracles at Sea |
212 |
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| ROOTS IN THE HOMELAND |
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| Rivka Davidit: Crabgrass |
215 |
| Eitan Haber: An Old Fighter in a New Role |
216 |
| Mordehai Sever: Echo Sounds |
217 |
| D. Ben Yehiel: Our Aunt Leah |
218 |
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| LANDSCAPE AND BEING |
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| Yaakov Fichman: Bessarabia (poem) |
221 |
| Mordehai (ben Moshe) Sever: Figures and Shadows Which Have Disappeared |
222 |
| Rivka (Riva) Terer–Drobetsky: Recollections From Jerusalem of the 1920s |
233 |
| I. Gabbai: Simcha Tzehovel |
236 |
| Israel Gur: Tzehovel and His Roles |
237 |
| Y.Manik: Deep in Autumn Nights (poem) |
238 |
| Dr. Yosef Kruk: The Wertheim Family in the Real World |
239 |
| Yosef Shapira: Big Hearted David Wertheim |
241 |
| Mordehai Sever: Rabbi Eli the Ritual Slaughterer, Z”L – A Scholar and a Genius |
242 |
| Moshe Sever (Sverdlik): The Influence of the Synagogues |
245 |
| Moshe Sever (Sverdlik): A Proposal to Fund a Pension Fund Fifty Years Ago |
247 |
| The Activities of ORT and OZE |
248 |
| Moshe Bik: Aharon Helfand, the famous cantor |
442 |
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CONTENTS
(in Yiddish) |
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| REMINISCENCES AND HISTORIC REFLECTIONS |
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| Avraham Hayat: Bendery – My Hometown |
253 |
| David Carmel: Our Town |
262 |
| Itzik Manger: At The Dniester |
272 |
| Leon Garfield: Bendery as Seen in History |
273 |
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| RELIGIOUS, SOCIAL AND CULTURAL LIFE |
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| Prof. Yitzhak Fein: A City of Belief and Conspiracies |
279 |
| Leon (Yehuda–Leib) Garfield: In Changing Times |
284 |
| Yitzhak Abramovitch: Poem |
297 |
| Rabbi Dr. Aaron Wertheim: Memoirs from the Bendery Rabbinate |
298 |
| I.L. Yonatan: Bessarabian Zionist Activists Crusade |
302 |
| Hanania Volovetz: Ezrat Ani'im Charity |
303 |
| I.Manik (Lederman) z”l: The Teachers Street |
305 |
| I.Manik (Lederman) z”l: Diarde's Pay (poem) |
306 |
| Leon (Yehuda–Leib) Garfield: Poalei Zion in Bendery |
307 |
| Leon (Yehuda–Leib) Garfield: The Cultural League |
311 |
| Shmaria Hrushtesh: We Acted In The Theatre? |
313 |
| David Carmel: The Writer Rivka Davidit, z”l |
315 |
| I.Manik (Lederman) z”l: Now It Happens (poem) |
315 |
| Yosef Schwartzman z”l: Hazamir |
316 |
| Yaakov Fein: The Founding and the Activities of Maccabi |
317 |
| Yekhezkel Bronstein: The Poet Yehoshua Manik (Lederman) |
319 |
| I.Manik (Lederman) z”l: Ben Zion Shochat (poem) |
321 |
| I.Manik (Lederman) z”l: Father Sings a Folk Tune |
322 |
| Israel Rabinovitch: Thoughts For the Fifteenth of Shvat |
322 |
| Abraham Hayat: Mother |
323 |
| I.Manik (Lederman) z”l: Rabbi Moshe Sever |
324 |
| Mordechai Sever: Hear, Brother, Hear… |
326 |
| Two Generations in Public Life |
327 |
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| FROM THE JEWISH PRESS |
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| News From Bendery |
331 |
| In the Predicament of Need … |
335 |
| Memorial Service for the Riot Victims in Eretz Israel |
338 |
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| OCCUPATION AND HOLOCAUST |
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| David Wertheim, Z”L |
341 |
| Avraham Wertheim, Z”L |
341 |
| Women's Organizations in Bendery |
343 |
| “Women's Association” Bendery (Tighina) – 1931 |
344 |
| Rabbi Israel Bronfman: Bendery After the Shoah |
347 |
| B. Levi: In Those Dark Days… |
350 |
| Miller David: Testimony of a Witness |
351 |
| Y. Manik (Lederman): Deep in the Autumn Night |
354 |
| Yehuda–Leib Garfield: In Your Blood Shall You Live |
354 |
| Yehuda–Leib, son of David, Halevi: The Bendery Society |
357 |
| Bessarabian Jews Intensively Construct a Building in Israel |
358 |
| The Progressive Bendery Benevolent Society |
359 |
| P.Bendersky: Afterword |
361 |
| Memorial Candles |
365 |
| List of Martyrs (Names extracted from the “Memorial Candles” section) |
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| English Section |
| David Carmel: Bendery |
III |
| List of Martyrs (Names extracted from the “In Loving Memory” section |
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