Memorial Book of the Community of Bobruisk
and its Surroundings
(Babruysk, Belarus)
53°09' / 29°14'
Translation from:
Bobruisk; sefer zikaron le-kehilat Bobruisk u-veneteha
Edited by: Y. Slutski, Former Residents of Bobruisk in Israel and the USA
Published in Tel-Aviv, 1967
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TITLE: (Hebrew): Bobroysk: Sefer Zikaron li-Kehilat Bobroysk u-Venoteha (Yiddish): Yzker-Bukh far Bobroysker Kehileh un Umgegnt PLACE: Tel Aviv : PUBLISHER: Tarbut ve-hinukh YEAR: 1967 PUB TYPE: Book FORMAT: 2 v. in-1 (871p.) : ill., facsims., map, ports. ; 29 cm. NOTES: Text in Hebrew or Yiddish. OTHER: Slutsky, Yehuda, 1915-1978 |
Introduction (Yid.) | 11 |
Map of the City of Bobruisk | 15 |
Bobruisk Monograph (Heb.) by Yehuda Slutsky | 19 |
Bobruisk Monograph (Yid.) by Yehuda Slutsky | |
First Chapter: In The Time of the Lithuanian Duchy In The Kingdom of Poland (pp. 113-117) | |
1. The Beginning of Bobruisk | 113 |
2. Bobruisk in the Begininning of the Seventeenth Century | 114 |
3. Destruction of Bobruisk in the Years of the Cossak Revolution and the War Between Poland and Russia |
115 |
4. In the Age of Polish Decline 1667-1793 | 116 |
5. The Jewish Community During the Period of Polish Rule | 116 |
Second Chapter: Bobruisk In the Nineteenth Century (pp. 118-138) | |
1. Beginning of the Russian Rule | 118 |
2. In the Time of the Fatherland War, 1812 | 119 |
3. The Fortress | 119 |
4. The Fortress In The Life Of The City | 121 |
5. The Economic Developement of Bobruisk in the 19th Century | 124 |
6. The Part of the Jews in the Business of Bobruisk | 126 |
7. The Wealthy | 127 |
8. Poverty and Hardship in Bobruisk | 131 |
9. The Fires and the Fireman Crew | 133 |
10. Bobruisk at the End of the 19th Century | 135 |
11. Employment and Income Sources to the End of the 19th Century | 136 |
Third Chapter: The Internal Life of the Bobruisk Jewish Community in the 19th Century (pp. 139-154) |
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1. Torah, Worship, and Interest-Free Loans | 139 |
2. The Rabbis in Bobruisk | 140 |
3. Torah Study and Yeshivos | 142 |
4. Hasidim in Bobruisk | 144 |
5. The Charitable Societies | 146 |
6. The Haskala Movement in Bobruisk | 149 |
7. Beginning of Theater in Bobruisk | 152 |
8. Zionism in Bobruisk | 153 |
Fourth Chapter: The New Bobruisk - Bundism and Unionism (pp. 154-175) | |
1. Bobruisk at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century | 154 |
2. The Great Fire | 156 |
3. Beginning of the Socialist Movement. The Bund in Bobruisk | 158 |
4. The Revolutionary Movement on the Eve of the First Russian Revolution (1905) | 160 |
5. Zionists and Labor Zionists at the end of the 19th Century | 163 |
6. In the Time of the First Russian Revolution (1905) | 166 |
7. The Bourgeoisie in the Time of the First Revolution | 169 |
8. On the Climax Day of the Revolution--October 1905 | 171 |
9. The Rebellion in the Fortress | 172 |
10. The Revolution in Decline | 173 |
Fifth Chapter: One the Eve of the First World War (pp. 175-190 ) | |
1. Bobruisk on the Eve of the First World War | 175 |
2. The Bobruisk Intelligentsia and its Streamings | 177 |
3. The Cooperative Movement | 179 |
4. The Zionist Movement and the Hebrew Language | 180 |
5. The New Tanakh Institiute | 182 |
6. Cultural Institutions and Societies | 185 |
7. The Kehila and its Institutions | 187 |
Sixth Chapter: Wars, Revolutions, Citizen Battles (pp. 190-204) | |
1. In the Years of the First World War | 190 |
2. The Days of the February Revolution in Bobruisk | 193 |
3. Awakening in Social Life | 194 |
4. The Days of the October Revolution, 1917 | 195 |
5. The First Polish Regime in the City (End of January-End of February 1918) | 196 |
6. Bobruisk Under the Rule of the Germans (March-November, 1918) | 197 |
7. The Second Soviet Regime (11/29/1918-8/29/1919) | 198 |
8. The Second Polish Regime (8/29/1919-7/10/1920) | 200 |
9. The Era of Gangsterism | 202 |
Seventh Chapter: The Soviet Bobruisk (pp. 204-220) | |
1. The General Development of Bobruisk Until the Second World War | 204 |
2. Jews in the Economic Transformation Process and the Development of the Industry in the City | 206 |
3. The War with the Jewish Religion | 208 |
4. The Publishing of Books of Religious Character | 210 |
5. Surpression of the Zionist Movement | 211 |
6.The Organizational and Cultural Doings of the Yevsektsia | 212 |
7. The Jewish Schools | 213 |
8. The Catastrophe | 214 |
9. The Underground and Partisan Movement in Bobruisk and Surroundings | 217 |
10. The Red Army Takes Bobruisk | 218 |
11. The Part of Jews in the Underground and Partisan Movements | 218 |
12. Jews in Bobruisk After the Second World War | 220 |
First Chapter: MEMORIES OF THE PAST (pp. 223-255) | |
The Legend of the Fortress (Heb.) by Rabbi Borukh Epstein | 223 |
The Building of the Citadel (Heb.) by Yosef Eisenshtadt | 223 |
The Way of the Torah (Heb.) by Yehuda Levi Epstein | 223 |
From My Own Life (Yid.) by Elikum Tsunzer | 224 |
Memories (Heb.) by Avrom Yakov Papirno | 230 |
Those who are zealous for religion (Heb.) by I. L. Katznelson | 232 |
From Once Upon A Time (Yid.) by Yisroel Kopelov
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233 |
In the Cheder (Heb.) by Rabbi Yitzhak Nissenbaum | 247 |
In the Bobruisk fortress (Heb.) by Shmaryahu Levin | 250 |
A visit to Bobruisk (Heb.) by Z. H. Masliansky | 254 |
Second Chapter: A CHRONICLE OF THE PAST (Heb., pp. 257-267) | |
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257 |
Third Chapter: RABBINATE, TORAH & HASSIDISM (pp. 269-302) | |
R. Baruch Mordechai Atinge (Heb.) | 269 |
R. Elihu Goldberg (Heb.) | 271 |
R. Hillel ben Meir Halevi (R. Hillel Meporets) (Heb.) | 271 |
R. Yakov Dovid Oilubski (Riidba'z) (Heb.) | 273 |
Haridba'z Bobruisk by Yitskhak Nissenbaum (Heb.) | 274 |
R. Shemarieh Nokh Shneurson (Heb.) | 276 |
The Home of the Admo'r (abb. for Our Father, Teacher, and Rabbi) by Moshe Dovid Shneurson (Heb.) | 277 |
A Will by S. N. Shneurson (Heb.) | 278 |
HaRov Rafal Shapira by Arieh Yisrol Shapira (Heb.) | 280 |
Rabbi Rafal Shapira by Meir Berlin (Heb.) | 281 |
HaRov Rafal Shapira Leaves Bobruisk by M. Y. Lurie (Heb.) | 282 |
A Sketch of my Father of Blessed Memory by Isser Shapira (Heb.) | 282 |
R. Shmuel Bezpalov (Heb.) | 283 |
R. Shmuel Moshe Shapira (Heb.) | 283 |
R. Chaim Tsvi Shapira (Heb.) | 285 |
R. Ekiba Altshul (Heb.) | 285 |
The Hermit of Bobruisk or The Blind Magid (Heb.) | 286 |
R. Mordechai Tsvi Manbi by R. Yitskhok Nissenbaum (Heb.) | 287 |
R. Yosef Beksht by Y. Burishinski (Heb.) | 288 |
R. Nisan Rubin (Heb.) | 289 |
My Father My Teacher Reb Zvi Drabkin of Blessed Memory by Dovid Drabkin (Heb.) | 289 |
R. Yichiel-Michel Halevi Epshtain (Heb.) | 290 |
R. Avraham Dov Gabai The Genius of Bobruisk (Heb.) | 291 |
In the Yeshivah of R. Ekiba Altshul by R. Yitskhok Nissenbaum (Heb.) | 292 |
In the Great Bes-Hamidrash by Benyamin Menashe Levin (Heb.) | 294 |
Memories of Bobruisk by Yehuda Margolin (Heb.) | 295 |
The Kibutz of R. Shemarieh Nokh Shneurson by B. Tilushkin (Heb.) | 296 |
In the Yeshivah of The Moor by Sh. G. (Heb.) | 297 |
List of Bes-Medreshim of Bobruisk on the Eve of the First World War (Heb.) | 298 |
The Prayer of R. Zalman Khetsis by Yitskhok Nissenbaum (Heb.) | 299 |
House of Hasidim by Elihu Kfaln (Heb.) | 300 |
Fourth Chapter: CHARACTERS AND FIGURES (pp. 305-329) | |
Dr. Yitzhok Shmuel Fiertog (Biography) by A.K. (Yid.) | 305 |
The Last Days by Dr. A. Paperno (Yid.) | 306 |
Remembrances by Mendel Elkin (Yid.) | 308 |
From the Bobruisk Weekly (periodical, Yid.) | 309 |
The Home of Boyaz Rabinovits by Zisleh Maretski (Heb.) | 313 |
The Wealthy Boyaz Rabinovits by Rabbi Meier Berlin (Heb.) | 318 |
Shmuel Aleksandrov (Heb.) | 319 |
In the Presence of Shmuel Aleksandrov by Benyamin Menasheh Levin (Heb.) | 325 |
Sarah Katznelson by Rachel Katznelson-Shazar (Heb.) | 326 |
Shmuel Ben Nissan Katznelson (1880-1918) by Rachel Katznelson-Shazar (Heb.) | 327 |
Fifth Chapter: EDUCATION AND TEACHERS (pp.333-356) | |
Religious Elementary Schools in Bobruisk by Ben-Amiti (Heb.) | 333 |
My Teachers by Reuven Katzenelson (Heb.) | 334 |
Our Teachers by David Shimoni (Heb.) | 335 |
The New Cheder in Bobruisk by P. Shapiro (Heb.) | 337 |
In the Modern Cheder Tushiyah by Ya'akov Goldberg (Heb.) | 344 |
The Lazarivah School for Girls by Nina Katzenelson (Heb.) | 345 |
In the Government High School by Sanya Katzenelson (Heb.) | 346 |
Tzvirko's Gymnasia by Mordechai Katzenelson (Heb.) | 349 |
The Gymnasia in Bobruisk by Shammai (Heb.) | 349 |
Berel Katzenelson's Teachers by Yehudah Sharett (Heb.) | 350 |
Shmuel-Benny Katzenelson [Katziniel] (Heb.) | 351 |
A Critical Thinker by D. Shimoni (Heb.) | 352 |
Teachers in Bobruisk by D. Shimoni (Heb.) | 354 |
The Talmud-Torah in Bobruisk in 1920 by Meshulam HaLevi (Heb.) | 354 |
Sixth Chapter: THE REVOLUTIONARY MOVEMENT (pp.359-408) | |
My Poor Home by Aharon Gorelik (Yid.) | 359 |
In the Days of the First Russian Revolution (Heb. & Yid.)
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369 |
The Escape of Y. H. Brenner from the Police in Bobruisk (1904) by Hillel Tseitlin (Heb.) | 385 |
The First Russian Revolution in Bobruisk by Gorelik (Yid.) | 386 |
Nineteen Hundred Five (A Chapter of Remembrances) by Mendel Elkin (Yid.) | 391 |
Nakhman Yokhvid by Lazar Epshtein (Yid.) | 399 |
Israel Okun by I.S. Hertz (Yid.) | 403 |
Fragments of Memories by Berl Katznelson (Heb.) | 404 |
In the Shadow of the Hanging by Lipman Levinson (Heb.) | 405 |
A Visit In Bobruisk by N. Khonin (Yid.) | 406 |
Seventh Chapter: THE ZIONIST MOVEMENT (pp.411-477) | |
The Beginning of Chibat-Tzion (1886) (Heb.) | 411 |
In the Days of Unrest 1891 (Heb.) | 412 |
In The Group of Chovevei Tzion by Shmaryahu Levin (Heb.) | 412 |
The Sale of Zionist Bank Subscriptions 1899 (Heb.) | 414 |
Chaim Moshe Luzinsky (Heb.) | 414 |
Shmeun Mordechai Luzinski by Kadish Luz (Heb.) | 415 |
Itskhok Ayzik Estrin by Lazar Estrin (Heb.) | 416 |
A Zionist Home by Elihu Dubkin (Heb.) | 417 |
Aryeh Mazeh (Heb.) | 419 |
Aryeh Mazeh by Rachel Katznelson-Shazar (Heb.) | 420 |
In the Children of Zion Organization by Shmuel Dovid Rabinovits (Heb.) | 421 |
Yikhiel Dovidson (Heb.) | 422 |
The Workers of Zion in Bobruisk by Mikhel Margolin (Heb.) | 423 |
On a Mission for the S.S. Party by Ben-Zion Dinur (Heb.) | 435 |
A Talent for the Land of Israel by Dovid Shimoni (Heb.) | 437 |
The Youth of Zion and Hekhaluts (The Pioneer) in Bobruisk by Heshel Frumkin (Heb.) | 441 |
With the San Remo Announcement (Heb.) | 458 |
The Hechalutz' Movement at the Beginning of the Communist Regime by S. Katznelson (Heb.) | 458 |
Hechalutz by Meier Shimoni (Heb.) | 462 |
Halcyon Days by Fanya Tumshov (Heb.) | 467 |
Imprisoned by Abigdur Nochmetsik (Heb.) | 469 |
Imprisoned by the Reds by Aharon Fishkin (Heb.) | 472 |
From the Red Prison (Poem) by A. Fishkin (Heb.) | 476 |
Eighth Chapter: BERL KATZNELSON (pp.479-497) | |
About the Death (Poem) by Natan Alterman (Heb.) | 479 |
Fragments of a Letter by Berl Katznelson (Heb.) | 480 |
Things about Berl by Zalman Shazar (Heb.) | 481 |
Aspects from his Childhood by S. Ginzburg (Heb.) | 487 |
From Berl's Early Days by Dovid Shimoni (Heb.) | 488 |
The Mother Relates by Taiba Katznelson (Heb.) | 491 |
With Berl by Hannah Nesher-Katznelson (Heb.) | 493 |
With Berl by Shoshana Meyron (Heb.) | 496 |
Ninth Chapter: DOVID SHIMONI (pp.499-510) | |
Autobiographical Writings by Dovid Shimoni (Heb.) | 499 |
Poems on the Vistas of the Homeland by David Shimoni (Heb.) To My Home, From Brave Death and Life, There are Forests, An Autumn Night |
500 |
In Secret by Dovid Shimoni (Heb.) | 503 |
Fragments of Memories by Dovid Shimoni (Heb.) | 504 |
Dovid Shimoni on His Birthplace Bobruisk by Rachel Shazar (Heb.) | 509 |
Tenth Chapter: WRITERS, ENLIGHTENERS, PUBLIC FIGURES (pp.513-579) | |
Ya'akov Katznelson (Heb.) | 513 |
Yisrael (Scion of Saints) by Y.L. Katznelson (Heb.) | 513 |
Yehuda Leib Neiman (Heb.) | 514 |
Yisroel Bernstein (Heb.) | 515 |
Yakov ha-Kohen Ginsberg (Heb.) | 516 |
Dr. Yakov Wagodsky (Heb.) | 516 |
Rememberance by Dr. Yakov Vigodsky (Heb.) | 517 |
Nissan Katznelson (Heb.) | 518 |
Yitchok Nissenbaum by Yosef Tirosh (Heb.) | 519 |
Shmuel Levinsky (Heb.) | 521 |
Yitzhak Katznelson (Heb.) | 522 |
The Hebrew Stage Comes to Bobruisk by Zipporah Katznelson (Heb.) | 523 |
About Yitzhak Katznelson by David Shimoni (Heb.) | 523 |
Tsilla (Celia) Dropkin (Heb.) | 524 |
My Mother (Poem) by Celia Dropkin (Yid.) | 524 |
With Rich Kinsman on the Imenie by Celia Dropkin (Yid.) | 525 |
Joseph Tunkel (The Tunkler) (Heb.) | 537 |
Rememberences by The Tunkler (Yid.) | 538 |
Dr. Mordechai Rabinson (Heb.) | 539 |
Menachem Mendel Elkin (Heb.) | 540 |
From My Life by Mendel Elkin (Yid.) | 541 |
A Warm Home (1910) by Peretz Hershbein (Yid.) | 544 |
Mendel Elkin and His Guest (Memoirs) by Rachel Feigenberg (Yid.) | 546 |
Felix Shapira by Rachel Margolin (Heb.) | 548 |
Noakh Gorelik by Ahron Fishkin (Heb.) | 549 |
Trefet A Ragendl (Poem) by Noakh Gorelik (Yid.) | 550 |
Henokh Schvedik (Heb.) | 551 |
Quiet Night Poems by Henokh Schvedik (Yid.) | 551 |
At the Window; Chicken's Cackling; Bobruisker Clothing Factory; In a Boat Poems by Sarah Kahan (Yid.) | 552 |
Sarah Schmukler by Yokhoved Rabinovitz (Heb.) | 553 |
Sarah Schmukler by Dr. Hillel Jaffa (Heb.) | 554 |
Eliezer Shane (Heb.) | 555 |
Without Revelation by Berl Katznelson (Heb.) | 556 |
Yosef Katznelson (Heb.) | 558 |
Black Prince by Abba Akhimayer (Heb.) | 559 |
Shabbati Levinsky by Kadish Luz (Heb.) | 562 |
Writings of Italy by Shabbati Luzinsky (Heb.) | 563 |
Abraham Glusman by Ahron Fishkin (Heb.) | 565 |
Explorer (Poem) by Ahron Fishkin (Heb.) | 566 |
Menachem Shemei (Heb.) | 566 |
From My Writings by Menachem Shmei (Heb.) | 567 |
Dr. Abraham Tzvi Pruzhinin (Heb.) | 567 |
Abraham Nissan (Katznelson) (Heb.) | 568 |
In Honor of the Rise of the Country by Y. ben-Tzvi (Heb.) | 569 |
From Greiving to Rememberance by Zalman Shazar (Heb.) | 570 |
Yisroel Noakh and Zipporah (Fanya) Fishman by Ahron Fishkin (Heb.) | 571 |
Tsvi Nadav (Heb.) | 572 |
Abba Achyamayer (Heb.) | 573 |
Abba Achyamayer by Y. Margolin (Heb.) | 575 |
Yisroel Kopeliov (Yid.) | 576 |
Hillel Shmuel Maitin (Heb.) | 577 |
Ahron Gorelik (Yid.) | 577 |
Reuven Guskin (Yid.) | 578 |
Eleventh Chapter: MEMORIES AND IMAGES (pp.581-667) | |
A Childhood in Faraway Places by Mordechai Lebenun (Blinki) (Heb.) | 581 |
Bobruisk at the Beginning of the Century by Ben-Zion Appleman (Yid.) | 584 |
What I Remember of Bobruisk by Yehuda Minkin (Yid.) | 588 |
Bought World-to-Come by Sholem Alekhim (Yid.) | 595 |
Journey - Netitsn by Dov Baer Slutsky (Yid.) | 598 |
Bobruisk by The Tunkeler (Yid.) | 600 |
What Will I Write? by Yisrol Epshtin (Heb.) | 604 |
A Letter from Bobruisk by by Ben-Irkhmiel (Heb.) | 606 |
Family Lists by Rhoda Katznelson (Heb.) | 607 |
Business with the South by Reuben Katznelson (Heb.) | 616 |
Scenes of Bobruisk by Shimon Ogin (Heb.) | 618 |
Notes by Shimon Ginzburg (Heb.) | 627 |
Industry Memoirs by Mordechai Katznelson (Heb.) | 629 |
Characters of Bobruisk by Yakov Lipshin (Yid.) | 631 |
The Candy and Chocolate Factory of Blinki by Esther Steinberg (Heb.) | 633 |
A Decade of Activity of a Savings and Loan by A. B. Rom (Heb.) | 634 |
A Seamstress of Bobruisk by Batya Lipshits-Shein (Heb.) | 635 |
Hirshbein's Troupe in Bobruisk by Mendel Elkin (Yid.) | 636 |
The Sunday Market by Velvel Zev Lefkovitz (Yid.) | 638 |
Slobode: Fragments of a poem by Moishke Levin (Yid.) | 640 |
Fragments by Ahron Fishkin (Heb.) | 642 |
The House of the Shimonovitzes by Abba Akhimayer (Heb.) | 648 |
Memories by Zelik Ruzovski (Heb.) | 649 |
My Little Town Bobruisk by Meier Soloff (Yid.) | 652 |
Bobruisk by Abba Akhimayer (Heb.) | 656 |
Son of Bobruisk by Herts Munts'ik (Heb.) | 664 |
The Conversations of the Lilies by Abba Akhimayer (Heb.) | 666 |
Twelfth Chapter: FOLKLORE (pp.669-679) | |
Nicknames for Bobruisk by Y. Gorelik (Heb./Yid.) | 669 |
It Smelled Here of Bobruisk by Y. Rubenshtein | 669 |
Bobruisk's Foundation by A. Katznelson (Heb.) | 670 |
The Wagon Drivers' Synagogue by Sh. Nissanbaum (Heb.) | 671 |
The Divorce of Israel Bahmer by A. Y. Paperno (Heb.) | 671 |
My Grandfather Bertshe Etinger by Matilda Lipshits (Yid.) | 672 |
A Hagaddah from Before the Exodus by Sh. Y. Zuin (Heb.) | 672 |
I Only Converted (from Judaism) Yesterday B. Dinur | 672 |
Such A Funeral As A Celebration Day by Z. Gordin (Heb.) | 672 |
The Third Rabbi (Heb.) | 672 |
Doctor Firtug and Doctor Shregi by A. Fishkin (Heb.) | 673 |
Pesach Eliahu the Jester (Heb.) | 673 |
Sabbath Eve by Y. Nissenbaum & Nina Katznelson (Heb.) | 675 |
Characters by M. Katznelson (Heb.) | 675 |
Theives from Bobruisk by Shemarihu Levin (Heb.) | 676 |
The Theives' Rabbi by Zisleh Mortski (Heb.) | 677 |
The Bobruisk Turnpike by Y. Gorelik (Yid.) | 677 |
The Beiniseisk Circus A. Fishkin (Heb.) | 677 |
Bobruisk by Yisrol Rozenberg (Yid.) | 678 |
Thirteenth Chapter: WAR, REVOLUTION, HOLOCAUST (pp.681-743) | |
With the Beginning of the First World War by Aryeh Mazeh (Heb.) | 681 |
Time of Trial by Lipman Levinson (Heb.) | 682 |
A Letter from Bobruisk by Dr. M. Katznelson (Heb.) | 688 |
The Adventures of a Refugee by Dr. M. Katznelson (Heb.) | 689 |
Journey Full of wanderings by Kaddish Luz (Heb.) | 691 |
On the Shores of the Berezina River by M. Rudansky (Heb.) | 697 |
The Bolsheviks in the city by David Shimoni (Heb.) | 700 |
At the beginning of the new regime by Rachel Miron-Margolin (Heb.) | 702 |
The Poles in Bobruisk by David Shimoni (Heb.) | 703 |
In the Days of the Polish Occupation by Shimon Agin (Heb.) | 704 |
During Polish Rule (Accounts of the Misdeeds of the Poles) (Heb.) | 705 |
What Happened in My Hometown Poem by Henoch Schvedik (Yid.) | 707 |
The Beginning of Soviet Rule by Meier Shimoni (Heb.) | 708 |
An Old Revolutionary Visits Bobruisk in 1927 by Aaron Gorelick (Yid.) | 713 |
In Bobruisk 1927 by Israel Yehoshua Singer (Yid.) | 718 |
A Visit in the Schools of Bobruisk (1934) by Esther Feldman (Heb.) | 723 |
The Jewish Schools of Bobruisk by Ts. Dolgopolski (Heb.) | 724 |
A Father's Letter (Heb.) | 724 |
Jewish Soviet Schools in Bobruisk by Sonia Meizner (Yid.) | 725 |
A War Refugee Recounts by M. G. (Heb.) | 727 |
The Destruction of the Jews of Bobruisk (Heb.) | 729 |
The Second World War and its Aftermath by Shimon Ogin (Heb.) | 730 |
The Demolitions Experts at Work by Victor Sikorski (Heb.) | 731 |
The Partisan Grandmother by R. Kavnator (Yid.) | 734 |
Shlomo and Zalman Gorelik - Heroes of the Soviet Union (Heb.) | 738 |
Notice from my Hometown by Berl Katznelson (Heb.) | 739 |
About My Homeland Poem by Tsilie [Celia] Dropkin (Yid.) | 739 |
General Hamen Poem by Nissan Alterman (Heb.) | 740 |
After the Holocaust by Aizik Kahan (Heb.) | 741 |
Twenty Years After the City's Liberation from the Nazis by Ben-Ami (Heb.) | 742 |
Fourteenth Chapter: IN THE VILLAGES AROUND BOBRUISK (pp.745-829) | |
Osipovits by Yisrol Ritub (Heb.) | 745 |
Osipovits... by Yakov Galinson (Heb.) | 751 |
Yakov Shimkhe Ritov, Rabbi of Osipovits (Heb.) | 762 |
Memories of Hlusk by Yakov Lipshits (Yid.) | 764 |
Allegiance to the Movement by Rebecca Borland (Heb.) | 768 |
Cholui (Heb.) | 769 |
Lapitch (Heb.) | 771 |
A Letter from Lapitch by Pesekh Fridland (Heb.) | 771 |
Arieh Li Ktneh (Poem) by Yakov Davidun (Heb.) | 772 |
Lapitch and Til Oilenshpigel by Yakov Davidun (Heb.) | 773 |
Liubonitch by Shimon Ogin (Heb.) | 781 |
Testimony about the Polish Misdeeds in Liubonitch (1920) by Michael Katznelson (Heb.) | 782 |
A Town on Two Rivers (Svislovitch) by Shemarihu Levin (Heb.) | 784 |
The Shtetl Starye Dorogi 1927 by Ahron Gorelik (Yid.) | 790 |
My Village Paritsh by Shimkhe Gorelik (Yid.) | 793 |
Notes on Paritch by Berta Nisman (Heb.) | 796 |
The Horseshoe by Noakh Goldberg (Yid.) | 797 |
The Seeing Blind Man by Ahron Gorelik (Yid.) | 802 |
The Town of Paritch by Sh. Rivkin (Heb.) | 803 |
The Holocaust in Paritch (Heb.) | 803 |
A Letter from Paritsh by Shimkeh Gorelik (Yid.) | 804 |
Beloved Schedrin by Chayim Yeshinovsky (Heb.) | 806 |
In Schedrin by Dr. Y.L. Katznelson (Heb.) | 806 |
The History of Shchedrin by G. Gankin, Dr. Z. Gordin (Heb.) | 807 |
Stories of My Shtetl (Shchedrin) by Yankev Gorelik (Yid.) | 812 |
Jewish Lives in Shchedrin by by G. Gankin, Dr. Z. Gordin (Yid.) | 817 |
Soviet Shchedrin by Yehuda Slutsky (Heb.) | 821 |
Jews in the Villages by Mordechai Katznelson (Heb.) | 825 |
In Domanovo by Kadish Luz (Heb.) | 826 |
Kozlovich by Mendel Elkin (Yid.) | 827 |
Jewish Agricultural Settlements In and Around Bobruisk (Heb.) | 828 |
Fifteenth Chapter: BOBRUISKERS IN THE WORLD (pp.831-871) | |
Bobruisk Natives and Immigration to the Land of Israel (Heb.) | 831 |
Bobruiskers in America (Yid.) | 835 |
Shimon Ginzburg (Heb.) | 840 |
Shimon Ogin of Blessed Memory by Kadish Luz (Heb.) | 841 |
Memorial (Heb.) | 842 |
Epilogue The Editors (Heb.) | 843 |
In Memory of Khaim Katsenelson Nakhum Nelson (Yid.) | 844 |
Paid Family Memorials | 845 |
Index | 855 |
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