Căpreşti, Moldova

Collection of Criticism and Reviews
of the Book “Our Village Kapresht”
(Căpreşti, Moldova)
47°45' / 28°28'

Translation of
Leket shel divre bikoret ve-ha'arkhah
be-'ikvut ha-sefer “Kapresht - 'ayaratenu”

Edited by: Mordekhai Rishpy

Published in Haifa 1981

Acknowledgments

Emerita Project Coordinator Patricia Klindienst

This is a translation from: Leket shel divre bikoret ve-ha'arkhah be-'ikvut ha-sefer “Kapresht - 'ayaratenu”,
Collection of criticism and reviews of the book “Our Village Kapresht”,
ed: Mordekhai Rishpy, Haifa, Kapresht Society in Israel, 1981 (109 H,Y)

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TOC translated by Yocheved Klausner

Part One: Hebrew

Introduction		3

Chapter I - Capreshter Convention 1980

The Annual Convention 1980		5
Căpreşti Convention with the appearance of the Căpreşti Book	From the newspaper Al Hamishmar	6
Greetings	Shunya Bronstein	6
	Sara Zeldov	7

Chapter II - An evening at Kibbutz Bet Oren

Dedication of the book Our Town Căpreşti	Yakov Elyashiv z“l	8
Greetings and review	Kibbutz secretary Shmuel Cohen	9
	Att. Baruch Yanowitz	9
	Mordechai Rishpi	11
	Israel Reshef	13
	Zvi Carmi	13

Chapter III - The Book as Mirrored in the Press

Our town Căpreşti	Nivim, Bet Oren	15
The fertile Bessarabian plains	G. Karsel, in Moznayim	16
History of Căpreşti	Uri Sela, in Yedi'ot Aharonot	17
Our town Căpreşti	S. Avni, in Viața Noastră [Our Life]	18
A Căpreşti Book of Remembrance	Davar	21
A Book of Remembrance of a Jewish community in Bessarabia	Yehoshua Marcus, in Al Hamishmar	22

Chapter IV - Institutions and Individuals

Bet Katzenelson [Katzenelson House]	Zvi Schener	24
Massua	Avi-Yona Netanel	24
YIVO New York		24
B. I. Michali - Tel aviv		25
L. Kupperstein - Tel Aviv		25
Mordechai and Genia Shochat - Bat Yam		26
Chaim Toren - Jerusalem		26
Kibbutz Mesilot - the Library		26

Chapter V - Capreshter Write to Us

Shunia Bronstein - Kiryat Chayim		27
Shimon Yotzis - Kvutzat Ramat David		28
Avraham Yotzis - Giv'atayim		28
Efraim Yotzis - Ramat Gan		29
Arie Landa - Holon		29
Shunia Mann (Sklyar) - Kvutzat Nir-Am		30
Arie Ma'ar - Giv'at Shmuel		31
Zrubavel Seker (Sklyar) - Natzrat Illit		31
Shmuel Potik - Ramat Gan		32
Reply to Shmuel Potik	The Secretary	33
Imanuel Pri-Paz - Netania		36
Zelda Fidelman - Herzliya		37
Lea Kolker - Haifa		38
Arie Koparov - Petah-Tikva		38
Israel Reshef - Ramat HaSharon		38
Ethel Efrat (Rabinowitz) - Kvutzat Shamir		39
Rosa Schor (Schneider) - Hadera		40
The Jews of Pohorna	Arie Landa	40

Chapter VI - The Book in the Eyes of Căpreşti descendants

In Israel
Yoel Silberg - Tel Aviv		41
Sara Zeldov (Fidelman) - Herzliya		41
Nira Kolton - Ramat HaSharon		41

In the US and Canada
Ben & Ruth Itzkowics - Bradenton		43
Bea & Joseph Feinberg - Stohoton [Stockton?]		43
Bea & Jim Powell - Los Angeles		44
Lotti & Freddi Bauch - Camarillo		44
Martin & Pearl Slafkes - Silver Spring		44
Jesse & Renie Vics - Lodonville [Londonville?]		45
Yitzhak Liebestog - Toronto		45

In Venezuela
Susa Van Dam - Caracas		46
Boris Broitman		46
A meeting with Yitzhak & Miriam Siegelboim - Caracas		47

Part Two - Yiddish

Foreword		48

Chapter One - Capreshter Convention 1980

In the name of the Association of former Bessarabian residents	Alexander Michelson	50
Greetings:
Shunya Bronstein		51
Sara Zeldow		52

Chapter Two - An evening at Kibbutz Bet Oren (with the appearance of the book)

Secretary Shmuel Cohen		53
Barya Yanowitz		53
Mordechai Rishpi		56
Israel Reshef		59
Zvi Carmi		59
Yosef Silberman		61

Chapter Three - Literary and Press Reviews

B. I. Michali - Tel Aviv		62
Shalom Sudit - Nahariya		62
Leizer Podriatchik - Yafo		64
A Jewish community in Bessarabia	Yosef Friedlander, in Letzte Neyes	64
A town that exists no more	Motl Saktzyer, in Yiddishe Zeitung	66

Chapter Four - Capreshter Opinions

Rev. Israel Pereverski		68
Shunya Bronstein		68
Shimon Yotzis		70
Buma Yotzis		71
Poyke Yotzis		71
Leib Mehr		72
Shunya Mann (Sklyar)		73
The meaning of the pseudonym “Marish Byanov”		73
Zrubavel Seker (Sklyar)		74
Zelde Fidelman		74
Emanuel Perry-Paz		75
Lea Kalker		77
Leib Kaprow		78
Ethel Efrat (Rabinowitz)+A135		79
Israel Reshef (Feuerman)		79
Rosa Shar (Schneider)		80
Nira Kalton		81
Sara Zeldow (Fidelman)		82

Part Three - Appendix

Chapter I - In Memoriam

Peretz Verzov z“l	Att. Baruch Yanowitz	83
My husband Hershel Feinboim z“l	Sonia Feinboim (Bronstein)	84
R'Gedalia “Schreiber" z“l and his family	Rev. Israel Pereverski	85
My sister Breine z“l	Yissachar (Shunya) Bronstein	86
My husband the artist Moshe Kolker	Lea Kolker	87

Chapter II - In Memoriam

Peretz Verzov		88
Breina Landa		88
Zvi Feinboim		89
Breine Konoval (Bronstein)		89
R'Gedalia Pereverski		90
Avraham & Chaia Rashkovski		90

Chapter III - Miscellaneous

Instructive numbers	Baruch Yanowitz	91
Oyzer Bronstein - “a very busy man”		92
How the town was saved	Israel Pereverski	94
Acknowledgments and thanks		96
Errata		97

Part Four - Other Languages

Căpreşti - our little town [Romanian]	S. Avny	101
Martin and Pearl Slafkes [English]		102
Dr. Jesse and Renie Vics [Eng.]		102
Lotti and Freddi Bauch [Eng.]		103
Bea and Jim Powell [Eng.]		103
Bea and Joe Feinberg [Eng.]		103
Ben and Ruth Itzkovics [Eng.]		104
Boris Broitman [Spanish.]		105
Susa Van Dam [Spanish]		105
Table of Contents		107

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