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Translation of: Minsk, ir va-em
Edited by: Shlomo Even-Shushan
Published in: Jerusalem, 1975-85
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This is a translation from: Minsk, ir va-em; (Minsk, Jewish Mother-City, a memorial anthology, 2 volumes),
ed. by Shlomo Even-Shushan. Assoc. of Olim from Minsk and its Surroundings in Israel, Jerusalem 1975-85.
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With the Book | Shlomo Even-Shoshan | 5 |
History of the Jewish Community in Minsk | Siani Leichter | 7 |
Community of Minsk from end of 19th Century Until Revolution of 1917 | David Cohen | 74 |
District of Minsk | Shlomo Even-Shoshan | 82 |
Religious Jewry, Its Institutions and Persons | Ben-Zion Gershoni | 86 |
Rabbis of the Maskil-Leitan Dynasty | Sinai Leichter | 102 |
Hebrew Publishing in Minsk | Avraham Yaari | 105 |
Cantors and Cantorship in Minsk | Prof. Moshe Levinson | 112 |
The Thief | Shaul Ginzburg | 116 |
A Page from the Annals of Jewish Education in Russia | L. Lavenda | 120 |
HaKochavim The Stars | Gedalia Alkoshi | 127 |
Jewish Souls | A. Litvin | 135 |
Memories of a Yeshiva Boy | Alexander Ziskind Horvitz | 140 |
On the Yeshivot | Ch. D. Rozenshtein | 146 |
From My Childhood | Avraham Liessin | 151 |
Chibat-Zion Movement in Minsk and Surrounding Area | Sinai Leichter | 169 |
Secrets from Behind the Curtain | Sh. L. Tsitron | 180 |
Rabbi Yaakov Meir | Yitzchak Nisenboim | 187 |
Youth Rebelling | Shmaryahu Levin | 190 |
Memories of a Minsk Grandmother | Paulina Vangrof | 200 |
Jewish Workers Movement in Minsk in the 80's | Yevgenia Horvitz | 202 |
The First Jewish Workers Circles | Yitzhak Hurwitz | 213 |
Yitzhak Aizik Horowitz | A. Lissin | 217 |
Minsk Host of the Founding Committee of the RSDP | Mordechai Berger | 220 |
My Jewish Minsk | Dr. Alexander Goldshtein | 221 |
A Visit to Minsk | Zvi Hirsh Maslianski | 240 |
A Passing Shadow | Efraim A. Lisitski | 242 |
Trial of the Jewish Gangs in Minsk | Shneor Tsuri | 246 |
My Secret Library | A. Lisin | 250 |
Conference of Minsk | M. Dushkan | 252 |
The Opposition in Minsk during the Founding of the the Bund | A. Lisin | 255 |
A. Lisin and the Opposition in Minsk | B. Katzenelson | 263 |
Vladimir Medem | Sinai Leichter | 268 |
The Beginning of My Involvement with the Bund | Vladimir Medem | 270 |
From the Memories of a Jewish Socialist | B. Michaelevitz | 277 |
The Center of the Bund Puts Me in Misnks | Avraham der Tate | 287 |
Conversation with H. Livik | Yaakov Pat | 292 |
In the Bund Circles | Nachum Chanin | 295 |
Minsk and the Minskians | A. Litvak | 298 |
Gregory Gershoni and His Circle | Vladimir Medem | 304 |
Meetings with Gershoni | M. M. Rozenboim | 309 |
Speech Before the Court | Gregory Gershoni | 313 |
Fruma Frumkin | A. Privilev | 314 |
The Zobatovashchina and the Jewish Workers Movement | Boris Frumkin | 316 |
Mania Vilboshvitz and Chaika Cohen | Mendel Zinger | 326 |
Minsk at the Turn of the Century | David Zakai | 330 |
Zion is in the Heart of Our Townspeople | Ch. D. Rozenshtein | 338 |
The First Zionist in Minsk | Zalman Shazar | 341 |
Shimshon Rozenboim | Daniel Persky | 345 |
The Hebrew Language Finds Matches | Ester Filbinski | 349 |
Yehuda Zev Zofech | Sh. L. Tsitron | 350 |
In a Zionist Home | Dr. Dvora Kaplan | 363 |
Chaim Chorgin | Itzchak Berger | 368 |
Yehuda Leib Berger | A. A. | 371 |
The All-Russian Zionist Conference in Minsk | A. Refaeli (Tsantsipar) | 373 |
Light on the Paths of Jewish Economics | Zalman Shazar | 383 |
With Poalei-Zion (Workers of Zion) at Minsk Conference | Yaakov Pereman | 384 |
My Father, Nachman Sirkin | Mary Sirkin | 385 |
Memories from Minsk | Seadia Paz (Goldberg) | 388 |
The First Buds of Poalei-Zion | Yitzchak Berger | 398 |
Poalei-Zion A la Minsk | Nachum Kantorovich | 407 |
Poali-Zion of Minsk | Mendel Zinger | 414 |
Yitzchak Berger | Daniel Persky | 429 |
Ester Berger | Israel | 433 |
Viezman Under the Boards | Yitzchak Berger | 434 |
Poalei-Zion's Sailboats in Minsk | Mendel Zinger | 436 |
My First Conference | Zalman Shazar | 438 |
With B. Barochov in Minsk | Michal Rabinovich | 443 |
Michal Rabinovich | Zalman Shazar | 447 |
Zionist Activity | Alexander Goldshtein | 449 |
I Will Remember Days in Minsk | Yosef Morgenshtern | 451 |
The Blood-Bath in Minsk in 1905 | Leo Motskin | 457 |
A Manifesto after the Massacre | The Minsk Committee of the Zionist-Socialist Workers Party | 461 |
A Chapter of My Life in Minsk | Mordechai Lieb Katznelson | 462 |
Elections Struggle for the Second Duma | Alexander Goldshtein | 465 |
The Minian Dorshei Zion | Moshe Kalyoch | 467 |
Memories | Yohoshua Mordechai Rozenblum | 471 |
On A City Street | Madan | 476 |
Five Years in Minsk | Shimon Yaakov Gliksberg | 484 |
With My Brothers in Minsk | Daniel Charni | 487 |
Chapters of My Life | Avraham Reizin | 491 |
Avraham Reizin | David Zakai | 500 |
The Maggid from Minsk | Zalman Shazar | 501 |
My Father's House, the Maggid from Minsk | Rebbetzin Rachel Chadash | 504 |
Among Rabbis | Prof. Shaul Liberman | 516 |
My Father R'Eliezer | Mordechai Rabinowitz | 520 |
In Memory of Personalities | Noah Shapira | 521 |
The Cantor R'Shlomo Kufshtik | Moshe Bick | 525 |
Musicians in Minsk | David Zakay, David Solomonov | 527 |
Pure Tunes | Zvi Gordon | 528 |
Fragments of Memories | Y. M. Mali | 531 |
Wagon Owners | Yehoshua Fisher | 533 |
From My Old House | H. Sarlin | 539 |
Hebrew Minsk | Daniel Persky | 541 |
My Father, Chaim David Rozenshtein | Avraham Even-Shoshan | 545 |
Y.Ch.N.H.Z. A Folk Storyteller | Chaim David Rosenstein | 551 |
Jewish Minsk in the Eyes of Daniel Persky | Sinai Leichter | 556 |
Idols of My Youth | Daniel Persky | 559 |
Secular Education in Minsk | Moshe Kalyoch | 566 |
The Jewish Reali School in Minsk | Zalman Ginzburg | 569 |
The School of Dentistry in Minsk | Zalman Ginzburg | 573 |
In the field of education for Girls | Ahuva Kosovski | 574 |
Of Days Past | Eliezer Kaplan | 575 |
Eliezer Kaplan | Zalman Shazar | 577 |
The United Committee | Nachum Kantorovich | 578 |
Father's House | Sar Kafri (Kaplan) | 579 |
Charoshet | Yaakov Kasel | 583 |
Three Generations | Leo Goldberg | 584 |
From Childhood | Dr. Moshe Rakoveshchik | 588 |
Moshe Cohen | M. T. | 591 |
Menachem Itzkovich | Michael Minkov | 593 |
Evening Hebrew Classes | Menachem Gurfinkel | 594 |
Refugee Aid | Shmuel Avinoam (Zukerman) | 595 |
The Minsk Jew and Refugee Aid | Mordechai Rodenski | 596 |
Chaim Solovyechik, A Refugee in Minsk | Yitzchak Berger | 598 |
The Work of Uza in the District of Minsk, 1916-1918 | Dr. Miriam Halperin-Proginin | 602 |
A Surprise Meeting with Shaul Chernichovski | Nachum Chinitz | 607 |
With Shaul Chernichovski on the Night of Simchat-Tora | Michal Rabinovich | 608 |
On Days of Emergency | Moshe Doltsin | 611 |
The Beginning of Kolel Minsk in Jerusalem | A. R. Malachi | 615 |
Thanks to Pesach Seder Prayer at the Wailing Wall | Menachem Barash | 624 |
Ordinary Conversations of Minskers Rabbi Shlomo Pines, Nachum Chinitz, A. Litwin, Daniel Charny, Tzvi Gordon, Y. M. Rosenblum, M. Evenski, Sh. Even-Shoshan, Daniel Persky |
626 | |
Popular Adages in Yiddish from Minsk (Note from translator: this entry does not appear in the printed table of contents at the end of the book) | Sh. Einhorn | 638 |
Memories of People - (List) | 640 | |
David Cohen, the Living Spirit in the Enterprise of the Book of Minsk | Gershon Man (Minkov) and Shlomo Even-Shoshan | 668 |
The Story of the Book of Minsk | Shlomo Even-Shoshan | 671 |
Index of Names | 677 | |
The Map of the Region of Minsk (page 83) is by Shoshana Ram (of Beit Shemesh) and Chaya Bernstein (of Sde-Nachum) | ||
The Map of the center of the city of Minsk (on the inside cover) is by Chaya Bernstein (of Sde-Nachum) | ||
The printing blocks (glyphs) are from photographs from the archives and other sources Pikovski Zincography, Jerusalem |
With the Book | Shlomo Even-Shoshan | 5 |
The Jewish Settlement in Minsk, 1917-1941 | Aaron Rozin | 7 |
Chapters of Minsk | Loba Levita | 106 |
Minsk - the Russian Jerusalem | Chaim Levshai | 148 |
The Torah Greats of Minsk | Rabbi Asher Kershtein | 152 |
The Minsk Yeshiva and Something on the Religious Life | Rabbi Moshe Tsvi Neria | 159 |
With Friends | Heshel Frumkin | 168 |
The City of My Youth | Shalom Bahat | 171 |
With Trumpeldor and Yitzchak Sade | Yitzchak Brodner | 175 |
With Trumpeldor in Minsk | Iser Kosovzki | 177 |
With the Movement | Chanan Goldberg | 179 |
With the Chalutz | Yitzhak Zvirin | 184 |
We Breathed the Air of Israel from Childhood | Tsiporah Cherniak | 186 |
My Road to Israel | Shmuel Horvitz | 187 |
The Zionist-Socialist Youth in Minsk | Shmuel Shapiro | 193 |
Youth in Zionist Activities | David Cohen | 198 |
Fragments of Memories | Dov Lipov | 206 |
I Will Not Sign! | Reuven Goldberg | 210 |
From Bikkurim to HeHalutz | Mordechai Haimovsky | 214 |
Youth in Minsk | Aryeh Ram | 217 |
In The Chaver Movement | Moshe Yavelov | 224 |
Thanks to the Jewish Spirit | Nachum Goldin | 226 |
My Country Is the Land of Israel | Sarah Goldberg | 229 |
From School Desk to Arrest | Leah Goldin | 230 |
From Minsk to Ashchabad | Yoel Guterman | 232 |
Minsk Karkarali Israel | Arye Levin | 236 |
Minsk Mexico Jerusalem | Arye Dolchin | 240 |
Fragments of Memories | Leah Mali | 244 |
Three Meetings | Arye Charutz | 249 |
Minsk a Station on the Way to Israel | Yaakov Klevnov | 252 |
A Disappointing Mission | Shlomo Even-Shoshan Rozenshtein | 255 |
A Way No-Way to Israel | Nechemia Makabi | 260 |
The Holocaust, the Underground and the Partisans in Minsk | David Cohen | 267 |
In the Ghetto, the Underground, the Forest | Yaakov Grinshtein | 315 |
The Hamburg Ghetto | Chaim Baram | 336 |
Sparks at Night | Sofia Sadovskaya | 350 |
A Motherly Poem | Miriam Aygas's Story an interview with David Cohen | 357 |
Escape from the Ghetto | Dvora Trebnik | 367 |
Not for a Medal of Valor | Yochevet nee Rovenchik Eiberman | 371 |
In Your Blood Live! | Hinda nee Nechamchik, Tassman | 378 |
Grenades without Detonators | Frida Skorochod | 387 |
With Zorin in the Family Camp | Anatol Wertheim | 392 |
From Then Until Here | Dvorah-Fruma Davidson | 395 |
Childhood in the Ghetto | Dr. Rachel Shmailovitz | 408 |
From the Valley of Death | Liova Goldberg | 411 |
With My Own Hands | Zolia Tokarski | 417 |
From a Kolchoz in Minsk to Israel | Zeev Patent | 418 |
In the Path of Hardship | Asya Bresler | 421 |
Minsk from Near and Far | Dr Mira Feldman | 425 |
The Jewish Theater in Minsk | Mania Rodenski-Fridman | 428 |
The Story About My Daughter | Mark Zhitinitski | 434 |
The Zionist Flag is Up Again | Anatoli Rubin | 447 |
Minsk After the War | Israel R.Sh.L. | 456 |
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