BENDERY COMMUNITY
YIZKOR BOOK
Editor: M. Tamari
Published by the Committee of Bendery Immigrants in Israel
With the participation of the Bendery immigrants in the USA, Tel Aviv -1975
Editorial Committee
(in alphabetical order)
In Israel: Pinchas Bendersky; Attorney Meir Greenberg, z”l;
Zalman Drowetzky; Chanania Walowetz; Abraham Hayat;
Mordechai Sever; Yitzchak Sverdlik; Yoseph Raviv (Rabinowitz)
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In the USA; Leon Gurfel; David Carmel; Yakov Fein.
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The Israeli committee, meeting on the 26 December, 1974, expressed its
appreciation and thanks to PINCHAS BENDERSKY for his devoted
work connected with the publication of this book.
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The material in the book-photos, documents and lists, were collected
from archives, libraries, science and remembrance institutes,and from
individuals in Israel and abroad by Mordechai Sever. The map at the
beginning of the book was redrawn from an old version by
Mordechai Sever.
*
All rights in this book belong to the committees of Immigrants from Bendery in Israel and the USA
| Town Map |
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| M. Tamari: The Book |
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| Pinchas Bendersky: Generation to Generation speaks |
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| HISTORY OF THE CITY (from the encyclopedia) |
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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 |
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| 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 |
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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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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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 |
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| List of Martyrs (Names extracted from the “In Loving Memory” section |
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