Upon the Land of Bessarabia

Upon the Land of Bessarabia;
Studies, Memoirs, Articles, Documents
and Essays Depicting its Image

Translation of
Al admat Bessarabia; divrew mehkar, zikhronot, reshimot,
teudot ve-divrei safrut le-kviat hadmut shel yahaduta

Edited by: K.A. Bertini

Published in Tel Aviv 1959

This is a translation from:
Al admat Bessarabia; divrew mehkar, zikhronot, reshimot, teudot ve-divrei safrut le-kviat hadmut shel yahaduta,
Upon the land of Bessarabia; studies, memoirs, articles, documents and essays depicting its image,
ed: K.A. Bertini, United Assoc. of Former residents of Bessarabia, Tel Aviv 1959 (2 Volumes, 479 pages, H, Y)

Note: The original book can be seen online at the NY Public Library site: Bessarabia (1959)

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Translated by Yocheved Klausner

Section A
Foreword	The Editors	7
Chasidism in Bessarabia	N. Huberman z”l	9
Times of pogroms	Israel Berman z”l	17
“The Center” in Kishinev	Dr. P. Balzan	35
The Jewish press in Bessarabia and its functions	Michael Landau	53
The Jewish Co-operatives in Bessarabia	Y. Chitron	70
A “Prisoner of Zion” in 1908	Ch. Weissadler	85
The Jewish education in Bessarabia	Zev Igeret	103
The youth movements in Bessarabia	Meir Zayit	125
The history of the massacre of the Jews in Bessarabia and Transnistria	Dr. T. Lavie Levinstein	140
Lone stalks of grain	B. Y. Michali	181
Under the wings of angels	Mordechai Goldenberg z”l	191
The big winnings on Purim night	Z. Rosenthal z”l	214
The blessing of the harvest time	Eliyahu Meytos	217
Leaves	Moshe Altman	222
The wandering singer	A. B. Yaffe	241
The poetry of Y. Fichman	K. A. Bertini	249
Two who have left us	Z. Igeret	262

Section B
Foreword	The Editors	7
The Zionist Center in Bessarabia between the two World Wars	Dr. M. Landau	9
Bessarabia episodes		18
Kishinev, in the distant and recent past	Miriam Bernstein-Cohen	25
Memories from the pogroms in Kishinev	Dr. P. Balzan	36
The Jewish Kishinev	Mordechai Amitay	45
Karaban, the “Zionist”	Ch. Weissadler	51
The Jewish life in Beltz [Bălţi]	Yerachmiel Yaffe	62
R'Avraham Batlan [“the loafer”]	Chaim Toren	70
R'Welvel Lea's	A. Polikman	81
The last summer in Bessarabia	Meir Zayit	83
The great tragedy of the Bessarabia Jews	Dr. Meir Teich	99
The Holocaust of the Bessarabia Jews as reflected in the literature	Dora Litani	109
S. Ben-Zion	K. Kupperstein	116
Eliezer Steinbarg, the fabulist	K. A. Bertini	147
Mordechai Goldenberg and Yakov Kutcher	Zev Igeret	177
Yakov Fichman	A.B. Yaffe	189
The path of K. A. Bertini	Reuven Goldenberg	209

Section C
Sixty Years From the Kishinev Pogroms
The Kishinev pogroms as reflected in the Hebrew and Yiddish poetry	A. R. Mal'achi	1-99
On the censorship omissions from “The Nemirov Ordeal"	Ch. N. Bialik	99
The Kishinev pogrom as reflected in “Di Welt"	G. Karsel	100-123
The Russian public opinion on the Kishinev pogroms	Yehuda Slutzki	124-135
Bialik and the Kishinev orphans	Shlomo Dubinski	136-143
The Kishinev pogrom [Y]	Peretz Hirschbein	144-149
Self-defense during the Kishinev pogrom	Shlomo Dubinski	150-153
When the Easter Holiday came [a poem]	Eliyahu Meytos	154-156
My father's whistle [a poem]	Eliyahu Meytos	157-163
The days of slaughter in Kishinev	Avraham Polikman	164-165
Echoes of the Kishinev pogrom	The World	165-166

Testimonies of Eye-Witnesses:
Obtaining testimony from the pogrom victims	Ch. N. Bialik	167-182
The pogrom in Kishinev		183-191

Literature and Society
Eliyahu Meytos 70 years old
Summary of my life	Eliyahu Meytos	195-197
Eliyahu Meytos and his poetry	A. B. Yaffe	198-207
Four collections of letters	[brought to print by] B. Y. Michali	208-243
Sayings & proverbs collected from the works of Bessarabia writers	Shimon Todor	244-257
The Hechalutz in Bessarabia	Dr. Michael Landau	258-261
The Hashomer Hatz'ir in Bessarabia	Aharon Cohen	262-274
Gordonia episodes in Bessarabia	M. Zayit	275-283
Chaim Grinberg in Kishinev	Ch. Weissadler	284-293
Figures	Dr. P. Balzan	294-298

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