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Translation of
Dorot shel yahadut ve-tsiyonut
Dorohoi, Saveni, Mihaileni, Darabani, Herta, Radauti-Prut
Editor: Shlomo David
Published in Kiryat Bialik 1992-2000
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Transcribed by Genia Hollander
Introduction to volume n°2. | Shlomo David | 7 |
Exemplary symbol for future generations | Dr. Meir Rosenne | 9 |
Reception by the President of State | 10 | |
Minister's of religions reward to Rabbi Pinchas Wasserman | 16 | |
All my life - fulfilment | Yacov Klein | 17 |
Dorohoi as I new it | Avraham Lorberbaum (Daphna) | 20 |
Dorohoi of my youth | Shlomo Brid | 35 |
Remembrance and nostalgia | Hanna Solomon (Grisaru) | 38 |
Day after the wedding in Dorohoi-aliya to Eretz Israel | Arieh Carmeli | 40 |
From Dorohoi to Jerusalem | Rachela Segoli | 41 |
Memories from Dorohoi | Aharon Gazit (Cojocaru) | 43 |
Rehabilitation of my childhood in Dorohoi | Mania Herman | 45 |
Holocaust, Heroism and revival of my family | Israel (Tuli) Avraham | 46 |
Dorohoi, my little town (poem) | Zahava Balan | 47 |
Weapons hiding plzce at the school 'Cultura Agricola' | Reuven Carmeli | 48 |
An erudite from Dorohoi - correspondant of Hebrew newspaper (1874) | 49 | |
Jews from Dorohoi district making aliya to Israel in 19thC | 51 | |
Two rare books by the Rabbis from Dorohoi | Dr. Yakov Geller | 52 |
Selihot' books by | Iancu Bercovici | 53 |
Rabbi Haim Toibish zl. le Tzadik | Shimshon R. Levenkron | 56 |
Rabbi Israel Aizicson | Shimshon R. Levenkron | 57 |
Kolel of Romania in Jerusalem donated by a couple from Dorohoi | 58 | |
Absorbing community | 58 | |
The ancient cemetery of Dorohoi | Shlomo David | 59 |
Requests at the grave of a zadik | 62 | |
Searching for the past - impressions from a visit to Dorohoi 07-1992 Shlomo David | 63 | |
Genealogy tree - eight generations | 65 | |
Monography of a small town | A.B. Yaffe | 69 |
Who were the Dorohoi Jews? | 71 | |
Daily existence of a small Polish town like Dorohoi | 72 | |
Memorial solemnity at the 52nd pogrom anniversary of Dorohoi | 73 | |
Document: Dorohoi at World War II | 75 | |
How I was almost adopted by a Ukranian family | Yona Barkai | 76 |
I lost the train | Rachel Corber (Sheli Faibis | 78 |
My life has been saved by an …egg | Herman Davidsohn | 80 |
Kaparot (seder) in labour camp with | Yakov Balan | 82 |
Impressions from a journey in Transnistria 1942-1992 | Nathan Porat | 83 |
Valley of the destroyed communities | Shimon Haran | 85 |
Zipori, ancient town and modern site of people from Dorohoi district Nathan Kraft | 86 | |
Yeshaiahu Leizerovici, our general at the top command of the police | 87 | |
My family - Fagadau family | Moshe Megido (Fagadau) | 90 |
The Dorohoian origin of the Haifa University Dean | 95 | |
Dr. Rubin Copilovici, honour member of the dentists' association in Israel | 96 | |
Dr. Milo Rosenberg - the water man | 99 | |
Rabbanit Bracha Lupovici - Tirrer | 100 | |
Moshe Balan helped many orphans to make aliya to Erez Israel | 101 | |
Bethar Dorohoi - headquarters and management after World War II | 101 | |
Bianca Roman born Helik | 102 | |
Looking for roots (poem) | Mania Herman | 102 |
Shemaya Messinger - Man of welfare | 103 | |
Three generations in Shoshana's Rottenberg family (Rosa Marcovici) | 103 | |
Alisa Zilberberg (Schiller) born to be an educator | 104 | |
Greetings from Avraham Lerrer - Canada | 105 | |
Yosef Iancovici zl. | 106 | |
The story of a name | 107 | |
My mother, my teacher, the Rabbitzen Sima Reizel Wasserman zl Rav Yosef Wasserman | 108 | |
Assir Zion born in Dorohoi: Avraham (Dolfi Hirsch zl) | Yehoshua Cushmaru | 110 |
Flower on Gilad by Ariela Marian | 114 | |
My beloved husband Adolph Rosen zl. | Bella Rosen | 115 |
Braha Kleinerman - Zionism from all her heart | Mordechai Dayan | 116 |
My wife skad victim | Yehosha Cushmaru | 118 |
My father, Herscu Tapiteru | Zeev Livni (Ciubotaru) | 120 |
My father Moshe Yakov Schehter zl | Zeev Schehter | 122 |
Grandmother Hanna | Shlomo David | 122 |
My mother Sarah Heifler | Mosher Ofir | 123 |
My father Yakov Bacalu | Mania Herman | 125 |
In memory of Malvina and Iancu Schiller | 126 | |
Shlomo Ungureanu zl - tragedy of a family | 126 | |
Aharon (Isac) Casapu at the age of 100 | 127 | |
The book Dorohoi (a) has been donated to the Institute of the Holocaust Research at Haifa University | 128 | |
The book Dorohoi (a) has been donated to the Mayor of Kiryat Ono | 129 | |
Congratulations for the publication of the book Generations of Jewishness and Zionism - Dorohoi (a) | 130 | |
Roots of the Dorohoi Jewish community | 133 | |
Literature award for the book Dorohoi (a) | 134 | |
Saveni | ||
Rabbi Klinger's honours | Dr. Yakov Geller | 135 |
Boycot on the trespassing ritual slaughterer | Pnina Vardi | 137 |
The rabbi opposed to the aliya - his grandson feels uncomfortable. Arich Avrahami | 142 | |
Rabbi Efraim Alter Landau | Shimshon R. Levenkron | 144 |
The Halutzim of Savenie and Dorohoi | Areh Avrahami | 144 |
Yosef Ebercohen and his generation | S. Avni | 145 |
My father Adv. Yakov Rosenhaput | Dr. Pnina Meltzer | 147 |
My mother Mina Rosenhaupt | Dr. Pnina Meltzer | 148 |
Three brothers - fifty years | 149 | |
Shmuel Rosenhaput goel zedek born in Saveni | David Vinitzki | 150 |
For you, father (poem) | Sarah Rosenfeld (Burstein) zl | 151 |
From Saveni to Zipori | Moshe Wecsler | 152 |
Miss Univers roots | Efrat (Cerna) Messinger | 154 |
Mihăileni | ||
From the expulsion from Spain to Mihaileni | Baruch Tercatin | 155 |
Mordechai Strelisker, a Hebrew writter from Mihaileni | Lucian Zeev Herscovici | 157 |
Rabbi Sabetai Segal authors of Questions and Answers of the Rashbad | 160 | |
Velvale Zberger - troubadour of the town | Shimshon R. Levenkron | 161 |
The Jewish school from Mihaileni | Shemaia Wasserman | 162 |
The trial of the red curtain | Sonia Wasserman (Reisel) | 164 |
Ydov Cohen, symbol and honourable of Romanian Jewry | 165 | |
The honour of Rabbi Moshe Bodner has been transmitted | Ydov Cohen | 165 |
Yakov Mihaeli, our man at the Histadrout organizations | 166 | |
Jean Blum, man of wisdom, spirit and action | 168 | |
Mondial Lottery for peace | Jean Blum | 168 |
My mother's reward | Sonia Wasserman (Reisel) | 169 |
Miriam Eisental (Rahmut) souls rescuer | 170 | |
My mother, my teacher - Tauba (Yona) Schweitzer zl | Hadassah (Schweitzer) Fishel | 171 |
From Mihaileni to Kiryat Shmona, Iancu Cazacu's life achievements. Yosef Cazacu | Iancu Cazacu's | 174 |
Hilda Bernard zl | Baruch Tercatin | 175 |
Froim (Efraim) Rahmut | 175 | |
Darabani | ||
From the chapter Darabani a selection of documents and lists: Shimon Haran | 177 | |
Order against the Jewish people given by the municipality of Darabani | 178 | |
Synagogues in Darabani | 184 | |
Riots in Darabani and the rioters' trial | Shimon Haran | 186 |
Poems | Avraham Feller | 190 |
Day after day - poems | Shimon Haran | 190 |
Esther the gypsy woman | Yitzhak Haham | 191 |
The convert who was interested in Parashat Hashavua | 192 | |
Respects to Rabbi Yitzhak Haham | 193 | |
From the daily existence of a small town | Shimshon R.Levenkron | 194 |
Rabbi Nahum Shemariah Schacter, the Rabbi of Darabani | Shimshon R.Levenkron | 196 |
The Yosef family - dynasty of Yosef Baraz from Darabani | Haim Baraz | 197 |
Areih Schapira, public activity of many achievements | Rabbi Efraim Guttman | 201 |
The foundation of Bnei Akiva's organization in Darabani | Haim Baraz | 202 |
Rabbi Menahem Haham's gold - the Rabbi of Or Akiva | 205 | |
Nathan Baraz - man of many activities | 208 | |
Yoel Kotter - untired public activity | 210 | |
The Cohen family, a special one | 212 | |
From Darabani to Kiryat Ata | Dr. Salomea Herscu (Triger) | 214 |
Shifra Triger blessed with grandsons | 216 | |
Combining public activities and management of the high school in Israel | Haim Baraz | 217 |
Rabbi Smil (Shmuel) Davidson's descendants | 220 | |
Yucla's family saga | 222 | |
Rabbi Moshe Kraftt from the Banai dynasty | 224 | |
Dorohoi | ||
Marcu Geambas male nurse by profession and by mission | 224 | |
Parnafes family | 225 | |
The couple Orenstein | 225 | |
My grandfather Rabbi Shimshon Gelibter | Shimshon R. Levenkron | 226 |
Seeing miracles in the Holocaust | Haim Baraz | 227 |
The guard Vasile | Nathan Kraft | 228 |
The horrors of the concentration camp, the memories of a rescued. Larry B.Marton | 230 | |
Sami Brill, the open heart man | 231 | |
Trial of the fifty young 'communists' | Sami Bril | 231 |
The expulsion from Darabani | Shimshon R. Levenkron | 232 |
The Schechter couple visiting Israel | 233 | |
Hersh Rosen - self explanatory pictures | 234 | |
In memory of my mother - Slima Haham | Pnina Scolnik (Haham) | 235 |
Herţa | ||
Memories from fifty years agao | Bruno (Baruch) Sontag | 237 |
Hertza - my birth place and my connection with Dorohoi | David Spund | 238 |
In the shadow of Transnistria's Holocaust | Aizic Segal | 239 |
Miriam's memories | Avraham Weisman | 242 |
Ronetti Roman and his play Menashe | I. Kara | 244 |
Rădăuti-Prut | ||
Meeting of people from Radautzi-Prut | Kalman Bar David | 245 |
No - memories - | Eliezer Ben Ami (Bercovici | 246 |
Antiques shop - my brother Iacobash (poems) | Eliezer Ben Ami (Bercovici) | 247 |
Ballad Mioritza translation | Eliezer Ben Ami (Bercovici) | 248 |
Talmaciu family: Idel and Haya-Sarah | Beniamin Talmaciu | 249 |
The story of a picture | 251 | |
Obscure memories | Sara Schachter (Sarale Roisen | 252 |
The ketuba from Transnistria | 254 | |
The Moscovici family | Seindale Nadler | 256 |
Memorial ceremony at Yad V'Shem in honour of Radautzi-Prut people who died in the Holocaust | 258 | |
Moments in my life | Eliezer Burstein | 259 |
The Cahal family chronicals | Gina Ben David | 260 |
I adopted a 'mother' | Shmuel Ben David | 261 |
Fallen in Israel Wars | ||
Continuation | Shlomo David | 9 |
The Dorohoi people received by the President of State | 11 | |
Dorohoi | ||
Testimony from ages | I. Kara | 15 |
Old sources about the community past | Manascu Cotter | 27 |
Pages from the Dorohoi Jewry's past | Noel Vaintraub | 32 |
The recompose of the Jewish Dorohoi | Adolf Abramovici | 36 |
The historical encounter with the Chief Rabbi Alexander Shafran | 50 | |
A message from the Mayor of Dorohoi | V. Gerasim | 51 |
Hundreds of years of community | Dr. Rosca Adrian | 52 |
Reception at the Romanian Embassy | 53 | |
Appreciation and gratitude | Victor Barladeanu | 54 |
Testimony - document | Michel Moscovici | 56 |
People, places, faces | Yosef Cohn | 61 |
Symbol of Zionism from Dorohoi | Yosale Meirovici | 67 |
From Reisl Davidsohn to grand-granddaughter | Nuriel Stern | 70 |
From my memories notebook | Leon Aclipei | 72 |
Three true stories | Dr. Seli Grisaru | 80 |
From a nostalgic album | Dr. A. Sapcaru | 87 |
A few memories | Etty Jager | 93 |
Time of distress | Aharon (Luta) Goldstein | 96 |
The year-book of the Romanian press and politics world (1909) | 103 | |
Filip Chefner | Israel Bar Avi | 106 |
Stefanesti Rabbi's defender | Henri Marcus | 108 |
In memory of a friend | Reuven Rubin | 109 |
Mordechai Procedura's grandson | Dr. S. Bickel | 110 |
Istrate Micescu's opponent | A.F.K. Baruch Vinescu | 111 |
Roots | Tudor Chefner | 112 |
Meer Herscovici | Moni Solomon Moscovici | 113 |
Dorohoi, my childhood town | Jenita Posmantir | 115 |
Goilervarfer' | Prof. Leon Rapaport-Ropot | 117 |
Dr. Berluta Danilov | 119 | |
The pictures of Feredaru Yeheskel (Hotu) , self explanatory | 120 | |
Once upon a time | Bianca Marcovici | 122 |
Pride of Dorohoi people living in Israel | Dr. Rubin Copelovici | 125 |
To rediscover a martyr | Lupu Mindirigiu | 126 |
Far away Dorohoi | Dr. Madeleine Davizon | 128 |
Dorohoi of another time | Adv. Max Fonea | 130 |
Pages from the Mosaique Cult Revue | Eveline Fonea | 133 |
The kosher canteen from Dorohoi | 137 | |
Seeking for Dorohoi people in Bucharest | Shlomo David | 138 |
A family with Jewish soul | Nina Vadraru | 139 |
Etty Marcus at the age of 101 | 140 | |
Rabbi Leib Melamed | Nathan Kraft | 141 |
A group of Dorohoi people at the Liberation Day 1993 | Nati Kraft | 143 |
Memories from the war | Dr. Leon Marcovici | 146 |
Fifty years ago - Eng | Solomon Moscovici | 148 |
Dorochoi Jew at the 1865 | Ion Maximiuc | 150 |
Itzhak Danilov, a real Zionist | Sidonia Cherbis (Danilov) | 153 |
Born twice | Arie Arieli (Leon Cotter) | 155 |
Bernard Cotter Dov | 158 | |
Unforgettable | Strulica Sulimovici | 158 |
People and events | Malca Cotter (Cuta Rabinovici) 159 | |
Micu Bernard Cotter | 161 | |
Roots | Dt. Yosef Haimovici | 162 |
Betti Ghemer - Woginiac - Rubin Chemer | 164 | |
Adv. Solomon Zalman | Iancu Saiovici | 165 |
Memories..Memories.. | Carol Stelian (Segal) | 168 |
Moments of a person's life time | Bracha Maur - Shor (Sharf) | 176 |
Don't forget your roots | Gratziela Ethel Brener-Kraft | 179 |
Dorohoi people's come back | Dorothea Peltz | 180 |
Pages from a family's chronical | Dr. Benedict Solomon | 181 |
A special human being | Eugen Luca | 184 |
A hard time | Dr. Marcel Solomon | 185 |
Herman David, a numanitary boss | Shlomo David | 186 |
The Town of my life | Reghina Cohn-Silberman | 187 |
Unforgettable teacher Mina Cohn | David Shlomo | 188 |
The painter | Avner Talpalariu | 190 |
Moshe Talpalariu's memories | 191 | |
Sali Trebich, Gusta and Clara Linker | Anuta Talpalariu (Pomirleanu) | 193 |
Moments from Rabbi's Aharon Faibis (Arn Shoihet) life | Bercu Faibis | 194 |
Other episodes … | Martin Moscovici | 196 |
Shlaiher family from Dorohoi | Beno Shlaiher | 200 |
Fischer family from Dorohoi | 201 | |
Meditations and memories | Asher Cohen | 202 |
Haim Carol Tangiu a pious Jew | 203 | |
A few memories | Cici Zelinger (Idelzon) | 204 |
People of Dorohoi | Yafa Moscovici | 207 |
Rabbitzen Sima Reisel Wasserman | Tzipora Klepholtz (Wasserman 208 | |
Sally Linker our predictive woman | 209 | |
Amongst the today people of Dorohoi: Lupu Feder | S. David | 210 |
Strul Heilik family | 211 | |
Dorohoi water carriers' town | Jiulian Maier Schwartz | 211 |
Isidor Iancu - a true Jew | 212 | |
Dr. Avraham Rapaport | 212 | |
The blue-white box | Dina Radeanu | 213 |
Sara Morgenstern (Rapaport) and Maya Morgenstern | 214 | |
37 years of theater | Shmuel Goodrich | 215 |
Some memories | Avraham Blanaru | 217 |
The song Dorohoi my town | Moshe Blanaru | 219 |
Dr. Bitterman's 'Marshall stick' | Victor Namolaru | 220 |
Prof. Otto Scheib | Prof. Gh. Amarandei | 221 |
The Jewish graduates at the high school 'Grigore Ghica ( 1924-1977 | 222 | |
A true friend of the Jewish people | Ion Halici | 227 |
Memories | Etty Lober | 228 |
In memory of my family | Eng. Avi (Corneli) Zoler | 229 |
Destiny saved us from Transnistria | Clara Cohn | 230 |
Meir Kalmanovici died in Transnistria | Moshe Kalmanovici | 230 |
…from Beniamin's Fundoianu family | Naty Kraft | 231 |
The Jews from Hudesti | Moritz Segal (Mircea Hudescu) 232 | |
They killed my parents | Rachela Oieriu | 233 |
Sad memories | Ron Michael (Aronovici Mendel) 234 | |
He tried to save his granddaughter | Izi Davidsohn | 235 |
The pen of Sasa Pana | Liana Maxi | 236 |
Born in '02' (fragments) | Sasa Pana | 237 |
Zipora's Buiumash | Stefan Roll | 241 |
Ion Calugaru | Sasa Pana | 242 |
Josef H. Bercovici-Andronic | Carol Pincas | 243 |
Some words on 'Paradise book' | Ov.S.Crohmalniceanu | 244 |
Profile of a town | E. Suhor | 245 |
Miron Berg. The poet of the infinite search | Prof. M. Baraz | 246 |
Last Jews from Dorohoi at 20-8-1992 | 248 | |
Meditations at the New cemetery from Dorohoi | D. Shlomo | 249 |
Heroes died for Romania! | 250 | |
Graves of Zadikim and Rabbis | 252 | |
Graves of renown doctors | 253 | |
File of Yarzeit commemorations from Dorohoi | 255 | |
Beith Solomon synagogue | 256 | |
The first pogrom - Dorohoi. Speech by | Rav. Dr. Moses Rosen | 257 |
The survivor of a five-persons family | Eng. Marcu Rozen | 259 |
About Kapusterno-Transnistria | Zaharia Pitaru | 261 |
Lieutenants Atanasiu and Gaia saved me | Dr. Arc. Leon Haber | 265 |
The pogrom from Dorohoi | Ceausu Maer-Maurer | 267 |
Mendel and Liza Rudich | Schelly Leibovici-Fainaru | 268 |
My trauma from the Hollocaust | Hana Hundert | 269 |
Document - Confidential - General Prosecutor | 270 | |
Note | 271 | |
Letters | 272 | |
Dorohoi | I. Kara | 273 |
A living monument of a disappeared community | Sh. Leibovici-Lais | 275 |
Dorohoi is living | M. Raf | 276 |
Avalanche of publications | Yoram Segal | 276 |
Dorohoi | Rodica Grindea | 277 |
Rom-Sig News (The Jewish Association of Genealogy Researchers) | 278 | |
Some observations - some printing mistakes | 279 | |
Săveni | ||
From the past of a small community | Leib Manes | 282 |
Memories and remembrances from my small town | Leib Blumenthal | 283 |
Mose Maur (Saveneanu) | Sonia Palty | 291 |
Dror Habonim at Saveni | Eng. Hanan Wasserman (Croitoru Camil) 293 | |
The Schehter family | Schapira Efraima (Esfira) | 294 |
Vigdor Croitoru - Assir Zion | Leib Blumenthal | 295 |
Some details | I. Kara | 296 |
Savenie in the Zionist press in Romania 70 years ago | V. Noel | 297 |
Mihăileni | ||
Mihaileni, a typical steitl | I. Kara | 301 |
The story of a life full of escapes | Dan Regenstreif | 303 |
Memories | Malvina Zelinger | 307 |
The summer of 1973, Rome, Italy | Iosub Zelinger | 308 |
A special scholar | Rabbi Meir Marilus | 311 |
Jean Blum, the humanist and history researcher | 312 | |
A Zionist's life | Harry Zvoristeanu | 314 |
Leon Bertis - the poet of the Jewish townlet | Marius Mircu | 315 |
The Jews - my friends from a life time | Victor Maftei | 317 |
Nostalgy | Josef H. Andronic | 320 |
From the Zionist press in Romania | Noel V. | 322 |
Testimony at Yad V'Shem in 1959 | Mendel Cocos | 324 |
The search for the Regenstreich | 325 | |
Darabani | ||
Darabani | I. Kara | 327 |
In Darabani 1992 | Shlomo David | 328 |
The old Zionist campaigner David Iosef Mihailovici | Liuba Mihailovici | 329 |
Sara Mihailovici founder of the Hebrew kindergarten | 330 | |
Jancu Oieru | Naty Kraft | 331 |
Moving memories | Gershin Fainaru | 333 |
Adolf and Roza Leibovici | 334 | |
From the Zionist press | N. Vaintraub | 336 |
Herţa | ||
Pages of history | I. Kara | 339 |
Clara and Yhil Marcovici | Hilda (Duta) Phillip and Aurel Marcovici | 341 |
In Yhil Marcovici's memory | Mihail Rinea | 342 |
Carol Drimer | Lucian Zeev-Herscovici | 344 |
A pride of Hertza Jewry | F. Benjamin-B. Fundoianu | 346 |
Ronetti Roman | I. Kara | 348 |
People who were, Carol Drimer | Froim Marcus | 349 |
The Holocaust of Hertza - testimony of | Haim Loker | 350 |
From the Zionist press | Noel Vaintraub | 351 |
Rădăuti-Prut | ||
From a 'steitl' existence | I. Kara | 355 |
'Der steitl' Radautzi-Prut | Fany Parnafes-Moscovici | 357 |
Unforgettable time | Leiba Hudescu | 361 |
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