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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
At the gates of the 3rd Volume | David Shlomo | 5 |
President Ezer Weizmann receives a delegation from the district and town of Dorohoi | 6 | |
Yad Vashem for the Jewish Community of Dorohoi | Shimshon R. Levencorn | 8 |
The contribution of a wonderful community | Nehemia Lahav | 9 |
On the publication of the 2nd Volume | 10 | |
Dorohoi | ||
The Geonim of Galitzia answer the queries | Shimshon R. Levencorn | 13 |
The Rabbi of Epta in defence of the Shohet R. Yitzchak | Shimshon R. Levencorn | 28 |
Gleanings into the 19th Century | 30 | |
Yosef Zwi Fior - a persecuted 19thC journalist | Zeev Shlomo Arnon | 31 |
A 1880 document written in Hebrew from the village of Doleasca | 32 | |
A descendant of a dynasty: Rabbi Pinchas Wasserman | 33 | |
Rabbi Yossi Wasserman | 34 | |
The Rumanian Ambassador in Israel visits Rabbi Pinchas Wasserman | 36 | |
A hero - Yaakov Klein | 37 | |
A jubilee | 38 | |
Grandma Yety Markus is 103 | 39 | |
Reb Yaakov Balan | 40 | |
Yecheskel Feredaru-Segal | 42 | |
Mrs. Erika and Dr. Yizu Yeger | 43 | |
Dr. Willy Bitterman | 45 | |
Pages of my life | Hayim Sgoli | 47 |
Meyer(Max) Terner-Ternauceanu - a soft-spoken man | 49 | |
Shaul-Lica Weissman | 52 | |
Nahman(Nicu)Bernfeld, a pioneer of the 30's | 53 | |
My mother's vow | David Rotaru | 56 |
Aharon Abramovici - A Jew of pride and modesty | Hayim Baratz | 58 |
Marcel Cohen, Dorohoi - Ashkelon | Hayim Baratz | 60 |
Kyriat Ono's Mother | Atara Moscovici | 62 |
Emil Skolitz - composer & Jewish folkloric music researcher | 64 | |
A badge of honour for the lyricist Manya Herman | 65 | |
A children song book of Manya Herman | Shlomo David | 66 |
Fanny Renzer(Carbunaru) tells her story | 67 | |
We struggled for life! | Yehuda Dulce | 68 |
Enterprising figures | Yehuda Dulce | 70 |
Aliza Schwartz | 71 | |
David Kraft - a multilateral engineer | 72 | |
Three sisters | Lotty Rozenfeld | |
A Jewish Zionist house | Avraham Cusmaru | 75 |
Fam. Hayim and Blima(Berna)Weiner and their descendants Zwi Weiner | 77 | |
Four families named Yancovici | 79 | |
The Kraft's - a family of furriers | 80 | |
The dispersion of a family | Pnina Carmeli | 81 |
My family - the House of Golder | Shelly Teitelman | 82 |
The Butnaru Family: several generations | Malca Faver | 84 |
The Scortaru Families | 86 | |
The Lerner Family | Dina Sela(Lerner) | 87 |
A few words about my family - the Lazarovici | Angela Aryel | 88 |
Carol(Lica) Wechsler - a Prisoner of Zion | 89 | |
The Lazarovici Family | 89 | |
Willy Segal - a senior laboratory technician | 90 | |
Benjamin Nesher - a very active man | 90 | |
The three secrets of Zeev Orenstein (Orki) | 91 | |
Aliza Weintrabu - a 'wonder woman' | 92 | |
An open house - fountain of living water | Mordechai Arzi | 93 |
Shaye Argintaru and his family | Zila Arlo | 93 |
Rachel Hafetz(Aharonovici) - a lifetime | Manya Herman | 94 |
Ytzcjak (Yzu) Fogel's good deeds | Manya Herman | 96 |
The revival of the Jewish Dorohoi after the Holocaust | Edy Balan | 97 |
A picture taken in 1933 | 100 | |
Childhood memories of Dorohoi | Dr. Alfred Renart-Poplingher | 101 |
Dr. Beno Dragusteanu - youth in Dorohoi | 102 | |
Zionist Youth Movements' activities on Gordonia-Young Macabi | 103 | |
La doi cocosi tale of Avraham Yitzchak Bacalu | Miriam Alon | 104 |
The yearly commemoration | 106 | |
The consecration of the tombstone on the grave of Bercu Aclipei zl | 112 | |
In memoriam: Yosef Yancovici | 113 | |
Shoshana Rotenberg lights a signal torch on the Holocaust Memorial Day | 114 | |
A tree for every name | 115 | |
Dorohoi during the Holocaust | 116 | |
The monk of lentils & mamaliga - encounter with Jews of Dorohoi who were deported to Transnistria, Rabbi Gedalyahu Stein, zl | 117 | |
Moshe Zamir, zl | 118 | |
My mother is still haunted | Batya Krainer | 119 |
My parents, may their memory be blessed | A. Loverbaum(Dafna) | 120 |
Aharon Meyerovici, zl | 122 | |
Admor R. Baruch lives iin Dorohoi | 123 | |
The distinguished scholar, Rav Meshulam Zalman Frenkel, zl | 124 | |
Yitzchak Schwartz, zl a hero who fell for his country | 125 | |
Henri Oshiovitz zl of Dorohoi amongst the victims of Mefkure | 125 | |
Shimon Grisaru zl | 126 | |
In memory of my parents | Tony Kraft | 126 |
In memory of my dear parents | Shlomo David | 127 |
Saveni | ||
My grandfather, Av. Herman Rosenhaput zl | Mya Galperin-Mor | 129 |
The Rosenhaupt's - my step-brothers | Nahman(Nico)Bernfeld | 131 |
Words of praise - Av. Herman Rosenhaupt | Rabbi Ephrayim Gutman | 132 |
The genealogical table of the Rosenhaupt family | 133 | |
Prof. Yosef Bar-El, of the greatest researchers of the Yiddish language | 134 | |
Uncle Aaron | Aryeh Avrahami zl | 136 |
I received the word..(a poem) | Nilly Cohen-Feuersteiin | 138 |
The great-granddaughter of Reb Eliezer Rozenfeld | Sara Sery | 138 |
Menachem Rozen - on himself and his family | 139 | |
Conferring with Moshe Maur, zl | 142 | |
Sara Ziknowski, n?e Baratz | 143 | |
Zila and Moshe Arlo (Pitaru) | 143 | |
Vignettes of Saveni of long ago | Frima Shmouelevici | 145 |
The Orenstein Family - three generations | 146 | |
Prisoners of Zion | 147 | |
Saveni - A sea of Memories | Miriam Alon | 149 |
Sailing through the sea of memories | 150 | |
A visit to Saveni | Alon Hayim | 151 |
My little home-town has changed Bar oitza la poiana | 152 | |
Menachem Mendel and Ghitl Salomon | 153 | |
Kalman Ben-Ami Croitoru and his family | 155 | |
Two sisters | 157 | |
Our family - Roza and Iancu Cohen | 157 | |
First encounter with death | 159 | |
Our parents, Roza and Iancu Cohen | 159 | |
My mother, my father | 160 | |
Mourning a sister … | 161 | |
Yom Kipur at home | 161 | |
The first typography of Saveni | Betty & Dutu Gertenberg | 163 |
A hatter with no castle | David & Rivka Herteanu | 164 |
The village chemist's shop | 165 | |
Mordechai Schwartz and his family zl | 166 | |
A hotel in Savenia | 167 | |
Here come the gypsies | 168 | |
Strul Codreanu and his brother | 169 | |
Mr. Broncea's shop | 170 | |
The pub in the corner | 171 | |
The bakery of Yosef the Pole | 172 | |
Tratel and Ruga | 173 | |
A legend of a shop | 174 | |
The Jewish taylors of Saveni | 176 | |
The Jewish shoemakers of Saveni | 176 | |
Socialism for the dead | 177 | |
Biliard for the young as well | 178 | |
Rain over Savenie | 176 | |
The promenade | 180 | |
Saveni faces progress | 182 | |
Winds of war | 183 | |
Over the bridge | 184 | |
The expulsion from Saveni through the eyes of a little girl | 184 | |
Dvora and Moshe Segal and their family | 185 | |
Destinies | 188 | |
Marcu and Lisa Damachiner and their family | 190 | |
The call of the horizons | 190 | |
His way | 193 | |
Dr. Yaakov(Jacques) Barash zl | 194 | |
Elly Zisu zl and his family | 195 | |
The Goldsfarb, Hermui and Croitoru families | 196 | |
Not only a barber shop | 197 | |
My birth town, Saveni | Zisman Herman | 199 |
The whispering tree | 200 | |
Simchat Thora, Savenie 1945 | 200 | |
The revival of Quenn Esther | 202 | |
Dance with me | 202 | |
Private lessons | 203 | |
On the unknown | 204 | |
A kept promise | 206 | |
The youngest Head of the town Council | Yosef Zamusteanu | 209 |
An everlasting love | 211 | |
An honored vow | Yosef Leib Cohen | 212 |
Didi Spigler | 214 | |
The farewell in Saveni | 215 | |
Wolinitz Bruria, n?e Cohen | 216 | |
The Shoreg and Schwartz families | 218 | |
On Michal and Rachel Zisu and their family | 220 | |
The Moshe Zisu family | 221 | |
Adolf (Avraham) Yosipovici | 223 | |
And she is pleased now | 225 | |
Yitzhak Tzur Ciuraru | 227 | |
Doctor and human being | 229 | |
A trip to the realm of memories | 231 | |
Mihăileni | ||
Home-town and family - the history of the Jewish Community of Mihaileni | ||
The fizem family | Avishalom Tor | 233 |
My father Rav Yaakov Yosef Fizem | Rivka Maierberg | 242 |
Hana Fizem zl | Malca Tor | 244 |
My father, Yidov Cohen | Dr Neomi Cohen-Zanger | 245 |
My brother, Menachem zl | Israel Levanon | 247 |
A token of great esteem | Hadassa Fishel | 248 |
Yaakov Schweitzer zl a pillar of the Community | 249 | |
A gentle man | Yosef Cazacu | 251 |
Two families that are one | 252 | 'Der steitl' Radautzi-Prut | Fany Parnafes-Moscovici | 357 |
Unforgettable time | Leiba Hudescu | 361 |
At the gates of the 3rd volume | David Shlomo | 9 |
Nin Palty zl, an unforgetable friend | David Shlomo | 10 |
Dorohoi | ||
Valuable sources, valued too little | I. Kara | 11 |
On the publication of the 3rd volume! | Dr. Avram Sapcaru | 15 |
Historical data and documents gathered by | Prof Ilan Eliezer | 16 |
A document printed in 1888 at the typography of N. Fainar of Dorohoi | 21 | |
Letter of reply of August 1893 | 22 | |
Census of the population from The Issue of the Jewish inhabitants published in Iasy in 1901 | 23 | |
On the Jewish population of Dorohoi in 1845 and 1910 Documents ordering the banning of the Jews from the villages of the District of Dorohoi 23-09-1882 | 24 | |
A history of the Rumanian Jews (excerpts) | Israel Bar-Avi | 27 |
There was a kindness as well … | Adolf Abramovici | 29 |
People, places, characters. | Iosef Cohen | 50 |
Dr. Berluta Danilov, August 23rd 1994 | David Shlomo | 58 |
Three generations of doctors | Dr Hilda (Duta) Mayer | 58 |
E. Lovinescu and the Jewish writers | Evelin Fonea | 61 |
Soft-hearted vignettes | Max Fonea | 66 |
My encounter with Judaism | Renata Cohen Tzadka | 70 |
The unforgettable Voledi | David Shlomo | 72 |
I. Feredaru-Hotu - octogenarian | 73 | |
Brahu Maur's dream … | Sonia Palty | 74 |
Memories | Mica Rabinovici Leib | 75 |
A warm welcoming to Dorohoi | Vasile Gherasim, Mayor of Dorohoi | 80 |
Dorohoian roots | Dr. Zoller Nesa(Nusica)-Cotter | 83 |
The tribulations of an exam | Dr. Shelly Grisaru | 88 |
We were part of the topography of Dorohoi as well. | Ing. Strul Moisa | 92 |
A midsummer encounter | 95 | |
Dr. Solomon Benedict, doctor and poet | Dr. Gherson Pitaru | 96 |
An evening with our General and other articles | Dr. A.Sapcaru | 98 |
We, the graduates | Consuela Sapcaru(Segal) | 102 |
Glimpses into my life | Av. Solomon Haifler | 105 |
Professor Iacob Haller | Hon. Prof. Octav Gutic | 107 |
The Pitaru Tribe | Dr. Pitaru Ghershon | 108 |
A wedding invitation. | Stelian Lozneanu | 113 |
Judith Lazarovici | 119 | |
Ithak Danilof, the man and the zionist | 121 | |
To Ludmila Morgenstern (Zelter) | Consuela Sapcaru(Segal) | 122 |
Butnaru Shimon, our man in Iokneam | David Shlomo | 123 |
A thought for Fany and Levi Iancovici zl | Hava Cusmaru(Iancovici) and Rozica Crainer(Iancovici) | 124 |
Sandu Malcas - the ever energetic volunteer | 125 | |
In short | Ren?e Malin | 126 |
Moise Parnafes | Fany Parnafes | 128 |
Curs Marcus | Av. Perla Curs | 130 |
You want to be an actor? First be a good..tailor | Marius Mircu | 131 |
The Danilofs | Dr. Rodica Birnbaum | 136 |
Memories | Cici Idelsohn Zelingher | 138 |
Monica Talmor of U.S.A. is seeking her relatives of Dorohian origins | 141 | |
Rubin Linker zl | Iancu Saiovici | 142 |
In memorium | Ionsolica Zelter | 144 |
From Saveni to Dorohoi | Iosef-Iozu Haimovitz | 146 |
Sportsman of Dorohoi | Iosef-Iozu Haimovitz | 148 |
Dorohoi - Tautu Str. | Av. Isac Poplingher | 151 |
Cocola, friend and paragon | 154 | |
Fragments of Memory: The Grand Rabbi of Dorohoi | Norman Simms | 155 |
Haim Rrapaport's family | Isac Zelingher | 158 |
Hatikva | Dr. Suhar Abramovici | 159 |
The saga of the Cotusteanu family | Morit Cotusteanu | 160 |
Dr. Rudolf Leizerovici, pediatrician and..renown punman! | 163 | |
Master Lupu Sacagiu and his family | 164 | |
Norbert (Bubi)Storfer | Tudor Chefner | 167 |
Zighi Munte(Goldenberg) the actor and his family | 168 | |
Fam. Lungu Samel(Samoila) has its roots in the town of Dorohoi | 169 | |
A confession | Zelter Pepi | 170 |
In memorium: Zelda and Avram Curs | Rodi David | 171 |
The unforgettable Iancu Herscu Coller | 172 | |
A thought for Srulica Sulimovici | David Shlomo | 173 |
Dutu Rabeau(Rabinovici) from Bordeaux(France) recalls the memory of his father | Ithak Rabinovici | 173 |
A few words for my grandchildren | Otilia(Tili)Moise-Weiss | 174 |
Iancu David (1896-1981) | Ing. Nathan David | 179 |
Memories told by | Sely Mindirigiu | 182 |
User Golder | Golder Dodel | 183 |
Zalman David and his family | Cici Zelingher Idelson | 185 |
A perished world … | Sarina Schwartz Cahana | 187 |
Boiangiu Barbu-Beniamin | 188 | |
Fresh graves | 189 | |
Dorohoi, my birthtown, my joys and sorrows | Moscovici Iafa(Jancia) | 191 |
The tragedy of a family and new beginnings in Israel | Matilda Leibovici | 193 |
Moise Orenstein, 19thC in Dorohoi, Professor and Hebrew teacher Israel Bar-Avi | 194 | |
Who is Mickey Mouse (of Radu Beligan's collections) | 195 | |
Major Frank saved our lives | Eli Cruparu | 196 |
Visiting Dorohoi - Jewish mementos of the years 1970-80 | 197 | |
Recollections | Saly Croitoru | 199 |
The unforgettable Herscu Cotter zl | 203 | |
Haia and Herman Bercovici, tender-hearted people | Sh. David | 204 |
Having a chat with Clara Grinberg | Evelin Fonea | 205 |
My family | Meir Simon | 207 |
Grandma Sumarchis and her 14 kids | Stoleru Sumer | 209 |
The Butnaru family | Batia Shmaiser | 210 |
The telegram sent by the emigrants to Theodor Herzl (April 1900) | 212 | |
How I was evacuated from Pomaria in 1907 | Natan Segal | 213 |
Two murders in Dorohoi | E.E.T. | 215 |
Talking about those days again.. Proceedings.. | 216 | |
Torn by grim premonitions | G. Brailescu-Gotlieb | 218 |
Dorohoi 1st July, 1940 | Eliza Mihailisteanu-Filipescu Elisabeta | 220 |
For me, the progrom had a prologue as well | Pepi Moscovici-Mindirigiu | 221 |
History close by: The Holocaust began in Dorohoi | Ion Puiu | 223 |
Excerpts from The Jews of Rumania between 1940-1944 | Lya Benjamin | 226 |
New findings on the Holocaust of Dorohoi | E.S. | 229 |
A moving testimony | Grimberg Ancel | 230 |
What happened in Tureaica | Dr. Marcel Solomon | 232 |
The manslaughter from Dorohoi | Mihai Pelin | 233 |
He will be joining his family in Transnistria | Radu Lecca | 235 |
Annual commemoration of the pogrom of Dorohoi and of the victims of Transnistria - A monograph attesting the existence of Jews in the region | 236 | |
Dorohoi | Evelin Fonea | 237 |
Breviary (from Viata noastra Jan.6th 1994 | 239 | |
Reception at the Rumanian Embassy | 240 | |
Echoes of appreciation on the publication of Vol.II | 241 | |
Rădăuti-Prut | ||
Two outstanding human beings: Pesia & Haim Bauman | Calman Bar David(Burnstein) | 247 |
A wave of sweeping memories | Fany Moscovici-Parnafes | 249 |
Recollections on the Radauti-Prut Jewery | Fany Parnafes(Moscovici) | 255 |
Sloim & Fani Schvartz' descendants | Idel Schvarts Negru | 263 |
Saveni | ||
Recollection and reconstitution | Manes Leib | 273 |
Other mementoes of my birth town | Leib Manes | 273 |
The enforced labor camps 1941-1944 | Leib Manes | 274 |
Miriam Feighe, the Wise | Marius Mircu (excerpt) | 278 |
Some data from the Geographical dictionary of the District of Dorohoi | Nicu Flipescu-Dubau | 279 |
Ghersola | Dr. leizerovici Rudolf | 280 |
Ithak Spund zl | Zisman Herman | 281 |
Lucy Peretz, a victim of fasicism | Cici Idelsohn | 282 |
My great-grandmother, Golda | Cici Idelsohn-Zelinger | 283 |
Mihăileni | ||
Recollections from the past | Jean Blum | 286 |
Mordehai Strelisker (&806-1875) | Lucian Zeev-Herscovici | 294 |
My little town | Dr. Zisu Lebel | 296 |
My grandparents had been..peasants in Mihaileni | Rasela Hofman Negru | 304 |
Adopted by Mihaileni | Stainer Loty | 306 |
Dan Regenstreif is preparing a new book about the Jews of the village-towns of the District of Dorohoi | 308 | |
Puzrimkin Rozica Shoshana writes about her family: The Gringstein Family of Mihaileni | 309 | |
Darabani | ||
The Darabani Community | M.I. Peles (1883) | 311 |
Simon Haran | Ady Carmi | 314 |
Titu Maiorescu and The Jews: The process of Darabani | Evelin Fonca | 316 |
Smil Weinseing-Boiangiu(Ebion) | Naty Kraft | 318 |
The poet A. Ebion | Lucian Herscovici | 320 |
Rahel Aghine summons up the memory of her family | 325 | |
Aunty Frida Baratz-Grinberg | Haim Baratz | 326 |
An undisputable truth | Naty Kraft | 329 |
The fate of Iancu Nadler's family | Naty Kraft | 332 |
An unforgettable friend: Fiscu(Gad)Schacter zl | Naty Kraft | 335 |
A visit at the Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington | 338 | |
Mermaid spawn | Luiza Carol | 341 |
Noga | Luiza Carol | 342 |
A sad memento abot the Jews of Darabani deported to Lugoj | Tuvia Schwager | 343 |
Herţa | ||
Following the traces of the Past | Avraham Marcovici | 345 |
Herta, mein Steitale, Herta | Jochanan Savin | 350 |
My family | Dr. Avram Marcovici | 355 |
The synagogues of Herta | Dr. Avram Marcovici | 360 |
In Herta of other times | Roza Eidelman(Marcovici) | 362 |
We are a big family | Shmuel Prekupetz | 364 |
Deported from Herta to Siberia | Netti Spund-Kleiman | 365 |
Childhood reminiscences | Dr. Rasela(Coca)Leibovici | 367 |
Once upon a time | Baruch Kisch | 371 |
Ghidala | Sarale & Aron Keis | 373 |
Guilty of being Jews | Tuta Rodan(Abramovici) | 374 |
A historical letter-exchange between Nety and Avram Zecler and Ida and Iancu Schehter 1977-1981 | 375 | |
A Torah brought into Israel from Tobolsk(Siberia) | Dr. Avraham Marcovici | 376 |
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