Horchiv Memorial Book
(Gorokhov, Ukraine)

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Translation of Sefer Horchow

Edited by: Y. Kariv

Published in Tel Aviv, 1966


 

Acknowledgments

Project Coordinator

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Our sincere appreciation to Ruth Banias, of the Horchiv Committee in Israel,
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Sefer Horchow (Horchiv Memorial Book), Editor Y. Kariv, Tel-Aviv,
Horchiv Committee in Israel, 1966 (379 pages H,Y,E)

Note: The original book can be seen online at the NY Public Library site: Gorokhov


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Notes on abbreviations and spelling
[Hebrew = H; Yiddish = Y; ? = unknown from title whether Hebrew or Yiddish]
[The letters KH are used for those names whose pronunciation when transcribed as CH may be unfamiliar and erroneously confused with CH as in "champion"Thus: Chaim or Chana (familiar names pronounced KH), but Khumesh. Of course there are other names where CH is pronounced simply as K.]


Introduction (H) 9
   
From Generation to Generation  
   
History of the Town – Chaim Dan (H) 15
[Same article in Yiddish] 16
Epochs in the History of the Jewish Community – Baruch Zimmerman (H) 17
[Same in Yiddish] 19
My Town and its Residents – David Tahori (Zuberman) (H) 20
[Same in Yiddish] 22
Our Street – Malka Vered (Palite) (H) 24
[Same in Yiddish] 25
My Hometown – It was dear to me – Nachum Milstein (H) 26
During the First World War – Noam Zacai (H) 26
Self-Defense in Harkhiov – Noam Zacai (Y) 30
Between Rulers – Shlomo Zimmerman (H) 32
Yossi Eisen – Pinkhas Wallach (?) 34
Days of Excitement – Zvi Bar Yesha (H) 35
How Jews Earned a Living – Baruch Zimmerman (H) 36
The Decline in Economic Life – H.L.P. (H) 36
In the Cemetery 37
   
Father's House  
   
Father's Traditions – Khalya Schechter-Kriss (H) 45
Holidays in Town – Moshe Benyahu (H) 45
Holiday Pleasures – Malka Vered (Palite)(H) 46
Each Holiday with its Aroma – Malka Vered (Y) 47
Synagogues, Prayer Leaders, Chassidim and Men of Good Traits – Chaim Dan 48
[Same in Yiddish] 51
Our Shtibl [Small neighborhood synagogue] – Herzl Zucker, Michael Weizman (Y) 54
The Singing of R. Yekutiel – Noam Zacai (H) 54
[Same in Yiddish] 56
The "Looker" Wakes Up to Psalms Chaim [no last name] (Y) 57
Itzik Mordechai the Tailor and the War for the Rabbinate – David Tahori (H) 58
The Excommunication – Noam Zacai (H) 59
[Same in Yiddish] 61
Family Trees 63
Mothers and Fathers 64
   
Education and Culture  
   
Teachers, their Assistants and their Livelihoods – Pinchas Wallach (H) 67
[Same in Yiddish] 69
R. Feissy – Teacher of Children – Malka Vered (Palite) (H) 71
Talmud Teacher – Binyamin Schwartzman – Bluma Schwartzman (Cherbatov) (H) 71
The Rebbe and the Cantor – Benzion Tahori (Zuberman) (H) 72
[Same in Yiddish] 73
Young People Travel to a Torah Center – Noam Zacai (H) 74
Yosel Keisar – Director of the First Modernized Heder [Children's School] - Sarah Flumin Berger (H) 75
The Workers' Cultural Association – David Shapiro 75
[Same in Yiddish] 76
First Buds of Hebrew Education – Noam Zacai (H) 77
Simkha Perlmutter, One of the First [Secularist] Teachers in Town - Noam Zacai (H) 80
Moshe Khoshchevotsky, Hebrew Teacher During WWI – Sarah Flumin Berger (H) 80
Sources of our Education – Chaim Dan (H) 80
The Hebrew School – Chaim Dan (Y) 86
The Hebrew School Between 1927-1939 – Rachel Birman Mitavsky (H) 88
The Hebrew School Between 1932-1935 – Aminadav Yisraeli (Yoselvitz) (H) 91
The First Year of Teaching – Menachem Halevi (H) 94
The Final Years of the Hebrew School – Yaakov Berger (H) 95
The Drama Club Gets Organized – Noam Zacai (H) 96
The Drama Club: Its Performances and Actors – Zvi Berger, Yosef Khomesh (H) 97
[Same in Yiddish] 98
The Yiddish Folks School and Library – Rachel Eisen (Y) 100
Molya Bergman – Aminadav Yisraeli (?) 103
   
Movements and Institutions  
   
The First Zionist Collection Funds – Sarah Flumin Berger (H) 107
Zionist Organizations Before and After WWI – Zvi Berger (H) 107
[Same in Yiddish] 110
Zionist and Public Activities – Yaakov Khomesh (H) 115
[Same in Yiddish] 121
Yosef Khomesh, Community Leader – Baruch Zimmerman (H) 126
Deputy Mayor – David Tahori (Zuberman) (H) 126
The Zionist Collection Funds – Rachel Birman Mitavsky (H) 127
How We Emptied the JNF Charity Boxes – Moshe Binyahu (H) 128
The Keren Hayesod Appeal in the 1920s – H.L.P. (H) 128
On a Zionist Mission in 1930 – Yisrael Ritov (H) 129
Training and Immigration to Palestine – Shlomo Korekh (H) 130
"The Pioneer" – Moshe Binyahu (H) 131
The History of Hekhalutz [The Pioneer] Movement in our Shtetl – Moshe Binyahu (Y) 133
In Klosovo – Chaim Dan (H) 136
Hekhalutz Hatsa'ir[Young Pioneer Movement] – Chaim Dan (H) 140
The Rise of Hekhalutz Hatsa'ir – Chaim Dan (Y) 140
I Always Remember Them – Chana Kliger-Ravid (H) 142
Leah Fisch – Melekh Noy (?) 147
In Opposition (Collection of Letters) – Leah Fisch 148
Beitar and [abbrev. possibly Revisionist Zionists] – David Tahori (H) 152
[Same in Yiddish] 157
Pinkhas Kriger, Educator of Beitar [abbrev. for Beit Trumpeldor] Youth Movement - Elkhanan Karniel (Kahat) (H) 160
His Place Was In The Warsaw Ghetto – Batsheva Kriger-Mendelson (H) 162
Mizrakhi [Religious Zionists] and Agudath Israel [Non-Zionists] – A Town Resident (H) 162
Back to Myself – Shlomo Einbinder (H) 163
[Same in Yiddish] 166
Communist Underground Members – Devorah Ben-Zvi (H) 171
Chana and Freida Zutler – Sarah Berger Flumin (H) 171
Mutual Credit Institutions – Yosef Khomesh (H) 171
Horkhiov Financial Institutions [probably the same article] – Yosef Khomesh (Y) 173
   
Branches Overseas  
   
Parting Was Hard For Me – Esther Zuberman (H) 179
Places of Settlement in the USA – Leonora Auerbach-Aryeh (H) 179
Max Auerbach – Charles Wald (?) 181
Brought Up in Horkhiov, Moved to America – Yenta Mishna-Kriger (Y) 181
Horkhiov Society in America – Pinkhas Wallach (Y) 181
The Town of My Parents and Ancestors – Yehoshua Wallach (Y) 184
From Stage to Stage – Noam Zacai (H) 184
From America to Orchards in Herzliya – Zvi Berger (H) 185
Emigrants from Horokhov in Argentina – Alexander Manur (H) 186
[Same in Yiddish] 187
From Argentina to Israel – Yehoshua Gelin (H, Y) 189
List of Horokhov Emigrants in Argentina (H, Y) 191
Horokhov Emigrants in Brazil (H, Y) 191
   
We Moved to Palestine  
   
Our Town's First Pioneers – Noam Zacai (H) 195
[Same in Yiddish] 197
Pioneers of the Third Aliyah to Palestine – Abraham Hirschfeld (H) 200
This is how the first pioneers traveled – Avraham Khaklay (H) 201
A Pioneer Woman Moves to Palestine – Sheindel Flemeister-Zacai (H) 203
[Same in Yiddish] 206
Emigration to Palestine in the 1920s – Shlomo Zimmerman (H) 208
Parents Following Their Children – Devorah Green-Ben-Zvi (H) 209
Over Mountains, Across Borders – Nakhum Milstein (H) 211
Families Say Goodbye to their Emigrating Children (H) 213
I Was 14 Years Old – Tsila Horowitz (H) 216
In An Illegal Cargo Ship – Duva Dagan (Goyer) (H) 217
Three Generations – Noam Zacai (H) 218
Yitzchak Ze'ev (Itzik Wolf) Zacai – David Tahori (?) 220
From an Ein Harod Diary – The Image of a Pioneer – Zvi Berger, Avraham Khaklay, Noam Zacai (H) 220
Horokhov Emigrants in Israel 224
   
The Holocaust  
   
Budding Youth Before the Holocaust (H, Y) 229
Before the Destruction – Moshe Rivzis (H) 232
From Before and After the War – Miriam Berger (H) 233
[Same in Yiddish] 249
The First Months of War – Benzion Tahori (Zuberman) (H) 279
Russian Rule at the Beginning of the War – Aharon Greiber (H) 281
A Day in the Ghetto of Horokhov – Yehudit Schwartzman (H) 282
From the Ghetto Until the Bitter Day – Shlomo Dickstein (H) 283
The Child Saw Everything – Nekhama and Esther Stricker (H) 284
My Pursuers Didn't Catch Me – Sonia Tessler-Zhiroff (H) 285
My Memories of the Nazi Period – Sonia Tessler-Zhiroff (Y) 291
[Both Tessler articles may be the same]  
They Were Together in Death and in Life (H) 303
Gorokhov Families Killed in the Holocaust (H) 304
   
In Forests and at the Front  
   
Escape to Vilna – Abba Meisels (H) 315
[Same in Yiddish] 316
Wandering in the Forest and Meeting Partisans – Yokhanan Kanfer (H) 319
I Took Revenge on the Murderers – Bolek Katko (H) 320
[Same in Yiddish] 323
From Stalingrad to Berlin – Serving in the Red Army – Ephraim Schwartzman (H) 327
[Same in Yiddish] 334
All Roads Led to Palestine – Yaakov Sprakh (H) 342
[Same in Yiddish] 344
With the Polish Army to Palestine – Chaim Ravina (Litvan) (H) 346
   
Yizkor  
   
Memorial Candle (H) 353
Brothers Zusia and Moshe Blakhman – Aharon Kahane (H) 355
Yosel Hoshchiver (Shargal) – Avraham Hirschfeld (?) 356
Avraham Weitz – Avraham Hirschfeld, Chaim Dan (?) 356
Menachem (Mantzy) Horowitz – Sarah Horowitz Khumesh (H) 357
R. Dov Kliger – Zvi Berger (H) 357
Yeshayahu Hering – Zvi Ben-Yesha (?) 358
Elimelekh Mordechai Eisenstein – Aharon Eisenstein (?) 359
Doctor Margolis – Sarah Flumin Berger (H) 359
Hersh Weizman and his Family – Michael Weizman (H) 360
Yaakov Khumesh and his Family – Yosef Khumesh (H) 360
He Didn't Linger – Eliezer Smolly (H) 362
Miriam Zacai – Noam Zacai, Chaim Dan (?) 362
Meir-Yaakov Kahane – Aharon Kahane (?) 363
Niumke Fisch – Zvi Dan (?) 365
From His Writings - David Fisch (H) 365
Shlomo and Henya-Beila Flumin – Sarah Flumin-Berger, Chana Orly-Flumin (H) 367
Shmuel Flumin and his Family – Zvi Berger, Shoshana Rozen-Flumin (H) 368
Teenage Girls Groups – Chana Orly-Flumin (H) 370
My Family – Dov Zamir (H) 371
Moshelakh, Shlomelakh [affectionate names] (Y) 373
Dashed Hopes and Destroyed Expectations (H, Y) 374
 

English Table of Contents

(Addendum - not in original)
 
Introduction 3
History of the Town – Chaim Dan 5
Stages (Epochs) in the History of the Jewish Community – Baruch Zimmerman 6
Houses of Worship, Cantors, Chassidim and Men of Good Virtue – Chaim Dan 11
The Hebrew School – Chaim Dan 14
Yiddish Public School and Library – Rachel Eisen 15
The Leader of the Community - Yaakov Chumasch – Baruch Zimmerman 18
The Deputy Mayor – David Tahori (Zuberman) 18
He Halutz – Moshe Binyahu 19
He Halutz, Ha-Tsair – Chaim Dan 21
Beitar and Hatsohar – David Tahori 22
The Jewish Peoples Bank in Horchiv – Chumesh 25
It Was Hard to Leave – Soberman 26
Memories of My Father – Leonora Auerbach-Aryeh 27
My Friend Max – Charles Wald 29
Memories from Horkhiv – Yenta Mishna-Kriger 30
Some Memories of the Old Home – Paul Wallach 31
On Horchiv – Yehoshua Wallach 33
Shalom Friedman – Zvi Berger 35
The First Pioneers From Our Town – Noam Zakai 36
The War – Miriam Berger 39
Memories from the Nazi Period – Sonia Tesler-Gyraph 59
With the Red Army from Stalingrad to Berlin – Ephraim Schwartzmann 68
Horchiver in the USA - 1964 78
 
Louis Prepon oral history

 


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