Pinkas Hakehillot Lita: Azuolu Buda

“Azuolu Buda” - Encyclopedia of Jewish
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Translation of the “Azuolu Buda” chapter from
Pinkas Hakehillot Lita

Written by Josef Rosin

Published in Jerusalem, 1996

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Azuolu Buda

In Yiddish, Dembove Bude, Boid
Written by Josef Rosin
Translated by Shaul Yannai

A county town in the Marijampole district. Boid is located in southwestern Lithuania, near the Kaunas-Marijampole road, about 18 km northeast of Marijampole, the district's city. From 1795, the town and the entire region were part of Prussia. From 1815, the town was in the zone of Russia and eventually it belonged to the Suvalk region.

In 1899 a Zionist association by the name of “Mokirei Zion” (Cherishers of Zion) was founded in the town, and it is mentioned in the list of donors for settling Eretz-Yisrael.

About 15 Jewish families lived in Boid before WWI. The town's synagogue burned down during WWI, during the period when the Jews left the town. Most of them returned to their town after the war. During the period of Independent Lithuania (1918-1940) the size of the Jewish population did not vary in the town. Some of them made their living from small commerce and peddling and during the summers also from providing services to the vacationers who came for a vacation in the pine forests near the town. According to the 1931 Lithuanian government census, the town had a bakery that was owned by Jews. One of the Jews in the town (Ozer Zelinger) was a merchant who dealt in forest trade and some other Jews owned properties. Amongst the latter was Rabbi Sender Yelin who was also a scholar. On Saturdays and holidays the Jews of the town used to pray in his house. The local “shochet ubodek (ritual slaughterer) was Rabbi Avraham-Eliyahu Schteinfeld. The “shochet ubodek” addressed questions in matters of religion because the town did not have a Rabbi.

In 1939 the town had 6 telephones. 2 of them belonged to Jews.

The children studied in a “Heder”. Their “Melamed” (teacher) was hired from Kaunas. Some of the youth studied in the Hebrew Gymnasias in Marijampole and Kaunas.

The lives of the Jews of Azuolu Buda came to an end in July of 1941, about a month after the Germans conquered Lithuania. Their place of burial remains unknown. It is likely that they were transferred to Prienai or to Marijampole where their fate was the same as the fate of the other Jews in the area.

Bibliography:

Gotlieb, Sefer Oheli Hashem, Pinsk, 1912, p. 21.

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Azuolu Buda

In Yiddish, Dembove Bude, Boid Written by Josef Rosin Translated by Shaul Yannai

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In Yiddish, Dembove Bude, Boid
Written by Josef Rosin
Translated by Shaul Yannai