Akkerman and the towns of its district; memorial book

Akkerman and the Towns
of its District; Memorial Book
(Bilhorod-Dnistrovs'kyy, Ukraine)

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Translation of
Akkerman ve-ayarot ha-mehoz; sefer edut ve-zikaron

Editors: Nisan Amitai Stambul, Society of Emigrants from Akkerman and Vicinity

Published in Tel Aviv, 1983

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This is a translation of: Akkerman ve-ayarot ha-mehoz; sefer edut ve-zikaron (Akkerman and the towns of its district; memorial book),
Editors: Nisan Amitai Stambul et.al., Tel Aviv, Society of Emigrants from Akkerman and Vicinity, 1983 (H, 511 pages).

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Translated by Sara Mages

Prologue		9
The Jewish community in Akkerman from inception to destruction	Nisan Amitai (Stambul)	11
The pogrom in Akkerman in 1905	Mendel Kumorowski	60
Memories from the days of the pogrom	Yehoshua Harari	65

Parties and Movements
The beginning of “Tzeirei Zion”^[1]	Tzvi Menuali	69
The “Speak Hebrew” association	Nisan Amitai	72
The “Maccabi”^[2] Federation in Akkerman	S. Segal and T. Manueli	75
“Gordonia”^[3] Akkerman	Sheftel Zukerman	81
The uniqueness of “Gordonia”^[3] in our city	N. Amitai	84
“Gordonia”^[3] – the last chapter	Chaim Zamir	90
“Hashomer Hatzair”^[4] chapter in Akkerman	T. Giladi (Mosopmezjmol)	91
“Betar”^[5] in Akkerman	Shmuel Geber	94

Chapters of Memories, Lifestyle and Folklore
In the city that I loved	Y. Schildkrauth	100
Bessarabia (poem)	Yakov Kushter	101
Akkerman – the city of my birth	Yosef Gur-Arye	106
Big Jabotinsky and “little” Jabotinsky in our city	Yehoshua Harari	109
My immigration to Israel	Yehoshua Harari	110
The first immigrants	Noah Zukerman	112
Chapters of memories from the days of my childhood	Binyamin Girshfeld	114
About the landscape and the climate	Yehoshua Harari	117
Akkerman, a corridor to the parlor	Yakov Zukerman	118
Artists and Trustees	S. Yisrael	120
From the bitter and the sweet	Y. Schildkrauth	122
The seven daughter of R' Mendel the carpenter	Y. Schildkrauth	124
Such a “Krishmelani”	Nisan Amitai	126
Tit-bids from Akkerman (episodes and anecdotes)	Nisan Amitai	128
In the bygone days	Chava Barnea (Dorpman)	130
A family tree	Sheftel Zukerman	133
The Rabbi's house	Chaim Zukerman	136
“A note” - a memento	Yisrael Finkel	139
I remember the old days	Efraim Abramowitch	140
My childhood and youth in Shabo and Akkerman	Baruch Kamin	142
Names and Nicknames [Y]	Z.M – Y.S.	145

Our High-School
A symposium about “Tarbut” High-School	A Shapira, S. Naamani, Y. Brodski	155
My home, the High-School and the Movement	Baruch Naamani	164
A “foreign” girl in Akkerman	Yehudit Carmi	164

Artists and Cantors
About the Jewish Theater in our city	Yehudah Zigelvaks	175
The drama clubs	Frima Fejland	177
Two painters from our city: Yosef Chaplin		180
David Malchin		181
Cantors and Cantillation		182

The Holocaust
Not forgotten [Y] (poem)	S. Yisrolik	190
The destruction of Akkerman	Tzvi Manueli	194
From the memories of the war days	Leyoba Asfis	196
The Prayer of the Saved [Y] (poem)	A. Plit	199
On my way home	Miriam Zamir	202
Between anxieties and hopes	Roza Weitzman	204
In the mission to save the Jews of Romania and Bessarabia	Baruch Kamin	207
The Flag	Shmuel Miniali	211
A miracle did not happen in Karinzka	Bruria Har-Zion	213
A tale about a name	Asher Schwartzman	215
The ribbon day	Bruria Har-Zion	216
Akkerman's Jews during the war and after the war	Kvitko Michael	217
The Jewish survivors in the 1980s	Yakov Zigloks	220

Personalities and Characters of blessed memory
Avraham Rabotzki of blessed memory		229
Our ministers [Y]		231
Yakov Shmuel HaLevi Truchtmann		233
Sergei Michalowitz (Yisrael) Gutnik		234
My brother Yakov Berger of blessed memory		235
Dov Sharira of blessed memory		238
Professor Yitzchak Strez		239
Moshe Hellman of blessed memory		240
Fava Berkov of blessed memory		241
Our brother Moshe Zukerman of blessed memory		242
Leib Stambul of blessed memory		243
My uncle Yehoshua Harari of blessed memory		244
Dov Harari of blessed memory		245
Yehoshua Drory of blessed memory		248
Zev Kamin of blessed memory		249
The lawyer Yosef Serfer of blessed memory Dr. Shapira of blessed memory		250
Mendel Gellman of blessed memory		251
Characters	S. Geber	252

The Society of Emigrants from Akkerman and the Diaspora
The Society of Emigrants from Akkerman in New-York		257
The Society of Emigrants from Akkerman and the vicinity in Israel		259

Sons who fell in the Israeli Wars
Meir Zaltzhendler of blessed memory		265
Avraham Neiman of blessed memory		266
Avraham Feldman of blessed memory		267
Yisrael (Srulik) Frank of blessed memory		268
Avinoam Schechter of blessed memory		269

The town's in the district

Tarutino
Facts and numbers about the Jews of Tarutino	Eliyahu Feldman	272
Our town Tarutino	Shmuel Brilliant	273
Notes from a legacy	Dr. Yosef Laron	283
From my memories of Tarutino	Shmuel Rosenberg	288
During the days of the Holocaust	Yehudah Bronfman	289
About “Betar”^[5] in Tarutino	Schulman Eliezer	292
Personalities and characters in Tarutino	Shmuel Brilliant	295
Public activists in the Jewish Community		296
Eliezer Schulman the Bible researcher from Siberia		298

Arzis
Arzis	Shmuel (Milya) Gorfil	307
My town Arzis	Arye Klietman	311

Tatarbunar
Tatarbunar		321
Tatarbunar and her Jews	Binyamin Giker	322
The “Gordonia”^[3] chapter in Tatarbunar	Arye Shochat	325
Dr. Solomon Shalem	Binyamin Giker	327
My father's house in Tatarbunar	Riva Zukerman-Zilberman	328
The “Gordonia”^[3] conference		329
The keepers of the flame	Brurya Har-Zion	331
The double miracle	Brurya Har-Zion	333

Sarata
Sarata	Tzvi Schechter	337
Sarata	Y. Ben-Chur	341
About the “Betar”^[5] chapter in Sarata	Tzvi Schechter	344
About “Gordonia”^[3] in Sarata	Elkana Altman	347
The Holocaust	Tzvi Schechter	348
The story of Aiza	Tzvi Schechter	351

Bairamcea
My town Bairamcea	Moshe Shochat	357

Shabo
My town Shabo	Aharon Kminker	367

Krochmez
The village of Krochmez	Yosef Koren	374

The Society of Emigrants from Akkerman and the vicinity in Israel		375
List of names		377
Necrology		390

Footnotes Beit-Hamidrash- the house of learning. Return Maccabi – a sport's association. Return Gordonia - Zionist pioneering youth movement. The movement's doctrines were based on the beliefs of Aharon David Gordon. Return Hashomer Hatzair - The Youth Guard, a Socialist-Zionist youth movement. Return Betar - the initials of Brit Yosef Trumpeldor- The Covenant of Joseph Trumpeldor, the educational youth movement of the Revisionist Zionist Organization. Return

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