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Translation of
Kehilat Bendery; Sefer Zikaron
Edited by M. Tamari
Published by Bendery Societies in Israel and the United States
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YIZKOR BOOK
Editor: M. Tamari
Published by the Committee of Bendery Immigrants in Israel
With the participation of the Bendery immigrants in the USA, Tel Aviv -1975
Editorial Committee
In Israel: Pinchas Bendersky; Attorney Meir Greenberg, z”l;
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In the USA; Leon Gurfel; David Carmel; Yakov Fein.
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The Israeli committee, meeting on the 26 December, 1974, expressed its
appreciation and thanks to PINCHAS BENDERSKY for his devoted
work connected with the publication of this book.
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The material in the book-photos, documents and lists, were collected
from archives, libraries, science and remembrance institutes,and from
individuals in Israel and abroad by Mordechai Sever. The map at the
beginning of the book was redrawn from an old version by
Mordechai Sever.
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All rights in this book belong to the committees of Immigrants from Bendery in Israel and the USA
TOC translated by Shimon Joffe
| M. Tamari: The Book | 5 |
| Pinchas Bendersky: Generation to Generation speaks | 7 |
| HISTORY OF THE CITY (from the encyclopedia) | 43 |
| Fortress and County Seat | 43 |
| At the end of the previous century | 44 |
| In the Margins of “Hamelitz” | 48 |
| Greeting cards | 49 |
| BETWEEN TWO WORLD WARS | |
| Bella Shreibman-Rab: Jews between the citadel and the bridge | 53 |
| Nachman Lavonsky: Days gone by | 55 |
| Shevach (Sioma) Blei: Days of war and revolution | 58 |
| Michael Landau: Gone, my beloved brothers | 60 |
| Arieh Shreibman: In a sailing boat on a stormy sea | 63 |
| Shmuel Giboa: My life in Bendery | 65 |
| HASSIDISM IN BENDERY | |
| N.Huberman: Bendery in Hassidic literature | 75 |
| Yonah Balaban (Hulda): Rabbi Moishele and His Hassidim | 77 |
| THE SECOND ALIYAH | |
| Rivka Machneimy (Cholodenko): In the days of the Second Aliyah | 81 |
| THE SHWARTZMAN HIGH SCHOOL | |
| Batia Steiner-Faigenbaum: The Kindergarten in the Schwartzman High School | 93 |
| Leah Steiner: The High School day by day and in moments of spiritual uplift | 95 |
| Nachman Levonsky: The Tarbut School, which did not survive long | 98 |
| YOUTH MOVEMENTS | |
| Sonia Etlis, Yitschak Sverdlik, Baruch Kaushensky: The Maccabi League | 101 |
| Meir Horodetzky: Hashomer Hatzair | 105 |
| Pinchas Ben Shaul (Pinko): Hashomer Hatzair among the first youth movements | 108 |
| Yone Balaban: The Gordonia movement | 110 |
| Moshe Horowitz: The Betar youth movement | 112 |
| THE CITY AND ITS INHABITANTS | |
| Chaim Raday: A branch to two trunks | 117 |
| Leah Steiner: The last survivor of the Holy Man's family | 121 |
| Mordechay Sever: Reminiscences of my fathers home | 123 |
| Leah Bath Chaya and Bezalel: A childhood affront | 130 |
| Leah Bath Chaya and Bezalel: My father Reb Bezalel the cantor and the Talner synagogue | 131 |
| Katia Shai (Fein): Memory fragments of days gone by | 133 |
| Abba Sapir (Shaposhnik) : My fathers house open to all | 134 |
| Yechiel Efraty: Ordinary folk caught in reality | 135 |
| Leah Steiner: Road of suffering | 136 |
| Leah Steiner: My Bendery | 137 |
| Leah Steiner: Yechiel the cobbler teaches me Zionism | 139 |
| Leah Bath Chaya: The intellectual gentleman (on D.A.Nathanson) | 141 |
| IN THE FUROR OF THE SHOAH | |
| Rabbi Shimon Efrati: From the diary of a wanderer | 145 |
| Zvi (Geresh) Sobol: Testament | 156 |
| Mira Geva: The valley of slaughter near the castle | 157 |
| Dr. T.H. Levinstein: The Tighina Agreement and the expulsion to Trans Dniester | 158 |
| Meir Grinberg: Bendery after the destruction | 160 |
| Rabbi Shmuel Bronfman: After the Shoah | 162 |
| Shmuel Delmetzky: The ancesters graves | 167 |
| PERSONAE | |
| 171 | |
| I.L.Toibman (Jonathan): The Wertheim dynasty | 178 |
| I.L.Toibman (Jonathan): Reb Yossele Wertheim | 180 |
| Dr. Shlomo Bendersky | 181 |
| Dr.Abramovich Nathanson | 182 |
| Dr.Baruch Nissenboim | 183 |
| Rabbi Ephraim Derprimediker | 183 |
| Abraham Alexandrov | 184 |
| Baruch Cholodenko | 185 |
| Dr.Alexander Chin | 186 |
| Dr.Projansky | 187 |
| Hirsh Kogan (Zvi Cohen) | 189 |
| Dr.Zvi Shwartzman | 190 |
| Zelig Sofer | 192 |
| Ya'akov Shvidki | 192 |
| Abraham Wertheim | 193 |
| David Wertheim | 194 |
| Arieh-Leib and Nadia Blank | 195 |
| Israel Blank | 195 |
| Noah Lifshitz | 196 |
| Chanina Krachevsky | 198 |
| Chaya Glass | 199 |
| Yitzchak Resnikov | 200 |
| Dr. P.Yeroslavsky | |
| THE THIRD ALIYAH | |
| Yoseph Raviv: Bendery in the past and under the Soviet regime | 203 |
| David Weiser: Signposts to Eretz-Israel | 206 |
| Leah Steiner: On a new road | 209 |
| Leah Steiner: The Shreibman legend “Out of the strong came forth sweetness” | 210 |
| David Carmel: Miracles at sea | 212 |
| ROOTS IN THE HOMELAND | |
| Rivka Davidith: Couch grass | 215 |
| Eitan Haber: Old fighter in a new role | 216 |
| Mordechai Sever: Sound of echo | 217 |
| D. Ben Yechiel: Our aunt Leah | 218 |
| LANDSCAPE AND BEING | |
| Ya'akov Fichman: Bessarabia (poem) | 221 |
| Mordechai Ben Moshe Sever: Figures and shadows which have disappeared | 222 |
| Rivka (Riva) Drovatzky | 233 |
| I.Gabai Simcha Zehubel: | 236 |
| I.Manik: Deep in autumn nights (poem) | 238 |
| Dr.Joseph Kruk: We all have but one Rabbi Abraham Wertheim | 239 |
| Joseph Shapira: Big hearted David Wertheim | 241 |
| Mordechai Sever: Rabbi Eli Shu'b R.I.P, scholar and genius | 242 |
| Moshe Sever (Sverdlik): The influence of synagogues | 245 |
| Moshe Sever (Sverdlik): A proposal to found a pension fund fifty years ago | 247 |
| The activities of Ort and Oze | 248 |
| Moshe Bik: Aharon Helfand, the famous cantor | 442 |
| CONTENTS (in Yiddish) |
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| REMINISCENCES AND HISTORIC REFLECTIONS | |
| Avraham Hayat: Bendery – My Hometown | 253 |
| David Carmel: Our town | 262 |
| Itsik Manger: At the Dniester | 272 |
| Leon Garfield: Bender as seen in history | 273 |
| RELIGIOUS, SOCIAL AND CULTURAL LIFE | |
| Prof. Yitschak Fein: A city of belief and conspiracies | 279 |
| Leon (Judah-Leib) Garfield: In changing times | 284 |
| Yitzchak Abramovich: **Poem | 297 |
| Rabbi Dr. Aharon Wertheim: Memoirs from the Bendery Rabbinate | 298 |
| I.L.Yonathan: Bessarabian Zionist Activists | 302 |
| Hanania Wlowitz: Ezrath Ani'im Charity | 303 |
| I.Manik: The teachers street | 305 |
| I.Manik: Diarde's pay, poem | 306 |
| Leon (Judah-Leib) Gardield: Poalei-Zion in Bendery | 307 |
| Leon (Judah-Leib) Garfield: The culture league | 311 |
| Shmaria Hrushtesh:We acted in theater | 313 |
| David Carmel: The author Rivka Davidith: R.I.P. | 315 |
| I.Manik: (Lederman) Now it happens (poem) | 315 |
| Joseph Shwartzman: Hazamir | 316 |
| Yakov Fein: The founding and the activities of Maccabi | 317 |
| Yichezkel Bronstein: The poet Yehoshua Manik (Lederman) | 319 |
| I.Manik: (Lederman) Ben Zion Shochat (poem) | 321 |
| I.Manik (Lederman) Father sings a folk tune | 322 |
| Israel Rabinovich: Thoughts for the fifteenth day of Shvat | 322 |
| Abraham Hayat: Mother | 323 |
| I.Manik (Lederman): Rabbi Moshe Sever | 324 |
| Literary prize given to Rabbi Sever | 324 |
| Mordechai Sever: Hear, brother, hear | 326 |
| FROM THE JEWISH PRESS | |
| Bendery News | 335 |
| In the predicament of need | 335 |
| Memorial service for the riot victims in Eretz Israel | 338 |
| OCCUPATION AND HOLOCAUST | |
| Rabi Israel Bronfman: Bendery after the Shoah | 347 |
| B.Levi: In those dark days | 350 |
| Miller David: Testimony of a witness | 351 |
| I.Manik (Lederman): Deep in the autumn night | 354 |
| Judah Leib Garfield: In your blood shall you live | 354 |
| Judah Leib Garfield: Bendery society | 357 |
| Bessarabian Jews build a life in Israel | 358 |
| The Progressive Bendery Benevolent Society | 359 |
| Afterword: P.Bendersky | 361 |
| Memorial Candles | 365 |
| List of Martyrs (Names extracted from the “Memorial Candles” section) | |
| English Section | |
| David Carmel: Bendery | III |
| List of Martyrs (Names extracted from the “In Loving Memory” section | XXXV |
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