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Translation of
Pinkus Zhetel
Edited by Baruch Kaplinski
Published by the Zetel Association in Israel
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A memorial to the Jewish community of Zetel
Published by the Zetel Association in Israel
Tel-Aviv 1957
| Pictures tell the story | Baruch Kaplinski | 12 |
| Ell, Molei Rachamim | 18 | |
| The martyrs of Zetel | 19 | |
| The old Zetel | ||
| The history of the Jews of Zetel | Baruch Kaplinski | 33 |
| Zetel and budget of Lithuamia | Mordechai Berenstain | 40 |
| Zetel of old | Avrom Iveniecki OBM | 47 |
| The Rabbis of Zetel | Avrom Shepetnicki | 49 |
| The big miracle which occurred with the author from the Machanei Jehuda | Mordechai Berenstain | 53 |
| Books by authors of Zetel | 54 | |
| Articles about Zetel in encyclopedias | 55 | |
| Zetel in the Hebrew press | M.Tzinurit, B. Kaplinski | 58 |
| Chapters from the history of Zetel | 65 | |
| Geography and climatic conditions in Zetel | Dr A.I. Braver | 67 |
| Population and occupations | Baruch Kaplinski | 69 |
| On the threshold of the 20th century | ||
| Zetel 50 years ago | Moshe Bitn | 73 |
| I left Zetel in the year 1900 | Izchok Gebury | 76 |
| Zetel in my memory | Avrom Shepetnicki | 78 |
| A great city | Rabbi Itzchok Wainshtain | 80 |
| The Navaredok community in Zetel | I.L. Nakric | 82 |
| My birthplace | Nachemie Emuna | 83 |
| Zetel in the year 1905 | Zalmon Mirski | 85 |
| Bits of everything | Avrom Izchok Medzwiedski | 87 |
| Settlers and army recruits | Avrom Leizerovich | 93 |
| The First World War | ||
| Zetel at the time when I was the Rabbi | Rabbi Zalmon Tzarackin | 99 |
| During the German occupation | Josif Viniecki OBM | 109 |
| The Almighty is calling | Menachem Vernikovski OBM | 111 |
| Only memorial books remained | Avrom Zak | 112 |
| During the first world war | Moishe Mirski | 113 |
| The Jewish republic in Zetel | Efraim Hamuni OBM | 116 |
| Transition from ruler to ruler | Nachemie Emuna | 118 |
| At the time of transition | Izchak Epshtain | 122 |
| This is how I remember Zetel | Sora Medzwiedski | 124 |
| Between the two world wars | ||
| The cultural and economic existence | Avrom Iveniecki OBM | 127 |
| Zetel and its tradesman | Moshe Mendl Leizerovich | 132 |
| The excommunication in Zetel | Rabbi Alchanon Maracki | 136 |
| The big fires | Sora Epstein - Shuer | 138 |
| The endecks** are raging | Moishe Mirski | 140 |
| Parties | ||
| The lovers of Zion and the Zionist Aguda | Baruch Kaplinski | 143 |
| Revolutionaries of Zetel | Moshe Mirski | 148 |
| Memories of Bund | Yechiel Kuzniecki | 150 |
| Memories of the SR (Social Revolutionaries) in Zetel | H. Habibi | 151 |
| Workers of Zetel after the I WW | Dov Orzechowski | 152 |
| Ha Chalutz | Josef Berman | 155 |
| Poalei Zion | Eliezer Namiot | 159 |
| Hashomer Hatzair | Jankef Indershtain | 163 |
| Revisionists and Betar | Avrom Alpert | 165 |
| Agudat Israel | Isroel Karpel | 166 |
| The Bund | Sholem Lisogurski | 167 |
| The first Keren Kayemet bazaar | Liza Kaplinski | 169 |
| The last Keren Kayemet bazaar | Sore Gal-Bigin | 170 |
| The social life in Zetel | collected by Sore Gal | 171 |
| Institutions | ||
| Brotherhoods and institutions | Baruch Kaplinski | 177 |
| The voluntary fire brigade | Dov Orzechowski | 179 |
| Our fire brigade orchestra | Philip Zavich | 180 |
| The dramatic circle | Hinda Mirski | 184 |
| Medical and social institutions | Dr Avrom Alpert | 187 |
| A mission of help and aid for the sick | Henie Rosenblum | 192 |
| The orphanage committee | Shifre Medwiedski | 194 |
| Women’s social help | Sore Gal-Bigin | 194 |
| The People’s bank | Arie Berkovich | 195 |
| The fund for the poor | Sore Gal-Bigin | 197 |
| TOZ (Society for Preservation of Health) in Zetel | 197 | |
| Izkor - remember | Moshe Man | 198 |
| Schools | ||
| The Talmid Tora (student of the Tora) | A.Z. Silverman | 201 |
| The story of the Jewish peoples school | Beniomen Kaplinski OBM | 203 |
| How can I conceive it? | Avrom Sawicki | 212 |
| We built the Jewish public school | Moishe Minski | 213 |
| The Tarbut school | Dvoire Szkolnik | 215 |
| Memories of a pupil | Sora Epstein - Shuer | 219 |
| Rabbis | ||
| Rabbi Yankef Kranz OBM | I. Mandelbaum & I. Trunk | 223 |
| Rabbi Isroel Maier Hakohen OBM | Rabbi Maier Yasher | 225 |
| My meetings with Chafetz Chaim | Shabtai Majewski | 227 |
| The wise men of Zetel | Moishe Tzinuvitz | 228 |
| H’rov Reb Baruch Avrom Mirski OBM | H’rov I.L. Mimun | 230 |
| H’rov Reb Baruch Avrom Mirski of the Lovers of Zion | Moishe Tzinuvitz | 231 |
| H’rov Reb Shmuel Rabinovich OBM | Moishe Tzinuvitz | 232 |
| The life of H’rov Reb Zalmon Tzarapkin | Rabbi Alchanon Tzarapkin | 233 |
| H’rov Reb Tzvi Churgin OBM | Josif Eliau Pekelni | 236 |
| Public figures and ordinary people | ||
| Reb Avrom Takavski – a older of Zetel | Mojshe Man | 239 |
| Reb Leib Kaplinski OBM | Jehudit Ostrovski | 240 |
| Reb Shmuel Kustin OBM | Dvoire Shkolnik | 240 |
| Reb Mendl Vernikovski OBM | 240 | |
| Reb Shloime Zalmon Dunetz OBM | Mordechai Dunetz | 241 |
| Reb Isroel Ezer Barishanski OBM | Avrom Ivenicki OBM | 245 |
| My grandfather Reb Isroel Alchanan Pekielny OBM | Leye Rozenblum | 247 |
| Types and facts | Mojshe Man | 248 |
| Reb Avrom the porush OBM | Efraim Pasach | 249 |
| Reb Moishe Ruven Mordkovski OBM | Avrom Iveniecki OBM | 250 |
| Reb Yoisef Muchnik OBM | Shloime Muchnik | 250 |
| Reb Yosef Iveniecki OBM | Avrom Iveniecki OBM | 250 |
| Reb Shoel Kaplinski OBM | Baruch Kaplinski | 250 |
| Reb Mendl Mirski OBM | Ruven Mirski | 251 |
| Reb Avrom Langbart OBM | Izchok Rabinovich | 251 |
| Reb Avrom Nachman Gal OBM | Sore Gal-Bigin | 252 |
| Noiach Mikulicki OBM | Chim Ludski | 252 |
| Jehuda Ludski OBM | Chim Ludski | 252 |
| Jehoshua Ovseevich OBM | Moishe Man | 253 |
| Alter Gertzovski OBM | Shmuel Menuskin | 253 |
| Motl Man OBM | Moishe Man | 253 |
| Reb Yankef Abershtein OBM | Moishe Man | 254 |
| In my father’s house | Benyomen Kaplinski OBM | 255 |
| Nioma Kaplinski a Bundist and cultural activist | Rishe Kovenski | 257 |
| Neighbours, friends, teachers and acquaintances | Yitzchak Epstein | 259 |
| Lost talents | Sora Shuer | 268 |
| Men of the people | Shabtai Mayevski | 269 |
| The tailor of Zetel | Yankef Intershtain | 271 |
| Zeivke | Yankef Intershtain | 275 |
| The last wedding celebrant | Yankef Intershtain | 276 |
| The family Sielubski from Haleli ? | Moishe Mirski | 278 |
| My mother Leye Hinde Meriams | Miriam Davidovski | 278 |
| Reb Efraim Bielogolovski OBM | Nachemie Eminuach | 279 |
| The writers of Zetel | Mordechai Dunetz | 280 |
| Memories | ||
| Why do we have aching hearts? | Baruch Kaplinski | 283 |
| There was once a township | Mordechai Dunetz | 286 |
| The Seder night | Masha Rozvovski | 287 |
| A week in Zetel | Sore Gal-Bigin | 288 |
| My home | Rivke Valdman | 293 |
| The market on Friday | Chae Alpert | 295 |
| The Slonim Street | Sore Gal-Bigin | 296 |
| Memories | Yehudit Ostrovski | 297 |
| Famous Zetel | Shmuel Rabinovich | 298 |
| Impressions | Lizi Razvatski | 299 |
| The Chasidic Rabbi in our house | Rochl Rabinovich | 300 |
| Customs and habits | Mordechai Dunetz | 301 |
| My township | Petie Majewski | 304 |
| The folklore of Zetel | ||
| The folklore of Zetel | Baruch Kaplinski | 305 |
| Nicknames in Zetel | Baruch Kaplinski | 306 |
| The folklore of Zetel | Avrom Iveniecki OBM | 308 |
| Under the Soviet régime | ||
| Under the Soviet régime | Efraim Shepshelevich | 311 |
| The tailors cooperative | Lize Rostovski | 313 |
| The extermination of Zetel | ||
| Under the German oppression | Ezriel Shelovicki | 317 |
| Hunger | Pesie Majewski | 320 |
| The first killings | Miriam Shepshelevich | 325 |
| The first 120 victims | Pesie Majewski | 327 |
| Zetel at the end of 1941 | Sore Nashmit | 329 |
| The first slaughter | Batie Ishir | 332 |
| Kiddush | Chaim Vainshtin | 333 |
| Back from the ditches | Izchok Rubinshtin | 334 |
| How I saved myself | Lize Kaplinski | 335 |
| The tragedy of my brother’s family | Mashe Rozvadski | 336 |
| A tragic finish | Chana Majewski-Klar | 337 |
| Two children fight for their life | Kalmon Minuskin | 342 |
| He escaped from his grave | Shifre Miedviedski | 347 |
| Zetel without Jews | Cila Joselevski | 349 |
| How I saved my children | Sneinke Minuskin | 353 |
| I lost my whole family | Izchok Goldshtain | 356 |
| From the synagogue into the forest | Bashe Minuskin | 358 |
| In the workshops of the Novogrudok Ghetto | Peshe Majewski | 359 |
| The Zetel glaziers in Novogrudok | Zavl Mordkovski | 361 |
| I escaped from the Novogrudok Ghetto | Mojshe Mendl Leizerovich | 363 |
| My tragic childhood | Avrom Leibovich | 366 |
| The road of my torments | Kalmon Shalkovich | 367 |
| The killing of Gypsies in Zetel | Izchok Epshtain | 368 |
| The underground activities in the Ghetto | Leib Sholem Gerling | 369 |
| The way we lived in the Zetel Ghetto | Pesie Majewski | 373 |
| Remember! | Pesie Majewski | 375 |
| Kadish | Mortchi Epstein | 376 |
| In the forests | ||
| People of Zetel in the Lipiczanski partisans | A group of partisans | 379 |
| Revenge for the blood of our people | Eliahu Kovenski | 391 |
| We fight | Ezriel Shilovicki | 395 |
| The years in the forest | Chana Majewski-Klar | 397 |
| Between life and death | Cila Joselevski | 401 |
| Ravage for the Maichek murder | Yechiel Joselevich | 404 |
| Revenge for the Maltuch murder | Zavl Mordkovski | 405 |
| The fight in Dubrovka | Sholem Gerling | 406 |
| Four victims | Leia Kalbshtein-Yacham | 407 |
| The family camps | Shmuel Minuskin | 408 |
| The partisan hospital | Sholim Gerling | 412 |
| Partisan heroes | Sholim Gerling | 414 |
| Brief biographies of heroic partisans | Group of partisans | 420 |
| Krokes un shachmanies a song of the partisans | Cilia Joselevski | 428 |
| Before the liberation | Lizi Kaplinski | 430 |
| The last months in the forest | Sora Ovseievich | 431 |
| My last day in the forest | Hinda Mirski | 433 |
| Partisans of Zetel in the Soviet army | Chaim Savicki | 434 |
| A man from Zetel in the red army | Shloime Sharlat | 439 |
| In a German prisoner of war camp | Berl Goldberg | 439 |
| Zetel heroic partisans | 440 | |
| People of Zetel in the world | ||
| People of Zetel in USA | Efraim Pasaf | 443 |
| Citizens of Zetel in Argentina | Moishe Man | 445 |
| From Zetel to Israel | Baruch Kaplinski | 447 |
| Financial assistance for Zeteler in Israel | Shaftai Majewski | 451 |
| The Zetel forest | Yehuda Ostrovski | 452 |
| At a memorial service in Tel Aviv | Shimon Berliker | 453 |
| From Zetel to Petach Tikva | Pese Majevski | 454 |
| Izkor | Mordechai Dunietz | 458 |
| Zetel in April 1957 | Mira Goncharovski | 459 |
| Bricks have collapsed, we will build in stone | Baruch Kaplinski | 461 |
| People of Zetel in Israel | Addresses | 464 |
| People of Zetel in USA | Addresses | 467 |
| People of Zetel in Argentina | Addresses | 469 |
| Families from Zetel | Pictures | 471 |
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