Navaredok Memorial Book
(Novogrudok, Belarus)

53°36' / 25°50'

Translation of Pinkas Navaredok

Edited by E. Yerushalmi

Published in Tel Aviv, 1963

 

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Project Coordinator

Oskar Delatycki

 

Our sincere appreciation to Dov Cohen of the Novogrudok Landsmannschaft in Israel
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This is a translation from: Pinkas Navaredok (Navaredok memorial book),
ed. E. Yerushalmi, Tel Aviv, Alexander Harkavy Navaredker Relief committee in the USA and Israel, 1963 (H, Y 419 pages)

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Translated by Solomon Manischwitz
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Note: [H] stands for Hebrew and [Y] for Yiddish
Introduction to the book
 
Introduction the editors [H]  
The prologue the editors [Y]  
 
History of the City [H] 11
 
The history of the Jews in Novogrudok Yaakov Goldberg [H] 11
The history of the town   [Y] 19
The Rabbis of Novogrudok Rabbi V.Ch. Kancipolski [Y] 25
The Musar movement Mordechai Ginsburg (Montreal) [Y] 33
What I remember of Novogrudok Shlomo M. Gutman (Argentina) [Y] 39
Leaders and ordinary members of the community E. M. Yerushalmi [Y] 42
The Bund in Novogrudok H. Kaplan and Y. Maslow [Y] 52
Memoirs from before the First World War Wm Uris (New York) [Y] 54
Old Novogrudok Shimeon Yosifun [Y] 61
Reminisces of Yischok Gurwitz: Rabbi Nachman Getzov  [Y]70
The Tailors' Synagogue   [Y] 72
The Seder night that was disrupted [Y]74
Dr. Benjamin Einhorn Yaakov Gershovski [Y] 76
Without a hammer, shears and a saw Menashe Unger, US [Y] 78
Alexander Harkavy Prof. Nosun Ziskind, US [Y] 79
Avrohom Eliyahu Harkavy   [Y] 82
The “eelui” (exceptional students of Tora) from Novogrudok
(in memory of Reb Kalman Aharon Midler)		Chaim Noy [H]83
The big fire (blaze) in Novogrudok Yaakov Gershovski [Y] 84
The Jewish Souls (from the Old Pinkas Navaradok) Dr. Eliezer Yerushalmi [Y] 85
 
Between the Two World Wars [Y] 89
 
Hebrew education in Novogrudok Moshe Steinberg-Sarig [H] 89
The kindergarten Sima Yonas-Portnoy [H] 97
Music in Novogrudok Menashe Rabina (Rabinovitz) [H] 98
Politico-Communal life in Novogrudok Shmuel Openheim [Y] 100
The Novogrudok orphanage     107
The history of the orphanage
  [Y] 107
Memories
Aharon Srebranik [Y] 110
The first child in the orphanage
Aba Rutkovski [Y] 112
The orphanage (1917-1919)
Shalom Cohen [Y] 113
Shokdey melocho (the trade school) Chaim Leibovich [Y] 114
Volunteer Fire brigade A. Shochor (Czarny) [Y] 117
The theatre in Novogrudok Zahava Rabinovich-Engel [H] 118
Chaluts (Zionist scouts) movement Yehoshua Brook (Kibbutz Negba) [H] 119
Personalities Shmuel Openheim [Y] 126
The last of the Rabbis Yehoshua Jaffe [H] 129
People and Images Yehoshua Yaffe [Y] 130
Jewish Gardeners Boruch Sapotnicki [Y] 134
Peculiar types of people A. Yerushalmi [Y] 135
The public bath A. Y. [Y] 137
Schloss gass – a distinct township Eliezer Berkovitch [Y] 138
Yiddishe gass Miriam Lipchin Negrevitski [Y] 140
United Jewish Artisans Association Samuel Nikolayevski [Y] 141
The Professional Movement Eliyahu Berkovitch [Y] 143
“TOZ” (a Jewish Health Organization) activities Majrim Ginzburg [Y] 144
Aid for Jewish prisoners Aharon Rudnicki [Y] 148
Village Jews D. Cohen [Y] 149
Benjamin Kotlover W. Uris [Y] 152
Weekly papers in Novogrudok Yehoshua Yaffe [Y] 153
A native of Novogrudok in the Herzelia Gymnasium Yishayahu Avi-Amots [H] 154
Zeydl Bushelevits Ch. Leibovitch [H] 154
Extinguishing the fire of hatred Noach Avni (Kamenitsky) [Y] 155
 
Those whom we remember [Y] 156
 
Edna Kagan Baruch Yakov and Meir Kagan [Y] 156
Louie Zlotnik Chaim Leibovich [Y] 157
Ilia Aranovitch Gumener Ch. L. [Y] 157
Shmuel Solomon Ch. L. [Y] 158
Yitzchak Gurvitz a fellow townsman [Y] 159
Vager Family Ch. L. [Y] 159
Grandmother slept (in memory of the old woman Etl Goldberg) D. C.[H]160
Alter Kamenetzki N. K. [Y] 161
Shmuel Goldberg Lyuba Cohen [H] 162
Yehuda Kaplinski Lyuba Rudnicki [Y] 162
My mother and sisters Lyuba Valkin [H] 163
Hersh Ostashinski a fellow townsman [Y] 164
With the coffin of Rabbi Yosef Yoyzl Hurvits in Israel   [H] 164
 
The Surroundings [H] 165
 
Karelich Ch. T. [H] 165
How I remember Selib (Wsielub) Y. Y. [Y] 167
My Shtetl Selib Liba Shmulevits [Y] 168
My shtetl Selub Sara Shmulevits [H] 170
Tsemach The Coachman (A type from the shtetl Selub) Yehushua Yaffe [Y] 170
Novoyelnie Chana Kamin (Kaplan) [Y] 171
 
Our sisters and brother in USA [Y] 172
 
The Alexander Harkavy Navaredker aid committee in US Ya'akov Maslow [Y] 172
Novogrudok Progressive Branch 146 B. Seltzer [Y] 174
Yaakov Maslov L.Ch. [Y] 176
Committee of Emigrants from Novogrudok in Israel Lyuba Rudnicki [H] 178
About the editorial staff of the Pinkas Novogrudok (Yizkor) book the Editors[H]181
 
Poetry and Prose in Novogrudok [H] 183
 
The song of Beseeching Aharon Mirski [H] 185
The Holy Ark Falls Chaim Grade [Y] 186
Mickiewicz and the Jews of Novogrudok Prof B. Marc, Warsaw [Y] 188
Adam Mickiewicz and his attitude to JewsS. L. Shnayderman[Y]191
A Preacher in Siberia Dr S. Shabbat [H] 195
My home, poem Bertha Kling [Y] 196
A Friday in Novogrudok Fruma Kamieniecki [Y] 197
The first Rosh Hashona of the survivors of the Holocaust Chaim Leibovich [Y] 199
Three Kol Nidrei’s Chaim Leibovich [Y] 201
Legends and fables David Cohen [Y] 203
The path to riches
  [Y] 203
Belief in the Messiah
  [Y] 205
“We will do and obey”– a legend
  [H] 207
An Ethrog for Succoth
  [Y] 208
A “Din Torah” a Jewish court
  [Y] 209
Yitschok “Yom Suf”
  [Y] 210
“Boze moyi”
  [Y] 211
Letter from a mother Edna Kagan [Y] 213
The Shloss-barg Dr. Avraham Ostashinski [Y] 217
My home town Emanuel Efron [H] 220
 
Shoah and Bravery [Y] 227
 
Shoah [Y] 229
 
I fear and dread the consolation (poem) Mirsky [Y] 229
On the threshold of the shoah Yaakov Kivelevich [H] 230
A sea of troubles Eliyau Berkovitz [Y]  
    237
    238
Under the German Yoke Lyuba Rudnicki [Y] 241
Outside of the Ghetto Lyuba Rudnicki [H] 246
In the days of annihilation Shmuel Openheim [Y] 251
       
     
The 52 martyrs Yehuda Slucki [H] 257
The slaughter Eshke Shor Levin [Y] 258
The First Slaughter Sima Yanos-Portnoy [Y] 259
Slaughters Chaim Kravets [H] 263
Under the German whip Sula Rubin-Wolozynski [Y] 272
They burned the town Yehoshua Yaffe [Y] 274
The great destruction Chaim Leibovitz [Y] 287
    287
    293
(told by Chana Kirshner)   294
    296
    297
How I survived Idl Kagan [Y] 299
The Ghetto in Peresike Frume Gulkovitz-Berger [Y] 302
Chapters from the Holocaust Y. Yaffe [Y] 304
    304
    310
    319
    322
    327
The latest Kaddish (a poem) Zelig Limon [Y] 329
No Yahrzeit candle (a poem) Nechama Layzerovski [Y] 330
Where is my home? (a poem) Miriam Ninkovski-Berkovich [Y] 330
 
And the Bravery [H] 331
 
The partisans’ company of Tuvia Belski Samuel Amarant [H] 333
Jewish revenge Chaim Leibovich [Y] 346
    346
    349
    350
Memories Reyzl Volkin [Y] 351
Jewish Partisan Intelligence Moshe Reznick [Y] 353
Jewish Bravery Yehoshua Yaffe [Y] 354
A. The first Jewish partisans
    354
    356
The four mass graves Miriam Ninkovsky [H] 357
People of Novogrudok after liberation Yehoshua Yaffe [Y] 357
Partisans of Novogrudok who fell in action S. Openheim [H] 359
Such were the Jewish partisans Y. Yaffe [H] 361
My brother Meir Yaakov Rudnicki [Y] 364
In memory of my father, Asoel Belski Asoella [H] 365
How does Novogrudok look now? a townsman [Y] 366
The Conclusion   [H/Y] 367
 
The Blood Bond with the Land of Israel [H] 369
 
To Those Who Fell For Their Country   [H] 371
Osher Gorodisky
Ya'akov Ginenski [H] 371
Yekuti'el (Kushi) Solchinski
Bilha [H] 371
With Kushi in his last days
Shlomoleh Shvartz [H] 372
Ruven Openheim
Shmuel Openheim [H] 374
Eliezer Kriner
  [H] 376
Luka Shapiro
a friend [H] 376
A List: We will remember the Names of the Martyrs of Novogrudok, the Vicinity and Korelich [H] 377

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