Dubno; a memorial to the Jewish community of Dubno, Wolyn

Dubno; a Memorial to the
Jewish community of Dubno, Wolyn
(Dubno, Ukraine)

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Translation of
Dubno; sefer zikaron

Editor: Y. Adini

Published in Tel Aviv, 1966

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This is a translation of: Dubno; sefer zikaron (Dubno; a memorial to the Jewish community of Dubno, Wolyn),
Editor: Y. Adini, Tel Aviv, Dubno Organization in Israel, 1966 (H,Y 752 columns)

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Hebrew translated by Sara Mages

Yiddish translated by Yocheved Klausner

A Jewish Metropolis	A. Avtichi-Hadari	17

The City and its History	Yakov Netaneli-Roitman	21
A. The outline of the city		25
B. Jewish Dubno		35
C. Dubno’s Sages		61
D. The Hassidut of Baal Shem Tov		65
E. The Haskalah period and its personalities		67
F. “Hibbat Zion” and the beginning of Zionism		83
G. Dubno’s Rabbis		87
H. Rabbis “Mitaam”^[1]		97
I. Dubno in the eyes of the press		99
J. From “Pinkas Hakehillat Dubno”		111

The Dubner Maggid		129
The sage and his city	Eliezer Shteinman	133
The fables of the Dubner Maggid		135
The Dubner Maggid and his fables	Y. P. Ben-Chaya	145
The Dubner Maggid the fable expert and the messenger of realism	Rafael Mahler	149

The City and its Residents		169
Dubno in the year 5640 [1879/80]	Yitzchak Ajzik Feffer	173
Greater Dubno	Yakov Netaneli-Roitman	181
Dubno on the eve of the First World War and afterward – Education and teaching/Communal and political work/ Self defense in Dubno in 1919/ From the life of Dubno’s Jews/The war for the Rabbinate Chair/ Under Austrian rule	Yisrael Feffer	191
The pogrom of Purim 5674 [1914]	R’ Shaul Virman	209
The Rabbi’s daughter [poem]	Shaul Tchernichovsky	211
The livelihood of Dubno’s Jews A. Industry/ B. Innkeeping/ C. Handicrafts and manual labor/ D. Free professions/ E. Crops and seeds trading	Moshe Cohen	213
Two years under Soviet rule	Moshe Cohen	229

A. Youth Movements. B. Synagogues and Batei-Midrash. C. The community’s welfare institutions		245
The “Hachshara”	D. Koren	249
Youth Movements in Dubno	A. Cohen	253
The trial of “Hashomer Hatzair”	Nisan Drori	262
“HeHalutz” in Dubno	Zelig Freiman	263
The youth pioneer federation “Gordonia” in Dubno	Zipora Ampel	269
The youth that is gone	Shimon Oz (Guz)	273
Synagogues and Betei-Midrash in Dubno	Moshe Kachka	277
Bait- Hamidrash of the Oliker Hassidim in Dubno	Z. Friedman	281
Bait-Hamidrash of R’ Avraham Mordechai	Moshe Cohen	281
The cantors of the Great Synagogue	Moshe Kachka	283
Peretz Markish in Dubno	Yisrael Feffer	287
R’ Zeidel Hazan	Netaneli-Roitman	289
The Jewish Hospital in Dubno	Zev Ziskind	291
Welfare institutions of the Dubno community	Shmaryaho Roitman	291
The orphanage	G. Steible	297
Passover Seder for Jewish soldiers	Moshe Cohen	301
“TOZ”^[2] in Dubno	Mania Deibog	303

Culture and Way of Life		309
The origin of the historian Shimon Dubnov of blessed memory family and its name	Amnon Horovitz	313
The history of printing in Dubno		315
The history of the Jewish-Polish High School	G. Bradiga	317
“Tarbut” School in Dubno	A. Cohen	319
“Hakoach” [sports club]	B. Bradiga	325
Amateur Theater	Moshe Kachka	331
Weddings and Jewish Klezmorim	Moshe Kachka	339
The livelihood of the “common folks”	Asher Rikhman	343
Using Matza baking machines in Dubno	Moshe Cohen	345
Baking Matzot in a machine	B. Bradiga	347
Zionism – and its reward	Aviezer Zaks	349
“Or Torah”	B. Elimelech	353
Images and nicknames of our townsfolk	Asher Rikhman	361

Personalities and Figures		365
To the image of the genius Rabbi, president of the Rabbinical court, our teacher and rabbi R’ Menachem Mendel	Yannai	369
The Admor R’ Baruch HaLevi Yozefob	R’ Shmuel HaLevi Yozefob	371
The Rabbi “Mitaam”^[1] R’ Chaim Zev Margaliot		373
To the image of the teacher Chaim Nisan Zaks	Naftali Toren	373
The fate of a Hebrew teacher	Nisan Machrok (Drori)	379
The teacher R’ Elimelech Bly	Yannai	383
The life of the Hebrew teacher Shlomo Balaban	Asher Balaban	385
Eliyahu Machrok	P.Y.	389
The teacher Shlomo Rikhman	Asher Rikhman	389
R’ Motil Luziker	Avraham Shritnik	391
The brothers David and Tzvi Perl	M. Cohen	393
The brothers Tzvi and Eliyahu Meizler	Nisan	395
David Horovitz	Nisan	397
Asher-Zelig Bronshtein	Nisan	399
Shimon-David Feffer	M.C.	399
To the image of R’ Avraham-Moshe Kolton	S.K.	399
To the image of R’ Yisrael-Moshe Lashchever	Nisan	401
Chana Kagan (Cohen)	A.C.	401
R’ Shmuel Koifman-Mutziver	H. Koifman-Melamed	403
Avraham Karaulnik	B. Bradiga	405
Leib Luchnik	Nisan	407
Dr. Isidor Margalit (Margulies)	Nisan	409
To the image of Pinchas Pinkhasuvitz	Nisan	411
Sarka Dubzits	Nisan	411
R’ Avraham Likhter	H.L.	413
Yankel Sanis	Malka Friman	415
Ester Feffer (née Deibog)	Y.P.	415
Eliezer Zorne	Nisan	417
Dr. Misha Lichtenstein-Zohar	Nisan	417
Shmuelik the watchmaker	B. Elimelech	419
Hershel the Great Synagogue beadle	Yannai	421
Benedik	Nisan	421
Valadia (Frenkel)	B. Barigada	423
About one family	Shmuel Kolton	423
Berale’ Gulzriker	Nisan	425
The activist - Eliyahu-David (Bukrig)	Akiva David	427
Four who fell: David Meizler/Tzvi Sternberg/Ozer Shehami/David Sobol	Asher Rikhman	431

The Holocaust		437
Dubno’s plan/The ghetto’s boundaries		441
The Ikva River	Simcha Shtibel	445
The Germans are coming [poem]	Moshe Visberg	451
The Valley of Death	Yehusua Vovk	453
The life and the loss of Dubno’s Jews	Moshe Visberg	459
In hiding places and in the forests	Yitzchak Fisher	469
In seven sections of horror	Frida Binshtok	473
Testimony in the Nuremberg Trials about the massacre in Dubno		517
The end of the partisan, member of “Betar”, Aizia Wassermann	Asher Ben-Oni	519
Historical Questionnaire		529
Historical Questionnaire		531
Passover after the Holocaust	Yakov Netaneli-Roitman	533
From the bitter spring [poem]	Nathaniel Bahiri (Bilizki)	535
“The empty skies”	R’ Leibish Vinokur	537
From the days of suffering and torture	Shoshanna Zamberg-Gun	537
A string of sadness for Senila and the eight hundred children who perished in one day [poem]	Yakov Netaneli-Roitman	541
Dubno after the expulsion of the Germans	Sioma	545

Yiddish Section
Life in Dubno - Dubno, March 1929		549
The town and its history	Yakov Netaneli-Rothman	553
From the Pinkas [register] of the Dubno community	Yakov Netaneli-Rothman	577
The wise men [scholars] of Dubno	Yakov Netaneli-Rothman	577
The“Magid” [preacher] of Dubno	Eliezer Steinman	603
Some fables from the Magid of Dubno		607
Dubno, 80 years ago	Yitzhak Aizik Pfeffer	613
Dubno between the World Wars		619
The history of Hashomer Hatza'ir and Hehalutz	Binyamin Hoz & D. Karin	637
Two years of Soviet rule in Dubno	Moshe Cohen	641
Jewish livelihoods, Figures	Asher Reichman	657
Names and Surnames	Asher Reichman	661
Jewish weddings and Klezmers	Moshe Katchke	665
Dobe Tovin-Metz / Yosef Pinchasovitch / Leib Lutchnik / Sara'ke Dobtzes / Shmulik Zeigermacher [watchmaker] /“Benedik”		673

From the Sad Days		689
The life and the destruction of the Jews in Dubno	Moshe Weinberg	693
The liquidation of the Dubno Ghetto	Yehoshua Wobek	707
In hiding and in the forest	Yitzhak Fischer	711
The days of suffering and of pain	Shoshana Somberg-Gon	717
”The Heavens are Empty”….	R'Leibush Winokur	721
Testimony about the slaughter in Dubno	M. Grabe	721
Dubno after the liberation	Sioma	725
List of the holy victims of the Dubno community [Necrology]		733

Translator's Footnotes Rabbi “Mitaam” – A Rabbi who served as the official liaison to the government, any official dictate or transaction, having to do with Judaism, went only through him Return TOZ - Towarzystwo Ochrony Zdrowia - Society for the Protection of the Health of the Jews, Poland, between the two World Wars Return

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