Rakow, Belarus

Rakow Community Memorial Book
(Belarus)

53°58' / 27°03'

Translation of Sefer zikaron le-kehilat Rakow

Edited by Haim Abramson

Published in Tel Aviv, 1959

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Acknowledgments

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Ruth Wilnai

This is a translation from: Sefer zikaron le-kehilat Rakow (Memorial book of the community of Rakow),
ed. H. Abramson, Tel Aviv, Former residents of Rakow in Israel and the U.S.A., 1959

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The Organization of Former Residents of Rakow in Israel and in the USA

Tel Aviv 5719 – 1959
The Israeli Landsmanschaft “Vaad” of the Organization of Former Residents of Rakow in Israel:
Haim Abramson, Alperovich Zvi, The Rabbi Garlin, Gorlik Yakov Shabtai, Botwinik Aba, Birger Yosef, Avni Shmuel,
Sonya Meisel, Yehuda Lifshitz

Translated by Ruth Wilnai

Introduction to the book

Preface		7

The History of Rakow

The History of Rakow's Rabbis and Community	M. Tzinovitz	11
Articles in the Hebrew Press in 1887, 1888, 1909, 1910		16
The Town from the End of the Nineteenth Century to the Thirties	Abraham Starovin	23
Abraham Starovin	various sources Kh. A.	34
Memories of the Zionist Movement and the Bund	Migdal Dinah née Hurewitz	36
The Zionist Movement in the Town	Tema Lifshitz	39
Rakow During First World War	P. Zalff	41
About Self Defense During 1905	The Rabbi Shmuel Mordechai Garlin	45
How The Bund Was Founded	Velvel Bentches	47
The History Of The Library	The Rabbi Shmuel Mordechai Garlin	49
Public Discussion About Zionism	The Rabbi Shmuel Mordechai Garlin	51
The Prodigy From Rakow	Tzvi Kaplan	53
Rakow As a Center Of Bible And Scholarship	The Rabbi Shmuel Mordechai Garlin	55
Our Home Town	Reuven Viener	60
The Pioneering Youth Movements	Aba Botvinik	66
With The Flow	H. Abramson	73
Memories Of A Teacher	Shalom Kholevsky	78

Remembering And Embracing Of The Past

Sixty Years Ago	Maurice (Moshe Tsvi) Berman	85
The Granaries' Street	B. Botvinik	87
Solomyank	B. Botvinik	90
My Memories	William Rosenthal	91
About William Rosenthal		93
The Artist's Words About His Work		95

Rakow Way Of Life

Rabtzik And Borila		99
Market Day	M. Sigal	103
Basha Riva Goes To Minsk	M. Sigal	106
Leib Habes. The Red Skinned Bull And The Plot	Mata Miashka Ejdles	109
A Rakow Tale	Faya Simcha Bunimes	111
R. M. Len In The General's Palace	M. Sigal	112
Experiences	Yehudith Shrira	116
A Night Before Death	Yehudith Shrira	118
Figures And Characters	Yakov Shabtai Gorlik	122

Friend Tell About Their Relatives

Rabbi Chaykel Obrzanski	Nechama Gvirtsman	131
Yitzchak Gdalovitz's Tale		133
Yehuda Lifshitz Tale		134
Walking Behind Yitzak Katz's Coffin		134
Rabbi Shmuel Yitzhak Reuveni		138

The Holocaust And The Destruction

Rakow Under The Nazi Occupation
	Moshe Fogolanski	141
	Nachum Grinholtz	148
	Aharon Grinholtz	151
What I Suffered During The Holocaust	A Milshtein	152
In Russian Captivity And The Polish Army	Shmuel Avni	157
On Rakow's Ruins	Zelig Kost	166
Requiem		168

Yiddish Essays

Rakow Under The Nazi Occupation
	Moshe Fogolanski	171
	Nachum Grinholtz	178
On Rakow's Ruins	Zelig Kost	182
Rakow - Jewish Martyrs		187

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