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Preface M. Bakalczuk-Felin 3 Rakishok Before and After WW I A. Orelowitz 7 Notes on the Economic Position of the Jews in Rakishok R. Aarons-Arsh 19 My Shtetl A. Nach-Nochumovitz 29 Peculiarity of Rakishok in the Jewish Lithuania L. Shalit 43 "Chabad" Chief Rabbi Professor L. I. Rabinowitz 50 Rakishok and its Chassidim B. Stein 53 Jewish National Automony in Lithuania J. Batnitzky 62 The Lithuanian Shtetl J. Lestschinsky 66   Reminiscences   Rokishok: A Reflection Chief Rabbi Professor I. Abrahams 85 Childhood Joys R. Feldman 88 My Fathers Nigun S. Rubin 92 Why? Z. Feldman 99 My Remembrances Zorach Gafanowitz 103 A Yeminite in Shtetl B. Sarver 106 Reminiscences of a Socialist in Rakishok B. I. Kriel 115 Fragments of My Past R. Arsh 131 We Will Always Remember You Ahuva Schneiderman-Ruch 142   Personalities and Types   A Few Words in Place of a Tombstone N. Meyerowitz-Stein 145 In Everlasting Memory Bluma Arsh-Lavya 149 My Father, Berchik the Shoykhet A. Koseff 152 Jews of Rakishok A. Orelowitz 158 Zalman the Soda-Water Maker B. I. Kreel 172 Personalities in the Old Home A. Nach-Nochumowitz 174 Chaye-Sore-Ite Bacher S. Klass 190 Gite Rubin-Ferman H. Penn-Lubowitz 192 My Father of Blessed Memory Meyer Ruch 194 Types of the Old Home A. Koseff 198   Social Cultural Life and Education Institutions   The Reformed Cheder M. Katz 205 The Russian Government School A. Chait 207 The Lithuanian Gymnasium E. Aarons 209 From My School Years T. Orlin-Kiel 212 The Beth-Sefer and Pro-gymnasium A. Josselowitz 220 The Activity of the Kultur-Lige S. Spevak 222 Concerning the Kultur-Liege and its Activities M. and S. Feldman 225 The Jewish Part in the Left Movement O. Nochumowitz 229 The Kultur-Lige in Rakishok and in Utian M. Krain 234 Maccabi in Rakishok R. Arsh 236 Rakishker Maccabi H. Josselowitz 243 The First Hachshara Kibbutz in Rakishok Ben Samuel 245 Three Years in Rakishok Avigdor Ariol-Golumbotzky 246 About the Scout Movement S. Nanas 249 Leib Jaffe's Visit A. J. 251 Orphanage A. Nochumowitz 252 The Society for Visiting the Sick in Rakishok R. Blacher-Itzikman 257 Jewish Theatre S. Rubin 260 The People's Bank M. B. 264   Environs   Abel I. Michel-Michalewitz 271 My Home Town Kamay B. M. Hurwitz 292 A Tear in Memory of Kamay P. Z. Hurwitz 297 Reminescences of Kamay Tirza Franklyn-Jaffe 299 A Fair in Kamay B. Sachs 302   Novo-Alexandrovsk-Exerenay-Zarasay   Reminiscences of the Old Home N. Sacks, M. Sharp-Saltuper, P. Albert 306 My Birthplace Jehuda Zwi Ichilcik 314 From My Home Town I. Dumas 317 My Shtetl Boguslavishok R. Mechel-Berzak 324 Subat Rev. M. B. Fisher 327 Ponedel R. H. Berchowitz-Peisachovitz, T. Katz, Jokl Evans 331 From Our Shtetl Dusiat Ch. M. Kruss-Glussak, N. Blacher 336 Antalept A. Eidelman, I. Gullis 346 Yuzint; Natzunishok N. Brinkman 350 My Father Michoel Welve the Farmer Israel Michalewitz 354 Svisdoshz Ch. Aires, N. Blacher 356 Sevenishok D. Katz, R. Shon 362 Anushishok R. Kramer-Penn 366 Skopishok M. Gordon 370 Ponemunok L. Karabelnik 374 My Shtetl Ponemunok Benzion Joffe 377   Decline and Destruction   My Evidence M. Rotholz-Kur 383 What I Experienced (My Experiences) Gisa Levin 391 In Those Days Herzl Ben-Yehuda 401 The Destruction of Rakishok in Letters M. Bakalczuk-Felin 405   The Landsmannschaft of Rakishok   Greetings   433 Monograph of Jewish Communities and Towns in Jewish Historiogrophy Dr. P. Friedman 438 The Landsmanschaft of Rakishok: Activities of the Society: the Rakishker Benevolent Society M. Bakalczuk-Felin 452 Notes of the Landsmanschaft of Rakishok A. Eidelman 525 The Family Manne-Manelewitz S. Rubin 528 The Thorny Path of the Jewish Immigrant in South Africa J. M. Sherman 530 Yizkors   540 Contents in Yiddish   622 Preface (English) M. Bakalczuk-Felin III Contents in English   V   Additional Pages   Those Who Were Not Victims of the Holocaust, Remembered by Their Families   Photograph Captions

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