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Title Page |
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Preface / Book Committee |
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List of Pictures |
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CHAPTER ONE / OPENING |
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Introduction / Editor |
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Foreword / Book Committee |
17 |
Foreword / Book Committee (Yiddish) |
19 |
It Was Said With The Book / Nahum Margolin |
21 |
Map of Molchadz |
24 |
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CHAPTER TWO / EARLY PERIOD |
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Map of the Region |
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A general historical-geographic and Jewish socio-cultural survey / Benzion H. Ayalon |
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I. EARLY PERIOD |
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a. The name and its meaning; |
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b. References on the early period; |
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c. Settlement of Jews in Lithuania; |
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d. Multigovernment region; |
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e. Mass-slaugther of Jews by Chmelnitzky et al; |
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f. The region and its cultural influence; |
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g. Immediate surroundings and economic relations; |
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h. Maytchet in Memorial Books of the Region; |
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i. The Jewish town in the view of the newspapers; |
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j. Summary Table Part One. |
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Memories from my birth town / Max Novomisky |
49 |
My town Maytchet / Nahum Margolin |
57 |
The dead Maytchet / Haya Lubchik |
64 |
Jews in Great Svorotva / Y. Serebrovsky |
67 |
Small Svorotva / Haya Lubchik |
68 |
The village of Yatra / Esther Malishansky (Lozovsky) |
70 |
The tragic end / Haya Lubchik |
72 |
My Village and the Memories of my Birthplace / Sarah Biribis |
75 |
Jewry, Virtuous and with Difficulties / Chaim Kravetz |
78 |
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CHAPTER THREE / TORAH AND CHASSIDISM |
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The Gaon Shlomo Polachek / Benzion H. Ayalon |
85 |
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The Rabbis of Maytchet and its Scholars A / Rabbi Aharon Surasky |
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1. Rabbi R' Yosef Mordkovski, ztzl - RYM |
92 |
2. Rabbi R' Noah Mordkovski zl |
97 |
3. HRHH R' Yisrael Zalman Shelovski ztzl |
98 |
4. Rabbi R' Shalom zl - Head of the Rabbinical Court in Maytchet |
105 |
5. Rabbi R' Yaakov-Sender Grinberg zl - The Last Rabbi of Maytchet |
106 |
6. Rebbe Nahum Shub zl - from the Hasidim in Maytchet |
108 |
7. R' Yitzhak Gratzikovitz (G-d should avenge his blood) (Itshe Kozlovicher) |
109 |
8. The Rabbi, the Gaon Rebbe Meir Meirim zl, Head of the Rabbinical Court in Maytchet |
110 |
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Rabbis and Scholars B / Moshe Zinovitz |
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1. Rabbi Meir-Meirim |
113 |
2. Rabbi Yehuda-Leib Hacohen |
117 |
3. Rabbi Shmuel |
118 |
4. Rabbi Zvi-Hirsh |
119 |
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Rabbi Isaac-Naftali Belsky / D. Shlomovitz |
121 |
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The Spiritual Center in Maytchet / Nahum Margolin |
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1. The Shul-Heif |
122 |
2. In the Congregation of Hasidim and Admorim |
124 |
3. Melamdim, religious and public figures |
127 |
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Rabbi Yisrael Elchanan the Maytcheter / Rabbi Joseph-Eliahu Pniel (Pekelni) |
134 |
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CHAPTER FOUR / EDUCATION, SOCIETY, ECONOMICS |
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Maytchet, general survey / Benzion H. Ayalon |
137 |
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II. BETWEEN TWO WORLD-WARS |
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a. General Background; |
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b. In Retrospect; |
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c. Town Panorama; |
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d. Government and Administration; |
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e. Public and National Activities; |
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f. Educational Institutions; |
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g. Commerce and Business; |
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h. Agriculture; |
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i. Transportation; |
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j. Jews of Maytchet. |
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The students the golden youth / Nachum Naor (Orzechovsky) |
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Trade and Labor / Dov Shlomovitz |
153
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Youth in Maytchet / Haya Lubchik |
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Maytchet in the press / Moshe Zinovitz |
159 |
The coming of Passover / Haya Lubchik |
161 |
The Zionist Movement in Maytchet |
163 |
Maytchet in pictures A |
169 |
A. Hehalutz in Maytchet |
185 |
B. The Story of the Travails of Hehalutz in Maytchet |
187 |
C. About Hehalutz and the Training Groups / Nahum Margolin |
189 |
The Organization of Maytchet Natives in Israel and the World, and its Activities / N. M. |
195 |
Maytcheter Jews in New York / from the press |
201 |
Maytcheters in Argentina / Ben-Zion Sack |
202
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CHAPTER FIVE / PERSONALITIES, FAMILIES, FIGURES |
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My parents' house - The Orzechovsky family / Nahum Naor (Orzechovsky) |
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The Dvorzecky family / Dr. M. Dvorzecky |
211 |
Reb Nathan the son of Reb Asher Orzechovsky of blessed memory / Yisrael Neiten |
218 |
Sima Ben-Hur (Abramovsky) / Dr. Nahum Ben-Hur |
221 |
Reb Moshe-Ahron Borecky and Family / Hana Mechtiger |
224 |
Two letters from Feigl Borecky |
227 |
My Parents - The Boretcky family / Sarah Biribis |
230 |
My parents - Wolinsky family / Miriam Kleinshtub |
232 |
Memories from Maytchet / Mordechai (Munia) Hassid |
235 |
Gedalya and Nehama Yatvicky / Yitzchak Binyamin |
236 |
Reb Joshua Aharon Lozovsky of blessed memory / Yosef Lozovski |
238 |
Family Lubecky / David-Leib Lubecky |
240 |
My Family - the Margolin Family / Chemda Lubrani |
242 |
Reb Zvi-Hirsh Aharonovitz / Jacob Horvits |
245 |
Reb David-Hershel Novomiski and his family / Sara Aharonovsky |
248 |
Sheine-Rachel Simkof-Bader / Moshe Zinovits |
250 |
The Polonsky-Edlin family / Tova Shomroni |
252 |
My family in Maytchet/ Moshe Korn |
255 |
The Family of Moshe Aharon Shevchik / Yehuda Ben-Moshe |
258 |
My ties with Maytchet / Zeev Rimon |
261 |
My Connection With Maytchet / Zelda Rozovski |
264 |
My parents - Stolovitsky family / Benjamin Stolovitsky |
266 |
Shlomo-Hirshl Shlomovits / Dov Shlomovits |
268 |
Members of my family at Maytchet / Haya-Rivka Dissin |
269 |
People and Personalities / Nahum Margolin
Shlomo Shnitzki; Avraham Garbash and Leib Winograd;
Leibel Gilerovits; Alter Abramovitz; Yisrael Elchanan Pikalni;
Moshe Savitsky; Yisrael Belski; Yaakov Gilerovits; Naftali the Blacksmith;
Chana Shlomovitz |
271 |
Maytchet in pictures B |
275 |
Maytchet natives as soldiers in foreign armies |
285 |
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CHAPTER SIX / THE HOLOCAUST |
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Remember the Holocaust / Dr. M. Dvorzecky |
288 |
The Soft Whisper of the Haboinik The Hill of Blood (For the Memorial Day of the Maytchet Community) / Benzion H. Ayalon |
289 |
Self-defence in Maytchet |
291 |
My Travails in the Holocaust / Moshe Korn |
293 |
A War of Life and Death (Memories of a Jewish Partisan) / Abrasha Hanelis |
300 |
The rise and fall of Maytchet / Freidl Makarensky |
303 |
The bravery of Zimel Stolovitsky / Abrasha Hanelis |
307 |
Three Who Set Out on a Journey / Binyamin Stolovitsky |
309 |
With the nomads staff / Reuben Rabinovits |
312 |
My personal experiences / Tsira Rayak (Rabets) |
314 |
Maytchet partisans / Moshe Rabets |
320 |
Survivors' tales / Mina Levin (Gurski) |
323 |
The raid...and the meeting / A. Ben-Shalom |
325 |
Partisan fighters and avengers / Hanan Shmulovits |
328 |
My memories from mournful Maytchet / Yaacov Lachovitsky |
332 |
My Memories of Maytchet / L. Ozersky |
335 |
Maytchet Natives in Lithuania During the Period of the Second World War / Nachum Ben-Arie |
337 |
Maytchet Refugees from Maytchet in Vilna / Isaac Movshovits |
343 |
Partisans and the Jews in the Forests of Maytchet / Dr. M. Dvorzetsky |
346 |
Death Chronicles of Maytchet |
364 |
These I Remember and I Moan… |
367 |
Memorial for the People who are gone |
369 |
Memorial Candle for Yehoshua Shomroni zl / Shmuel and Amir Shomroni |
370 |
Avraham Rimon of blessed memory / Aleksander Novitz |
370 |
Esther Biribis of blessed memory / Sara Boretsky Biribis |
371 |
Moshe Kleinshtov of blessed memory / Aleksander Novitz |
372 |
Untitled List of Names |
373 |
Memorial Pages and Pictures |
377 - 421 |
Yizkor List of Holy Ones |
422 |
Epilogue |
427 |
Memorial Prayers for the Deceased and Communion |
429 |
Index of Names |
431 - 460
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