Radoshkovichi, Belarus

Radoshkowitz, A Memorial to the Jewish Community
(Belarus)

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Translation of Radoshkovits: sefer zikaron

Edited by M. Robinson

Published in Tel Aviv, 1953

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Acknowledgments

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Jerome L. Ruderman

Translations

Elisabeth Ruderman

This is a translation from: Radoshkovits: sefer zikaron (Radoshkowitz, a memorial to the Jewish community),
ed M. Robinson, Tel Aviv: former residents of Radoshkowitz in Israel, 1953

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Translator's Note	iii
The History of Radoshkowitz	1
Shimshon, The Shabbes Goy	1
The Town at the End of the 19^th Century	2
My Home Town	3
There in the Rubble is our Father's Station	5
A) The Beginning of a Spool	5
B) Rooted Jews	5
C) The Synagogues and the "Public Clubs"	5
D) Unity in a Time of Change	6
E) M. Z. Mané	6
Between Two World Wars	7
Activists in Business and Cultural Life	8
Social Life	9
The Hebrew Elementary School, Tarbut, 1922-1925	11
Tarbut School Before the Hatchet Fell	12
Memories, Experiences, and Impressions	14
A) Forgotten Dreams	14
B) The Synagogue Court	14
C) The Women in the Market	15
Baking Mazot (Childhood Memories)	17
The Joys of "Finishing"	17
Life in Town (Women's Conversations)	18
Childhood Impressions	19
Fathers' Deeds a Symbol for Their Sons	21
Childhood Memories	22
The Mischief of Children	23
Childhood Illusions	24
A Town's Legend	25
Portraits – Mané and Surroundings	26
Memories from M. Z. Mané's Life	28
Remembering M. Z. Mané	29
Rabbi Meir Rabinson	30
My Mother The Rebitzin	31
Rabbi Yoseph Sundel Rabinson	31
Rabbi Shneor Zalman Hillel Shulman – To My Father	32
One of the Keepers of the Flame	32
Ben Zion Shepsenbul	33
Ya'acov Cahanovich	34
Haim Shapira	35
Dr. Nachum (Nathan) Weisbord	35
In Memory of Those Who Fell…	36
Mordecai Bumstein (His Story)	36
Arié Bumstein	37
Yekutiel (Kuty) Funt	37
Various Characters from Radoshkowitz	38
A) Torah Students	38
B) Maskilim, Zionists, Socialists	40
C) Common People	42
Scholars and the Pious	45
The Yeshiva "Hayai Olam"	47
The Holocaust Days of War and Annihilation	48
In the Forests with the Partisans	53
Yizkor	55
Our Martyrs	56
Dr. Mordecai Rabinson	60

Translator's Note

Approximately the first sixty pages of the Hebrew text are a general history of Radoshkowitz, beginning in the eighteenth century. The material is extremely repetitious and lacking in detail and offers no personal narrative. Therefore, those early portions of the book have been summarized in this translation. However, where the book becomes a series of personal memoirs dealing with people, places and events, which may be important to genealogists, the entire text has been translated.

Particular attention has been given to names, but the absence of vowels in printed Hebrew leaves some lattitude to the translator. Nonetheless names have been rendered as close to the original as possible and have been transliterated, not translated, e.g. Yitzhak, not Isaac; Yoseph, not Joseph.

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