Rovno

Rowno, a Memorial to the Jewish Community of Rowno, Volyn
(Ukraine)

50°37' / 26°15'

Translation of Rowne; sefer zikaron

Edited by: A. Avitachi, Former Residents of Rowno in Israel

Published in Tel Aviv, Israel 1956 (H, 591 pages).

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Acknowledgments

Project Coordinator

Theodore (Ted) Kramer

Translations

Sidney C. Gelb

This is a translation from: Rovno, Ukraine: Rowne; sefer zikaron (Rowno; a memorial to the Jewish community of Rowno, Wolyn), Editors: A. Avitachi, Tel Aviv, "Yalkut Wolyn"--Former Residents of Rowno in Israel, 1956 (H, 591 pages).

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2	Map of Volhynia
5	City Map of Rovno
13	Title Page
16	Register - Memorial candle
17	The Main City in Volhynia
19	People of Rovno

History

21	Rovno and Population
25	Rovno Jews
26	The Beginning of the Century
29	Around the second "Duma"
31	The time of the Russian Revolution
33	Jewish soldiers gather and self defense
34	Period 1917-1918
36	Ukrainian Rule and the pogroms
40	The bloody days of Patalura
43	From authority to authority
45	With the Bolsheviks
47	The Polish Conquest
49	The end of Hataman Askilko

Economic Life

52	Jewish Metropolitan City
55	Banks and monetary institutions
59	Craftsman organizations
61	Office of general ?
62	Printing establishment
64	The economic depression on life of the Jews and the Sanazia

Movements and Political Parties

68	Echoes of 1904 - 1906
69	The Bund
73	Political Party S.S.
74	Folks party
74	Professional Societies
79	First signs of communism

Zionism

82	Beginning of Zionism in Rovno
87	Dr. Nachman Sircon Rovno Delegate for the Sixth Congress
88	The "Hatachia" group (Vorozidonia)
92	The city Zionist committee and "Practzia" Zionist Youth
96	Central Zionist Bureau
99	Copies of memos
103	San Remo hope
105	The first pioneers Aliyah
106	Thus the first pioneers groups makes Aliyah.
108	From the period of the third Aliyah.
109	From Ukraine to the land of Israel
112	The Aliyah by way of Rovno
114	Zionist Student's Organization quot;Histadrut"
115	The first "Hechalutz" conference
116	"Hechalutz"
119	Young "Hechalutz"
120	Visits to the Rovno Pioneer Kibbutz
121	Central pioneers kibbutz
122	The pioneer group felling trees
123	Israeli Galili office
125	The Gallili committee of the Zionist organization
127	The organization for the acquisition of land in Israel
128	The collective
129	On the opening of Jerusalem Univ.
131	Revelation (Discovery?)
132	Visit of V.I.Ps and emissaries
138	Collection of principle funds
142	The league of Jewish Fund supporters
144	"The Mizrachi"
146	The revisionist zionist and "Betar" organizations
149	Zionist Youth - "Tsos" and Zionist workers
152	Zionist Workers' Party "Hitachduth"
154	Youth Guardians (Ha Shomer Ha Tsair)
160	Training of Ha Shomer Ha Tzair in Rovno
161	"Gordonia"
162	"Gordonia" among the youth movements
167	"Gordonia" The Rovno branch and its orientation
169	National Guardians and the Zionist Youth
173	The "Vitkinia"
176	Freedom - (Freiheit)
178	"Akiva" movement
179	VIZO
182	Various Zionist organizations
182	The stronghold of Zionism and Pioneering
183	Rovno's role towards Zionism fulfillment

Culture and Education

185	The spirit is captured
187	Jewish School (Cheders)and teachers (Mlomeds)
191	Language dispute in the public library
192	Association for the promotion of Hebrew .
197	Adults learn Hebrew
198	Education of the yiddishists
199	Regular Schools
205	Education for Zionism
208	The "Tarbut" society and the Galilie Committee
210	Hebrew kindergarten
212	Shelter house "Tarbut"
213	Elementary schools
215	Beginning of the "Tarbut" Gymnasia
219	Development of the "Tarbut" Gymnasia
221	Positive and negative aspects of the "Tarbut" Gymnasia
223	Concerning the Gymnasia for the period 1929 -1939
226	The last cycle of the Gymnasia
227	The end of the "Tarbut" Gymnasia
230	Religious school (Tolmud Torah)
231	The religious academy "Eits Chaim"
234	Nursing course for the health of the people
236	The first orphanage
240	The orphanage and dormitory
244	Remembrance of the orphanage education
245	With the poet H.N. Bialik and S. Tsharnachofski
248	Youth volunteers
249	Association of the Jewish Academists
250	Founding the "Maccabee"
253	Sport organizations
256	"Hashmonai"
259	Jewish Dramatic Circle
260	History of newspapers in Rovno
261	Rovno through the looking glass of the local newspapers
263	Newspaper editorials
279	Newsmen and writers convention with Moshe Stoy
280	Out of the Hebrew newspapers

Remembrance and Folk Lore

284	Thus appeared Rovno
285	The great conflagration
287	In the shadow of the pogrom
288	The panic of the Katsapim
289	From previous years
292	My childhood city
296	Grandpa's home
297	"Betsalel" Privilege of Rovno
298	From the past (Experiences Remembrances & Personalities)
301	From the days of the first war
302	Pictures from the war period
305	Rovno impressions
308	Pieces of remembrance and experience
317	Tsar Nicholas 2nd in Rovno
318	Russian Officer - a friend of the Jews
320	Silent witnesses
322	One among many
324	Student rebellion
325	Jealousy among Jews
326	Rescue of two youths
327	Visits of "the Rav" Mastalin
329	Remembrance of Rovno
330	Experiences in Rovno
331	The 8 million
332	Story of a convert
333	Monzone House
335	Graduation celebration - Torah Book
336	In the streets and alleys of the City
338	Klesmers and Weddings
340	Great shlepper
343	Shoemakers - Community activists
345	Water carrier
346	The stores are in flames
347	The large town
348	Greater (metropolitan) Rovno
355	Connection Rovno - Zovihil
355	Rovno - Mezhirichi
356	Rovno - Alexandria

Institutions

362	Municipality (City Government)
364	The Community
368	Charity and Care institution
379	Health institutions
384	Community and Aid institutions

Synagogues & Holy utensils

393	Synagogues and institutes of learning
398	The Rovno Melody
400	Cantors, synagogue music and folk music
405	The period of Ziedel Rubner
410	Tzedikim, Hasidim and their melodies
412	Magids of Mezhirichi and Rovno
415	Rav Dov Bar the Magid and his letters
416	Rav Lev Sherhuse
417	Rabbies of Rovno and religious
425	Rabbi Rav. Moshe Eliezer Rotenberg
426	Scribes
427	Shochets (Ritual Butchers)
428	The gathering of the Rabbis in the yeshivas in Rovno
430	Rovno on the sabbath

Figures

431	Figures in Rovno

The Holocaust

514	From the Polish rule to the Soviet rule
517	Refugees and wanderers 1939 - 1940
518	The attitude of the non Jewish population toward the Jews
520 a.	22 June to 6 Nov 1941
522 b.	In the talons of the Nazis
523 c.	A end of Rovno
526 d.	What I saw with my own eyes
529	Notes of the bloody affair
541	From Rovno to Lvov and return
543	The conscience of the "Yudonreit" man
544	The survivor from a mass grave
545	Cases of opposition to the Nazis
548	The crimes of the Nazis in Rovno and in the province
552	Testimony and information
556	The Nazis invasion of Rovno to their destruction
560	Here is buried Jewish Rovno
563	Partisans
567	With the partisan's batalions
570	The large grave
570	From the front to the liberated of Rovno
573	Letters from the time of the Holocaust and afterward
576	The torah books
577	Back to my city
578	On Rovno's soil
580	With the Holocaust survivors
581	In camps of wanderers
584	From the anecdotal collection of the Holocaust depository
587	Uplift and making holy in the eternal rememberance
589	On the reckage of the City
591	Remember the calamity of Israel
592	Bibliography

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