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Translation of Pinkas Slutsk u-benoteha
Edited by: N. Chinitz, Sh. Nachmani, Yizkor Book Committee
Published in Tel-Aviv, 1962
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Preface | |
Heavenly Slutsk / Y. D. B. | 8 |
On the verge of legend / Avraham Epstein | 10 |
The City and Its Fullness / Y. D. Abramsky | 11 |
History of the City | 15 |
From Historical Ledgers | 18 |
As reflected by periodicals | 23 |
Professions and vocations / Nachum Chinitz | 41 |
Movements and Factions | |
The Lovers of Zion | 47 |
Letters (from his legacy) / Hillel Dubrow | 49 |
Bygone Days / Dr. Meyer Waxman | 54 |
Self Defence in Slutsk / S. Menachem | 57 |
Three Encounters / Dr. Aaron Domnitz | 58 |
Tzeirei Zion / Noah | 59 |
Movements and Parties / Zvi HaGivati | 61 |
The trial of the Zionist youth / Azriel Nekritz | 67 |
Everything that have happened / Fayvel Efron | 70 |
Institutions | |
Educational institutions / Nachum Chinitz | 76 |
A Center of Torah / Rabbi Nissan Waxman | 79 |
The Head of the Yeshiva / Rav Yosef Eliahu Henkin | 85 |
The Eitz Chaim Yeshiva / Rabbi Tzvi Yehuda Meltzer | 86 |
The Trial of the Yeshiva / Rabbi Asher Sandomirski | 89 |
The Modern Cheder / Samson Nachmani | 91 |
The letters of Avraham Epstein / Abraham Epstein | 93 |
Memories | |
Memories / Zeev Gluskin | 96 |
My Childhood Days / Tzvi Hirsch Matlianski | 101 |
Highlights of the life of Y.N. Simchoni | 103 |
In the Place of Torah and Haskalah / Dr. Aharon Domnitz | 105 |
Gleanings | 106 |
Hillel Dubrow / Sh. N. | 107 |
In memory of Dr. Nathan Klotz / Dr. Meir Waxman | 108 |
Rabbi Shachna the Shamash [Sexton] / Rabbi Dr. Moshe Chiger | 108 |
From the recent past / Dr. Moses J. Goldberg | 110 |
Portraits / Baruch Domnitz | 115 |
The imprisoned Hebrew teacher / Zvi Hazanowitz | 119 |
Personalities | 121 |
Hassidim in Slutsk | 124 |
Folklore: Reb Mendele Epstein, Reb. Joseph B. Soloveitchik, Reb. Jacob David Willovsky, Reb. Meyer Pehmer, Reb. Issar Zalmon Meltzer | 128 |
Les Miserables / Baruch Domnitz | 132 |
Native Authors of Slutsk and Vicinity: S. J. Abramowitz (Mendele Mocher Sforim), Yehuda Grozovsky, Salmon Wendroff, Jacob Kahan, Dr. J. N. Simchoni, Dr. Meyer Waxman, Dr. Feitel Lipshitz, Dr. Aaron Domnitz, Isaac Dov Berkovitz, Ephraim A. Lissitzky, Baruch Katznelson, Dr. Reuben Wallenrod | 133 |
Rabbis and authors of rabbinics: Reb. Boruch Shklov, Reb. Eliyahu Zuta, Reb. Abraham Shevelov, Reb. Zvi Masliansky, Reb. Aaron Hyman, Reb. Israel Isserlin, Reb. Jacob of Tomashov, Rev. Isaac Zvi Brodetzky, Reb. Samuel Dov Marshak, Reb. Leib Neumark, Reb. M. B. Tomashov | 138 |
Rabbis Born in Slutsk | 140 |
Between Governments | 141 |
The Holocaust | |
The Jews of Slutsk during the German Occupation / Steiman | 143 |
Slutsk after World War II / Morris Hindus | 144 |
From the partisan war | 146 |
Mendele Mocher Sforim / (Excerpt from the book Of Bygone Days) | 147 |
Y.L. Gordon's letters to Maggid Reb Zvi Dainow of Slutsk | 150 |
A. Y. Papirna Israel Behmer | 152 |
Excerpts from Records /Avraham Epstein | 154 |
Isaac Dov Berkowitz (excerpts from his book "The First as Humans") | 157 |
Yitzhak Katznelson in Slutsk / Y. D. Berkowitz | 162 |
Episodes from These Are the Generations of Adam / Ephraim E. Lisitzky | 162 |
Rabbi Rafael Yosel / Ephraim E. Lisitzky | 167 |
Excerpts from his book When there is no generation / Reuven Valenrod | 169 |
A Symphony of Generations Baruch Katznelson | 170 |
Avraham Epstein / Y. N. Adler | 171 |
Those who were and are no longer alive | 172 |
Those who died in the War of Liberation | 174 |
Those who were killed in Israel | 177 |
Urecz / Nachum Chinitz | 185 |
Halusk / Rabbi N. Waxman | 186 |
Hrozava / S. Alexandroni | 188 |
Vizno / Reuven Wallenrod | 193 |
Verkhotin / N. Ch. | 195 |
Timkowitz / Rabbi R'Moshe Paleyev | 197 |
A Passage from In Those Days / Mendele MOS | 199 |
Lyuban: | |
My Town That Is No More / Rachel Feigenberg | 201 |
Rabbi Yaakov Elya / Zalmon Epstein | 204 |
Rabbi Nechemya Yerushalmi / Zvi Asaf | 205 |
Rabbi Professor Simcha Asaf (Osovski) | 207 |
Memoirs / Reb Moshe Gershon Finkelstein | 208 |
R. Dov Ber Katznelson / Solomon Katznelson | 210 |
Reb Binjamin Wolfson / Zvia Ostrovsky | 211 |
Rabbis Who Came From Lyuban | 212 |
Lyuban As I Remember It / Zvi Assaf | 214 |
The Library of Lyuban / Joseph Kikoyon | 218 |
Lyubanites of my Mother's Family / Rachel Feigenberg-Omry | 220 |
Starobin: | |
About Starobin / Eliyahu Chaim Chinitz | 225 |
My town / Rabbi Nissan Waxman | 228 |
The Three / Raphael Rivin | 234 |
Doubts / I. N. Adler | 235 |
Memories / I. N. Adler | 236 |
The Partisans | 239 |
Staryye Dorogi: | |
About the town / Ch. N | 240 |
My town / Saul Bernstein | 241 |
Pohost | 245 |
Kopyl | 246 |
Romanova: | |
Working the Land in Romanova | 251 |
My Town, Romanova / Dr. Aaron Domnitz | 252 |
The Rabbi of Romanova / Baruch Domnitz | 253 |
From the newspapers / Rabbi N. Waxman | 254 |
The Bereaved Family / Hadassah | 258 |
Miriam Maharshak / S.B. | 259 |
Baruch Lifshitz / C. H.. | 259 |
The History of the Book / The Editors | 260 |
Introduction Slutsk in Eternity / I. D. B. | 265 |
From Historic Sources From the Jewish-Russian Encyclopedia / Brokhauz Efron | 267 |
Documents | 269 |
Rabbis, Judges and shuln of Slutsk | 272 |
Slutsk / M. L. Gorin | 273 |
Folklore / M. L. Gorin | 274 |
The Cold Shul and Its Courtyard / M. L. Gorin | 275 |
My Memories of Slutsk / Eliyahu Shulman | 278 |
Vigoda / Y. D. B | 289 |
Crumbs of Memory / Moshe Strugatch | 292 |
Nishke Kvasnik's Street / P. Shapiro-Mechanic | 296 |
A fire in Slutsk / M. L. Gorin | 297 |
The Zionist Movement in Slutsk / Sh. Menachem | 299 |
The Rise and Fall of the Bund / Moshe Tulman | 301 |
Refoel Yossel / N. Chinitz | 305 |
Portraits / M. L. Goren | 308 |
Sextons in Slutsk / Rabbi Nissan Waxman | 312 |
My youth in Slutsk / Yakov Patt | 319 |
My Memory of Slutsk / Harry Lang | 323 |
The Yevrehiskaye School / R. Berkavitch | 330 |
Slutsk, my second home / Dr. L. Fogelman | 332 |
Rav Yusele Peimer / Ch. A. Pehmer | 336 |
Summer of 1919 in Slutsk / Nathan Kantrowitz | 345 |
Khasidote in Slutsk | 349 |
Folklore: Reb. Israel Behmer, Reb. Mendele Epstein | 352 |
R'Yasher-Ber as Slutsker Rav / Khaykil Lunski | 353 |
Assistant Rabbis, Preachers / Khiam Zaydes | 359 |
Two letters from Slutsk / Shin. Lamed. Beker | 361 |
People's Character / Khyam Zeydes | 363 |
Leybe the Blacksmith / Rabbi Moyshe Goldberg | 366 |
Memories of the Old Home / Ikhorit Simval | 367 |
Economic and spiritual decline / M. L. Goren | 371 |
From teaching to shoemaking / N. Ch. | 372 |
Fighters and martyrs / M. L. G. | 373 |
Between the two World Wars | 374 |
Slutsk after the Destruction / Maurice Hindus | 378 |
Under the Nazi Occupation / Yad Vashem Archives | 381 |
Letters from the Slutsk ghetto | 382 |
Writers of Slutsk and its Environs | 388 |
Slutsk in Yiddish Literature: (Fragments from their writings): Mendele Moykher Sforim Beynish Mikhalevitsh Abraham Epstein I. D. Berkovitsh |
397 |
J. L. Peretz in Slutsk / Nokhem Khinitsh | 406 |
Slutskers in America / Israel Schwaidelson | 409 |
Slutskers in America 54 Years Ago / Ch. Zaides | 418 |
Uretche / Nakhmen | 420 |
Horki and its Environs / Joseph Nozick | 422 |
Self-Defense in Hlusk / Samuel Liff | 426 |
The Gaon Borekh-Ber Leybovitsh / Kheyn | 427 |
Hrozowa / Sh. Frumkin | 429 |
Sixty Years Ago / B. Epstajn (Bashe Greisukh) | 432 |
My Father / Beinish Epstajn | 433 |
Reb Nakhum Hrozower / Mendele Mokher Sforim | 434 |
Hresk / M. L. G. | 436 |
Vizna / Israel Kantor | 437 |
Verchutin / Chanan | 440 |
Timkowitz / Sonia Kashdan-Nachmani | 441 |
Timkowitz / Mendele Mocher Sforim | 444 |
Lyuban: | |
Rabbi Reb NehemiaYeruzalimsky / Hana Assaf | 446 |
Slaughter and Murder/ Binyomin Wolfson | 448 |
Lyuban in a Transitional Period | 454 |
A letter from Luban / Fanya | 456 |
Reb Hayim (Rukhover) Katzenelson | 458 |
Dovid Katzenelson / P.K. | 458 |
Starobin: | |
My Town Starobin / Rabbi N. Waxman | 460 |
The Destruction of Starobin / Ch. Rubnitz (a partisan) | 465 |
Folklore / Raphael Rivin | 467 |
Stari-Dorogoi / Khen | 468 |
Pohost / Chaim Kuntser | 469 |
Pohost / Miriam Marshak | 472 |
Kapulie: | |
Kopyl | 473 |
Occupations in Kopyl / Mendele Mocher Sforim | 473 |
Kopyl / A. J. Papirna | 476 |
From Kapulie to Slutsk / Joseph Morgenstern | 484 |
Folklore | 486 |
Partisans | 486 |
Romanova / Ish Yehuda Sfra | 488 |
Shemezeve / Sonia Aizenson | 490 |
On the Threshold of Life / Zalman Wendroff | 491 |
Setting Out from Romanova / Morris J. Meisel | 495 |
My Father / Rabbi Dr. Raphael Gold | 499 |
The Rabbi from Kapoly / Rabbi Dov Katz | 500 |
Rabbi Zeev Gold of blessed memory / Rabbi Dov Katz | 501 |
Chaim Kriwicki / Raphael Rivin | 502 |
Among Our Landsleit [Compatriots] Who Contributed to the Publication of the Slutsk Chronicles / N. W. | 503 |
The Closing of the Yizkor Book / Rabbi N. Waxman | 520 |
In perpetual memory (Yahrzeit list of departed Landsleit) | 522 |
Index of names and subjects | 528 |
Slutsk: Its glory and its destruction / N. Waxman | XI |
Slutsk after World War II / Maurice Hindus | XV |
Early history and memories of Slutsk / Dr. Gregory Razran | XVIII |
A grandson's reflections on Slutsk / Rabbi Dr. Emanuel Rackman | XXIII |
The heritage of Slutsk / Rabbi Dr. Mordecai Waxman | XXV |
Acknowledgement to benefactors | XXVIII |
Index of names in English section | XXIX |
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