A Shtetl in Poland

A Shtetl in Poland
(Ciechanowiec, Poland)
52°40' / 22°31'

Translation of
A Shtetele in Poyln

Author: Author: Yitzkhok Blum [Isaac Bloom] aka Y. Krivonogi

Publisher: “Blum” [Bloom], New York, 1939

Acknowledgments

Project Coordinator

Susan Kingsley Pasquariella

Translator

Beate Schützmann-Krebs

Our sincere appreciation to Susan Kingsley Pasquariella and Beate Schützmann-Krebs,
for their permission to put this material on the JewishGen web site.

Beate's original project may be viewed here.

The original book may be viewed at the Yiddish Book Center.

This is a translation of: A Shtetele in Poyln (A Shtetl in Poland),
Author: Yitzkhok Blum [Isaac Bloom] aka Y. Krivonogi. Publisher: “Blum” [Bloom], New York, 1939

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Translator's notes:

Contents in [ ] are mine. Contents in ( ) are by the author.

Please note that the original book has no page numbers.

The spelling of Yiddish and Hebrew words mostly follows the YIVO standard or the Yiddish-Ashkenazi pronunciation.

Translator's Foreword

In 1930, after 25 years in America, Yitskhok Blum [Isaac Bloom] returned to reunite one last time with his remaining relatives in his small hometown of Ciechanowiec, near Bialystok.

In introspective, sensitive and sometimes melancholy recollections, he returns with his memories and revisits the places of his childhood, compares the “past” with the “present”, takes many photographs and writes a touching travelogue.

It is only after the years of the Shoah that he realizes with horror that with his personal notes and photos he has created an enduring testimony that will serve as a “tombstone” for the living Jewish shtetl of Ciechanowiec…

I am donating my volunteer translation to the Jewish Museum in Białystok https://www.jewishbialystok.pl/EN to the JewishGen Yizkor Book Project and to my friend, Dr. Mirosław Reczko, the former mayor of the town of Ciechanowiec.

As always, my heartfelt thanks go to my friend,
Dr. Susan Kingsley Pasquariella.

Beate Schützmann-Krebs

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