Hebrew TOC translated by Sara Mages

Yiddish TOC translated by Gloria Berkenstat Freund

Map of the Vicinity of David-Horodok, Stolin and Pinsk pre-WWII
David-Horodok street map
Introduction #		5
From the Editorial Committee #		6
The History of David-Horodok #	Yosef Lifshitz	7
Way of Life
The City of David (David-Horodok)	Dr. M. Zagorodsky	63
The Progressing Town	Yitzchak Ben-Yosef	69
Distant Sights	A. Yisraeli	71
Thoughts	Yosef Lifshitz	75
Sections of Memories	Moshe Meiri (Moravchik)	77
My Parental Home	Y. Lifshitz	80
In the Diaspora in Polesye	D. Tannenbaum	89
From the Way of Life of the Town	A. Lahav Lachovsky	92
About What Was and Is No More	Itka Veiner-Zeldin	94
Memories	Tzipora Kunda-Ginzburg	97
Refugees - “Bezhentsy” - in David-Horodok	Y. Zeldin	99
David-Horodok During the Time of the Balachowiczes	Gershon Berman	101
Memories	Tzvia and Bracha Fishman	102
Institutions and Organizations
About Our Community That Is No More	Sh. Kvetny	105
The Maccabi Organization in David-Horodok	Yaakov Kolozny	107
Organizations and Economic Institutions in Our City	Shmuel Papish	109
The Firefighters Organization of David-Horodok	Yosef Yudovitz	111
The Zionist Movement in David-Horodok
The Beginnings of the Zionist Movement in David-Horodok	Yitzchak Idan	115
About Zionist Activities in David-Horodok	Shmuel Papish	117
Poalei Zion (Left Leaning) – in David-Horodok	Sh. Zezik	119
A Story About a Notebook	A. Yisraeli	121
About the Youth That Was and Is No More	Moshe Meiri (Moravchik)	125
Youth Clubs	Moshe Meiri (Moravchik)	126
The Hechalutz Organization in David-Horodok	Yehoshua Begun	127
With the Hachshara Kibbutz in Lisovitz	Rivka Aharoni-Ziporin	128
Hechalutz Hamizrachi in David-Horodok	G. Gloiberman	129
The League for Workers in the Land of Israel	Shmuel Zezik	131
The Revisionist Movement in David-Horodok	Ch. Kolozny	132
About the Keren Hayesod Fundraising Campaign in David-Horodok (1922)	Aryeh Lachovsky	133
A Son of David-Horodok in the Jewish Legion	Chaim Yachnitz	134
How I Obtained My Aliya Permit	Leibush Dushnik	135
How We Made Aliya to the Land	Dov Dushnik	135
Tarbut School
Tarbut School	Sh. Papish	139
The School	P. Dobrushin	141
Ten Years Since the Establishment of the School in David-Horodok	Litman Gotlieb	143
Tarbut School	Moshe Meiri (Moravchik)	143
How the Bnei Yehuda Society Was Established	Yaakov Hochman	144
Bnei Yehuda, Pioneers Who Revived Our Language	Yerachmiel Morstein	146
About the Teacher Branchuk of Blessed Memory	Mendel Kravchik	146
In Memory of My Loved Ones	Sara Rimar Olshansky	149
Told by the Elders
My Memories	Moshe Yehuda Lifshitz	153
Wonders and Miracles	Reb Mordechai Kotzikovitz	155
Told by Reb Kopel Lichtenstein		158
Personalities
A. The Pure and the Holy, May G-d Avenge Their Blood (Murdered by the Nazis)
Rabbi Yisrael Yehuda Kula of Blessed Memory	Y. Ben-Yisrael	163
Avraham Zeev Lutzky	A. Ziporin	164
My Father Reb Yosef the Son of Moshe Kolozny of Blessed Memory	C. Kolozny	165
Avraham Durchin, May G-d Avenge His Blood	Y. Lifshitz	167
Yaakov Olpiner	Y. Lifshitz	168
Aharon the Son of Moshe Yehuda Lifshitz	Sh. Zezik	169
Sara Gloiberman-Plotnitzky	Shoshana Gloiberman	169
Musia (Devora) Geier-Gloiberman	Shoshana (Gloiberman) Zilberstein	170
About My Dear Girlfriends	A friend	170
B. From the Old Generation (and Also From the New)
Rabbi Yeshayahu Rozenblum	Y. Lifshitz	171
Rabbi Yeshaya Aryeh Leib	A. Lahav	172
Rabbi David Berkovitz	Yitzchak Ben Chana	172
The Rabbi Reb Dovidl	A. Lahav (Lachovsky)	174
To the Wonderful Personality of Rabbi Avraham Yitzchak Koltin	Yaakov Kolozny	175
In Memory of Rabbi Avraham Yitzchak the Malach	A. Lachovsky	177
The Maggid Rabbi Shaul Dov	Yeshayahu Magidovitz	177
Sara Ita Zager	Chaim Kolozny	178
Yitzchak Leib Zager #	Sh. Zezik and Y. Lifshitz	179
Passed Away in Israel
Rabbi Shneur Zalman Shapira, May the Memory of the Holy Be Blessed	Yaakov the son of Yosef Kolozny	179
Reb Shimon the Son of Reb Chaim Leib Ronkin, May the Memory of the Holy Be Blessed	Rabbi Techoresh	181
Rafael Shafer of Blessed Memory	Ch .B	182
Rafael Shafer of Blessed Memory	M. Gurari	183
About the Death of Yehuda Kashtan	Tz. Rosenstein	184
Yehuda Kashtan of Blessed Memory	Y. Ritov	185
Yehuda Kashtan of Blessed Memory, the Teacher During the Years 1916–1917	Gloiberman	186
The Rabbi Reb Avraham Yitzchak May His Soul Rest in Paradise	Yosef Kashtan	187
In Memory of Reb Yosef the Son of Noach Kashtan of Blessed Memory	Ch. Kolozny	187
From the Mourning Gathering at “The House of the Teacher” on the Seventh Day After His Passing	Dov Yelin	188
A Memorial to the Departed	Yaakov Rimon	189
In Memory of a Dear Friend Rivka Ziporin-Aharoni of Blessed Memory	Y. Ben-Shachar	190
Reb Natan Nota Gloiberman of Blessed Memory	Chaim Kolozny	190
Persons from David-Horodok		191
The Holocaust
Why???	Y. Idan	197
We Will Surely Remember	Moshe Moravchik (Meiri)	200
[Who Can Describe...]	Chaim Kolozny	201
A Monument	Zelda	202
My Visit to David-Horodok #	M. Rappaport	202
My Last Days in David-Horodok #	M. Shur Ami	203
From 1939 to 1945	Yaakov Kolozny	204
The Last Days and the Last Hours #	Bat-Sheva Kushnir and Gronim Pelavin	208
About Two Towns: Stolin, David-Horodok and the Village of Rubiel [Rubel]	Michael Nosanchuk	209
Partisans
Among the Partisans in the Vicinity of David-Horodok #	Chaim Hochman	215
Miriam Bregman Tells of Her Partisan Activities #	Miriam Bregman	218
Colonel Satanovski #	Chaim Hochman	222
After the Holocaust
After the Holocaust	Sh. Tchernichovsky	226
My Visit to David-Horodok After the Holocaust	M. Kravchik	227
In David-Horodok in 1945	Meir Tzvi Korman	229
My Small Revenge for the Heinous Crime #	Aharon Moravchik	231
The Murderer and His Punishment	Leibush Dushnik	239
The Small Community (Rubel)
A House in the Village	Yitzchak Idan-Zeldin	243
Craftsmen in the Village	Yitzchak Zingerman	260
Those Who Faithfully Engaged in Public Needs	Yaakov Kolodny	263
Fragments of Memories	Zelda Kagan-Stollman	266
The Balachowiczes in Rubel in 1928	Yisrael Nachum Durchin	268
The David-Horodok Organization in Israel	The Committee	270
Memorial Book
A Candle for the Fallen
Yitzchak Lipman		277
Aharon Sherman		277
Aryeh Shostakovsky		277
Pesia Lev		277
Shoshana Lev		278
Zeev Lachovsky		278
Zeev Virobnik		278
Shulamit Durchin		279
Tzvi Durchin		281
Uri Weisberg		282
Baruch Hochman		282
Zalman Gloiberman		283
Isser Barsky		283
Zeev Gloiberman		283
List of the Martyrs From David-Horodok		284
Natives of David-Horodok Who Died in the Land		299
Family Pictures		300
Martyrs of Rubel		[ ]
El Malei Rachamim		323
Yiddish
Foreword #		327
From the Editorial Committee #		328
The History of David-Horodok #	Yosef Lifshitz	329
From Childhood Years
David-Horodok 50 Years Ago #	Motel Slutzky	405
Sabbath Evening #	Berl Neuman	414
My Grandmother Told Me #	Berl Neuman	418
Our Shtetl #	Berl Neuman	420
David-Horodok Until the War #	Yitzchak Nachmanovitz	424
Rabbis and Community Workers
The Horodoker Dynasty #	Dr. Rabinovitz	429
Yitzchak Leib Zager #	Y. Lifshitz and Sh. Zezik	430
Eve of the War
My Visit to David-Horodok #	M. Rappaport	435
My Last Days in David-Horodok #	M. Shur Ami	436
The Last Day and the Last Hour
The Last Days and the Last Hours #	Bat-Sheva Kushnir and Gronim Pelavin	441
A Visit to the Shtetl After the Holocaust #	Yitzchak Nachmanovitz	443
Impressions #	Meir Hershel Korman	447
Partisans Stories
Colonel Satanovski #	Chaim Hochman	453
Rosh Hashanah of 1943 in the Partisan Detachment #	Chaim Hochman	459
Miriam Bregman Tells of Her Partisan Activities #	Miriam Bregman	462
The Horrible Ghetto Slaughter in Rubiel [Rubel], David-Horodok and Stolin #	Michael Nosanchuk	468
My Small Revenge for the Heinous Crime #	Aharon Moravchik	475
Tzivia Kraus (Ziporin), z”l	Reuven Mishalov	487
# Translations from the David Horodoker Memorial Book, 1981

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