As It Happened Yesterday
(Krynki, Poland)

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Translation of
Vi Nekhtn Geshen

Author: Yosl Cohen

Published in New York, 1953

 

Acknowledgments

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Translator

Beate Schützmann-Krebs

 

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This is a translation from: Vi Nekhtn Geshen;
As It Happened Yesterday, Author: Yosl Cohen, Published by “A Group of Trade Union Leaders”, New York 1953

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Dedications and credits
 
First Part

Grandma Rive
 
My Grandma Rive 7
A stranger in the shtetl 13
Grandpa becomes a shames 18
Incompatible marriage matches 23
Dodye the baker 29
The lovers 35
Forced marriage 40
Secret love 45
The soldier 50
Songs of sorrow and longing 56
A Shabbat with Grandpa 62
Grandpa’s songs on Shabbat eve 67
Two soldiers in a picture 72
The first Teacher 76
Grandpa’s speech 81
Grandpa’s confidence 85
“Dad” has arrived 90
The grandchildren 95
Rive and her son Meyshke 100
Daughter Yente’s shidekhim 103
A bomb injures Meyshke 107
 
Second Part

Father's Family
 
Grandpa Yankel Bunim 115
I distinguish Grandpa Yankel Bunim 119
Yankel Bunim’s ancestry 124
Peasants kill Mair Yonah 129
Great Grandmother Reyne Gitl 134
Grandpa’s relatives 140
Yankel Bunim and the factory owners 145
First agitators in Krynki 150
First tanner strike 154
Strikers hinder praying 160
The “Kavkaz” Street 165
Aunty Sore’s stories 171
 
Third Part

The shtetl
 
Krinik (Krynki) 179
Personalities and remarkable things 185
Crazy and disturbed people 191
Entertainments and games 196
Nokhem Anshel the most powerful man 201
Grandpa Yankel Bunim is arrested 206
Anarchists in Krynki 210
The Great Fire 214
Dad escapes from Russian-Japanese war 221
Workers rule Krynki 226
Soldiers in Krynki 232
Uncle Mair (Meier) 237
Nyomke, the hero of the revolution 242
My teachers-I call a strike at school 247
Wild deeds 252
Beginning of Adulthood 258
Dad arrives and leaves again 264
The dream-America 271
Serious comrades 276
Without farewell 282
To the new, strange world 288

 

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