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Translation of Sefer Lida
Edited by: Alexander Manor, Itzchak Ganusovitch, Aba Lando
Member of the Editorial Board: Eliyahu Damesek
Published in Tel Aviv, 1970
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This is a translation from: Sefer Lida (Book of Lida),
editors: Alexander Manor, Itzchak Ganusovitch, Aba Lando, Tel-Aviv,
Former residents of Lida in Israel and the Committee of Lida Jews in USA, 1970.
(438 pages, Hebrew, Yiddish, English)
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Introduction (E) | IV |
My Lida Heritage (E) - Sol Feinstone | V |
The German Occupation (E) - E. Damesek | VIII |
Lida and its environs | |
Map of the District | 3 |
Map of the City | 4-5 |
Lida through generations (H) - History of the city and its Jewish Community - A. Lando | 15 |
The sentence of seven Jewish community leaders in Lida | 20 |
To the history of Jewish Lida during the period of restored Poland (H) - J. Ganazowitch | 56 |
Lida and its environs (H) - Z. Vinogradov | 73 |
Jewish Family Names of Residents of Lida and Its Neighborhood (H) - Itchak Ganuz (Ganuzowitsch) | 75 |
Economic life of Jewish Lida before World War I (Y) - A. Gelman | 83 |
In the days of World War I (H) - Mrs. Y. Guinzburg (Boyarsky) | 86 |
Memories of the First World War (Y) - Moshe Ganuzowitsch | 86 |
Remembrances from the First World War (Y) - Moshe Ganuzowitsch | 86 |
Rabbis and Religious Teachers (H) - A. Lando | 89 |
R. Yitzhak Yakov Reines (H) - A. Lando | 94 |
Rabbi Aaron Rabinovitz of Blessed Memory (H) - R. Avigdor Tzipershtine | 98 |
R. Aron Rabinovitch - Rabbi of Lida (Y) - Mrs. Henia Rabinovitch | 100 |
To the History of the Yeshibah (H) - M. Tsinvitch | 104 |
The Yeshibah of Lida (H) - S. Zack | 106 |
One of the Nation's Leaders (H) - Dr. H. L. Gordon | 111 |
The Yiloui" R. Shlomo Poltcheck (H) - Dr. H. L. Gordon | 113 |
Innovator and Activist (H) - R. Meir Berlin | 115 |
The little Horodishtchian" (H) - R. A. Rabinovitch | 116 |
R. Yithak Takov Reines -- founder of the Mizrahi Organization (H) - R. Y. L. Hakohen | 117 |
The Great Yeshivah (H) - P. Shifman | 117 |
The restless man - M. Kahan | 118 |
Sayings of R. Yitshak Takov Raines (H) - M.Hinitch | 119 |
Biography of the Yiloui of Meitchut (H) - M. Goldberg | 122 |
Tish'a Be'Av at the house of Rabbi Yitshak Yakov Raines (H) - D. Vinogradov | 125 |
Close to R. Yitzhak Yakov Reines (H) - D. Aloni | 126 |
Influence of the Yeshibah on the life of the city (H) - J. Ben-Sira | 128 |
Reminiscences of former students of the Yeshibah (H) - L.-G. | 130 |
The Lida Yeshiva (Y) - Nakhum Khinutz | 131 |
R. Mordechai Shmukler (H) - Avram Hakoben Eliav | 134 |
Memories (Y) - Yakov Ilutovitch | 137 |
Lida at the beginning of the 20th century (H) - J. Youdelvitch | 145 |
Common people (H) - M. Evensky | 149 |
Everday life and holidays in Lida (H) - H. J. Argov | 153 |
In an atmosphere of learning and enlightenment (H) - H. Amitay | 156 |
Hebrew in Lida (H) - A. Lando | 157 |
The Hebrew school (H) - workshop of the nation's soul - L. Ettinger | 165 |
My Teachers, Rabbis and Schoolmates in the Tarbut school (H) - Itzhak Genozovitch (Ganoz) | 166 |
Singing, theatrical performances etc. (Y) - A. Lando | 170 |
Sights of the town (H) - I. Ganuzovitch | 179 |
Charitable institutions (H) - A. Lando | 182 |
Beth Lehem: (Y) - J. Levine | 185 |
T.O.Z. (O.Z.E.) Institutions (Y) - J. Ganuzovitch | 186 |
TOZ in Lida (Y) - H. Jijemsky | 187 |
Fires and firemen (Y) - A. Lando | 189 |
The fire brigade (Y) - A. Guelman | 192 |
The butchers' synagogue (Y) - T. Tsigelnitsky | 193 |
Reb Eliyoe the carpenter (Tsheshler) (H) - J. Ganuzovitch | 194 |
Tyf'ereth Bahourim association and synagogue (H) - I. Ganuzovitch | 195 |
Common folk (H) - M. Amitay | 197 |
Moshke the orphan (H) - I. Iloutovitch | 199 |
Melameds and Kheders> (Y) - Yehudit Ganuzovitsch | 200 |
Tuvia the Teacher - Tuvia Tzigelnitsky | 200 |
Moshke - the Pourim Player (H) - I. Ganuzovitch | 201 |
Lida Drunkards (Y) - A. L. | 202 |
FOLKLORE AND LANGUAGE | |
Games of Jewish children in Lida (H) - I. Ganuzovitch | 203 |
Regional Expressions from Lida and the Surrounding Vicinity (H) - Yitzkhak Ganuzovitch (Ganuz) | 211 |
Odd bits of Lida folklore and humour (Y) - A. Lando | 216 |
Means and ways of expelling fright and an evil eye (H) - I. Ganuzovitch | 219 |
ON THE WAY TO ZION AND ZION AS WAY |
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Aliyah to Eretz-Israel from Lida (H) - A. Lando | 221 |
To the history of youth movements in Lida (H) - A. Polatchek | 229 |
The cell of Hashomer Hatzair (H) - L. S. Vinogradov | 234 |
Jewish Youth in Lida (H) - B.Z. Volah | 239 |
League for the Working Eretz-Israel (H) - A. Guelman | 240 |
The Betar movement (H) - M. Aronovitch | 242 |
The cell of Betar in Lida (H) - S. Mikoulitzki | 242 |
Mr. father (H) - Z. Shiff | 245 |
Hehalutz in Lida (H) - J. Bankover | 246 |
Hakhshara Kibbutz in Lida (H) - A. Gelman | 247 |
Hehalutz movement in Lida (H) - M. Orzechovski | 249 |
Hehalutz Hatzair (H) - A. Bassist | 252 |
In the ranks of Hehalutz Hatzair - Z. Berezovsky | 252 |
The Soviet occupation (H) - E. Damessek | 255 |
First underground (H) - Z. Evienski | 256 |
At the time of Soviet occupation (H) - M. Youngman (Slonimtchek) | 258 |
We did not give up (H) - J. Pupko | 259 |
The spoiled hymn (H) - I. Ganutzovitch | 261 |
Lida, there was such a town (song) (Y) - Th. Pupko | 263 |
In the Birkha (Flight) Routes - I. Solovietchik | 264 |
The Russian occupation (Y) - S. Shiff (Rubinsvitch) | 265 |
Pages of an exile (H) - I. Ganuzovitch | 270 |
From Lida to Vilna (Y) - Z. Bielig | 276 |
First Flames (H) - A. Movshovitch | 279 |
The German occupation (H) - E. Damesek | 281 |
Life in the Lida ghetto (H) - D. S. Amarant | 288 |
In the Lida Ghetto (Y) - I. Rubinsvitch | 301 |
How We Saved Ourselves and Remained Alive (Y) - H. Movshovitch (Zafran) | 302 |
Between life and death (H) - F. Bialobroda | 303 |
In the flames of destruction (H) - N. Kamienietzky | 304 |
To the events of March 1, 1942 (H) - M. Youngman (Slonimtchik) | 306 |
The murderer of Jews, Leopold Windisch (H) - Dr. S. Remigulsky | 306 |
Reminiscences from the Lida Ghetto (Y) - N. Mudrick | 307 |
Destinies of a Jewish boy (H) - E. M. Pupko | 309 |
The story told by Sioma and Mrs. Pupko | 311 |
In the Face of Death (H) - A. Bassist | 313 |
The last way (Y) - R. Ozzechovsky (Orcher) | 314 |
The struggle for life (Y) - I. Kaplan | 317 |
My Sad Journey [My Tragic Journey?] (Y) - M. Reznik | 320 |
From the Ghetto to the partisans in the woods (Y) - L. Engelstern | 325 |
The Battle of the Partisan Reuben Rubenstein (Y) - Yakov Druck | 343 |
My way to the woods - M. Youngman (Slonimtchik) | 345 |
The wanderings of a Jewish partisan (H) - D. L. Berkovitch | 347 |
In the ranks of the partisans (Y) - B. Baran | 348 |
He will render vengeance to his adversaries (H) - F. Bialobroda | 351 |
A printery in the wood (H) - E. Damesek | 354 |
David Boyarsky (H) - I. Ganuzovitch | 357 |
From the war of the partisans to the War of Independence (H) - D. Boyarsky | 357 |
The partisan Leib Orzechovsky (H) - M. A. Guer | 362 |
My way to the partisans (Y) - Y. Reznik | 363 |
My way to the partisans (Y) - M. Reznik | 367 |
On the front (Y) - I. Rubinovitch | 373 |
Lida in the literary works of J. Goldo (B. Gorin) (H) - J. Ganuzowitch | 142 |
A visit to Lida after the destruction (Y) - M. Youngman (Slonimtchik) | 374 |
My arrival after the destruction (Y) - E. Damessek | 375 |
Back in my birth town (Y) - K. Sopotnicky (Kreyer) | 377 |
After the destruction (Y) - S. Shiff (Rubinovitch) | 379 |
Liquidation of the Jewish cemetery (H) - I. Rubinovitch | 381 |
The monument on the grave of the victims of Lida (H) - I. Rubinovitch | 382 |
THE TRIAL |
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The murderers before the tribunal (H) - A. Lando | 383 |
The trial of the German murderers (Y) - Z. Arlouk | 384 |
LIDA EMIGRANTS |
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The United Lider Relief in U.S.A. (H) - K. Orzechovsky | 386 |
To the history of Jewish emigration from Lida to U.S.A. (H) - A. Lando | 387 |
Michael Evensky (H) - Z. Evensky | 389 |
Jacob Dvoretzky (H) - A. Lando | 389 |
Days of anxiety and grief (H) - A. Lando | 391 |
Organization of Lida emigrants in Israel (H) - A. Lando | 392 |
S.L. Gordon (Sh. L. G.) (H) - I. Ganuzovitch | 398 |
Pinhas Shifman (Ben Sira) (H) - A. Lando | 398 |
Kopelovitch (H) - A. Lando | 399 |
M. Guelman | 399 |
R. Itshak Yeroukhmanov (H) - A. Lando | 399 |
My teacher, R. Joseph Epstein (Trikeler) (H) - A. Bassist | 401 |
Lichtman the teacher (Y) - Paves | 401 |
R. Israel Aron Shelubsky (H) - A. Lando | 402 |
R. Shlomo Podolsky (H) - A. Lando | 404 |
Joseph Darshon (H) - A. Lando | 405 |
Mordecai Dov Yudlevitz of blessed memory (H) - A. Lando | 406 |
Avraham (Abrasha) Steinberg of blessed memory (Y) - A. Guelman | 406 |
Reuven Kopelowicz (Y) | 407 |
Help the People (poem) (Y) - R. Kopelovtich | 407 |
Officer Ariye Tchertok (H) | 407 |
Ithak Spokolny (H) | 407 |
Ariye Dobkovsky (H) | 407 |
With Shaul Furman (Hagaglili, Arnon) (H) - Z. Evensky | 408 |
Shaoul Furman (Hagalili) (H) - S. Mikulitzky | 409 |
Omri Arlav (H) - A. Lando | 410 |
Shaul Zehavi (H) - S. Snovsky | 411 |
Dr. Moshe-Yerahmiel Ben-Sira (H) | 412 |
Moshe Rosenhaus (H) - Eli | 413 |
Dov Eilath - Lea Eilath | 413 |
List of the perished | 414 |
List of former residents who died in Israel | 434 |
List of former residents who died overseas | 434 |
List of Lida residents in Israel | 435 |
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