Tables of contents translated by Yocheved Klausner

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Romanian
The Book of Dorohoi, a page of life, from the chronicles of a community on its way to Zion
Traces and roots		7
Dorohoi
A short history	Manascu Cotter	11
A message from Dorohoi	Dr. Adrian Rosca	17
The Jews and the uprising in 1907	Marius Mircu	19
Memories of our Jewish co-citizens	Prof. Octav I. Gutic	23
“Gitl” from Dorohoi	Moshe Maur	29
From the Memoirs of Srulica (Israel) Sulimovici		31
My town Dorohoi	I. Voledi	38
Schools, teachers, pupils	Att. Leib Segenreich	40
Happenings in my life	Iancu Shayowitz	45
Judaism and Zionism in Dorohoi	Yitzhak Cohn	52
An album with episodes	Martin Moscovici	58
Memories, memories…	Dr. Avram Sapcaru	62
Our roots…	Solomon Heifler	69
Moki Fischer and “the hungry”		72
The Zionist Youth in Dorohoi	Dr. Elias Aronovici	73
Feredaru Yechezkel - “the thief”		77
Moments in life	Dr. Leon Marcovici	78
The mother of the town	Malka Segenreich	79
Reghina Cohn (Silberman)		80
On a winter evening…	Adolf Abramovici	81
There once was a community	Att. Peter Lozneanu	83
To the parents…	Stelian Lozneanu	85
A true “shtetl”	Emil Schaechter	87
Shoshana Rothenberg		89
Professor Bruno Bercovici	Dr. Doron Coller	90
Etty Marcus, centenarian		91
Famous physicians, with hearts of gold: Dr. Cezar and Dr. David Segal		92
The Gemer family in Dorohoi - Bulboana	Mendel Meier	93
Stefan Antim		94
Dr. Idel Lazarovici		95
Manascu Cotter	Yitzhak Seltzer z”l	96
Moshe Blanaru		97
The story of a man	Bercu Mates (Dov Matityahu)	99
Jenny Kessler	Alex Munte	100
Reb Aharon Feibish		101
Rabbi Yitzhak Meir Marilus z”l	Copel Schwartz z”l	103
Life goes on…	Itzcu Croitoru	104
The writer Buium Croitoru	Ion Calugaru	105
Sasha Pana	O.S. Crochmalniceanu	109
An open letter	Tzipora Klepholz	117
Meir (Iulian) Schwartz	Leizerovici Avram	118
Have you heard about Newe Yerek?	Dr. A. Sapcaru	121
The doctor Leizer Leizerovici z”l		122
Saveni
From the past of a community	Leib Manes	131
People and events	Arie Abrahami	137
My dear town	Leib (Arie) Blumenthal	140
Strul Blumenthal - leader activist and mayor of Saveni		145

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Att. Yosef (Ozi) Ebercohen	Yitzhak Artzi	146
Moshe Maur - Schor		149
Herman Saltman z”l		150
A wedding in Saveni in the 30s	Victor Rusu	151
The Yiddish translator: Solomon Segall		153
Mihăileni
Two cultures - two worlds	Idov Cohen	157
A Jewish little town	Rabbi David Shafran	159
Michaileni of old	Nicolae Zachatchinski	161
Idov Cohen	Al. Mirodan	164
The poet Yakov Groper	Isac Bercovici	167
Leon Bertish - poet, playwright, artist		170
A victory on paper….	U. Nadler	172
A loved son of Michaileni	Yakov Magid	173
Jean Blum - the octogenarian from Migdal Ha'emek		174
Att. Michel Rozin		176
Dr. Avraham Weissman		177
Herscu Reginstreich		178
Cula Bercu - a dangerous individual	Marius Mircu	179
Darabani
A Chanuka miracle in Darabani	Nathan Kraft	183
Shimon Haran - Israeli poet	Ady Carmi	185
A great thinker and Talmudist - Rav N.S. Schaechter		187
Shifra Treiger, a daughter of Darabani		188
Shloim Kalmanovici - Darabani	Ester (Bobitza) Moscovici	188
Sara and Michel Michalovici	Shoshana Matus	189
Herţa
Hertza, a martyr	S. Avni	193
Our little farmer-girl in Moshav Bilu, Malvina Alterescu, aged 80		195
Carol Drimer z”l		196
B. Fundoianu - B. Fondane	Elena Ester Tacciu	197
Gray years, bloody years	Avraham Zekler and Netty Zekler-Kraur	203
Rădăuti-Prut
Remembrances…	Fanny Moscovici-Parnafes	206
The Martyrdom of the Dorohoi County Jews
The pogrom in Dorohoi	Marius Mircu	213
Emil Bercovici z”l	Shlomo Kerbis	221
From the time of persecution	I. Abramovici-Balush	223
The deportation from Dorohoi	Sasha Pane	224
Bercu Aclipei		227
Pogrom	I. Voledi	228
Carol Schoenfeld - a man with a great soul		230
12 November 1941 - the deportation	Shlomo Kerbis	232
The return of the Dorohoi people	Fred Sharaga	233
Dorohoi people have written to me…	Marius Mircu	236
The terrible night at the Serpenitza	Victor Rusu	244
From the years of persecution	Mica Rabinovici - Manes	246
In memory of the martyrs from Dorohoi	Laura Tamir-Segal	247
An eye-witness of the pogrom	Shlomo Alter	248
Sad memories	Mordechai Rabinovici	249
May their memory be blessed	Lea Matasaru	249
The pogrom in Dorohoi	Jean Ancel	254

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Hebrew
Foreword	David Shlomo	5
Greetings	Rabbi Dr. Alexander Yehuda Shafran	7
Greetings	Shlomo Leibovitz–Layish	7
Dorohoi
Hibat Zion in Romania	Dr. Israel Klausner	13
The Zionist Organization “Carmel” in Dorohoi 1906		14
The Dorohoi Community along the generations	Menashko Koter	15
A Special Document	I. Astrok	18
The Dorohoi Jews according to Israel Bar–Avi	Lucian–Zev Hershcovici	23
Jewish craftsmen in the Dorohoi County	Eliyahu Feldman	36
Memorial Stones	Itzik Schwartz–Kara	38
A sack of potatoes, a sack of oranges	Elka Rachmut (Bried)	40
The “Me'arat Hamachpela” Synagogue	Sara Barberu	42
Childhood memories from Dorohoi	Laura Tamir (Segal)	45
Rabbis in the Dorohoi County	Rabbi Meir Wunder	46
The Lineage of Rabbi Drimer	Yitzhak Hacham	54
Childhood memories from Dorohoi	Eliezer Drimer z”l	56
The Ba'al Shem Tov Descendants in Dorohoi		61
Yechiel Scherf		61
Rabbi Naftali Schmerler z”l	Dov Schmerler	62
In the service of my people	Rabbi Pinchas Wasserman	64
Rabbi Wasserman arrived from Dorohoi in our country, after 10 years of struggle		65
The Wasserman dynasty	Yitzhak Hacham	66
Yosef Wasserman – rabbi and paratrooper		68
R'Israel (Serl) Wasserman z”l, Rabbi of the young people		68
With a Hassidic song on our lips	Yehuda Wasserman	69
60 years of activity in the Country	Yakov Klein	71
A life for Security – stations in my life	Moshe Klein	75
General (Reserve) Moshe Ziv, native of Dorohoi		78
Yosef (Sasha) Yankowitz		79
The Moldovan Princess from Rosh–Pina, the pride of the Dorohoi Jews!		80
The Balan family saved people	Yakov Balan	84
The football star from Dorohoi	Moshe Megido (Fagadau)	86
Life according to Ben Gourion	Moshe Ben–Yiftah	90
My father and the miraculous gypsy	Moshe Ben–Yiftah	93
The Jewish Elementary School	Amnon Solomon	94
My Father, Levi–Yitzhak Rabinsohn	Chaim Rabinsohn	96
A melamed (teacher) in the Talmud Torah	Aharon Dascal	96
Fragments of Memories frpm Dorohoi	Yehuda Gur–Arie	97
Figures in the Dorohoi Community	Arie Avrahami	99
The Yiddish Theater began in Dorohoi		100
My father helped the Zion–Prisoners [Asirei–Zion]	Nina–Hermina Gal (Schiler)	101

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Att. Leibu Segenreich bringing new immigrants		102
Shoshana Rotenberg of Kiryat Ono		103
Arie (Lika) Shapira		103
My father, tailor and cantor	Sara Levi	104
Willi (Gavriel) Landman, not only an attorney		105
My connection with Dorohoi	Shlomo Raz (Sioma Rosenbaum)	106
My Father Godel Rosenbaum z”l	Shlomo Raz	107
David Karitz and his descendants		107
Chana and her two sons		108
Fredi Hertzanu, inventor of the “Ramikov”	Mariana and Micha Hertzanu	110
The daughter of the ADMOR – a pioneer [halutza] in the training camp	Gita Medini	111
From the Zionist Past in Dorohoi	Yechezkel Segal	111
Mordechai Meirowitz, inventor of games		112
The 4 Schiler sisters – third generation of helping		114
“Do not abandon me at the time of my old age”	Simcha (Aizik) Doron	114
Yitzhak Martziparu – the man of good deeds		115
The Botnaru Family		115
A training Kibbutz in Dorohoi	Shmuel Mishori	116
The Benei Akiva Branch in town	Yitzhak (Igo) Sommer	117
The Beitar unit in Dorohoi	Arie Arieli	119
My Father's Zionist activity	Yakov Segal	121
The Beitar flag and the ETZEL revolver		123
Vision and values in the Hano'ar Hazioni Movement	Shlomo David	124
Three Dorohoi sons – perished on the Struma		125
Dr. Cesar Segal – a doctor, a noble soul	Avraham Lorberbaum (Dafna)	126
Prof. Yehuda Scherf		127
Dr. Willi Biterman – doctor [physician] and musician		127
Two brothers doctors: Dr. Marcel Solomon and Dr. Benedict Solomon		128
Jewish doctors in Dorohoi		128
”Labor Relations” in the Torah	Shlomo David	129
The living soul of the Organization of Former Residents of Dorohoi		131
Yom Kippur (fragment)	Ion Calugaru	132
Sasha Fane – poet and doctor		135
Mania Hermann – the poet from Haifa		136
At the Ceremony of Unveiling the Memorial to the Dorohoi Martyrs	Shlomo David	137
The beginning of suffering of the Romanian Jews	Yakov Geller	138
50 years to the Shoah of the Romanian Jews	MK Avraham Poraz	140
A speech at the Memorial Assembly	Menachem Ackerman	142
Yosef and his brothers	Tehila Ofer	143
My grandfather was murdered during the pogrom	Miriam Har'el	144
Hersch Jonas – the living torch	Dr. Relu Jonas	145
They shot babies	David Rotaru	146
Remembrances from the pogrom	Moshe Ben–Yiftach	146
My father was killed in the pogrom	Sami Eden	147
A Poem	Zahava Balan	148
Transnistria	Dr. Shmuel Ben–Zion	149
After 50 years…	Avi Lapp	155
A delegation of the Aid–Committee visits Transnistria		156
Assemblies in Memory of those who perished in Dorohoi		157
A human mosaic of former residents of Dorohoi		159

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Saveni
Saveni, the town of my childhood	Shmuel Cohen	164
The history of the Saveni community	Arie Avrahami	165
My roots	Arie Avrahami	169
Back to Saveni	Yehuda Mishori (Mishorovski)	170
Figures in the Shtetl: R'Aharon Hacohen, R'Yakov Leib–Yehuda Weisenfeld, R'Yitzhak Ben–Zion Abramovici, Rabbi Ben–Zion Burstein z”l, Sara Rosenfeld (Burstein) z”l, Rabbi Eliezer Hacohen Weisenfeld z”l		172
The history of a life	Dr. Shmuel Ben–Zion	176
Yosef Ever–Cohen, a Prisoner of Zion	S. Avni	177
Mordechai Orenstein, the Wunderkind of Beitar in Moldova		179
In memory of Moshe Ma'or z”l	Shlomo David	180
Mihăileni
A Modest Shtetl	Israel Levanon	183
R'Israel Levanon, Honored by the City of Haifa	Rabbi Baruch Edelstein	187
The last Jew of Michaileni	Idov Cohen	188
Mordechai Horowitz – a descendant of RASHI		191
Yakov Magid	I. Valdi	194
Yakov Gruper, the Yiddish poet	Shlomo Bikel	195
Leon Bertish – poet and artist	Nomi Haimovitz	199
The Hanoar Hazioni Branch in Michaileni	Yechezkel Cohen	201
Idov Cohen	M. Rudich	203
Darabani
Our Darabani	Yitzhak Hacham	207
The Rabbi, the great scholar R'Nachum Shemaryahu Schaechter z”l		208
Rabbi Yitzhak Meshulam Leifer z”l		210
The Rabbi and Tzadik R'Eliezer Zev (Velve) z”l		210
Sara (Sali) Ovedis–Seininger nee Molodik	Yitzhak Hacham	219
The story of the family of Avraham and Sara Yuta Davidsohn	Yitzhak Hacham	221
The dispute about the Yedid–Nefesh prayer	Lucian–Zev Hershkowitz	224
This was a peaceful community	Mordechai Kraft	226
We are proud to have been residents of Darabani	Mordechai Kraft	227
The expulsion of the Darabani Jews 18.6.1941	Fishel Lederman	228
I was beaten, in order to save me from hunger	Mina Leibowitz	231
The visit of the Stefanesti Tzadik in Darabani	Yitzhak Hacham	232
The collection of Stefanesti Books		234
The ADMOR Rabbi Menachem Nachum Friedman	Dr. Yitzhak Refael	235
The chastiser – is loving, the flatterer is different		236
A note in the handwriting of the Stefanesti ADMOR		237
Dr. Saki Rosenhaupt		241
My activity in Darabani	Avraham Heller	241
Shimon Haran and his poetry	Dr. Adi Karmi	242
My father – a poem	Penina Shkolnik–Hacham	243
The Dorobaner	Avraham Feller	244
Herţa
From Hertza to Hanita	Yakov Bercowitz (Bercu)	251
The poet B. Pondoyanu		253
A Memorial Plaque for the Hertza martyrs		255
A special YIZKOR	Yakov Schaechter	257
Rădăuti-Prut
Radauti – Prut	Bar–David (Burstein)	259
A remote shtetl	Att. Israel Talmon (Talmaciu)	265
Radauti–Prut – nostalgia and sadness	Shoshana Ben–Aharon	266
Rabbi David Burstein	Rabbi Nechemya Rate	270
The Torah Scrolls from Mogilev were brought to Israel	Kalman Bar–David	273
The Kotter Family		276
The Meirowitz Family		277
Michael Bronstein and his family		278
The Brothers Zelig and Idel Talmaciu		279
Moshe Moldavi – historian and researcher of the Diaspora	Shlomo David	279
Rings in the chain of Radauti descendants		280
Fallen in the Israel Wars		281
Dorohoi 1990		295
From Dorohoi to Israel		300

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