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Dorot shel yahadut ve-tsiyonut
Dorohoi, Saveni, Mihaileni, Darabani, Herta, Radauti-Prut
Editor: Shlomo David
Published in Kiryat Bialik 1992-2000
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Transcribed by Judy Petersen
At the gates of the 4th volume | David Shlomo | 9 |
The editor's foreword | Sonia Palty | 10 |
A tear shed for Nicu Palty | David Shlomo | 11 |
On closing the 4th volume | Dr. Ş. Leibovici-Laiş | 12 |
Dorohoi | ||
The people from Dorohoi visit with President Ezer Weizman | Uly Vălureanu | 13 |
Mementoes | 14 | |
A letter from Botoşani | 16 | |
Dorohoi, my native town | Mica Rabinovici-Leib | 17 |
The disclosure of a sensational document | Uly Vălureanu | 28 |
On the publication of the 3rd volume (at the Rumanian Embassy) | 36 | |
The last East-European Jews | 37 | |
A letter from the Altruists of Dorohoi | 39 | |
Excerpts from Dorohoian Kaleidoscope | 41 | |
6 centuries of conviviality | Manes Leib and Manaşcu Cotter | 45 |
Fruitful encounters in Romania | 49 | |
Goods belonging to the Jewish Communities (from the archives) | 51 | |
Reluctant philanthropists (archives) | 52 | |
Homesick for our hometown | Dr. Theodor Damian | 53 |
The Jewry from the Dorohoi County | Lucian-Zeev Herşcovici | 54 |
The Chief Rabbi Dr. Al. Şafran and George Enescu, on the peasants of Dorohoi | Manasse Radnev | 60 |
The cultural life of the Jews of Dorohoi | S. Moscovici-Karmoss | 61 |
Dorohoi is introducing itself | 64 | |
Message from abroad | 66 | |
A documentary signal | Evelin Fonea | 67 |
Sports activities of Dorohoi | Prof. Ilarion Mandachi | 74 |
Warm greetings from Dorohoi | Mihai Debeli | 75 |
The model of the Beith Shlomo Synagogue | Shlomo David | 76 |
Pictures from Dorohoi, 1997 | 78 | |
A dream comes true | 80 | |
List of Jewish families in Romania of 1919 | 81 | |
A juicy piece of news | 83 | |
Mărţişor Dorohoian | 84 | |
Jews of Dorohoi as found in a governmental census | 88 | |
A listing of trades people of the County of Dorohoi, 1949-1950 | 92 | |
Excerpts from the archives of the Bar-Ilan University | 93 | |
Documents regarding Romania's Jews | 96 | |
Ion Călugăru's last visit to his home town | S. Moscovici-Karmoss | 98 |
Dorohoi, April-August 1944 | 99 | |
The Signal (excerpts) | Av. Manes Leib | 100 |
In memoriam Elias Rohlich | 107 | |
Marcu Taingiu, named Moldov | Marius Mircu | 108 |
Rabbi Pinchas Eliahu Wasserman | Rabbi Efraim Gutman | 110 |
Souvenirs from Dorohoi | Dr. Marcel Bratu | 112 |
In memoriam S. Şulimovici | Shlomo David | 129 |
Matchmaker and lottery tickets salesman | 131 | |
A family tree drawn by | A. Finkelstein | 132 |
Dr. Şelly Grisaru--the paintress | 144 | |
Brănduşa | Şelly Grisaru | 145 |
A strange coincidence | Şelly Grisaru | 147 |
Izu Gott, of Dorohoi | E. Suhor | 149 |
S. Militeanu-Rusu | Evelin Fonea | 150 |
Historical note | Evelin Fonea | 151 |
Wrapped in thoughts over an old document | Şelly Grisaru | 153 |
Was that Divine inspiration? | Bracha Maur | 155 |
After…. 4 decades | Iäger Ety | 161 |
In memoriam | Iäger Ety | 163 |
The right man in the right place | Iäger Carol | 165 |
Saghi (Sacagiu) Lupu celebrated by Dorohoians | 167 | |
Recollections from my life as a Dorohoian | Aba Herşcovici | 168 |
Dorohoi | Norman Simms | 172 |
A never ending story | Bianca Marcovici | 174 |
Dulu Marcovici, an only son | 176 | |
The Colomei Rabbi at Dorohoi | Cuşmaru Herş | 177 |
Sorin Şaiovici, the engineer | I. Şaiovici | 179 |
The unforgettable Iancu Herşcu Coller | 172 | |
Malvina Cojocaru-Bălan reminisces | 181 | |
Images of the Fereduaru, Grinberg and Docer families | Rifca Rosenberg (Fereduaru) | 183 |
Sara Rapaport's grandson--Bar Mitzva! | 185 | |
Once upon a time…., | Dr. Avram Şapcaru | 187 |
The journey with no return…In memoriam Dr. Consuela Şapcaru-Segal | 190 | |
Iehiel Leib, our man in Toronto | 192 | |
Winter on the lane | Dt. I. Haimovici | 193 |
From Dolfi Perl's photo-album | 197 | |
A few words about my parents | Eng. Strul Moisă | 201 |
The unforgettable Ichiel Scharf | David Shlomo | 203 |
We will never forget Av. Iosef (Eugen) Dines | 204 | |
Memories, memories | Ricu Idelson | 205 |
The Lipovici family | Mariana Moshe | 206 |
The Jahr family, from Cernăuţi to Dorohoi | Eng. Martin Jahr | 211 |
The Shor family | Liza Butnaru | 215 |
In memoriam Rozica and Simon Leizerovici | Shlomo David | 218 |
A few words written | Shoshana Rothemberg (Markevici) | 219 |
Judaica made in Dorohoi | 220 | |
Bits of a life | 221 | |
The Iancu Leizer (Leizerovici) family | Sofi Peretz | 222 |
My father's family | Sofi Peretz (Abramovici) | 225 |
My family | Iosef David Brif | 227 |
Novels never written | Felicia Coh | 230 |
Mr. Mihai Bezerghianu--a kind-hearted friend of the Jews | 231 | |
Remembering Rifca Miller | Matilda Ben-David | 233 |
My grand-father, Marcu Rotaru | Oscar Braun | 234 |
Souvenirs from Dorohoi | Betty Lindenbaum | 238 |
People from Dorohoi | Adolf Abramovici | 240 |
A page from the jewish Federation calendar | 241 | |
Documents regarding the fate of the Rumanian Jewry during the Holocaust, gathered by | Dr. N. Filderman | 242 |
Referendum regarding the evacuation of the Jews (archives) | 244 | |
July 1st, 1940-1997 | S. Moscovici-Karmoss | 249 |
Dorohoi in the Encyclopaedia Judaica | 252 | |
From the archives of Yad Vashem | 255 | |
The Jews of Dorohoi during the fascist occupancy | Dr. Marcel Solomon | 258 |
Dorohoi, July 1st, 1940, interview with | Nando Maria Varga | 259 |
The terrible persecution | Marius Mircu | 260 |
Kind people during unkind times | Marius Mircu | 266 |
The document presented | Marcu Rozen | 268 |
The Repatriation and other documents (archives) | 272 | |
Ropot--about the unforgettable Leon Rapaport | 282 | |
The list of the repatriated children (archives) | 283 | |
The Jews insulted the Rumanian Army! | I.C. Butnaru | 287 |
Hard years--excerpts from the antisemitic publications of long ago | 290 | |
Depositions made by survivors of the Holocaust (archives) | 297 | |
The Flowers of remembrance | Raşela Negru | 298 |
Shattered! -- excerpts from 50 Years of Silence | Dr. Felicia (Steigman) Carmelly | 299 |
The young grave-diggers | Israel Goldstein | 300 |
From the dairy of the writer | Mihail Sebastian | 301 |
Survivors giving evidence against war criminals (archives) | 302 | |
From Dora Litani's Transnistria | Dora Litani | 310 |
Oi-li, God! | Avram Lorberbaum | 311 |
Police raiding Bucharest 1943 (archives) | 312 | |
The secret | Uly Vălureanu | 313 |
Tulcin, yet again…, | Simcha Schechter | 315 |
Episodes of sad remembrance | Clara Bender | 317 |
The mass-slaughter of Dorohoi, the declaration given by | Mrs. Tzily Kraft | 318 |
This is how my brother and grandmother were killed during the pogrom | S. Moscovici-Karmoss | 321 |
Some of the achievements of Dorohoi Jewish Community | S. Moscovici-Karmoss | 322 |
The death of the violinist | Dr. Benedict Solomon | 324 |
The Vorsholivka ghetto and Tulcin concentration camp | Cuşmaru Herş | 325 |
No to gas-chambers, no to the ovens | Simcha Schechter | 330 |
Dorohoi, close to Jerusalem | Uly Vălureanu | 332 |
Jeremiah's appeal | Evelin Fonea | 333 |
The Dorohoi monograph | Luiza Carol | 334 |
There's a right time for everything, interview given by Shlomo David to | Carol Isac | 335 |
Shlomo David | Nicu Palaty | 338 |
Words of praise on the publication of the 3rd volume | 339 | |
Darabani | ||
Documents from the archives | 347 | |
Simon Haran - Chosen poems | Ady Carmi | 352 |
Deposition (archives) | Isaaian Herşcovici | 354 |
Happy birthday, Zumer Chiţu! | 356 | |
The three barbers of Darabani | Elias Türkeltaub | 358 |
A little souvenir | Tuvia Shwager | 368 |
In Darabani | Luiza Carol | |
Mihăileni | ||
Unforgettable memories from our native country | Jean Blum | 359 |
Mihăileni in the Encyclopaedia Judaica Jerusalem | 369 | |
Documents from the archives | 370 | |
I. Groper | B. Fundoianu | 371 |
The legendary Iacob Groper | Marius Mircu | 373 |
Leon Bertiş - 100 years since his birth | Marius Mircu | 379 |
Cună Sapir is remembered by his children | 383 | |
A new Thora Scroll for Beith Iacov Iosef synagogue | 385 | |
A tear | Negru Raşela | 386 |
Avram Schweitzer, light and shadows | Shlomo David | 387 |
Moină Covrigaru | 390 | |
The Zborover family | Frida Cohen (Zborover) | 391 |
The Meraru family | Silvia Bercovici (Meraru) | 393 |
I was there…, | Dr. Zisu Lebel | 395 |
Săveni | ||
Documents from the archives | 399 | |
I remember all of them | Herman Zisman | 401 |
From Săveni to Kfar Truman | Herman Calacuda | 408 |
Souvenirs from Săveni | Iţhak Iţu Zissu | 411 |
The Jewish people from Hâneşti | 413 | |
A last homage | Zissu Iţhak | 415 |
Moshe Maur of Săveni | I. Schechter | 417 |
The evacuation | Dt. Iosef-Ioju Haimovici | 418 |
In memoriam Moshe Maur | Marius Mircu | 426 |
Remembering my parents | Cerna Şmilovici (Schwartz) | 427 |
Şapsa Peretz - my husband, and his family | Sofia Peretz | 429 |
Rădăuti-Prut | ||
My home town | Fany Parnafes | 431 |
We were there also | Dr. enée Fuchs (Puica Şut) | 435 |
About my family | Rivca Beltzer | 438 |
Memories from long ago | Max Lindenbaum | 439 |
Herţa | ||
Herţa - Jewish tradition | Iacob Schaechter | 455 |
In Herţa, in 1924 | Fania (Fifi) Bar | |
L. Haim's deposition (archives) | 447 | |
Jacob de Neushotz biography (excerpts) | V. Negruţi | 448 |
My cousin Froim | Dr. Benedict Solomon | 450 |
The Regenstreif family | Didi-Mina Fenster (Regenstreif) | 451 |
Herţa -- Holocaust -- Israel! | Haim Cuşmaru | 453 |
The procession of the shadows | Dr. Benedict Solomon | 455 |
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Dorohoi, town of Thora and good deeds | David Shlomo | 5 |
At the gates of the fourth volume | David Shlomo | 6 |
Words spoken at the Presidential House | David Shlomo | 7 |
Our delegates at the President | 10 | |
Dorohoi | ||
Images from Dorohoi | 12 | |
A Zionistic Committee | 15 | |
Representatives of Keren Kayemet in Dorohoi | 16 | |
Dorohoi's contribution to te Rumanian Colel in Jerusalem | 17 | |
The acquiescence to the book Ahavat Dodim was given 206 years ago | Shimshon R. Levenkron | 18 |
Dynasties of Rabbis and ADMORs in Dorohoi | 20 | |
A forest honoring the sacred of Dorohoi and the surrounding area - conception and completion | 22 | |
Passages on the Dorohoian Jewry | Shimshon R. Levenkron | 26 |
The legend of the Boser | 34 | |
The flags of Dorohoi | 38 | |
New Year at the Synagogue of Rabbi Ephraim Guttman | Shlomo David | 38 |
Delegates from Dorohoi at the Commemoration of the Holocaust victims | 39 | |
The heroism of the digger f rom Moghilev | Arye Ben-David | 40 |
The discovery of hundreds of tombs at the Moghilev cemetery | Yaakov Yurgerau | 42 |
Names of victims from the Dorohoi district who perished in Moghilev | 44 | |
Tombstones in Moghilev-Transnistria | 45 | |
A cry for help | 47 | |
In memorium | Mania Herman | 49 |
The little stove that saved our lives | Arye Ben-David | 50 |
My mother won the lot | A. Ben-David | 52 |
In memorium Haim Fereduaru | Mania Barak | 55 |
Too late | Tutza Taitelman | 57 |
My parents, may their memory be blessed | Avraham Lorberbaum | 58 |
The glory of our sons | 60 | |
In memory of the ADMOR | Hanoch Hanich Frenkel | 61 |
The rabbi who kept the flame burning | Dr. Joseph Govrin | 62 |
The Honorable Rabbi Yehuda Wacsman - the ADMOR of Dorohoi | 63 | |
The revered Rabbi of Stefanesti | 65 | |
Arye(Lica) Cotter of BETAR in the files of the Securitate | 67 | |
The fingertips of the departed Yaakov Balan | Shlomo Shoshani | 71 |
Farewell to Yaakov Balan | Shlomo David | 74 |
In memorium Yechiel Sharf | Shlomo David | 75 |
Rika and Marcel Cohen | Shlomo David | 77 |
Watching over Israel's security | Yeshaiahu Leizerovitz | 81 |
The Dorohoians in Israel's Police | 85 | |
Alex Finkelstein, our man at the University of Bar Ilan | S. David | 90 |
Memories of a Dorohoi we've never been in | Mary Lifshits & Yona Galmidi | 91 |
The second dislodgement | Shulamit Cohen | 97 |
A circle is closed | Hana Goldstein | 99 |
The late Ancel Hersh Blumer | H.G. | 101 |
The late Perla Blumer | H.G. | 102 |
I made alia on an illegal immigrant vessel which drowned | 103 | |
From Dorohoi to Kineret | Jenny Harari | 105 |
Remembering my grandparents, Zalman and Golda Fereduaru Alon Kolt | 106 | |
Zwi Vainer - a paragon of unique involvement | 108 | |
In memory of Rabbi Zelig Moshe(Moritz)Lazarovitz - a man of humility | Shlomo Lazarovitz | 109 |
Avraham Michel - one of our most prominent figures | 110 | |
Izu Gott - our eminent conductor | Dr. Amy Gott | 113 |
The eyes of Frida, Ron Arad's grandmother | Sorel Zomer | 114 |
The Lipovitz family, a house full of children. | Adv. Mirela Moshe | 115 |
Nostalgy over a poem | S. David | 116 |
A social gathering on Independence Day | 117 | |
Dorohoi - Israel - Canada | Israel Goldstein | 118 |
The story of my family | Esther Horan | 121 |
The Rosenblatt family | 123 | |
The Cohen family - Getzel Zeinger's descendants | Frida Cohen-Leibovici | 129 |
The late Itzhah (Izu) Zomer | 133 | |
Shmouel Harzion (Hertanu) - a life | Nahomi Harzion | 141 |
A rabbi from Dorohoi claims he is King David's descendant | Norman Simms | 144 |
In the death train of Iazi | Reuven Leibovici | 145 |
A family picture's tale | Moshe Furman | 148 |
The tragic fate of the Croitoru family | Fany Melnik | 149 |
My grandfather, Moshe Bodnar | F. Melnik | 150 |
About the third volume on Dorohoi Jewry | Mania Herman | 152 |
A letter from Eli Wiesl | 154 | |
A congratulatory letter | Yaakov Geller | 156 |
A blessing from Rabbi Shafran | 155 | |
Shlomo David and his enterprise | 157 | |
In memorium Ciubotaru Zwi | 158 | |
In memorium Dr. Froim Vataru | 158 | |
They perished in fighting for Israel - their homeland | 160 | |
Darabani | ||
The latest generation of Darabani Rabbis | 163 | |
Rabbi Itzhak Meshulam Leifer | 165 | |
Rabbi Shmuel Meyer Holender | 169 | |
The defamation of the Darabani Jewry | H. Baratz | 174 |
The religious schools (Heder) in Darabani | H. Baratz | 176 |
Three episodes | Shimon Haran | 179 |
Simon Haran - a bibliography of his works | 181 | |
Simon Haran and his next of kin | 182 | |
Noga - a poem | Luiza Carol | 183 |
In memorium Rabbi Avraham Yona | L.P. Liderman | 184 |
The ADMOR of Buhusu suggested by the yeshiva youth means avoiding enrolling into the (Rumanian) army. | 185 | |
A drop from the sea of bitter memories | Miriam Spatnitzki | 186 |
A little about my family's history | Esty Avraham | 191 |
The history of the Shapira family | Dorita Stelian | 193 |
Our loved ones - the Segal family. | Arye Ben-David | 197 |
Rabbi Nachum Shmariahu Schechter from Darabani, of the founders of the Rumanian Rabbis and "ADMOR's Society | Shimshon R. Levenkron | 199 |
Mihăileni | ||
Mihaileni - my hometown | Israel Levanon | 201 |
Israel Levanon ends his function as Chairman of the Religious Council in Haifa | 202 | |
Ury Benador - an opportunist writer | A.B. Yaffe | 204 |
The pillar of Leon Bertis | 206 | |
Flashes of memory of my Mihaileni | Shlomo Kider | 208 |
Donations from Mihaileni distributed to the new immigrants in Safed (1906) | Yaakov Geller | 209 |
Shoshana - the first pioneer of Mihaileni | Miriam Elish | 210 |
Shintza (Miriam) Segal | Asher Frishman | 212 |
The realities of the generation gap | Sonia Wasserman | 214 |
When I came here | S. Wasserman | 216 |
Rabbi Benjamin Cohen and Rachel Boiman | Edna Tocker | 220 |
In memorium Cuna Sapir | Miriam Volfsthal Sapir | 223 |
In memorium Adolf-Avner Hecht | 224 | |
Covrigaru - a family picture | 225 | |
Dov Berl Liberman's grave was discovered in Moghilev's cemetery | 226 | |
Săveni | ||
Herman Calacuda - the milkman of Kfar Truman | 227 | |
The roots of my Saveni | Mina-Han Kurshon | 231 |
Rabbi Itzhak Landman - Saveni's Rabbi | 235 | |
A street in Tel-Aviv named after the unforgettable Moshe Maur | 237 | |
From porterage in Transnistria to ownership in Israel | Efrat messinger | 238 |
To create and to grow | Yaffa and Itzhak Zissu | 240 |
People from Dorohoi | Adolf Abramovici | 242 |
The Rumanian who saved our lives | David Tzur | 241 |
From Saveni to Benei Brak | Lea Meirovitz | 244 |
The Alterovitz family under the Holocaust specter | Lili Tzur | 246 |
My family's agonies in Transnistria | Itzik Avraham | 248 |
Remembering Dr. Iancu Segal | 249 | |
Rădăuti-Prut | ||
Radauti-Prut | 251 | |
The people of Radauti-Prut and their dedicated activities | 253 | |
In the shape of a heart | Eliezer Ben-Amy | 254 |
Home songs | Eliezer Ben-Amy | 260 |
A journey to Radauti-Prut | Almog Burshtein | 262 |
The Bioangiu family - three generations | 266 | |
Childhood memories from Radauti-Prut | Zeev Moskovici-Arentzi | 270 |
Avraham Meirovitz - a brief life story | 272 | |
The saga of the Rosenthal family from Lipcani (a poem) | Shoshana Ben-Aharon | 273 |
Herţa | ||
The Jewish Herta by the regretted | Yaakov Schaecter | 275 |
The Baron Heushatz | Lucian Zeev Hershkovitz | 278 |
Brigadier general (Res.) Avraham Shani | 282 | |
Recollections from Transnistria - a loaf of bread dripping with blood | Shimon Segal | 285 |
They perished in Siberia | 286 | |
The Hertan Rabbis' reply to Rabbi Bromberg's telegram | S.R. Levenkron | 287 |
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