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Translation of
Sefer kehilat Khotin (Bessarabia)
Edited by: Shlomo Shitnovitzer
Published in Tel Aviv, 1974
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The history of Khotyn | 11 - 18 |
History and geography | |
Khotyn at the beginning of the 20th century | |
The Jews of Bessarabia | |
Khotyn as it really was | |
The expulsion of the Jews | |
Khotyn as reflected in philately [the study of postal stamps] | |
The Community | 21 - 34 |
Chone Reiss | |
The community of Khotyn during the years 1927-1933 | |
Mutual financial aid | |
Matza for Passover | |
Fires in town | |
The Community, the Council, and Medical & hygienic services | |
The Jewish Hospital | |
The Budget | |
Public baths | |
The Jewish community in Khotyn | |
The Hevra Kadisha [burial society] | |
Inscriptions on tombstones | |
Charity | |
Hospitality | |
Education and Culture | 39 - 51 |
The Krozhok School | |
The Tarbut School | |
Melamdim [teachers in heder] and the Heder | |
Teachers and educators | |
Yechiel Kretchmer | |
Yoel Prokuror | |
Israel Goichberg | |
Moshe and Shoshana Stern | |
The Principal | |
The Orchestra | |
The theater in Khotyn | |
The Schneiderman Hall | |
The Library in memory of Chone Reiss | |
Religious Life in Khotyn | 53 - 62 |
Religious Life in Khotyn | |
The synagogues | |
The Admor R"Mote'le | |
Four generations of Rabbis in Khotyn | |
A dispute concerning the position of Rabbi | |
The ritual slaughterers [shochatim] | |
Tashlich [a traditional custom on Rosh Hashana] | |
The Zionist Movement | 63 - 74 |
Yosef Appelboim | |
The Hashomer Hatza'ir movement | |
The youth in the Po'alei Zion movement | |
Tze'irei Zion movement | |
Beitar and Hatzhar | |
Dror and Arie Fichman | |
WIZO and JNF [Jewish National Fund=Keren Kayemet LeIsrael] | |
Oneg Shabat | |
The Rothstein house | |
Berl Weissolder | |
Yosef Seltzer | |
Israel Geller | |
Dr. Yakov Lerner | |
Dr. Shmuel Schoenberg | |
Att. Israel Bordeinik | |
Economy | 77 - 81 |
The Loan & Saving Bank | |
Marcus Gellstein | |
Matza for Passover | |
Cart drivers & cart owners | |
Blacksmiths | |
Communication & transport | |
Butchers | |
Porters | |
The market | |
Dudl Ferber | |
The Holocaust | 83 - 96 |
Remember! [Zachor Tizkor] | |
The Russian occupation of Khotyn | |
The annihilation of the Jewish Culture | |
The days of the Soviet rule | |
The retreat of the Soviets | |
Sad memories from the year 1941 | |
The Germans enter Khotyn | |
The Khotyn Jews during the Holocaust | |
Khotyn and Transnistria, memories | |
Toltchin, a place of torture and death | |
The Romanian Geandarme | |
Material that was given to Yad Vashem | |
The expulsion of the Jews from Khotyn | |
The Rav R'Hershl, slaughterer and rabbi in Zhoryn | |
The Khotyn people in the Siberian exile | |
In memory of a childhood friend | |
Thoughts from the past | |
Rescued remainders | |
Life in Town | 97 - 104 |
Mindl, the shochet's wife, travels to the ADMOR | |
The Tailors' Street | |
The Charity-Givers in Khotyn | |
Avraham Leib Nerman | |
A tacit separation-agreement | |
The tenth person at a minyan | |
Names and nicknames | |
Thieves | |
A sound of happiness and a sound of joy [Kol Sason Vekol Simcha] | |
"And Haman came..." | |
The story of the candlesticks that disappeared | |
The irony of fate | |
Memories | |
he General who confessed | |
Foime the porter | |
Yankel George | |
105 - 109 | |
Ester Appelboim | |
Yitzhak Tepper | |
Rachel Seltzer-Reiss | |
Remember me | |
Mordechau Guterman | |
Prof. Tcharne Reiss | |
Khotyn Former Residents in Israel | 111 - 114 |
The activities of the Organization of former Khotyn Residents | |
The Free-of-Interest-Loan Fund of the Organization | |
Aharon Weissberg | |
Yiddish Section | |
Khotyn - a town in Bessarabia | 117 - 130 |
The history of Khotyn | |
Geographic details | |
The Jews in Khotyn | |
Khotyn between the two World Wars | |
Khotyn at the beginning of the 20th Century | |
This was Khotyn | |
The beginning of the War | |
Khotyn as reflected in philately [the study of postal stamps] | |
Self-defense in Khotyn in the twenties of the 20th cent. | |
Self-defense in 1917 | |
Diplomacy and self-defense | |
The Khotyn Jewish Community | 131 - 145 |
Chone Reiss | |
Excerpts from the pinkas hakehila [Community Register] 1927-1933 | |
Social Aid | |
Mutual Aid | |
Financial situation | |
Matza for Passover | |
Fires in town | |
Measures against terror actions | |
Medical Aid | |
The Jewish hospital | |
The public baths | |
The Hevra Kadisha [burial society] | |
Inscriptions on Tombstones | |
The Community Council | |
Administration | |
Charity | |
Hospitality | |
Visiting the sick | |
Free accomodations | |
Aid for poor brides | |
General description of the Khotyn Community | |
The economic situation | |
Cultural matters | |
Political movements | |
The Cultural League | |
R'Zusia Bronstein | |
Leibish Ludmir | |
Leib Roisman | |
Meir Landwiger | |
Israel Bardeinik | |
Culture and Education | 147 - 166 |
New currents | |
Krozhjak | |
The Tarbut School | |
Shalom Schreier | |
David-Leib Kuperman | |
Heder teachers [melamdim] | |
Teachers and educators | |
R'Yechiel Kretchmer | |
Yoel Prokuror | |
Israel Goichberg | |
Leib David Stolyar | |
Khotyn writers | |
The Orchestra | |
Theater in Khotyn | |
The Schneiderman Hall | |
The Library | |
Yehuda Chone Axelrod | |
Zalman Malamud | |
Chaim Wasserman | |
Gedaliahu Lipiner | |
Mendale Nerman | |
Eliahu Lipiner | |
Azriel Yanover | |
Efraim Roitman | |
Helen Gitelman | |
Imanuel Reiss | |
Synagogues and Religious Officials | 167 - 175 |
Synagogues and Batei Midrash [houses of learning] in Khotyn | |
R'Motele from Khotyn | |
Four generations of rabbis in Khotyn | |
The Khotyn ritual slaughterers | |
Tashlich [a traditional Rosh Hashana custom] in Khotyn | |
The Zionist Movement | 177 - 189 |
Hashomer Hatza'ir | |
The youth in the Poalei Zion movement | |
Beitar and the Revisionist party | |
Tzeirei Zion | |
Hathiya and Gordonia | |
Dror and Arie Fichman | |
WIZO and the JNF | |
Yosef Appelboim | |
The Rothstein family | |
Berl Weissadler | |
Yosef Seltzer | |
Israel Geller | |
Dr. Yakov Lerner | |
Dr. Scheierberg | |
Oneg Shabat | |
Jewish Livelihoods | 191 - 198 |
Matza for Passover | |
Geography and the economic policy | |
Commerce | |
The first buses | |
The market | |
Foime the porter | |
Water carriers | |
Tilling the land | |
Trade and Industry | |
Hotels | |
Butchers | |
Porters | |
Blacksmiths | |
Cart owners | |
The Loan and Savings fund | |
Khotyn Jews During the Years of Destruction | 199 - 217 |
Remember! | |
The Russians are coming | |
The liquidation of the Jewish culture | |
The Soviets liquidate the Jewish community | |
Under the Soviet Power | |
Sad memories | |
The Soviets leave Khotyn | |
Bloody days | |
They chase us from place to place | |
The Khotyn Jews in the Holocaust | |
Memories | |
Tulchin, a place of pain and death | |
On the road of exile | |
The destruction period | |
Pages from a diary in Transnistria | |
Khotyn Jews in Siberia | |
In memory of a childhood friend | |
My own Yizkor prayer | |
We were only a few who survived | |
List of those who perished in the Dzhorin Camp | |
On the Jewish Life in Khotyn | 219 - 229 |
The Tailors' Street | |
How I was drafted | |
The General confessed | |
Charity-givers in Khotyn | |
The fate of a Jew-hater | |
A tacit agreement | |
Mindl the slaughterer's wife goes to the Rebbe | |
Yankel George | |
Memories from Khotyn | |
A. L. Nerman | |
A tenth person to complete a minyan | |
...And Haman came | |
A sound of joy... | |
Thieves | |
To take and to take away | |
A testimony for the World to Come | |
A story of a pair of candlesticks | |
Matchmakers | |
Khotyner in the War of Independence | 233 - 237 |
Mordechai Guterman | |
Ester Appelboim | |
Yitzhak Teper | |
My first work in Eretz Israel | |
Rachel Seltzer | |
Prof' Tcharne Reiss | |
Khotyn Jews in America | 240 - 265 |
In Memoriam | |
Independent Khotyn Bessarabia Benevolent Association | |
A word at the end of the campaign | |
Notes on historical events | |
A page about the story of the aid from the American Jews | |
Our town Khotyn | |
In Memory of Charles Tcherkes | |
Images | |
The Organization of the Khotyn Jews in Israel | 267 - 271 |
Khotyn Jews in Israel | |
The Free-of-Interest Loan Fund | |
The committee of the Khotyner organization | |
The committee of the publishers of this Yizkor book | |
Khotyn Today | 272 |
Names of Khotyn Jews who are not with us any more | 273 - 288 |
Memorials and Tombstones | 289 - 332 |
List of Photos and Documents | 333 - 334 |
List of Authors and Literature | 337 - 339 |
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