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| Title Page |
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| Preface / Book Committee |
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| List of Pictures |
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| CHAPTER ONE / OPENING |
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| Introduction / Editor |
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| Foreword / Book Committee |
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| Foreword / Book Committee (Yiddish) |
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| It Was Said With The Book / Nahum Margolin |
21 |
| Map of Molchadz |
24 |
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| CHAPTER TWO / EARLY PERIOD |
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| Map of the Region |
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| A general historical-geographic and Jewish socio-cultural survey / Benzion H. Ayalon |
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| I. EARLY PERIOD |
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| a. The name and its meaning; |
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| b. References on the early period; |
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| c. Settlement of Jews in Lithuania; |
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| d. Multigovernment region; |
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| e. Mass-slaugther of Jews by Chmelnitzky et al; |
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| f. The region and its cultural influence; |
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| g. Immediate surroundings and economic relations; |
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| h. Maytchet in Memorial Books of the Region; |
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| i. The Jewish town in the view of the newspapers; |
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| j. Summary Table Part One. |
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| Memories from my birth town / Max Novomisky |
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| My town Maytchet / Nahum Margolin |
57 |
| The dead Maytchet / Haya Lubchik |
64 |
| Jews in Great Svorotva / Y. Serebrovsky |
67 |
| Small Svorotva / Haya Lubchik |
68 |
| The village of Yatra / Esther Malishansky (Lozovsky) |
70 |
| The tragic end / Haya Lubchik |
72 |
| My Village and the Memories of my Birthplace / Sarah Biribis |
75 |
| Jewry, Virtuous and with Difficulties / Chaim Kravetz |
78 |
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| CHAPTER THREE / TORAH AND CHASSIDISM |
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| The Gaon Shlomo Polachek / Benzion H. Ayalon |
85 |
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| The Rabbis of Maytchet and its Scholars A / Rabbi Aharon Surasky |
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| 1. Rabbi R' Yosef Mordkovski, ztz”l - RY”M |
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| 2. Rabbi R' Noah Mordkovski z”l |
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| 3. HRH”H R' Yisrael Zalman Shelovski ztz”l |
98 |
| 4. Rabbi R' Shalom z”l - Head of the Rabbinical Court in Maytchet |
105 |
| 5. Rabbi R' Yaakov-Sender Grinberg z”l - The Last Rabbi of Maytchet |
106 |
| 6. Rebbe Nahum Shu”b z”l - from the Hasidim in Maytchet |
108 |
| 7. R' Yitzhak Gratzikovitz (G-d should avenge his blood) (Itshe Kozlovicher) |
109 |
| 8. The Rabbi, the Gaon Rebbe Meir Meirim z”l, Head of the Rabbinical Court in Maytchet |
110 |
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| Rabbis and Scholars B / Moshe Zinovitz |
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| 1. Rabbi Meir-Meirim |
113 |
| 2. Rabbi Yehuda-Leib Hacohen |
117 |
| 3. Rabbi Shmuel |
118 |
| 4. Rabbi Zvi-Hirsh |
119 |
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| Rabbi Isaac-Naftali Belsky / D. Shlomovitz |
121 |
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| The Spiritual Center in Maytchet / Nahum Margolin |
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| 1. The Shul-Heif |
122 |
| 2. In the Congregation of Hasidim and Admorim |
124 |
| 3. Melamdim, religious and public figures |
127 |
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| Rabbi Yisrael Elchanan the “Maytcheter” / Rabbi Joseph-Eliahu Pniel (Pekelni) |
134 |
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| CHAPTER FOUR / EDUCATION, SOCIETY, ECONOMICS |
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| Maytchet, general survey / Benzion H. Ayalon |
137 |
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| II. BETWEEN TWO WORLD-WARS |
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| a. General Background; |
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| b. In Retrospect; |
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| c. Town Panorama; |
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| d. Government and Administration; |
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| e. Public and National Activities; |
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| f. Educational Institutions; |
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| g. Commerce and Business; |
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| h. Agriculture; |
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| i. Transportation; |
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| j. Jews of Maytchet. |
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| The students – the golden youth / Nachum Naor (Orzechovsky) |
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| Trade and Labor / Dov Shlomovitz |
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| Youth in Maytchet / Haya Lubchik |
156 |
| Maytchet in the press / Moshe Zinovitz |
159 |
| The coming of Passover / Haya Lubchik |
161 |
| The Zionist Movement in Maytchet |
163 |
| Maytchet in pictures A |
169 |
| A. “Hehalutz” in Maytchet |
185 |
| B. The Story of the Travails of Hehalutz in Maytchet |
187 |
| C. About Hehalutz and the Training Groups / Nahum Margolin |
189 |
| The Organization of Maytchet Natives in Israel and the World, and its Activities / N. M. |
195 |
| Maytcheter Jews in New York / from the press |
201 |
| Maytcheters in Argentina / Ben-Zion Sack |
202
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| CHAPTER FIVE / PERSONALITIES, FAMILIES, FIGURES |
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| My parents' house - The Orzechovsky family / Nahum Naor (Orzechovsky) |
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| The Dvorzecky family / Dr. M. Dvorzecky |
211 |
| Reb Nathan the son of Reb Asher Orzechovsky of blessed memory / Yisrael Neiten |
218 |
| Sima Ben-Hur (Abramovsky) / Dr. Nahum Ben-Hur |
221 |
| Reb Moshe-Ahron Borecky and Family / Hana Mechtiger |
224 |
| Two letters from Feigl Borecky |
227 |
| My Parents - The Boretcky family / Sarah Biribis |
230 |
| My parents - Wolinsky family / Miriam Kleinshtub |
232 |
| Memories from Maytchet / Mordechai (Munia) Hassid |
235 |
| Gedalya and Nehama Yatvicky / Yitzchak Binyamin |
236 |
| Reb Joshua Aharon Lozovsky of blessed memory / Yosef Lozovski |
238 |
| Family Lubecky / David-Leib Lubecky |
240 |
| My Family - the Margolin Family / Chemda Lubrani |
242 |
| Reb Zvi-Hirsh Aharonovitz / Jacob Horvits |
245 |
| Reb David-Hershel Novomiski and his family / Sara Aharonovsky |
248 |
| Sheine-Rachel Simkof-Bader / Moshe Zinovits |
250 |
| The Polonsky-Edlin family / Tova Shomroni |
252 |
| My family in Maytchet/ Moshe Korn |
255 |
| The Family of Moshe Aharon Shevchik / Yehuda Ben-Moshe |
258 |
| My ties with Maytchet / Zeev Rimon |
261 |
| My Connection With Maytchet / Zelda Rozovski |
264 |
| My parents - Stolovitsky family / Benjamin Stolovitsky |
266 |
| Shlomo-Hirshl Shlomovits / Dov Shlomovits |
268 |
| Members of my family at Maytchet / Haya-Rivka Dissin |
269 |
| People and Personalities / Nahum Margolin
Shlomo Shnitzki; Avraham Garbash and Leib Winograd;
Leibel Gilerovits; Alter Abramovitz; Yisrael Elchanan Pikalni;
Moshe Savitsky; Yisrael Belski; Yaakov Gilerovits; Naftali the Blacksmith;
Chana Shlomovitz |
271 |
| Maytchet in pictures B |
275 |
| Maytchet natives as soldiers in foreign armies |
285 |
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| CHAPTER SIX / THE HOLOCAUST |
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| Remember the Holocaust / Dr. M. Dvorzecky |
288 |
| The Soft Whisper of the Haboinik– The Hill of Blood (For the Memorial Day of the Maytchet Community) / Benzion H. Ayalon |
289 |
| Self-defence in Maytchet |
291 |
| My Travails in the Holocaust / Moshe Korn |
293 |
| A War of Life and Death (Memories of a Jewish Partisan) / Abrasha Hanelis |
300 |
| The rise and fall of Maytchet / Freidl Makarensky |
303 |
| The bravery of Zimel Stolovitsky / Abrasha Hanelis |
307 |
| Three Who Set Out on a Journey / Binyamin Stolovitsky |
309 |
| With the nomads staff / Reuben Rabinovits |
312 |
| My personal experiences / Tsira Rayak (Rabets) |
314 |
| Maytchet partisans / Moshe Rabets |
320 |
| Survivors' tales / Mina Levin (Gurski) |
323 |
| The raid...and the meeting / A. Ben-Shalom |
325 |
| Partisan fighters and avengers / Hanan Shmulovits |
328 |
| My memories from mournful Maytchet / Yaacov Lachovitsky |
332 |
| My Memories of Maytchet / L. Ozersky |
335 |
| Maytchet Natives in Lithuania During the Period of the Second World War / Nachum Ben-Arie |
337 |
| Maytchet Refugees from Maytchet in Vilna / Isaac Movshovits |
343 |
| Partisans and the Jews in the Forests of Maytchet / Dr. M. Dvorzetsky |
346 |
| Death Chronicles of Maytchet |
364 |
| These I Remember and I Moan… |
367 |
| Memorial for the People who are gone |
369 |
| Memorial Candle for Yehoshua Shomroni z”l / Shmuel and Amir Shomroni |
370 |
| Avraham Rimon of blessed memory / Aleksander Novitz |
370 |
| Esther Biribis of blessed memory / Sara Boretsky Biribis |
371 |
| Moshe Kleinshtov of blessed memory / Aleksander Novitz |
372 |
| Untitled List of Names |
373 |
| Memorial Pages and Pictures |
377 - 421 |
| Yizkor – List of Holy Ones |
422 |
| Epilogue |
427 |
| Memorial Prayers for the Deceased and Communion |
429 |
| Index of Names |
431 - 460
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