Translated by Yocheved Klausner

Vitebsk according to the Jewish-Russian Encyclpedia		1
Vitebsk and the Region in the 19th Century	Yakov Leshtchinski	3
Letters from Vitebsk to Hamelitz newspaper		23
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The Jewish social life in Vitebsk	Gregory Aronson	31
Memories from Vitebsk	Shmuel Abramson (Abramis)	41
Pages from my memories	Alexander Rapaport	45
The Hechalutz in Vitebsk	Zvi Gordon	47
Shmuel Shneurson	Zvi Gordon	55
My meetings with Shmuel Shneurson	Shlomo Muriel (Meirowitz)	59
Memories of a Prisoner of Zion by the end of the Czar's regime	Israel Riffin	61
My life in Vitebsk during the First World War	M. Nadel	65
The “Kloizl” people	Arie A.	71
Vitebsk the cradle of my childhood	Yocheved Greenfeld	79
The volunteer fire-fighters in Vitebsk	Mark Chagall	81
The train	Bella Chagall	103
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The Jewish Vitebsk artists	Yitzhak Lichtenstein	106
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In Memory of Dr. Zvi Bruck
His life		109
Memories	S. Czernowitz, Yehuda Karni	111
Bruck the journalist	A. Oskoteski	115
Bruck and the masses	Ch. L. Kharifay	115
I remember his look	R'Binyamin	119
The innocent one	S. Yanovski	119
Bruck in literature		123
My memories from the town Vitebsk	Nachum Levin	127
The look-out of the fire-fighters	Moshe De-Shalit	129
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Shimon Zhitlovski		137
S. Anski		143
Chaim Zhitlovski		145
In my home	Moshe Zhitlovski	147
Vitebsk	Gershon Schoffman	155
Chaim Leib Harifay	Zvi Gordon	157
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In Memory of Residents of Vitebsk and Vicinity
The unknown soldier (Rachel Babin-Arnon)	A. Romm	161
In memory of Zvi Meirowitz	Moshe De-Shalit	165
Zev Kahanov		167
Shlomo Midbari	Moshe Meilman	169
Moshe Wittenberg		171
Moshe Shalgi	Arie Romm	172
Who are you? (poem)	Moshe Shalgi	173
Arie Friedman-Lwow	Karmi	175
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Rabbis and Tzadikim
R'Mendele from Vitebsk, R'Israel from Polotzk	Shimon Frenkel	177
History of the Vitebsk Rabbinate	M. Tzinowitz	181
Rav Yosef Elchanan Melamed	Avraham Melamed	189
Rabbi Shemaryahu Yehuda Leib Medalia	From material by his son Rabbi Dr. Hilel Medalia	193
Memories about Rabbi Shamaryahu Medalia		195
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The vicinity of Vitebsk		203
Polotzk	A. Arnon	209
My town Sbezh and its customs	Prof. Chaim Czernowitz	213
Nevel	Menachem Urieli	219
Memories of Nevel from the days of my youth	Menachem Mendel Khen	225
Memories of a Gorodok resident	Dr. Zev Surkin	233
From me memories about the town Yanowitz	Yakov Lieberman	233
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The Story of Vitebsk	Israel Zev Wolfson
The history of my Father	Tzila nee Wolfson	245
This is the man Wolfson	D. Volkhonski	247
R'Israel Zev	Zvi Har Shefer	249
I. Z. Wolfson	Zvi Gordon	251
Wolfson in Eretz Israel	David Zakay	251
The story of Vitebsk	Israel Zev Wolfson	253
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Heroes and Martyrs
Dov Lipin		431
David Shmevdel	A. Binyamini	433
Amiram Ram	A. Binyamini	435
Rabbi Shmuel Gutterman	Yakov Gutterman	437
Eliezer Refalowitz (Refaeli)		438
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The annihilation of the Jews of Vitebsk	P. Friedman	439
My Town (poem)	Arie A.	455
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Supplement
Miscellaneous from Vitebsk	Israel Matosov	461
Peretz Smolenskin in Vitebsk: the origin of the Ginsburg Family	Moshe Tzinowitz	463
Dr. Avraham ben Yakov Koreltzuk		465
L. Postabelski-Argos	Zvi Gordon	465
The awakening lion		467
Shmuel, the emissary to the Zionist Underground in Russia	Binyamin West	467
Members of the Russian revolutionary movement in Vitebsk		469
From Poalei-Zion to the Sejmists	Yehuda Beiner	469
R'Aharon Boim, the oldest in the group	Zvi Gordon	473
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