(H) = Hebrew; (Y) = Yiddish

[Cover Page] (H)		Aleph
[Cover Page] (Y)		Bet
[Dedication] (Y) (H)		Gimel
[Memorial Book Commitee] (Y) (H)		Dalet
[Map Page]		Vav
Introductory section
Introduction - Blessing upon Completion (H)	Yosef Magen-Shitz	1
“My Hometown Yedinitz” (H)	Yisrael Zemora	9
Annual meeting of expatriates of Yedinitz in Israel (pictures)		15
First Yahrzeit of Mordechai Reicher		17
Introductions - Blessings Upon Completion of Yizkor Book (Y)	Yosef Magen-Shitz	19
Discussion Regarding Formation of Yizkor Book Committee (Y)		25
Pictures/ orchard in memory of the Yedinitz martyrs		29
Grave stones on the communal resting place in Yedinitz		31
Section One: Yedinitz - A Cut Off Shtetl (H, Y) Founding and History Between the Two World Wars The Shimshon Bronstein Affair
Yedinitz – A destroyed Community
How old is the town and its Jewish settlement? (H)	Yosef Magen-Shitz	35
Landscape and People in Town (H)	Pinchas Mann-Meidelmann	43
Jews and Christians: The Relationship Between Neighbors (H)	Mordechai Reicher	49
The History of Yedinitz until World War II (H)	Chaim Horowitz	53
Jewish Community Leaders (H, Y)	Chaim Horowitz	62
World War I, Revolution and Pogroms (H)	Eliyahu Naor-Bitchutsky	67
Riots and More Riots (H)	David Vinitsky	73
Where Are You, Jews of Yedinitz? How Were We To Bereave? (H)	Aryeh Barad	81
Yedinitz in the Encyclopedia Judaica, Jerusalem 1972 (H,Y, English)		85
Yedinitz in Yizkor Books (Y)		87
The Joy of Our Town and of its Jewish Community (Y)	Yosef Magen-Shitz	89
Landscape and People in Town (Y)	Pinchas Mann-Meidelmann	97
Jews and Christians: The Relationship Between Neighbors (Y)	Mordechai Reicher	105
On the Brink of Events (Y)	Yosy Lande	109
World War I, Revolution and Pogroms (Y)	Eliyahu Naor-Bitchutsky	115
Three Coffins - The Bloody Events of the Seventh day of Passover 1918 (Y)	Moshe Kofit	121
The Execution of the Forty (Y)	Golda Gutman-Krimmer	125
Martyrdom (Sanctification of G-d's Name) at the River (Y)	Golda Gutman-Krimmer	127
Memoirs and Episodes (Y)	Yosef Helfgott-Azariah	129
A word from a Yedinitz Émigré in Brazil (Y)	Yosef Snitkowski	131
In Our Shtetl We Had… (Y)	Gedalye Gruzman	133
A Life Which Shall Never Be Again (Y)	Moshe Shuster	139
I Knew No Other Town (Y)	Sender Harari-Hochberg	143
Once Upon A Time There Was a Town… (Y)	Yosef Magan-Shitz	145
Shimshon: The Man and the Activist (H)	Yosef Magen-Shitz	165
Shimshon Bronstein - Biographical Details (H)		167
Inquisitorial Oppression (H)	David Vinitsky	175
Who Shimshon Was (H)	Ephraim Shvartzman-Sharon	177
The Shimshon Bronstein Affair (Y)	Yosef Magen-Shitz	181
Terror Against the Poalei Zion in Romania (Y)	Yosef Magen-Shitz	183
Section Two: Economic, Intellectual, and Spiritual Life in Yedinitz (H,Y)
Domestic Economics, Society and Social Services Health Care Institutions Education, Culture and Theater Teachers, Schools and the Gymnazia High School Intellectuals / Spiritual Persons Religion
Chart: Status of Jewish Loan and Savings Fund in Yedinitz - as of 1/1/1929		192
Jewish Branches	Shalom Caspi-Serebrenick	193
The Tobacco Crop in Our City	Aharon Chachmovitch	197
Agricultural Workers, Field and Forest Contractors	Shmuel Kormansky	211
Social Assistance Institutions	Mordechai Reicher	213
The House for the Poor	Menashe Halpern	215
Health Institutions in Yedinitz
Early Health Institutions	Shmuel Kafri	219
The Yaakov Shimon Kaufman (Koifman) Hospital	Mordechai Reicher	221
The Shmuel and Chava Loibman Jewish Hospital	Sheindel Sadovnik-Berezin	223
The Sheindel Baum Organization	Mordechai Reicher	229
Popular Medicine and Faith in Prayer	Mordechai Reicher	231
Article about the passing away of R’ Shmuel Loibman	Ch.Rakovsky	233
Chassidim Against the Enlightened at the End of the 19th Century	Mordechai Reicher	235
Education and Culture
The Establishment of the Talmud Torah Public School		237
The Jewish Cheder in Yedinitz in the Last Century	Yosef Diamant	243
Elementary Education Teachers and Talmud Teachers	Shmuel Kafri	249
This is How they Taught	Ephraim Schwartzman-Sharon	251
Dagous Shmulevitz, the Teacher	M. R.	252
My Religious and Secular Teachers	Dov Duri (Berl Dondushansky)	253
The Teacher and Writer Aryeh-Leib Yagolnitzer	Achinoam Yagolnitzer	255
Jewish Education in 1914	A.I. Haivri (A.L. Yogolnitser)	257
The Teacher Yaakov Kizhner	Alexander Melechson	259
The teacher Zvi Hersh Kusminer	Alexander Melechson	260
The Public High School of R. Baruch Kutcher	Leah Fuchs-Kutcher	261
My Father and Teacher, R. Moshe Leiderman (from Zamkhov) and his Family	Yitzchak Bar-Samcha	263
The Teacher Noach Leiderman	Ephraim Sharon	267
Hillel Dubrow – Highlights of His Life	Shimshon Nachmani	269
A Zealot and a Companion	Shimshon Bronstein	271
Article about the passing away of the teacher Tziporah Feige Dubrow		272
The Teacher	Mordechai Reicher	273
Exemplary Figure	Eliyahu Naor-Bitchutsky	275
The Teacher Baruch Yeshchikman	Yosef Magen-Shitz	277
Echoes from the Past – articles in newspaper		279
The Researcher and Linguist Yisrael Toporovsky	Yisrael Zamora	281
The Gymnasia High School – Its Beginning And End		285
The Beginning of the Gymnasia	Chaim Horvitz	287
Studies, Discipline and General Spirit	Attorney Meir Weissman	289
Gymnasia Teachers	Yosef Magen-Shitz and Mordechai Reicher	291
Jewish Teachers	Yosef Magen-Shitz and Mordechai Reicher	295
The End of the Gymnasia and The End of Hebrew Education in Yedinitz	Frieda Meital-Kuzminer	297
Kindergartens in Yedinitz		299
Public Libraries	Mordechai Reicher	301
Maccabi and Sports Activities	Meir Weissman	303
Newspapers appearing in Yedinitz		305
Student Organizations Concerned with Social and Cultural Affairs	Levi Leon Trachtenbroit	307
Theater 1901-1940		311
The theatrical activity in Yedinitz
Theater Lovers in Yedinitz	Pinchas Mann (H)	313
Theater Activity in Yedinitz: A summary of the Hebrew article	Pinchas Mann-Meidelman (Y)	315
The Evening Is Shot	Mendel Shitz	323
The “Troublemaker” Drama Club	Avraham Gold	329
Writers and Intellectuals
Names We Are Proud Of	Alexander Melechson	331
Yehuda Steinberg in Yedinitz	Mordechai Reicher	337
Yehuda Steinberg, Menashe Halpern and Ezriel Adelman		339
My Years in Yedinitz	Menashe Halpern	341
Biographical Notes on Menashe Halpern		344
Eliezer Steinberg in Yedinitz	Asher Goldberg	345
Yehuda-Leib Grozman	Alexander Meilechson	347
Biographical Notes on Y. L. Grozman		349
After the Performance (Memories of my Leibele with sadness and pain)	Gedaliah Grozman	352
Religion, Synagogues and Teachers
The Great Synagogue (H)	Mordechai Reicher	353
Article in “Hatzefirah”		355
The Great Synagogue (Y)	Mordechai Reicher	357
Correspondence in the Warsaw Hatsefira of November 14/26, 1878 about the establishment of the Yedinitz synagogue.		359
The Kinska Synagogue	Mordechai Reicher	363
The Old Synagogue	Moshe Furman	365
A Unique Document About the Jews of Yedinitz (1913)	Baruch Blank at the school of Yaakov Lerner	367
Report on Contributions From Yom Kippur Eve 1913		369
Cantors in and from Yedinitz	Moshe Furman	371
Synagogues in Yedinitz	Yosef Magen-Shitz	373
The Gaon R' Yechiel Michel Burstein, z”l	Mordechai Reicher	375
The Rabbinical Judge R. Shmuel	Ephraim Schwartzman	380
The Community	Yosef Magen-Shitz and Mordechai Reicher	381
Complaints and intrigues regarding the “korobka” (1929)		384
Section Three: Life in Yedinitz (H,Y) Personalities and Families Tales and Folklore Jews in the Surrounding Villages
Way of Life / Personalities and Families
Purim Carnival (pictures)		387
People, Facts and Events	Yosef Magen-Shitz	389
Three Families - Three Great Arbitrators	Asher Goldberg	411
Two In-laws and the Whole Family Under the Same Roof	Asher Goldberg	419
Announcers (“Carozim”)	Pinchas Mann (H)	421
The Palm Reader of Yedinitz	Yosef Diamand	423
A True Story …	Moshe Furman	425
There Were Those Types, Too	Pinchas Mann (H)	431
Proclamations	Pinchas Mann (Y)	435
There Were Those Types, Too	Pinchas Mann (Y)	437
Wagon Drivers, Electricity, and Water Porters	Natanel Shachar	441
Stories of Life (Excerpted from the book, Yedinitz, My Home, Buenos Aires, 1946)	Golda Gutman-Krimmer	447
A Wedding in the Shtetl	Golda Gutman-Krimmer	447
The Beilis Trial in Yedinitz	Golda Gutman-Krimmer	451
There Was a Jew in the Town… (Episodes of the Past)	Moshe Furman	453
Nicknames in Yedinitz		455
The Jews of the Nearby Villages
Zobrichan and its Jews	Eliezer Ro'i-Reich	459
The Home of the Ritual Slaughter Lerner in Zobrichan	Tsadkanit Horowitz (formerly Fradya Lerner)	463
The Jews from the Villages of Golian and Russen		465
The Admor of Shtefanesht — A Guest in the Village of Galian	Yosef Diamant	467
Section Four: Ideological Currents (H,Y) Zionism Political Parties and the Youth The Left and the Communists In the Eyes of Visitors
Zionism
Illustrative Numbers	David Vinitsky	471
Zionism in Yedinitz		473
Zionist Groups in Yedinitz at the End of the 19th Century		476
The Zionist Movement in Yedinitz (Organizations, Events and Activists)	Mordechai Reicher	477
Sha'arei Zion and Youth of Zion	M. Forman	480
From a Kakal (Keren Kayemet to Israel) fundraiser stories	Reuven Gertzman	488
Yedinitz in the Newspapers		491
Zionist Women's Movement in Yedinitz		493
“Dunam's enterprise” from 1931		495
“Tzeirei Zion” In Yedinitz	Yitzchak Bar-Zion – Borochin	499
“Poalei Zion” in Yedinitz	Moshe Magen-Shitz	501
“Poalei Zion” in Yedinitz before World War I	Shmuel Kafri (Darf)	504
A Yedinitzer from Argentina	Z. Abramowitz	507
Reorganization of the Poalei Zion	Shimshon Bronstein	508
Hachalutz and the First Pioneers from the Sons of Yedinitz	Mordechai Reicher	509
Meetings With Pioneers	Mordechai Reicher	517
Zionist Youth Movements
The First Youth Organizations	Eliyahu Naor-Bitchutsky	523
Fifteen-Year-Old “Delegates” at the Kishinev Conference (Episodes of the “Hagibor” Youth Organization)	Mordechai Reicher	525
The Hatechiya Youth Organization	Ephraim Schwartzman-Sharon	529
Reading Evenings (pictures)		531
Attempts to Establish a Chapter of Hashomer Hatsa'ir	Eliezer Ro'i-Reich	533
Youth Groups and Students in the 1930s (pictures)		535
Hachaver - Beginnings of Gordonia	Dov Dori-Dondushansky	539
Gordonia – Activities, Activists and Trifles	Reuven Gertzman	543
Ten Years of Gordonia	Pinchas Mann	549
An Obligation Fulfilled	Asher Goldenberg	552
“Poalei Zion” and the “Dror” Youth Movements	Yosef Magen-Shitz	553
The Left and the Communists in Yedinitz
The Illegal Progressive Workers' Groups	Moshe Shuster	561
Revolutionary Poems in Old Yedinitz		569
Natives of Yedinitz in Paris	Moshe Shuster	571
As Seen by Visitors
A Visit to Yedinitz – An Unforgettable Experience	Rabbi Dov Burstein	575
Yedinitz – An Unforgettable Town	Dr. Michael Landau	577
Reports of the 1929 riots in Palestine		579
A Town Permeated with Judaism and Zionism	Meir Zeit	581
Section Five: In Memory of the Fallen (H,Y) Those Who Fell in Israeli Wars Yedinitzers – Extraordinary People, In the Land of Israel Personalities and Characters
Those Who Fell in Israeli Wars
Israel-Uli Schwartz		588
Israel-Yaakov Berman		589
Meir Tepper		589
Reuven Pittal		590
Raziel Rosenthal		591
Eliyahu Rosenberg		592
Yona Shkolnik		594
Lieutenant Eitan Harari		595
Dov Markovitz		596
Zalman Yitzhaki		597
The brothers Amos and Oded Schwartz		599
“The Brothers' Home” in Kibbutz Nir-Am		602
In Memory of the victims of the mine in the Jordan Valley		607
The trio from Kibbutz Masada	Yissaschar Rosenthal	607
The monument in the cemetery of Kibbutz Masada		608
Eliyahu Naor (Bitchutsky)		609
Dov Dori (Berel Dondushansky)		611
The Dream That Disappeared	Liuba Dori	612
Eliyahu Naor (Eli Bitchutsky) and Dov Dori (Berl Dondushansky)	Yosef Magen-Shitz	613
Yedinitzers – Extraordinary People, In the Land of Israel
Ezriel Adelman – A Man of The First Aliyah	Asher Goldenberg	617
Dr. Yehudit Kozlova [Kuka Pizelman] – The Olah on the “Russlan”	Yosef Magen-Shitz	619
Dr. Yehudit Kozlova [Kuka Pizelman] – The Olah on the “Russlan”	Yosef Magen-Shitz	623
Yitzchak Rosenthal-Raziel – A Man of The Second Aliyah		625
Liova Gokovsky – The Parachutist Beyond the Nazi Lines	Yosef Magen-Shitz	627
Aryeh-Leib Fichman		630
A Tear for A Friend Who Is Gone	Aryeh Bard	637
Liova Gukovsky - The Parachutist Behind Nazi Lines	Yosef Magen-Shitz	639
In Memory of Mordechai (Motya) Reicher	Yosef Magen-Shitz	647
“Beit Neta” and its Director	Yosef Magen-Shitz	650
The Person with the Extra Soul	Pinchas Mann	651
Mordechai Reicher	Yosef Magen-Shitz	655
Avishag (Shagi) Reicher	Yosef Magen-Shitz	659
Our Daughter Avishag – A year after she passed away	Mother and Father	662
Mordechai (Motya) Reicher- Friend, Culture Provider and Writer	Yosef Magen-Shitz	663
Personalities and Characters
The Axelrod and Lerner Families	Leybush Segal	667
Fruma Blickstein	Aryeh Bard	668
Aryeh-Leib Bard	Yosef Magen-Shitz	669
R' Baruch Blanc and his family	Dr. Elimelech Blanc	671
Adina Kreiner born Boroshin	Itzhak Bar-Razon	675
Sara Goldenstein-Mankovsky	Shalom Caspi	675
R' Yekutiel Dorf	Meir Shloch	676
The dynasty of R' Yona Shochat Gerstein	Yeshayahu Vinitsky	677
R' Chaim Weinschenker	Ita Mishori (Weinschenker)	680
Yossale Sonnenschein	Pinchas Man	681
Moshe Teperman	Ephraim Benderman, Meir Shiloach	683
Shmuel Itzhaky	Aryeh Bard	686
Family Caspi-Serebrenick	Shalom Caspi	687
R. Shmuel Ludmir	A. Sharon-Schwartzman	689
Shmuel Loibman	Pinchas Man	691
Avrahamel Milgrom	Asher Goldenberg	692
The Family of R. Itzhak Melechson	Alexander Melechson	695
Kalman Ben Ze'ev Meidelman		695
The Fradis Family	Asher Goldenberg	699
David Kalis	Y. Magen	700
Zvi Rosenthal	Avram Schwartzman (Sharon)	702
Esther Rosenberg	YM”G (Yosef Magen-Shitz)	703
Israel Millman	Chaya	703
Zvi Rosenberg (Hirsch Kassiles)	Chaya Cheruti	704
Reb Yaakov son of Matityahu Schwartzman		705
My sister Leah (Lea'kle) Schwartzman	Ephraim Schwartzman (Sharon)	708
Reb Mordechai Sheindelman	Mordechai Reicher	709
Memories From My Father's House	Menachem-Anshel Shani (Sheindelman)	710
Menachem-Anshel Shani (Sheindelman)		711
Moshe Shteinburtz	Mordechai Reicher	712
Moshe (Moshke) Shitz	Yosef Magen-Shitz	715
Yaakov Magen	Yossel	719
Yosef Shpier and His Enterprise	Efraim Schwartzman (Sharon)	719
Ben-Zion Tieman	Shoshana Tieman-Kogan	721
Section Six: The Holocaust (H,Y) The Martyrology of the Yedintz Jews Death, Forced Marches, and Survival Yedinitz after the Shoah
Map of the expulsion, the wanderings, and the destruction		727
Holocaust of the Jews of Yedinitz A general overview according to survivors; the Soviet conquest; As the war began; first days of the Romanian-German conquest; the expulsion; path of suffering; in Camp Vertujeni and Kashautz forest; across the Dniester; in concentration camps and ghettos in Transnistria; withdrawal and liberation; how did the few survive?	Mordechai Reicher	729
Yedinitz 1945-1946 (pictures)		747
The Martyrology of the Yedinitz Jews: A General Overview According to Witnesses - Compiled	Mordecai Reicher	749
The Outbreak of War		755
Robbery, Murder & Atrocities		761
The Expulsion		771
The Road of Tribulation		777
Crossing the Dniester		790
In The Ghettos of Transnistria		803
Mohilov (Mogilov)		809
How Did The Remnants Survive		819
Editorial Comment		825
The Years Following the Shoah:
Yedinitz as a Soviet Village - Discussions with New Arrivals		827
Yiddishkeit in Yedinitz Under the Soviets		835
Yedinitz Community Workers and Personalities in South America Yosef Teperman, z”l; Zalman Teperman,z”l; Antonietta and Leon Fefer; Mordechai Lechtermacher,z”l; Yosef Lerner, z”l; Tuli Lerner and Tani z”l; Hayale Lerner z”l; Yitzhak z”l and Tzivia Brand; Clara and David Kalmanovich; Tuli and Mara Meiler; Rosa Zager-Weisberg; Idel Breitman; Eliezer Zilberman; Yosef and Sosya Snitkovsky; Isadora Shansky (Dondushansky); Shmuel and Haya-Riva Schneider; David and Raquel Brand; Heinich Akerman; Henriques(Hersh) and Ida Kuperschmid; Pessach Fishman; Dr. Salvador Rosenthal; Shmuel Meiler and Sonia z”l; Avraham-Yitzhak Volevitch; Shmuel Vineshenker		847
Section Seven: Memorial Pages
Relatives Memorialize their Dead		869
Who is Who Among the Participants in the Book		1001
Lists of pictures and printer's engravings		1005
Table of Contents		1015

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