At times, the same name occurring more than once in the text was spelled differently in each case, and different again in its spelling in the index. (Ironically, this sometimes helped to decode the pronunciation.)

In this transcription, the system used was a YIVO model, modified to conform with the local Yiddish dialect. Thus Meysha = Moyshe = Moshe, and Yeysef = Yoysef =Yosef. (In these examples, the first spelling represents local pronunciation; the second, YIVO standard Yiddish pronunciation, and the third, modern Hebrew pronunciation).

The Meysha example above alludes to a second modification the transcriber made on the YIVO system, on the advice of Yiddish linguist, Prof. Dovid Katz (of Oxford, Yale, and in the Yiddish seat at the University of Vilnius), namely: words ending with a short E sound were usually rendered with the letter A. This sacrifice of absolute accuracy was a lesser of two evils, for the YIVO practice of rendering the short E sound with the letter E often creates confusion in English-speakers who are accustomed to English rules of spelling.

In English a final E usually has a much different function than YIVO has given it. (In any case, this use of A is not original with the transcriber; note, for example, these familiar Yiddish names: "Golda" instead of "Golde", "Dina" instead of "Dine", etc. The last vowel in each of these names is properly pronounced as a short E.) Other anomolies: the common name normally rendered in English as Jacob and in modern Hebrew as Yaakov, was pronounced in Jewish Eastern Europe as Yanke v, the "N" deriving originally from a nasalization. The name appears frequently in this index. Another common name known otherwise as Mordecai, Mordechai, or Mordekhai, is rendered here as Mordkha, according to its folk pronunciation. Itshe, Ayzl, and Ayzik were popular variants of Yitzhok or Isaac.

Transcription of the gutteral sounds was of necessity inconsistent, i.e., it depended on context and on popular familiarity with the name in question. Surnames, indeed all names, of Hebrew origin were rendered in their Ashkenazi, or Eastern European, pronunciation, not in modern Israeli pronunciation (e.g., Efros not Efrat), unless it was clear that the name in question was acquired after arriving in Israel.

Inasmuch as the transcriber tried to remain faithful in his spelling to how the individuals of the index would themselves have pronounced their names, he also departed from this custom if the name appeared in English somewhere in the Yizkor Book. The same is true if the individual was so well known that his/her name was commonly spelled a certain way in other authoritative texts (usually Encyclopedia Judaica).

In most cases, once this was discovered, it was applied to all instances of the same name.

Readers should be aware of other conventions in this transcription. If a comma is not present after a surname, it indicates that it is not in fact a surname. Several entries were first (given) names, often followed by a parent's first name and/or title (in the possessive), e.g., Itshe Nota's, or Rivka Reb Isserka's. Please also note that, where possible alternate spellings or pronunciations are suggested by the transcriber – in square brackets – after a name, they are usually only provided once; if the same name occurs repeatedly in that column, the spelling or pronunciation aid is not repeated.

The same is true if the transcriber is suggesting that the reader check out another entry related to the one the reader is currently studying (e.g., "Razovsky: See also Grazovsky" is stated only after the first occurrence of Razovsky.) Round parentheses ( ), incidently, are simply transcribed from the original index; square brackets [ ] always indicate an insertion by the transcriber. Where the transcriber found errors in the index, whether typographical or factual, he tried to correct them using corroborative evidence from the text or outside sources, and indicated the correction.

Hopefully, the transcriber has not made too many errors of his own. He takes full responsibility for that possibility.

Finally, please note that while the names listed here are supposedly "alphabetical", this is not a straightforward matter. To start with, as alluded to earlier the list seems to include many individuals who are placed alphabetically in the list by their first (given) names, not their surnames (sometimes there was no surname at all, in fact). This was retained in the transcription for the sake of faithfulness to the book.

Secondly, adjectives – which can at times be an integral part of the name beyond merely modifying it – usuallytake a different word order in English, Yiddish, and Hebrew.

Thirdly, the Yizkor Book's alphabetical listing follows the Hebrew/Yiddish alphabet, not the English/Roman one, and this order was retained in the transcription.

These three facts have profound consequences on potential name searche s. For example, because the letter "Alef" is itself silent, it depends for a sound on the vowel-symbol beneath it or the letter following it. This means, for example, that a name listed under "Alef" could begin with any of the following possible sounds: short or long A, short or long E, long I, long O, long U, and so on. It means also, that a Hebrew spelling of a name will place it in a different position from the Yiddish spelling of the same name. "Rabinovitsh", for example, is found in two completely different places in the index; this is "correct", ironically, given that one spelling is in Yiddish and the other in Hebrew.

Researchers who are seeking a particular name, but who are unfamiliar with the rules and pronunciation of Hebrew and/or Yiddish, would be best to look at every name under a given initial letter heading. If the name sought after begins with a vowel, the should look under "Alef" and "Ayin" as well as under the expected initial letter. In any case, readers of this transcription should be wary of using transcription spelling for other than pronunciation purposes.

The transcriber has discovered a number of names within the body of the text which did not appear in the Yizkor Book index. Where this was noticed, the missing names were inserted into the transcribed index below, inside square brackets. Unfortunately, one suspects that there may be more such omissions, and the inevitable inference is that, as thorough as the original index was, it was not 100% complete. – PP

Alef	Bet	Gimel	Dalet	Hey
Vav	Zayin	Het	Tet	Yod
Khaf	Lamed	Mem	Nun	Samekh
Ayin	Pey	Tsadek	Kuf	Reysh
Shin			Tav

Name	Page
Alef       return	529
Abarsky	217
Avigdor Reb	349, 351
Avaclidus (Classical author)	138
Avrohom the Rabbi	358
Avrohom Borukh the Rabbi	133
Old Avrohom the Rabbi	237
Avrohom Yitzhok (The Nezvizher Preacher)	358
Avrohom Yankev (the Hunchback)	65
Avrom Noyekh [Noah] the Shoemaker	215
Avrohom (from Sfilovitsh)	455
Avrohom Shaya	431
Avrohom (The Shammes of the Burial Society)	80
Avrem'l the Hosid (hasid)	192, 431
Avrem'l the Lame	388
Avrem'l (The Tax Collector [on Kosher Meat])	129
Avrem'l of Frivish (or Privish)	465
Avrem'l the Rabbi	134
Abramovits, Binyomin	23
Abramovitsh (of the Zionist Youth Orgn.)	24
Abramsky, I. D.	92, 395
Abramsky, Yekhezkl the Rabbi	12, 40, 84, 117, 272, 274, 308, 313, 314, 317, 395
Abramtsi [Avramtsi, Avromtse?]	405
Aginsky [Eginsky?]	276
Agranoff, Yokheved (Khinitsh)	181
Agranoff, Gershon	181
Adler, Dr.	151
Adler, I. N.	171, 235, 520
Adler, Yeshai	91
Adler, Nosn [Natan]	307
Adler, Rabbi R. N.	100
Adam the Kohen [i.e., Levite priest]	225
Ahron the Writer	447
Aronovitsh, Aryey Leib	140
Aronovitsh, Arke	469
Ahronzon, Reb Menahem-Mendl	140
Uzdan [Oozdan] (Uzdansky, Dveyra-Basha)	508, 522
Uzdan (Yuzdan) Dovid	260, 429, 430, 431, 508, 518, 520
Uzdan (Uzdensky) Nesoniel Tsvi	508, 522
Utshapofsky [Utshafofsky?]	3014
Ukhtomski (the Baron)	401
Ulgradovitsh [Ulagardovitsh? Ulgrodovitsh?] Vladimir	16
Osovsky, Yehuda Zev	206, 218
Osovsky, Feyga	206, 218
Ostrovsky	75
Ostrovsky, Avrohom	237
Col. 2:	529
Ostrovsky (White Russian cultural activist)	286
Ostrovsky, Dr. Binyomin	56
Ostrovsky, Gershon	97
Ostrovsky (the Wealthy One)	281
Ostrovsky, Hayim	219
Ostrovsky, Tsvi	211
Ostrovsky, Krayna	97
Ussishkin	177, 361
Oytser, Misha	146, 387
Uri Nossn, Rabbi	124, 125
Ahad Ha-Am	25, 328
Etinger	177, 256
Ivanov, Dmitri Ivanovitsh	72, 79, 284
Itshe Borker	368
Itshe "The Columnist"	469
Itshe Gita's	252, 496, 515
Itshe Dovid's	290
Itshe (The Wagon-Driver)	235, 423
Itshe (The Hosid [Hasid] )	98
Itshe (The Preacher)	496, 497, 498, 499
Itshe (The Butcher)	422
Itshe (The Doctor)	215, 447
Itshe (The Tailor)	424
Itshe Leyb	423
Itshe Nota's (The Teacher of Religious School)	117, 293, 517
Itshe Nyek	331
Itshe Rosha's	429
Eiger, Rabbi Akiva	427
Eydlman	119
Ayzik	424
Ayzl (The Klezmer-Player)	45, 277
Ayzntson, Yankev Elya	455
Ayznshtat, Ben-Tsiyen	97, 140
Ayznshtam, Akiva	510
Ayznshtam, Feygl	510
Ayznshteyn, Isroel	395
Aynhorn, Dovid	278
Ayolo, Mota	41, 290, 295
Ayolo, Malka (Gluskin)	42, 180
Ayolo, Stisia (Goldberg) (sic)	48, 55, 56, 78-100
Ilyer, Rabbi Menashe	153, 483
Immerman, Reb Neyekh [Noah]	172
Immerman, Nehemya (Head of the Yeshiva)	58, 76, 77, 81, 105, 115, 164, 274, 283, 317,375, 503
Immerman, Mesl	282
Iskolsky , Rabbi Yankev	224, 411
Iskolsky, Grunya [in the text: Gruna]	224
Col. 3:	529
Isser (Community Leader)	247
Isser (The Crazy One)	293, 294
Isser'l, Reb	360, 361, 486
Isserlin, Rabbi	29
Isserlin, Avrohom	315
Isserlin, Rabbi Yeheyshua Isser	29, 30, 31, 32, 96, 97, 100
Isserlin, Rabbi Yeyna (Reb Yeyna [Yoyna] Slutsker)	21, 27, 35, 100, 315, 316, 317
Isserlin, Reb Mordkha [Mordekhai]	128, 139
Isserlin, Reb Shokhna	9, 100, 103
Isserlish, Reb Meysha	315
Isser'ke (The Wealthy One)	9, 58, 77, 81, 105, 111, 315, 317, 352
Isser'ke's (Synagogue)	96, 97, 100, 274, 279
Issersh [possibly Isserish], Rabbi Avrohom	22
Isserlish, Shokhna	9, 21, 27, 499
Itskovits[h], Shmula	271
Itskovits, Rukhoma	115
Itamar Ben-Avi	119
Algerdov	476
Alterman, Eliyohu	53, 60, 69, 75, 95, 120, 121, 260, 262, 300, 310, 346, 503, 504, 518, 519, 520
Alterman, Yehuda Leyb	503, 522
Alterman, Minka	121
Alterman, Reuven	77, 115, 120, 121, 408, 503
Alterman, Rivka	503, 522
Alterman, Sora (Kleynman [q. v.])	503, 504, 519, 521
Alta (Yankl dem Blindn's [daughter of Yankl the Blind])	458
Alter Mannes	458
Alter Salanter	492
Eily Hinda's	462
Eily Yessela's, Reb	198, 199
Eily Meysha, Reb	124, 125
Elya	404, 405
Elya Dovid's	290
Eliyohu B'Reb Hayim Leyb	283
Eliyohu, Reb (Head of the Rabbinic Court of Pruzhin)	81, 463
Eliyohu (The Klezmer-Player)	366
Eliyohu Leyb (The Butcher)	439
Eliyezer Lipa	417
Eliyashev	295
Eliyashev, Yitzhok	178
Eliyashev, Tille	178
Aleksander, Rabbi	140
Aleksander (Olelko)	16
Col. 4:	529
Alexander II	31, 100
Aleksandroni, Sh.	188
Alkabets, Shlomo	329
Elkona (The Shoemaker)	424
Olshansky, Hayim Berl	364
Andreyev	286
Antukulsky	190, 492
Osofsky, Morris	411, 412, 418
Astakhov, Artemi Andreyevitsh	29, 31
Osterman [Asterman? Esterman?]	239
Asaf, Avrohom	396
Asaf, Alta	185, 420
Asaf, Hayim	218
Asaf, Hana	446, 448, 206
Asaf, Tsvi	205, 214, 260, 261, 262, 396; 521
Asaf, Rabbi Prof. Simkha (Asavsky [Osovsky?] )	11, 77, 107, 185, 205, 207, 208, 218, 260, 274, 394, 420, 447, 448
Ester (The Milkmaid)	118
Oppenheym [Oppenhaym? Ofinheym? Oppenheim], Rabbi Tsvi Yankev	81, 139
Affelman, Rabbi	185, 420
Affelsin, Hayim Meysha	60, 62, 280, 300
Efrayim, Rabbi	198
Efros, Bera	42, 57, 295
Efros, Mirela	274
Efros, Misha	26, 65, 181
Efros, Tsvi Hirsh	30
Efros, Rivka	57
Efros, Rokhl	57
Epshteyn, Dr. (Eye Doctor)	59
Epshteyn, Rabbi	85, 1887
Epshteyn, Avrohom (Abba Arikha)	9, 12, 47, 48, 50, 51, 52, 55, 56, 75, 77, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 107, 108, 119, 134, 136, 154, 162, 171, 274, 283, 299, 310, 389, 402
Epshteyn, Avrohom (son of Meysha [Moishe] Yekhiyel)	47, 53, 56, 299
Epshteyn, Avrohom Borukh	185
Epshteyn, Alter	470
Epshteyn, Dr. Eliyohu	510
Epshteyn, Efroyim	219
Epshteyn, Dveyra	59
Epshteyn, Dunia	59, 282, 300
Epshteyn, Zalmen	11, 204, 219, 221, 222, 224, 274, 393, 389
Epshteyn, Hayim	455
	530
Epshteyn, Hayim Fishl	191
Epshteyn, Yitzhok	11, 219, 221, 222, 224, 274, 389, 393
Epshteyn, Lila	510
Epshteyn, Mikhl	190
Epshteyn, Menahem-Mendl (Reb Mendele)	81
Epshteyn, Reb Meysha	213
Epshteyn, Reb Meysha Mordkha	113
Epshteyn, Nokhum	201, 220, 223, 224
Epshteyn, Nosn Nota	524
Epshteyn, Sasha	59
Epshteyn, Feyga Beyla	220, 223
Epshteyn, Tsvi Yankev	206
Epshteyn, Rivka	514
Epshteyn, Reb Shmuel	190
Akko [Oka, Oko, Akka], Reb Nakhmen	28
Oksenfeld,	308
Aronovitsh, Avrohom	269
Aronzon, Yeysef [Ahonzon/Aronzon: See also Column 1 of this page]	120
Aronzon, Keyla	372
Artshik (the Wagon Driver)	438, 465, 467
Artshik (the Saloon Keeper)	298
Aryey	231
Aryey Leyb, Rabbi	34, 272
Aryey Leyb (Head of the Rabbinical Court)	19
Aryey Leyb (from Kovno)	39
Aryey's	190, 429, 430
Ornboym [Arnboym, Arnbaum], Fanya	60, 115, 300
Ornshteyn [Arnshteyn], Rabbi Tsvi Hirsh	315
Ora (the Saloon Keeper)	4308
Ora (the Ritual Slaughterer)	45
Ora Khrinover [Ora from Khrinov]	190
Artsibashev	48, 300
Artse (The Teacher of Religious School)	467
Arkovitsh	190, 430
Asch, Sholem	242
Eshkol, Levi	521
Eshkol, Elisheva (Elka Kaplan)	71
Eshman, Avinoam
Beyz (Bet)       return
Bakacycz [Bakatsitsh], Jan	270
Baron, Dveyra	11
Badkhn, Meir	519
Badkhn, Elka Dveyra	522
Badkhn, Simkha Leyb	522
Bogoslavski, Jan [monastery]	429
Bodnits, Eliyohu	440
Buzhanka [Major]	250, 249
Botnitsky	169
Boyarsky	285
Bukhbinder (Bonen)	414
Bukharin	69
Bulhak [General Bulak-Balachowicz]	242, 338, 339, 437
Bunim, Rabbi Simkha	35, 272
Bunin	280
Col. 2:	530
Bunin, Dr. Avrohom L.	260, 379, 412, 413, 414
Bunin, Haya	522
Bunin, Lyata	304
Bunin, Lipman	522
Bunin, Marusha	414
Bunin, Sora	522
Bussel [Boosl], Yitzhok	522
Bussel [Boosl], Rokhl	522
Buslavsky, Leyba	42
Bokshitsky	45
Borovsky, Shmuel	431
Borodeyev [Red Army]	454
Borokhov, Ber	48
Borukhovitsh, Mayzl	375
Borukhovitsh, Malka	37, 59
Boris	302
Burshteyn (the Teacher of Religious School)	508
Bezborodko, Dovid	504, 505, 506
Bezborodko, Yeysef	504, 505
Bezborodko, Yeysef-Ahron	505
Bezborodko, Masha Leya	504
Bezborodko, Perl	504
Bezborodko, Tsvi Hillel	30, 504
Bezborodko (Tsuker), Sora	504, 505
Betnshteyn (the Market-stall Keeper)	19
Bialik, Hayim Nahman	14, 75, 108, 119, 136, 173, 218, 327, 390, 392, 418, 448, 458
Beylin, Shmaryohu	47, 257, 299
Beylis	70, 90
Beynshteyn, Rabbi Yekhiyel Mikhl	217
Bildzhikevitsh, Dr.	293
Biller, Ilan	174
Biller, Nekhama (Shpilkin)	174, 375, 414
Biller, Pitkhiya	174
Binshtok, Leyb	388
Bistritsky (Agmon)	60
Birg, Nakhmen [corrected from "Yoyl", as per "Errata" page	531, 53, 75
Beit-Tsvi (Baskin)	396
Bloch, Yeysef Leyb [prominent yeshiva head and lecturer]	199
Blumenfeld, L.	392
Blumshteyn, Alta	48
Blumshteyn	56
Belzer, Rabbi Shleyma	84
Balachowicz [See also Bulak]	141, 437, 448
Blake, William	187
Balashov [Red Army]	343, 344
Ben-Eliyahu	414
Binyomin (the Lunatic)	130, 132, 156, 311
Binyomin (Luletsnik)	209
Binyomin Volf, Rabbi	33
Binyomin B'Reb Hayim Leyb	283
Ben-Ami	91, 136
Ben-Porat, Moshe	483
Ben Peysakh, Yitzhok Yankev	27
Ben Tsvi, Sh. (Rotgun [Retgon, Ratgun])	245
Col. 3:	530
Bassin, Louie	411
Baskin (Tsvi family) Tsvi	64, 119, 174
Baskin, Krayna (Maharshak [q.v.] )	17410
Baskin, Shabse [Shabtai] (Tsvi family)	62, 63, 64, 174
Baal Ha-Tanya [Chabad Rebbe],	127
Belco Rihar	471
Baal Shem Tov, Isroel	11, 98, 101, 124, 125, 349, 350, 351
Bentsha (the Blacksmith)	424
Ber	483
Berl (the Wagon Driver)	488
Berl (the Miller)	423
Berl Khasha's	228, 318
Berl (from Kutshin)	423
Berl Faytl [or Paytl, Peytl]	215
Berka Hazn [Hazan, the Cantor]	477
Betsalel B'Reb Shleyma (the Preacher)	19, 33, 272
Bacalyar (the Lawyer)	295
Becker, Ahron Borukh	180, 361
Becker, Berl	362
Becker, Hayela	361
Becker, Nokhum	362
Becker, Shaya Leyzer	361, 362
Becker, Sora'le	361
Berg, Sylvia	411, 412
Bargin [Bregin, Bergin]	74
Bergman [Bregman], Rokha'le
Berger	119, 240, 242
Berger (the Teacher)	77, 92, 300
Berger (the Teacher's Son)	287
Berger, Yitzhok (from Minsk)	48
Berger, Yitzhok (from Kopulya)	246
Berger, Leyb	91, 240, 468
Berditshevsky, Mikha Yeysef	77
Barhon, Itsik Mikhoel [Mikhl]	281
Barhon, Alter	287
Barhon, Yeysef	278, 280
Barhon, Isroel	44, 276, 280, 281, 288
Barhon, Meysha	59, 287
Barhon, Nokhum Dan (The Head of the Yeshiva)
Barhon, Riva	280
Barhon, Shaya Yova	280
Barhon, Shmaryohu	59, 60, 78, 282, 300, 396
Brodotsky, Yitzhok Tsvi	139
Brodesky	132, 500
Brodetsky, Berl	239
Brodetsky, Dov Ber	233
Broyda, Reb Nokhum Hayim	134
Broyda, Dr.	10411
Broyda, Reb Hayim Meysha	388
Broyds	157, 158
Borukh, Rabbi	22
Borukh Ber, Reb	106, 112, 317
Borukh Ha-Cohen	21
Col. 4:	530
Borukh Rosha's [See also Rosha, Rosha's]	498
Borukh's [See also Sholem Borukh's, under Shin, page 540]	429
Bronshteyn (the Druggist)	42
Bronshteyn, H.	23
Bronshteyn (Appointed Rabbi)	281, 301
Brooks, Reb Nokhum	443
Bryant, William Cullen	187
Brayna	485
Brayna Reyzl	96
Brokhes	295
Berlin, Rabbi Meir	84, 501
Berlin, Naftoli Tsvi	500
Brandstaedter [Mordecai David Brandstaedter, Galician Hebrew writer, social critic, and Zionist]	158
Barenfeld, Shimon	153
Barents [Brents? Brenetz?], H.	235
Barents, Mordkha	239
Brener	14
Berenshteyn	256
Berenshteyn, Yankev Naftoli Hertz	103
Berenshteyn, Isroel	152
Berenshteyn, Leyzer	243
Berenshteyn, Shoel [Shaul]	241, 244
Berenshteyn (Shapiro), Shimon	233
Barsky, Akiva	14
Brevde	375
Berkovitsh, Avrohom-Itshe	417
Berkovitsh, Itshe	487
Berkovitsh, Isser	417, 418
Berkovitsh, Elkhonon	417
Berkovitsh, Borukh	417, 418
Berkovitsh, Basya	417, 418
Berkovitsh, Berl (Tshipeleyer) [from the village of Tshipeley]	417
Berkovitsh, Dvossi	417, 418
Berkovitsh, Yankl	45812
Berkovitsh, I. D. [son-in-law of writer Sholem Aleichem, and author in his own right]	12, 47, 48, 50, 51, 52, 53, 55, 56, 59, 77, 91, 92, 93, 94, 107, 136, 157, 162, 165, 168, 260, 266, 274, 289, 292, 298, 299, 301, 328, 329, 392, 404, 406, 417, 418, 521
Berkovitsh, Yitzhok	436
Berkovitsh, Lipa	136
Berkovitsh, Ezriel Zelig	136
Berkovitsh, Feygl	417, 418
Berkovitsh, R.	330
Berkovitsh, Reuven Leyb	417, 418
Bershadsky	15
Bashevkin	75
Bas-Sheva	90

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