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Translation of
Wolozyn; sefer shel ha-ir-shel yeshivat “Ets Hayim”
Edited by: E. Leoni
Published in Tel-Aviv, 1970
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| Introductions | 2 | |
| Volozhin | Isser Yehuda Unterman, Chief Rabbi of Israel | 3 |
| The Power of Volozhyn | Rabbi Tsvi Neriya | 7 |
| The Book of Volozhyn | Eliezer Leoni (Ben David) | 11 |
| History of the Community of Volozhin | Eliezer Leoni | 19 |
| Sources Regarding the History of the Jews in Volozhin | Eliezer Leoni | 66 |
| The History of Yeshiva “Etz Hayim” & its leaders | Eliezer Leoni | 75 |
| The Volozhyn Genealogy Chain | Eliezer Leoni | 152 |
| Among the Great “Ets Hayim” Yeshiva disciples | Eliezer Leoni | 160 |
| Origins for the history of Volozhyn “ets Hayim” Yeshiva | Eliezer Leoni | 169 |
| The Rabinnic School in Volozhyn | Rabbi Shimon Langbert | 188 |
| The Yeshiva during Rabbi Refoel Shapiro period | Dr. Hirsh Leyb Gordon | 197 |
| The Volozhyn Scholars | 202 | |
| Three Torah Pillars in Volozhin | Eliezer Leoni | 205 |
| The Gaon Rabbi Hayim Hillel Fried | Chaikel Lunsky of blessed memory | 221 |
| The Rabbi and Gaon Rabbi Rafael Shapira | Yitzchak Rivkind | 224 |
| Rabbi Moshe Shmuel Shapiro | Shimon Zak | 230 |
| Rabbi Meir Bar-Ilan (Berlin) | Shimon Zak | 233 |
| Harav Shmuel Avigdor Derechinski's House | Yona Ben-Sason-Derechinski | 238 |
| Savants Conversations | Eliezer Leoni | 246 |
| The Volozhyn graduates - tradition followers | Eliezer Leoni | 277 |
| Mordehay Eliyashberg- Publicist | Eliezer Leoni | 278 |
| Moshe Mordhay Epstein | Eliezer Leoni | 281 |
| Yehuda Leyb Don-Yihya | Eliezer Leoni | 284 |
| Alter Droyanov-Writer, “Book of Jewish Jokes” author | Eliezer Leoni | 285 |
| Klonimus Zev Visotski | Eliezer Leoni | 288 |
| Leyb Yaffe - national poet | Eliezer Leoni | 289 |
| Mordhay Gimpel Yaffe - among Ekron settlement founders (1883) | Eliezer Leoni | 292 |
| Shmuel Mohaliver - among Ekron settlement founders (1883) | Eliezer Leoni | 294 |
| Essar Zalman Meltzer | Eliezer Leoni | 298 |
| Mordehay Nahmani - among Rehovot settlement founders (1902) | Eliezer Leoni | 300 |
| Itshak Nisenboym - “nezah Isroel' society's Chairman (1892-94) | Eliezer Leoni | 301 |
| Yosef Zundl Salant - ascended Jerusalem ((1837) | Eliezer Leoni | 302 |
| Shmuel Salant | Eliezer Leoni | 303 |
| Avraham Itskhok Hakohen Kook - Jerusalem Yeshiva “beyt Harav” founder | Eliezer Leoni | 305 |
| Itshak Ryvkind-Volozhyn Yeshiva's history investigator | Eliezer Leoni | 307 |
| Itshak Yaakov Rayness-Founder off the “Mizrahi” Movement | Eliezer Leoni | 310 |
| Origins for the above Graduates chapter | Eliezer Leoni | 312 |
| 316 | ||
| A bundle of memories - before the First World War | Osher Malkin | 317 |
| Inside Volozhyn | Avraham Halevy | 330 |
| The Volozhyn Yeshiva and Town during the Time of Rabbi Raphael Schapiro | Aharon Zvi Dudman-Dudayi | 332 |
| Looking back (Memories from the Time of First World War) | Yehuda Chaim Kotler | 333 |
| The Flour Mill, Electricity and the First Movie House in Volozhyn | Michael Vand-Polack | 336 |
| Estate Owners in Volozhyn | Meir Shiff | 338 |
| Flour and Torah in Volozhyn | Chaim Zvi Potashnik | 340 |
| Market Days in Volozhyn | Israel Levinson | 342 |
| Volozhin during the First World War | Reuven Rogovin | 343 |
| Volozhin Memories | Shoshana Nishri-Berkovich | 365 |
| I Shall Remember You, Volozhin | Pesach Berman | 370 |
| Volozhinka – the town stream | Yakov Kagan | 381 |
| Zabrezhe | Moshe Eliyashkevitch | 382 |
| Mijeyki (hamlet) | Barukh Tsivony (Farberman) | 385 |
| Yuzefpol Estate | Benyamin Kutshovski | 386 |
| Volozhin Stories | Benyamin Shafir (Shishko) | 388 |
| The Zionist movement | 392 | |
| Tseyirey Zion (Zion's Youngsters) in Volozhin | Shlomo Bunimovits+Z Rogovin | 393 |
| The “Hakhaluts” (Pioneer) in Volozhin | Group of pioneers | 396 |
| Hahshara (training) of Pioneers in Yuzefpol | Lea Nahshon (Shif) | 405 |
| The Hakhshara group of the “Hakhaluts Hamizrakhi” | Ariye Haruts | 405 |
| Beytar in Volozhyn | Group of Beytar members | 410 |
| “Shomer Hatsayir” Hakhshara in Volozhin | Rachel Knaani (Berman) | 422 |
| Keren Kayemet L' Israel (JNF) in Volozhin | Benyamin Shapir (Shishko) | 425 |
| Education & Art | 430 | |
| The Hebrew Tarbut School | Group of graduates | 431 |
| Culture war in Volozhyn | Benyamin Shapir (Shishko) | 440 |
| The Volozhin Kindergarten | Miryam Levitan (Rosbberg) | 443 |
| The Library | Fruma Guzman (Yuzefovitz) | 445 |
| Religious Education in the Thirties | Menahem Mendel Potashnik | 446 |
| Polish schools in Volozhyn | Miryam Levitan (Rosbberg) | 451 |
| “The Sale of Yossef” show | Reuven Rogovin | 454 |
| Plays that I recall | Fruma Tzevner | 456 |
| “Maccabi” football team | Reuven Rogovin | 460 |
| Figures & Types | 463 | |
| Emissaries, Rabbis and Slaughterers | Eliezer Leoni | 465 |
| Rabbi Zvi Yehuda Namiot (aka “Der Shaliver”) | Benyamin Shafir (Shishko) | 470 |
| Rabbi Shmuel Fried | Benyamin Shafir (Shishko) | 471 |
| My father, Rabbi Yehoshua Hacohen Kaplan Z”L | Rabbi Meir Hacohen Kaplan | 472 |
| The Slaughterers of Valozhyn (Before the Second World War) | Moshe Elishkevitsh | 473 |
| Rabbi's Wives (“Rebbetzin”) | ||
| Rebbetzin Feyga Unterman | Rabbi Israel Shapiro | 474 |
| Rayne Batya Berlin, (A granddaughter of Rabbi Chaim of Volozhin) | Rabbi Bharuch Halevy Epstein Z”L | 475 |
| Batiya Miryam Berlin, born Epstein, the spouse of Hanaziv, Meyir Bar-Elan's mother | By Meyir Berlin | 476 |
| My Grandmother Miryam | Tova Berlin-Papish | 479 |
| The Cheder of Rabbi Betzalel the Melam | Rachel Rogovin (Rubinstein) | 482 |
| Our Melamdim | Reuven Rogovin | 483 |
| Rabbi Kalev the Melamed | Reuven Rogovin | 484 |
| Rabbi Avraham Gorellick | Reuven Rogovin | 484 |
| My father, the Melamed Rabbi Moshe Shlomo Volkovitz | Mendl Volkovitz | 485 |
| Yakov Lifshits, The Tarbut school manager and teacher | Benyamin Shapir (Shishko) | 486 |
| Noach Perski | Benyamin Shafir (Shishko) | 487 |
| The teacher Reb Eliyahu Shvarzberg | One of his disciples | 488 |
| Avrom Berkovitsh | Fruma Zitrin (Rogovin) | 490 |
| Yaakov (Yani) Garber | Lea Baksht (Faygenboym) | 492 |
| Reb Isroel Lunin | Shulamit Golovenchitz-Berger | 493 |
| My Grandfather Reb Menahem Mendl Potashnik | Hayim Ashlagi | 495 |
| Doctor Avrum Zart | Shoshana Nishri (Berkovitz) | 496 |
| Shneur Kivilevitsh | Reuven Rogovin | 498 |
| Grand Father Rabbi Aharon Rapoport | Miryam Levitan (Rosenberg) | 500 |
| Rabbi Avraham “Asher Yatzar” | Yaakov Kagan | 501 |
| Rabbi Moshe Eliyahu Bunimovitz | Rabbi Dov-Natan Brinker (Z”L) | 502 |
| Rabbi Shlomo Hosid (R' Shlomo Shepsnvol) | David Kohen | 505 |
| Figures I knew | Reuven Rogovin | 506 |
| Reb Avrom Hayim Marshak | Israel Ben Nahum (Goloventtsitz) | 510 |
| The GrandMa Rohe Reyze | Israel Ben Nahum (Goloventtsitz) | 511 |
| Patcholke - The Famous Hostel Owner | A. Litvin | 513 |
| Dov Ber Kaplan | Yehuda Chaim Kotler | 515 |
| A “Luft Gesheft” Story | Benyamin Shafir (Shishko) | 517 |
| Mera Schnyder - “Merke Ela's” | Dina & Lea Faygenboym | 519 |
| We shall remember them | Benyamin Shafir (Shishko) | 520 |
| Before the Shoa - Volozhyn in the Shoa shadow | Bela Saliternik (Kramnik) | 525 |
| The Soviet regime Period | 527 | |
| Under the Soviet regime | Rachel & Reuven Rogovin | 529 |
| Volozhyn Under the Soviet regime | Mendl Goldshmit | 532 |
| During the Soviet rule in Volozhyn | Pnina Hayat (Potashnik) | 533 |
| The destruction of Volozhyn | Yosef Shvarzberg | 535 |
| S H O A | 541 | |
| “The German Thunder” | The Editor | 541 |
| The Destruction of Volozhyn | Mendl Volkovitsh | 542 |
| Atrocities at the Volozhin Jews extermination | Hesl Perski | 546 |
| The Big Slaughter | Mendl Volkovitch | 548 |
| What I have seen with my eyes | Pnina Hayat (Potashnik) | 550 |
| Pages about the Volozhin Holocaust | Fruma Lifshits (Gapanovitsh) | 554 |
| A girl's memoirs on the Shoa | Sonia Puter (Perski) | 561 |
| A Ballad About Shneur Kivelevitch | Mendl Volkovitch | 562 |
| In the Ghetto and in the forced labor camps | Luba Volkovitsh (Girkus) | 569 |
| Franz Karl Hess - The Volozhyn hangman | From Soviet trial-Minsk 1946 | 576 |
| In the Volozhin Ghetto and in revenge actions | Yaakov Kagan | 580 |
| Nissan Perski's death | Simhe Rogovin | 583 |
| On the suffering route | Mendl Volkovitsh | 584 |
| Wandering and struggling | Rachel & Reuven Rogovin | 586 |
| My life as partisan | Hesl Perski | 588 |
| Partisans - Volozhiners who died in battle | Hesl Perski | 589 |
| Our post war visiting Volozhin | Rachel & Reuven Rogovin | 592 |
| Volozhin as I saw it in 1945 | Moshe Eliyashkevitsh | 593 |
| Izkor (remember) - The flames | Sara Shlomovitsh (Rapoport) | 594 |
| Calendar dates of World War Two | Eliezer Leoni | 596 |
| Izkor - Remember | 601 | |
| And those are the holy and pure names of the Volozhyn born | Eliezer Leoni | 603 |
| Dear Mother! | Yehuda Khaim Kotler | 604 |
| Volozhyn - Martyrs (1275 names) | Editorial team | 605 |
| From One Generation to Another and to Eternity | 617 | |
| Bar-Ilan University & it's President Professor Pinchas Churgin | Eliezer Leoni | 619 |
| Kibbutz “Ein HaNatziv” | Eli Avisar | 624 |
| Israel Rogozin | Yitzhak Yaakobi | 628 |
| The Association of the Descendants of Volozhyn in Israel | Eliezer Leoni | 630 |
| Fallen Sons of Volozhyn in Israel's War of Independence | Editorial team | 664 |
| Benyamin Perah - Ind. War | Editorial team | 664 |
| Hayim Perski- Ind. War | Editorial team | 665 |
| Eliezer Rogovin - partisan, decorated as USSR Hero-Ind. War | Editorial team | 666 |
| To Eliezer Rogovin's memory | Yaffa Abramovitsh | 667 |
| Volozhyners in America (Page 15 Eng.) | Dr. Avraham Yoblons | 669 |
| Prologue (Page 15 Eng.) | Dr. Avraham Yoblons | 669 |
| Acknowledgements (Page 15 Eng.) | Dr. Avraham Yoblons | 669 |
| Introductions (Page 16 Eng.) | Dr. Avraham Yoblons | 669 |
| Commeration (Page 17 Eng.) | Dr. Avraham Yoblons | 671 |
| American Committee (Page 25 Eng.) | Dr. Avraham Yoblons | 677 |
| Editor Thanking the helping team | Eliezer Leoni | 679 |
| The Destruction of Volozhyn (Page 30 Eng.) | Mendl Volkovitsh | 685 |
| I remember Volozhyn (Page 26 Eng.) | Irving Bunim | 689 |
| Pictures of Volozhyners killed in Shoah | attachment | 702 |
| Volozhyners dead after the war in Israel, America, Volozhyn | attachment | 728 |
| Table of contents | Editorial team | 743 |
| End | 747 | |
| Supplementary material | ||
| Volozhin at the end of the 20th century: | ||
| Volozhin 2000 - Map, legend, description | ||
| Ets Hayim Yeshiva - Kulinaria, Memorial plaque. Photos, description | ||
| First mass slaughter Memorial (Sport Stadium) - Photos, description | ||
| Second mass slaughter Memorial (2000 victims) - Photos, description | ||
| Third mass slaughter Memorial (Volozhinka Stream Bed) - Photos, description | ||
| The Ancient Cemetery - Schema, Legend (Yr. 2000) | ||
| The Ancient Cemetery - Sheep Pasture field - Photo's (Yr. 1988) | ||
| Volozhiners at the tombstones, photos (Yr. 1998) | ||
| Old tombstones-Gitl Bunimovitsh, Tsart, Sonia Perski -(1998 & 1988 photos) | ||
| Victims mass graves on the cemetery (1988 & 1998 photos) | ||
| Cemetery Memorials to the Volozhin congregation and to Rabbi Hayim Volozhiner | ||
| Volozhin Martyrs Memorial in Tel Aviv, Photos & Story (1980) | ||
| Babushka Khaya's letter | ||
| Red Cross activity | ||
| Our Parents' Saw & Grist Mills - By M. Perlman | ||
| Volozhin Memorial inauguration, 1980 | ||
| Jews who lived in predominantly gentile hamlets neighboring Volozhin | ||
| How did I survive - By Leyzer Meltser | ||
| The Zionist Movement | ||
| A look at the country's history | ||
| Childhood In Volozhin | ||
| List of martyrs in Cyrillic [From Volozhyn - Martyrs (1275 names)] | ||
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