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Those who had already died by the time the Yizkor book was published (1963) (B) indicates that the original contains a biographical portrait and (F) indicates a photograph

Surname	First name(s)
AYZNBERG	Stesya (B)
AYZNBERG	Chaim
URMAN	Darbrushka
BOROVYK	Shmuel-Hirsh
BOROVYK	Sheyna Zelda
BOROVYK	Arie (B,F)
BOROVYK YESINOVSKY	Tama
BOROVYK	Shlomo
BOROVYK	Merl
BEN DAVID (GELMAN)	Mikhael (B,F)
BEYZMAN	Velfl
GOLDBERG	Esther
VAKS-YAAKOVI	Etl (B,F)
TKACH	Itzhak-Leyb (B,F)
KAGAN	Yaako
LOPATA	Sara (F)
LOPATA	Chava (B,F)
LAKHMANCHUK	Barukh
LYKHTIGSHTEYN	Dov (B,F)
LYKHTNFELD	Misha
NAFKHAN	Moshe (B,F)
NAKHMAN	Sheyndl
PERL	Chaim (B,F)
KATZMAN	Raskin Hinde
KATZMAN	Gershon (B,F)
KRYVORUCHKA-MIMON	Rakhel (B,F)
RYZHY	Itzhak (B,F)

Surname	First name(s)
ABELSON	Chaim
ABELSON	Reuven
URMAN	Zee
URMAN	Lea
URMAN	Sara
AYZNBERG-BEN ARIE	Rakhel
AYZNBERG-MENDLBOYM	Rina
AYZNBERG	Khava
BOROVYK-AVIV	Ephraim
BOROVYK	Shmuel
BOROVYK	Shlomo
BOROVYK	Sara-Riva
BOROVYK NAGEL	Dvora
BOROVYK VALLENSKY	Lea
BOROVYK-IGER	Rivka
BOROVYK	Nisan
BOROVYK ZISKOVICH	Khayke
BOROVYK ROZENBERG	Itka
BOROVYK HALPERIN	Rivka
BEYZMAN	Hillel
BEYZMAN	Rakhel
BEYZMAN	Natan
BOLIAR	Eliahu
GEMPL VALLERSHTEYN	Shoshana
GUTMAN	Israel
GUTMAN	Zalman
GUTMAN	Dobrushka
GOLDBERG	Yaakov
GOLDBERG	Eliahu
GEKLMAN ANAVI	Yaffa
GEKLMAN ANAVI	Rakhel
GEKLMAN PATISHI	Tzipora
GELMAN	Pinkhas
GARBUR	Malka
GOTTLIEB	Itzhak
GOTTLIEB	Arie
GOTTLIEB	Pnina
DURCHYN-KOPYT	Sara
VAKS YASINOVSKY	Khaya
VAKS	Yaakov
VAKS EGOZI	Meir
VAKS	Shoshana
VAKS-VELVART	Ruth
VINNIK	Tzvi
ZOLIAR	Itzhak
ZOLIAR-ROTBERG	Mina
ZOLIAR-SHMUKLERMAN	Nekhama
KHOVERS	Yehoshua
KHAZNCHUK	Yona
KHAZNCHUK	Mordekhai
KHAZNCHUK	Avraham
KHAZNCHUK	Tzvi
KHAZNCHUK SHLOVSKY	Malka
KHAZNCHUK GOLDBERG	Esther
TKACH	Dov
TKACH ILAN	Dina
TKACH	Khaya
TKACH	Betzalel
TKACH	Shmuel
TREGER	Reuven
YAKHNYUK-YONIEL	Zee
KATZ	Pessakh
KATZ	Zee
LOPATA	Aharon
LOPATA	Itzhak
LOPATYN-COHEN	Lea
LOPATYN	Yehoshua
LOPATYN-RUBINSHTEYN	Pnina
LOPATA HERSHKOVYCH	Gitl
LOPATA	Freyd Gitl
LOPATA-ERLYKH	Khaviva
LOPATA	Mordekhai
LOPATA MENDLBOYM	Breyndl
LOPATA POMMERANTZ	Yehudit
LIKHTNFELD	Dov
LIKHTNFELD	Itzhak
LIEBERMAN	Moshe
LIEBERMAN PLANT	Mikhale
LIEBERMAN SMOKAT	Bella
LIEBERMAN	Yaakov
LEVIN	Mordekhai Hersh
NAFKHAN DAN	Rivka
NAFKHAN SADDE	Sara
NAFKHAN TZAM	Chava
NAFKHAN	Aharon Barukh
NAFKHAN PERLMAN	Itka
NAFKHAN GOLDSHTEYN	Dvora
NAFKHAN	Breyndl
NAFKHAN	Yaakov
FELDMAN LIFSHITZ	Khana
FELDMAN NEGBI	Esther
PETRUKH MORAVNYK	Sara
PETRUKH LYKHTIGSHTEYN	Rivka
PETRUKH	Itzhak
FIALKOV	Gitl
FIALKOV	Rivka
FIALKOV	Arie
PERL	Gershon
PERLMAN	Chaim
PERLSHTEYN	Eliezer
FISHMAN	Chaim
FIKMAN SHIBEK	Ganya
TZUPERIK	David
TZUPERIK	Chaya
KAFTAN	Yona
KAFTAN	Tzvi Dov
KAFTAN ZUBOVICH	Bruria
KIKHL KENDLSHTEYN	Bonya
KORTACH BAHARAV	Lea
KORTACH SHTEYN	Pnina
KATZMAN	Meir
KATMAN	Itzhak
KATZMAN BEN ASSAF	Esther
KOLKOVSKY	Mordekhai
KRYVORUCHKY	Amir Yehoshua
KRYVORUCHKY NOMBERG	Roza
KOLODNY ELONI	Mina
RYZHY	Pinkhas
RYZHY	Avraham
RYZHY	Tzetzira Breyndl
RABINOVYCH LESSET	Sara
SHNAYDER VITON	Golda
SHNAYDER FEFFER	Pnina
SHNAYDER	Itzhak
SHTOPER ZAMIR	Zehava
SHTOPER-NUSBOYM	Tamar
SHTOPER	Aharon
SHTOPER SHAPIR	Zee
SHABBATI	Aaron
SHABBATI	Moshe
SHABBATI EFORI	Shifra
SHABBATI	Mordekhai
SHER	Dov
SHEYNMAN	Arie
SHEYNMAN COHEN	Pnina
SHUSTER GLIK	Esther
SHUSTER	Berchik
SHIFF	Yaakov
SHLYAPEK	Yehuda

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In the Martyrs' Forest of Keren Kayemet on the approach road to Jerusalem

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At the unveiling of the sign 'Vysotsk Copse' in the Martyrs' Forest of Keren Kayemet on the road to Jerusalem (Eshtaol) ….. 1957 From right to left, top row, sitting: Rivka Fialkov, Aharon Shtoper, Itzhak Zolyar, Rivka Nafkhan, Israel Gutman, Lea Lopatyn, Miriam Gutman, Pesl Lopatyn; Second row from top, sitting: Zalman Gutman, Gitl Fialkov; Standing: Sara Rabinovych, Shoshana Vaks, Sara Petrukh, a female visitor, Israel Yaakovi, Dvora Abramovych-Neshkes

Admor (pl.–im)	adoneynu (our Master) moreynu (our Teacher) verabeynu (our Rabbi)
Aliyah	literally ‘ascent’, emigration to the Land of Israel
Aliyot	literally ‘ascents’, the honour of being called up to the bimah (readers’ platform) to chant a blessing before and after the cantor reads from the Torah
Amidah	‘Standing prayer’, originally consisting of 18 blessings, is the central prayer of Jewish liturgy, recited three times a day
Aron Hakodesh	Holy Ark
Bimah	platform in a synagogue from where the Torah is read
Brit (bris) mila	circumcision
Bund	a non-Zionist Jewish socialist movement founded in 1897 to represent Jews throughout Imperial Russia. It supported the 1917 February revolution but opposed the October Revolution. In 1921 it ceased to function in the Soviet Union but remained active in Poland (and in the United States)
Chabad (ch=kh)	Khokhma (Wisdom), Bina (Understanding) and Da’at (Knowledge), the name of a northern branch of Chassidism
Chassidism(ch=kh)	Chassidism, founded by Rabbi Israel ben Eliezer (1698-1760, commonly known as Ba’al Shem Tov), quickly attracted a huge following among the Jewish masses of the Ukraine. It emphasised prayer and devotion, in contrast to the academic rabbinical orthodoxy prevalent in Lithuania
Cheyder(ch=kh)	private school providing a traditional religion-based education (see Melamed below)
Chumash(ch=kh)	the five books of Moses or Pentateuch (see also under Torah)
Chupa(ch=kh)	wedding canopy
Eretz Israel	the Land of Israel
Et Livnot	‘A time to build’ (Ecclesiastes 3,3), a relatively conservative, middle-class strand of Zionism
Eyn Yaakov	‘Jacob’s Eye’, a book of tales and homilies from the Talmud, previously popular among the masses, collected by Rabbi Yaakov ben Shlomo Ibn Khaviv, probably in the early 17th century
Gaon	‘genius’, a title for a rabbi indicating great respect
Gemara	section of the Talmud (see also under Talmud)
Goy	non-Jew
Hagaddah	The story of Passover
Halacha (ch=kh)	Jewish law
Hanukkah (h=kh)	the 8-day Festival of Lights starting on the 25th day of Kislev (December) marking the re-dedication of the Second Temple in Jerusalem following the successful uprising of the Maccabees
HaPoel HaTzair	‘The Young Worker’
HaShomer HaTzair	‘Young Guard’, a leftist Zionist youth movement
HaTkufa	‘The Era’, a Hebrew-language literary journal published in Poland
HaTsfira	‘The Dawn’, the first Hebrew-language journal in Poland, founded in 1862. It ceased publication in 1927
HaZman	‘The Time’, a daily Hebrew-language newspaper published in Vilna (Vilnius) from 1904 until 1915
Havdalah	the ceremony marking the end of Sabbath and holidays and the start of a new week
He'Atid	‘The Future’, the newspaper of the Khalutz, published in Warsaw
HeKhalutz	the Zionist pioneer movement
HeKhalutz HaBoger	Adult Pioneers
HeKhalutz HaTzair	Young Pioneers
Hitakhdut	‘Union’, a Zionist Labour party founded in 1920, merging HaPoel HaTzair (the Young Worker) and Tzeirei Tzion (Young Zionists)
Horah	Jewish/Israeli round dance originally from the Balkans
Kadima	‘Forwards’, the temporary name of the local Zionist youth movement
Kaddish	Prayer for the dead
Keren Kayemet	Jewish National Fund, founded in 1901 in order to buy and develop land in Palestine for Jewish settlement
Keren HaYesod	United Jewish Appeal, founded in 1920, the main international fundraising organisation
Khazan	cantor in synagogue, leading the congregation in public prayers
Kibbutz (pl.-im)	training camp in Poland, forerunner of collective agricultural settlement in Israel
Kiddush HaShem	'Sanctification of the Name': bringing honour, respect and glory to God
KKL	Keren Kayemet l’Israel (see above)
Kleyzmer (pl.-morim)	musician(s)
Kol Nidrei	prayer recited at the start of the Day of Atonement
Kolbo	'everything in it’, the standard term for a small general store on an Israeli kibbutz
Lag BaOmer	festival, 33 days after Passover
LeChaim	‘Cheers’
Luakh	calendar indicating, week by week, the start and end of the Sabbath
Maari	evening prayer
Melamed (pl.-dim)	teacher in a cheyder (see above)
Melave Malka	‘Accompanying the Queen’, the third and final meal of the Sabbath
Midrash	commentaries on and interpretations of the Bible
Mikva	ritual bath
Mincha (ch=kh)	afternoon prayer
Minyan	quorum of ten men required for reciting prayers in the synagogue
Mishnah	the ‘oral law’ handed by God to Moses on Mount Sinai but not included in the Bible
Misnagdim	followers of Lithuanian rabbinical orthodoxy opposed to Chassidism
Mussaf	an additional service, following the morning service, on Sabbath and festivals
Moshava	settlement in Eretz Israel, originally agricultural
Ole (pl. olim)	emigrant(s) to Eretz Israel
Pessach	Passover
Poalei-Tzion	‘Workers of Zion’, an independent Zionist-socialist party, divided into Left and Right
Purim	a festival that takes place on either the 14th or 15th day of the month of Adar (usually late March). marking the victory of the Jews over their Persian oppressors (see Book of Esther)
Purimshpil	(Purim-game) Purim folk theatre dating back at least to the 17th century which parodies the main characters in the biblical story
Rashi	acronym for Rabbi Shlomo Yitzhaki, who wrote the first commentaries on the Bible and Talmud
Rov	local Chassidic rabbi
Reb	appellation denoting respect = Mr
Rebbe	dynastic Chassidic rabbi
Rebbitzin	wife of local Chassidic rabbi
Seder	a ritual feast marking the start of Passover
Sefer Torah	handwritten copy of the Torah used during synagogue services and kept in the Aron Kodesh (Holy Ark)
Shabbes sholem	standard salutation on the Sabbath
Shavuot	holiday on the sixth day of the month of Sivan (late May or early June) commemorating the day God gave the Torah to Moses
Shekel (pl. shkalim)	certificates issued in return for payment of annual dues to the World Zionist Organisation
Sheygetz (pl. shkotzim)	Gentile man
Shiktze	Gentile woman
Shiva	seven days of mourning
Shoah	Holocaust, genocide of c. 6 million Jews in the Second World War
Shofar	ram’s horn
HaShomer HaTzair	Young Guard, left-wing Zionist youth movement
Shtetl	small town
Shtibl (pl.shtiblekh)	small prayer house(s)
Shulkhan Arukh	a manual of halacha (Jewish law) from the 16th century
Siddur	prayer book
Simkhat Torah	‘rejoicing in the Torah’ (see below), a festival marking the completion of the annual cycle of Torah readings
Slikhes (slikhot)	penitential prayers
Sukkot	the 7-day Feast of Tabernacles (between late September and late October), when Jews eat (and sometimes sleep) in temporary structures partially open to the sky, recalling the forty years in the desert following the Exodus from Egypt
Talis(talit)	prayer mantle
Talmud	collection of rabbinical discussions on the Bible, Jewish law, ethics etc.
Talmud Torah	a school providing a traditional religion-based education, free of charge for poorer pupils
Tarbut	‘Culture’, a network of Hebrew-language educational institutions founded in 1922
Targum	Aramaic translation of the Hebrew Bible
Tefilin	a small leather box containing hand-written passages from the Scriptures
Tisha be’Av	the 9th day of the month of Av (July), a day of mourning marking the tragedies that have befallen the Jewish people
Torah	‘Law’, the first five books of the Bible as revealed by God to Moses
Tu BeShvat	the 15th day of the month of Shevat (January-February) when various fruits (presumably dried) and nuts were eaten
Tzadik (pl.-im)	the title of Tzadik (‘righteous one’), usually given to somebody of exceptional spirituality such as a rebbe
Tzeirei Tzion	Young Zionists
Tzionim Klaliim	General Zionists, centrists
Yamim Noraim	‘Days of Awe’, the period between the New Year and the Day of Atonement
Yeshiva (pl.-ot)	religious seminary
Yerida	return from the Land of Israel (opposite of Aliyah)
Yizkor	memorial prayer service that takes place four times a year. The term was also used for the memorial books commemorating the Jewish communities destroyed during the Second World War
Yom Kippur	Day of Atonement
Yored (pl. yordim)	returnee(s) from the Land of Israel Zionist Organisation the umbrella organisation of the Zionist movement, which later became the World Zionist Organisation, was founded in 1897 at the First Zionist Congress in Basle, Switzerland
Zohar	written in Aramaic, the basic work of Jewish mysticism, the Kabbalah

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