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This week's excerpt is a newly-published chapter in the Yizkor book
of Kovel, which is one of my projects. In it, Mordechai Leiberson
gives an account of his return to Kovel after the war, which will be
of special interest to those particularly interested in Kovel since
he gives an almost street-by-street account of the extent to which
the Jews and the places where they lived and worked and prayed had
all but vanished. During its history, Kovel had passed from Russian
rule to Polish and back to Poland, before becoming part of the
Ukraine. It was a major railroad hub which made it a major strategic
objective in both world wars. When the Germans invaded in 1941, there
were over 17,000 Jews in Kovel, about half the city's population. The
community was wiped out in Oct., 1942. When Leiberson returned, he
found "a great wasteland." There is also a KehilaLinks site for Kovel:
http://kehilalinks.jewishgen.org/kovel/kovel.htm .

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Bruce Drake
Silver Spring, MD

Researching: DRACH, EBERT, KIMMEL, ZLOTNICK
Towns: Wojnilow, Kovel
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One of the interesting studies of the Jewish communities of Eastern Europe is
how language and dialects varied. In some towns, struggles between the use of
Yiddish or Hebrew raged. Some schools conducted lessons in Hebrew and some in
Yiddish. Similarly, some congregations conducted services in Hebrew and others
in Yiddish. But there were differences even among the varieties of Yiddish that
were spoken.

In this excerpt from the Yizkor book of Bedzin in Poland, Dawid L. writes of
the dialect used there (including a mouthwatering list of names for popular
Jewish dishes since, as Dawid L. notes, "Bedziners were known as great eaters").
Bedzin was 38 miles from Krakow, and in 1900 had a Jewish population of nearly
11,000.

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Bruce Drake
Silver Spring MD

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With the arrival of Passover, I have collected some excerpts about
the holiday from a number of JewishGen Yizkor books. From the book
of Antopol in Belarus, a description of the preparations, from the
cleaning of the house to the setting of the Seder table. From Stryzow
in Poland, more on the gathering of the foods for the feast. From
the book of Belki, once part of Hungary and Slovakia, and now in the
Ukraine, the search at the height of winter for the best ducks and
geese. From Debica, Poland, the baking of matzah shmura. And again
from the book of Belki, a short passage about the religious ritual at
the Seder table.

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Bruce Drake
Silver Spring, MD