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Excommunication is a term most frequently heard in the context of
Catholic excommunication, but it also exists in Jewish tradition,
known in the Torah as "herem," This week's excerpt is a short one
from the Yizkor book of Wyzszkow, a town about 30 miles northeast
of Warsaw. (In 1897, it had a Jewish population of 3,200 in 1897
and in 1921, shortly before the event described in this excerpt,
about 4,400). In his account titled "The Excommunication (der
kheyrem)", Borukh Yismakh/Ismaj describes such an event and how it
shook and divided the community.

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Bruce Drake
Silver Spring MD

Researching: DRACH, EBERT, KIMMEL, ZLOTNICK
Towns: Wojnilow, Kovel
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The fear of being put out of work by advances in technology has been
around since the Industrial Revolution, and is back with us today as
people wonder how robotics and Artificial Intelligence will affect
human jobs. And so it was true even in the shtetls of Eastern Europe
as described in this excerpt from the Yizkor book of Kalish in Poland.
Working in a textile factory was a grueling job in the best of times
and usually did little to raise laborers out of poverty. In "The
Clattering Machines," Simon Horonchik wites of the "monotonous days
ran on like long grey threads" with "the only ray of light for which
their eyes looked out was the Eve of Sabbath and the Sabbath." Then
the threaders and embroiderers worried about a darker future when the
new machines arrived.

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Bruce Drake
Silver Spring, MD

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The title of this week's excerpt from the Yizkor book of Mikulince in western
Ukraine tells the story: "A Baby Girl Captured by the Gentiles." The author, Zalman
Pelz, and several members of his family survived the destruction of the town by the
Germans and were later taken to a camp in Siberia by the Russians. When Jews were
allowed to return to Poland after the liberation, Pelz learned as he embarked on
the trip that his sister, realizing her end was at hand in the ghetto, gave her
daughter to a Polish woman on the condition that the child would be given back if
any member of the family had survived. The story then takes a long and torturous
path, but I won't spoil the ending.

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Bruce Drake
Silver Spring MD