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Nov 24, 2017, 8:38:02 AM11/24/17
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What was it like to make aliyah and find a new life in Eretz Israel?
Rivka Machneimy was a fiercely independent 17 year-old woman and kept a
detailed diary after she went against the advice of her father, Baruch
Hodorenko, a leading Zionist. "How will you earn a living when you have
never worked even one day?" her father asked. "I replied: 'There must be
other people like me and they are working...'" She writes, in the Yizkor
book of Bendery, Moldova of the daily work, struggles and hardships,
including the scourge of malaria that ravaged the settlers who sought to
transform the desert lands and swamps. She performed all sorts of labors
from kitchen work to learning how to drive a truck, and during her time
working in the fields proudly wrote in her diary: "After a few days I was
earning as much as the men." She had a child. This is her story.
URL: https://www.facebook.com/JewishGen.org/posts/1589825717706244
Bruce Drake
Silver Spring MD
Researching: DRACH, EBERT, KIMMEL, ZLOTNICK
Towns: Wojnilow, Kovel
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What was it like to make aliyah and find a new life in Eretz Israel?
Rivka Machneimy was a fiercely independent 17 year-old woman and kept a
detailed diary after she went against the advice of her father, Baruch
Hodorenko, a leading Zionist. "How will you earn a living when you have
never worked even one day?" her father asked. "I replied: 'There must be
other people like me and they are working...'" She writes, in the Yizkor
book of Bendery, Moldova of the daily work, struggles and hardships,
including the scourge of malaria that ravaged the settlers who sought to
transform the desert lands and swamps. She performed all sorts of labors
from kitchen work to learning how to drive a truck, and during her time
working in the fields proudly wrote in her diary: "After a few days I was
earning as much as the men." She had a child. This is her story.
URL: https://www.facebook.com/JewishGen.org/posts/1589825717706244
Bruce Drake
Silver Spring MD
Researching: DRACH, EBERT, KIMMEL, ZLOTNICK
Towns: Wojnilow, Kovel
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Dec 1, 2017, 1:10:51 PM12/1/17
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Many shtetls in the Pale were arenas for political, ideological and social
competition among three groups: the Hasidim, the Zionists and the "Bund" (Der
Algemeyner Yidisher Arbeter Bund, or General Union of Jewish Workers), a group
driven by the young Jewish intelligentsia who sought to make cause with a new
Jewish working class that was woefully underpaid, overworked and discriminated
against. It was Zionism that prevailed in Rokitno (Rokytne) in northwestern
Ukraine, which had formerly been part of the Russian Empire and later Poland.
The "The Origins of the Zionist Movement" from Rokitno's Yizkor book traces the
history of this struggle.
URL: https://www.facebook.com/JewishGen.org/posts/1596222360399913
Bruce Drake
Silver Spring, MD
Many shtetls in the Pale were arenas for political, ideological and social
competition among three groups: the Hasidim, the Zionists and the "Bund" (Der
Algemeyner Yidisher Arbeter Bund, or General Union of Jewish Workers), a group
driven by the young Jewish intelligentsia who sought to make cause with a new
Jewish working class that was woefully underpaid, overworked and discriminated
against. It was Zionism that prevailed in Rokitno (Rokytne) in northwestern
Ukraine, which had formerly been part of the Russian Empire and later Poland.
The "The Origins of the Zionist Movement" from Rokitno's Yizkor book traces the
history of this struggle.
URL: https://www.facebook.com/JewishGen.org/posts/1596222360399913
Bruce Drake
Silver Spring, MD
BDrake@PewResearch.org BDrake@PewResearch.org
Dec 8, 2017, 8:24:00 PM12/8/17
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The shtetl of Czyzewo, which lies about 80 miles northeast of Warsaw, in
Poland, had its own prized community of residents besides the human
inhabitants: goats that roamed its streets and alleys, finding food where
they could. But first and foremost among this herd was the title character
of this Yizkor book chapter: "The Holy Billy Goat." He was a "bokher" that
freely roamed and "people actually honored him and made way." There was
one town resident who didn't share this reverence for the Holy Billy Goat,
but he soon learned his lesson.
URL: https://www.facebook.com/JewishGen.org/posts/1603618619660287
Bruce Drake
Silver Spring, MD
Researching: DRACH, EBERT, KIMMEL ZLOTNICK
The shtetl of Czyzewo, which lies about 80 miles northeast of Warsaw, in
Poland, had its own prized community of residents besides the human
inhabitants: goats that roamed its streets and alleys, finding food where
they could. But first and foremost among this herd was the title character
of this Yizkor book chapter: "The Holy Billy Goat." He was a "bokher" that
freely roamed and "people actually honored him and made way." There was
one town resident who didn't share this reverence for the Holy Billy Goat,
but he soon learned his lesson.
URL: https://www.facebook.com/JewishGen.org/posts/1603618619660287
Bruce Drake
Silver Spring, MD
BDrake@PewResearch.org BDrake@PewResearch.org
Dec 15, 2017, 10:56:53 PM12/15/17
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"For Ten Kilograms of Sugar," from the Yizkor book of Staszow, Poland, is yet
another of the many accounts in this literature of Jews struggling to survive in
the woods while hunted not only by Nazis but also their own neighbors, be they
Poles or, in other cases, Ukrainians. The title of this chapter refers to the 10
kilograms of sugar that the Germans paid Poles in and about Staszow for each Jew
delivered to them. "The fight against our countrymen was incomparably more
difficult than that with the Germans, because the Germans didn't dare to show up
alone in the forest, even during the day, without the active assistance of the
Poles," wrote Perl Golflus. It was an ordeal that only came to an end when the
Russian army liberated the area, prompting Goldflus' father to cry out, ""Children,
we are free."
URL: https://www.facebook.com/JewishGen.org/posts/1612548535433962
Bruce Drake
Silver Spring MD
Researching: DRACH, EBERT, KIMMEL, ZLOTNICK
"For Ten Kilograms of Sugar," from the Yizkor book of Staszow, Poland, is yet
another of the many accounts in this literature of Jews struggling to survive in
the woods while hunted not only by Nazis but also their own neighbors, be they
Poles or, in other cases, Ukrainians. The title of this chapter refers to the 10
kilograms of sugar that the Germans paid Poles in and about Staszow for each Jew
delivered to them. "The fight against our countrymen was incomparably more
difficult than that with the Germans, because the Germans didn't dare to show up
alone in the forest, even during the day, without the active assistance of the
Poles," wrote Perl Golflus. It was an ordeal that only came to an end when the
Russian army liberated the area, prompting Goldflus' father to cry out, ""Children,
we are free."
URL: https://www.facebook.com/JewishGen.org/posts/1612548535433962
Bruce Drake
Silver Spring MD
Researching: DRACH, EBERT, KIMMEL, ZLOTNICK
BDrake@PewResearch.org BDrake@PewResearch.org
Dec 22, 2017, 11:39:51 AM12/22/17
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"A Wedding in Town" from the Yizkor book of Kobylnik (known as Narach since
1964) in northwest Belarus takes us through the incredibly intricate steps
of marriage, from the making of the match to the celebration of the event.
At play was the would-be bride's age, the labor of the matchmaker, the
negotiation of the dowry and the pedigree of the family. Much of this in
Kobylnik was chewed over by the townspeople at large: "Marriage became a
public topic upon which everybody trampled, and this exaggerated curiosity
only ended when the daughter reached the wedding canopy." Things changed
with the times as youth movements brought boys and girls together, resulting
in marriages without matchmakers or middlemen. But the wedding ceremony
remained unchanged and the author gives a lovingly detailed account of one
such celebration.
URL: https://business.facebook.com/JewishGen.org/posts/1619210974767718
"A Wedding in Town" from the Yizkor book of Kobylnik (known as Narach since
1964) in northwest Belarus takes us through the incredibly intricate steps
of marriage, from the making of the match to the celebration of the event.
At play was the would-be bride's age, the labor of the matchmaker, the
negotiation of the dowry and the pedigree of the family. Much of this in
Kobylnik was chewed over by the townspeople at large: "Marriage became a
public topic upon which everybody trampled, and this exaggerated curiosity
only ended when the daughter reached the wedding canopy." Things changed
with the times as youth movements brought boys and girls together, resulting
in marriages without matchmakers or middlemen. But the wedding ceremony
remained unchanged and the author gives a lovingly detailed account of one
such celebration.
URL: https://business.facebook.com/JewishGen.org/posts/1619210974767718
BDrake@PewResearch.org BDrake@PewResearch.org
Dec 29, 2017, 9:29:29 AM12/29/17
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As I've written here before in introducing Yizkor book excerpts, the
coming of the railroads to the shtetls of Eastern Europe starting in the
mid-to-late 19th century brought about big changes, both by connecting
communities and changing the economies and livelihoods in the towns they
reached. But in many towns, the train station represented more than a
place to go in order to greet visitors or to travel somewhere. In
Wyszkow, Poland, 31 miles northeast of Warsaw. the station was a place
for townspeople to gather. "It was at the station that our youthful
dreams appeared to have the possibility of breaking through the daily
routine drudgery. and look through a 'window' to the wide world."
URL: https://www.facebook.com/JewishGen.org/posts/1623615264327289:0
Bruce Drake
Silver Spring, MD
As I've written here before in introducing Yizkor book excerpts, the
coming of the railroads to the shtetls of Eastern Europe starting in the
mid-to-late 19th century brought about big changes, both by connecting
communities and changing the economies and livelihoods in the towns they
reached. But in many towns, the train station represented more than a
place to go in order to greet visitors or to travel somewhere. In
Wyszkow, Poland, 31 miles northeast of Warsaw. the station was a place
for townspeople to gather. "It was at the station that our youthful
dreams appeared to have the possibility of breaking through the daily
routine drudgery. and look through a 'window' to the wide world."
URL: https://www.facebook.com/JewishGen.org/posts/1623615264327289:0
Bruce Drake
Silver Spring, MD
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