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Anti-semitism in the shtetls of Europe is hardly a new topic but what I found
interesting in this chapter in the Yizkor book of Szumsk (Shums'k) in western
Ukraine was Shlomo Batt's account of how, starting as a boy, he learned about it
and experienced it, including an incident from when he was about seven that was his
first experience of it. He also notes the ambivalent attitude some held about Poles
who "suffered and were oppressed for many years and the anti-semitic feelings that
caused them to act irrationally."

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Researching: DRACH, EBERT, KIMMEL, ZLOTNICK
Towns: Wojnilow, Kovel
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Aug 4, 2017, 8:29:04 PM8/4/17
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I have a weakness for Yizkor book stories about food. This one is from the Book of
Borshchiv in southeast Ukraine. One of the foods celebrated is kugel which, the
writer says, "played a great role in the life of the Jews" and spawned many
proverbs, such as "If you said of someone that he eats kugel in the middle of the
week, you are saying that things could not be better for him."

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In "How They Spent leisure Time," from the Yizkor book of Borshchiv
(Borstchoff), Ukraine, Shlomo Reibel tells of the ways the Jews of
his shtetl took pleasure from life. There were the spiritual pleasures
such as the listening to the davening of a guest cantor or when someone
would come to give a sermon. And, then there were the secular pleasures
provided by performers, visiting gypsies, street singers, the circus
and even boxing. ("Naturally, on the placards, the nationality of the
boxers would be stated and there would be added a question of this
nature: 'Who will win, the Jew or the Hungarian?'"

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Silver Spring, MD

Researching: DRACH, EBERT, KIMMEL, ZLOTNICK
Towns: Wojnilow, Kovel
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The second ghetto containing the Jews of Globokie (Hlybokaye) in Belarus was
liquidated on June 19, 1942. "The sun rose, the acacia tree blossomed and the
slaughterer slaughtered..." with 2,500 Jews killed in one day, according to
the Yizkor book for the town. In "After the Slaughter," Eilat Gordin Levitan
wrote about the death, desolation and devastation witnessed afterwards by the
survivors.

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This week's excerpt from the Yizkor book of Staszow in southeastern Poland relates
some of the "Superstitions and Folk Sayings" popular there and in other shtetls.
They range from this advice - "To protect against the evil-eye, use seven pieces of
bread and seven pieces of hot coals - to this unpromising reflection on life: "You
can live to 70, and still remain a fool."

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Bruce Drake
Silver Spring, MD

Researching: DRACH, EBERT, KIMMEL ZLOTNICK
Towns: Wojnilow - http://kehilalinks.jewishgen.org/voynilov/Voynilov.html
Kovel - http://kehilalinks.jewishgen.org/kovel/kovel.htm

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Sep 1, 2017, 2:45:27 PM9/1/17
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"Christian - Angels" tells the stories of Christians who risked their lives to
shelter and save Jews from Svir, Belarus, a town near the Lithuianian borders
81 miles northwest of Minsk. Dr. Chanoch Swironi gives several accounts of
these "Christian saints, who deserve to be part of the history of the Jewish
martyrdom" in a long chapter in Svir's Yizkor book.

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Bruce Drake
Silver Spring, MD

Researching: DRACH, EBERT, KIMMEL, ZLOTNICK
Towns: Wojnilow (http://kehilalinks.jewishgen.org/voynilov/Voynilov.html ),
Kovel (http://kehilalinks.jewishgen.org/kovel/kovel.htm )

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It may be a far cry from Grossinger's, but "The Summer Resort in Struza"
from the Yizkor book of Ozarow and Lublin. The woods and fresh air of the
nearby village of Struza attracted many people to this small town. "Whole
families in search of a healthy environment would come from far away in
old carts laden with their baggage."

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Bruce Drake
Silver Spring, MD

Researching DRACH, EBERT, KIMMEL, ZLOTNICK
Towns: Wojnilow, Kovel
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