Ekaterinoslav was named for Czar Catherine - "Catherine's City". After
the revolution of 1917, not only were the Czars overthrown, so was everything they
stood for. So the city was renamed Dnepropetrovsk, because it was on the Dneiper
River.
Yizkor means "memory" in Hebrew. After the end of World War II, hundreds
of Jewish communities in Europe and Russia had been decimated, and the great majority
of their Jewish residents killed.
In the 1950's - 1970's many of the survivors of those communities decided to write
books to remember the community that no longer existed, and their friends and relatives
who died. These books are called "yizkor books".
The Dnepropetrovsk Yizkor Book was written in 1972. It has a history of the city
from its beginning in 1778, with a focus on the Holocaust. Unlike some other Yizkor
books, it has no list of those who died, but nevertheless mentions many of its more
well-known residents throughout history.
The book was written in Hebrew. If you'd like to help translate a bit, let us know!
We can email, ground-mail, or fax you 1, 2, or ? pages. We share the book so that
others may appreciate what happened there.
Cover and Title Page |
Title page |
Foreword |
5 |
Efraym Strod za"l |
7 – 8 |
Memories Collection Chanania Richman |
9- 10 |
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This is the History: |
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The Jews in Yekaterinoslav – Dnepropetrvosk Yaakov Goldburt
(Beginning with the days of Alexander II) |
21-24
24-27 |
The Sionist Movement in Yekaterinoslav [during the days of Chivat Sion] Dr
Israel Cloizner |
41-45 |
Yekaterinoslav People in the First and Second Alyah |
46 |
The Struggle. Dr S. Levin za"l |
46-49 |
Memories of a voyage. Elchanan Levinsky za"l |
50 |
From my Memories. Hadassa Rachel Birman |
51-55 |
The Self Defense during October 1905. Dalman |
56-59 |
Zionism in Yekaterinoslav, First Congress Days. Yaakov ben Menachem |
60-67 |
The Community. Dr Yaakov Kostrovsky |
68-69 |
The Jewish Polytechnicum Y. G . |
69-71 |
Self Defense 1917-1919 Y. G. |
72-74 |
My meeting with Dr Yosef Chazonovich. Dr Yaakov Kostrinsky |
75 |
The Joint in Yekaterinoslav. Shelomo Taslitzky |
76 |
In the beginning. The youth Zionism activities. Abraham Milshtein |
77 78 |
"The re birth" "Hatechia" Aaron Becker |
79-82 |
My visit to Dnepropetrvosk in 1958. Batya Risking |
83-84 |
Abraham Shlonsky in a chat with the editors of this book |
84-85 |
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The Holocaust: |
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The Shoah in Dnepropetrvosk Dr Tzvi Harcabi |
89-92 |
Shoah days in Dnepropetrvosk. Dr Roza Leikina za"l . |
93-104 |
Dnepropetrvosk in Yiddish. David Bergelson |
105-107 |
Dnepropetrvosk in Hebrew. David Bergelson |
107-108 |
The Town on the Dnieper. S Ortenberg |
109-110 |
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Torah Life: |
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Yekaterinoslav rabbies. Harav Yehuda Leib Levin za"l |
113-115 |
List of Synagogues in Yekaterinoslav |
116 |
Rav Pinchas Gelman za"l |
117-118 |
Rav Levy Ytzchak Shneierson za'l |
118-119 |
Rav Yehuda Leib Levin za"l |
119-122 |
The Yeshiva at Yekaterinoslav |
122-124 |
The wise rav Moshe Carpas |
125-127 |
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Activist and Zionists
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131- 146 |
Elyahu and Ytzchak Orshansky – Mikhael Maydansky - Haim Vitaly Livanda
– Menachem Ussishkin – Baruch Spivak – Moshe Bruk –
Shimeon Stanias Livsky – Sergei Paley – Dr Shmariahu Levin –
Menachem Emanuel Brodshtein. Dr Yaakov Dolzansky – Leo Rotemberg- David
Shmorgoner – Paul Pinchas Cohen – Zalman Ostrovsky – Dr Boris
Chanis - Shelomo Braslavsky – Baruch Toporovsky – Menachem Shifman
Ben Sira – Moshe Duchan – Israel Idelson [Bar Yehuda] |
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In Memory: |
149- 158 |
Yaakov Musaieff – Zalman Yupit – Moshe Risin – Dr Moshe
Ophir Zolotravsky – Tzvi Sheftlson, Abraham Gutman - Dov Admoni –
Yehuda Abisar – Daniel Wexler – Asher Pevzner – David Izraeli
Rubin |
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A letter from the Jewish partizan Rodinov from the URSS to the editor |
159 |
Dr Mordechay Mark Schechter |
160 - 161 |
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Addenda: |
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A list of the Pictures (with details) |
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A list of the Photographies (with details) |
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