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Book SynopsisThis volume is a brief history of the Jewish community of Volodymyr-Volynsky, going back to its first historical mentions. It explores Jewish settlement in the city, the kahal, and the role of the community in the Va’ad Arba Aratsot, and profiles several important historical figures, including Shelomoh of Karlin and Khane-Rokhl Werbermacher (the Maiden of Ludmir). It also considers the city’s synagogues and Jewish cemetery, and explores the twentieth-century history of the community, especially during the Holocaust. Drawing on survivor eyewitness testimonies, the author pays tribute to the town’s Righteous among the Nations and describes efforts to preserve the memory of its Jewish community, including the creation of the Piatydni memorial, and lists prominent Jews born in Volodymyr-Volynsky and natives of the city living abroad. This book will be of interest to historians of the Jewish communities and the Holocaust in Ukraine, as well as to the general reader
Trade Review“Volodymyr Muzychenko . . . committed the last ten years of his life to gathering historical data on the Jews of his city and the region. His work is thus the first and fullest narrative to date about the Jews of Volodymyr-Volynsky. . . . The book is noteworthy for its balanced material and the author’s desire to avoid a purely lamentational type of exposition. Instead, he sought to show Jewish history as a variegated process marked by both tragic and distinguished pages.” -- Vitalii Chernoivanenko, National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy (Kyiv, Ukraine)
"[A] finely tuned scholarly work that mines Ukrainian and Russian archives for materials previously unavailable to American scholars." -- Rosie Rosenzweig, Resident Scholar, Brandeis University, Women's Studies Research Center * Examiner.com *
Table of ContentsList of Illustrations
How the English Edition Happened, by Harvey Budner
Introduction, by Antony Polonsky
Author’s Note
Foreword
The History of the Jews of Volodymyr-Volynsky
Introduction
First Mentions
Privileges
The Kahal
The Organization of Jewish Settlement, Fourteenth–Sixteenth Centuries
Economic Conditions of the Community, Fourteenth–Sixteenth Centuries
Va‘ad Arba Aratsot
Spiritual Leaders
Shelomoh of Karlin (Karliner)
Khane-Rokhl Werbermacher
The Synagogue
The Jewish Cemetery
The Life of the Jewish Community in the Twentieth Century
The Tragedy of the Jews of Volodymyr-Volynsky
From the Killing Fields: The Reminiscences of Zippora
Weinstock-Zaar
The Reminiscences of Yaacov Harari (Berger)
The Reminiscences of Debora Interieur
The Memoirs of Ann Kazimirski
Moshe Krigser Recalls
The Reminiscences of Volodymyr Oksentiiovych Patuta
Oflag “Nord 365”
The Catastrophe That Befell the Jews of Volodymyr-Volynsky District
Moshe Margalit Recalls
Mykhail (Motl) Bass’s Account
Righteous among the Nations
Kateryna Petrivna Lipińska
Maria Otsaliuk’s Account
Franciszek and Hanna Strojvons
Bronisława Ziental and Her Daughter Irena Yakira
The Accounts of Liudmyla Stepanivna Yevtoshuk and Halyna Zinoviivna Nazaruk
Oleksandr and Solomeia Diachuk
Jewish Natives of the Volodymyr-Volynsky Area Abroad
Memorial in the Village of Piatydni
Safeguarding Memory
Prominent Jews Born in Volodymyr-Volynsky
Addenda
Glossary of Terms
Bibliography
Index
