Podu Iloaiei

The Jewish Community in PODU ILOAIEI Pages from the History of a Moldavian Shtetl By Itzik Schwartz-Kara English Edition Translated, annotated and supplemented with additional material by Nathan P. Abramowitz and associates. All Rights Reserved © 2002 by Nathan Abramowitz, Westmount, NJ The Jewish Community in Podu Iloaiei Page 2 of 134 Table of Contents 1 PREFACE BY KM ELIAS, AUG/2006........................................................................................................4 1.1 PICTURES OF THE BOOK................................................................................................................................... 7 1.1.1 Book Cover and Illustration of Bridge........................................................ 7 1.1.2 The First Page ............................................................................................. 8 1.2 IN MEMORY OF ITZIK SCHWARTZ-KARA (1906-2001)............................................................................... 9 1.3 IN MEMORY OF NATHAN P. ABRAMOWITZ (1917-2002) ......................................................................... 11 2 ABOUT THE AUG/2006 EDITION ............................................................................................................12 2.1 ORGANIZATION OF CHAPTERS...................................................................................................................... 12 2.2 FOOTNOTES..................................................................................................................................................... 13 2.3 GLOSSARIES .................................................................................................................................................... 13 2.4 PRINTING THIS DOCUMENT ........................................................................................................................... 13 3 PREFACE BY NATHAN AB RAMOWITZ, JUNE/2002......................................................................14 4 OBITUARY FOR ITIC-SVART KARA, MAY/2001.............................................................................15 5 FOREWORD BY DR. S. CAUFMAN, 1990 .............................................................................................17 6 INTRODUCTION BY I.KARA, 1990.........................................................................................................19 7 CHRONICLE (1818-1968).............................................................................................................................21 8 ECONOMIC LIFE...........................................................................................................................................42 9 COMMUNAL LIFE.........................................................................................................................................50 10 PRIVATE AND PUBLIC EDUCATION...................................................................................................53 11 SYNAGOGUES .................................................................................................................................................56 12 RABBINATE......................................................................................................................................................58 13 HASIDISM..........................................................................................................................................................60 14 FOLKLORE AND ETHNOGRAPHY........................................................................................................61 15 PODU ILOAIEI AS DEPICTED IN LITERARY WORKS .................................................................66 15.1 THE BALLAD OF THE RABBI OF PODU ILOAIEI...................................................................................... 68 15.2 THE RABBI OF PODU ILOAIEI................................................................................................................... 70 15.3 PODU ILOAIEI............................................................................................................................................. 72 15.4 “PODELOIER TIMES” (“PODU ILOAIEI HOTCHPOTCH”)....................................................................... 74 15.5 A BOY FROM MOLDOVA .......................................................................................................................... 76 15.6 CALMAN THE MEDICINE MAN................................................................................................................ 78 15.7 DUDL CONSUL........................................................................................................................................... 81 16 DOCUMENTARY APPENDICES ..............................................................................................................84 16.1 APPENDIX A: THE RIGHT TO SELL LIQUOR, 1826 ............................................................................... 84 The Jewish Community in Podu Iloaiei Page 3 of 134 16.2 APPENDIX B: CENSUS OF 1824............................................................................................................... 84 16.3 APPENDIX C: SALE OF LAND, 1826 ....................................................................................................... 84 16.4 APPENDIX D: INCOME SHARING AGREEMENT , 1830.......................................................................... 85 16.5 APPENDIX E: STATISTICS........................................................................................................................ 87 16.6 APPENDIX F: TAXES, 1833...................................................................................................................... 87 16.7 APPENDIX G: DEPOSITION, 1836............................................................................................................ 88 16.8 APPENDIX H: AGREEMENT WITH OWNER OF ESTATE, 1838.............................................................. 88 16.9 APPENDIX I: RENTAL AGREEMENT, 1841............................................................................................. 90 16.10 APPENDIX J: OCCUPATIONS, 1842......................................................................................................... 90 16.11 APPENDIX K: SALE OF HOUSE, 1845 ..................................................................................................... 90 16.12 APPENDIX L: LIST OF TAXPAYERS, 1834.............................................................................................. 91 16.13 APPENDIX M: LIST OF RENT PAYERS, 1842......................................................................................... 92 16.14 APPENDIX N: LIST OF RENTERS, YEAR?? [B-]........................................................................................ 93 16.15 APPENDIX O: A COMPLAINT BY THE COMMUNITY, 1844 ................................................................101 16.16 APPENDIX P: CENSUS, 1898..................................................................................................................103 16.17 APPENDIX R: THE STATUTE OF PODU ILOAE, 1925 ..........................................................................104 16.18 APPENDIX S: SCHOOLS, 1904...............................................................................................................108 16.19 APPENDIX T: SCHOOLS, 1914................................................................................................................108 17 AT THE TURN OF THE CENTURY. SEVERAL COMPULSORY ADDITIONS................... 110 18 I. KARA: HISTORY STUDIES. SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY. ................................................. 112 19 REFERENCES ............................................................................................................................................... 115 20 GLOSSARY OF TERMS ............................................................................................................................ 119 21 GLOSSARY OF PLACES ........................................................................................................................... 122 22 GLOSSARY OF PEOPLE .......................................................................................................................... 126 22.1 OVERVIEW................................................................................................................................................126 22.2 CHALLENGES IN FINDING NAMES IN THIS BOOK................................................................................127 22.3 DATES.......................................................................................................................................................128 22.4 SURNAMES...............................................................................................................................................128 23 PICTURES ....................................................................................................................................................... 130 The Jewish Community in Podu Iloaiei Page 4 of 134 1 Preface by KM Elias, Aug/2006 Until five years ago I knew nothing about Podu Iloaiei, the Romanian town in which my great grandparents lived before coming to Canada in 1906. However my posting on JewishGen caught the attention of another JewishGener in NY, Catherine Richter. She later discovered a German book in the New York public library titled "Juden in Podu Iloaiei"

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