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A Bibliography of Felshtin and Jewish Ukraine Last Updated 5/08 A Bibliography of Felshtin and Jewish Ukraine Last updated 5/08 Ben Weinstock and Dr. Michael Nevins’ important contributions to this bibliography are greatly appreciated. I YIZKOR (MEMORIAL) BOOK • Durbach, Elaine, “Translating a Memorial Book Opens a Window on Jewish History,” New Jersey Jewish News, January 9, 2003. • Felshteen; zamulbukh lekoved tsum ondenk fun di Felshteener kdoyshim (Felshteen; in memory of all those who were killed in the Pogroms of Felshteen in the year 1919), Posy- Shoulson Press, New York, 1937, 670 pp. This is the Felshtin yizkor book published by the First Felshteener Benevolent Association. • Ludmir, Sora, "Discovering Felshtin ," www.felshtin.org (1999) • Roskies, David G., Forging the Link: The Iconography of the Felshtin Yizkor Book (1999), www.felshtin.org • Roskies, David, G., The Jewish Search for a Usable Past (The Helen and Martin Schwartz Lectures in Jewish Studies), Indiana University Press, July 1999. The Felshtin yizkor book is discussed on pp. 57-64. • Shaievitz, Sid, "Breaking the Silence," www.felshtin,org 1999. II BOOKS, ARTICLES, REPORTS, MENTIONING FELSHTIN • Baker, Zachary M., "Memorial Books as Sources for Family History," Toledot , Vol. 3, Nos. 2-3, Fall 1979-Winter 1980, pp. 3-4: "The first book to describe itself as a 'yizkor' book was the Yiddish-language Lodzer Yizkor Book, which appeared in New York in 1943. But models for this type of publication already existed in the memorial volume for the matryrs of the 1919 pogrom in Felshtin (New York: 1937) and in the tremendous historical volume, Toyznt Yor Pinsk [ One Thousand Years of Pinsk ] (New York, 1941).” • Deych, Genrich, Jewish Religious Personnel in the Russian Empire , 1853-1854, Index to Genrich M. Deych's Sinagogi, Molitvenne Doma i Sostoyashchie pri nikh Dolzhnostne Litsa v Cherte Evreiskoi Osedlosti i Guberniyakh Kurlyandskoi i Liflyandskoi Rossiiskoi Imperii 1853- 1854, www.jewishgen.org . • Evreiskaya Entsiklopedia , 1906-1913, St. Petersburg. • Friedman, Saul S., Paul Avrich Collection (Library of Congress) Pogromchik: the assassination of Simon Petlura , Hart Pub. Co., 1976. Discusses the Felshtin pogrom and Includes a photograph captioned "Cadavers in the snow in Felshtin, February 17, 1919." • Gerstenzang, Leo, Report on Ukraine, Gerstenzang, 1920. Felshtin is mentioned on page 6. • Heifetz, Elias, The Slaughter of the Jews in the Ukraine in 1919 , New York, Thomas Seltzer Co., 1921. (One of the most detailed accounts of the Felshtin and Proskurov pogroms. Available free for non-commercial use from books.google.com.) • Lukin, Benjamin and Khaimovich, Boris, One Hundred Shtetls of Ukraine: Historical Guide. Vol. 1: Jewish Communities of Podolia , St. Petersburg - Jerusalem, Center for Jewish Art, 1997. In Russian. • New York Times , April 7, 1919, page 2, report on the Felshtin pogrom. • Nevins, Rabbi Danny, Zikhronam Livrachia: Making their Memory a Blessing, www.felshtin.org , 2000. Bibliography of Felshtin and Jewish Ukraine 1 • Nevins, Michael, "Bloody Bacchanalia: The Pogroms of Proskurov and Felshtin," www.felshtin.org , 2001. • Perlshtein, Tova, "After the Pogrom," (Excerpt from her unpublished memoir, Kupel: In Memory of My Shtetl and the Dear Ones Who Died There ), www.felshtin.org , 2000. • Roskies, David G., “Forging the Link: The Iconography of the Felshtin Yizkor Book,” www.felshtin.org , 1999. • Roskies, David, G., The Jewish Search for a Usable Past (The Helen and Martin Schwartz Lectures in Jewish Studies), Indiana University Press, July 1999. The Felshtin yizkor book is discussed on pp. 57-64. • Semionov-Tyan-Shanski, Piotr, Geografichesko Statistiheskii Slovar' Rossiiskoi Imperii (5 volumes), 1863-1885. • Shaievitz, Sid, "Breaking the Silence," www.felshtin.org, 1999. • Ves Yugo-Zapadni Krai (Russian Business Directory), 1913. Includes Felshtin listing. • Wolken, Dr. K.W., Jewish Pogroms in the Ukraine , Schmitt and Co. Publishers, Lemberg, 1919. The Proskurov and Felshtin pogroms are mentioned on page 8. III BY OR ABOUT FELSHTINERS • Baider, Chaim, "Izik (Ayzik) Huberman, Poet of Youth," profile of the Felshtin-born poet (1906- 1966) appeared in the Ukrainian Jewish newspaper Sholom Alecheim . Probably published in 1993. Reprinted in www.felshtin.org . Translation by Dr. Natalia Meshkov. • Baizer, E, “Felshtin's Superstar: Rabbi Yisroel Kitover,” in www.felshtin.org , 2000. • Baizer, E, “The Two Lives of Rabbi David Novoseller,” in www.felshtin.org . 2001. • Baizer, Louis, Mit andere oygn, novele. Seen otherwise . Farlag Nyu-York, 1959. • Baizer, Louis. Tsug numer zibn: novele , published by Aroysgegebn fun a grupe fraynt, New York, 1939. • Fischkin, Barbara, "Letter from a Cyber-Shtetl," Forward , February 19, 1999. • Fischkin, Barbara, "Reconstructing Felshtin", Newsday , February 28, 1999 . • Huberman, Mina, "Impressions of a Visit to Felshtin (1931) ", from Felshteen; zamulbukh lekoved tsum ondenk fun di Felshteener kdoyshim, Posy-Shoulson Press, New York, 1937. English translation by Sora Ludmir, © Copyright 1999 by the Felshtin Society, a New Jersey nonprofit corporation, reprinted at www.felshtin.org . • Kitover, Yisrael, Sa'adia ben Joseph, ha-Emunot veha-de'ot ... beur hadash ... shevil ha- emunah, u-berosho beur maspik 'al kol ha-milot ha-zarot ... kol ele pa'al ve-'asah , Glik, Bialystok, 1913. • Kitover, Yisrael, Sa'adia ben Joseph, Sefer ha-emunot veha-de'ot / hibro Sa'adyah bar rav Yosef; ... 'im ha-perush Shevil ha-emunah le-rabi Yisrael ha-Levi Kitover . Makor, Jerusalem, 1961 or 1962. • Ludmir, Sora, "Discovering Felshtin ," www.felshtin.org (1999) • Nevins, Michael, “Felshtin's Last Jew,” www.felshtin.org , 2000. • Nevins, Michael,"A Short History of Felshtin," www.felshtin.org , 1999 . • Rosenstein, Neil, The Unbroken Chain: Biographical Sketches and Genealogy of Illustrious Jewish Families from the 15th-20th Century , Computer Center for Jewish Genealogy, CIS Publishers, Revised 1990. Information about Felshtin's Rabbi David Novoseller appears on page 293, G15.2. • Shaer, Steven, “In Search of Felshtin,” www.felshtin.org , 2006. • Tsalevich, Etya, “Etya Remembers” (testimony about the holocaust), www.felshtin.org . 2000. • Werbach, Mel, “Felshtin 70 Years Later,” www.felshtin.org , 2007. • Zinick, Shirley Kellenson, “The Little Mother,” www.felshtin.org , 1999. Bibliography of Felshtin and Jewish Ukraine 2 IV NEARBY COMMUNITIES • Chapin, David A. and Weinstock, Ben, The Road from Letichev: The History and Culture of A Forgotton Jewish Community in Eastern Europe , (2 vols.), iUniverse.com, 2000. • Cohen, Meyer S, Hayah Ish - Hayu Zmanim , M. Neuman Ltd., Jersualem-Tel Aviv, 1982. Translated from the Hebrew by Eliav Bar-Hai. The first chapter discusses life in Kupel, a shtetl near Felshtin. • Heifetz, Elias, The Slaughter of the Jews in the Ukraine in 1919 , New York, Thomas Seltzer Co., 1921. (One of the most detailed accounts of the Felshtin and Proskurov pogroms. Available free for non-commercial use at books.google.com.) • “Jews Slain in Ukraine, Their Former Minister in That Country Sends a Review of the Pogroms,” New York Times , September 14, 1919, reprinted at www.felshtin.org . • Khurbn Proskurov; tsum ondenken fun di heylige neshomes vos zaynen umkeygumen in der shreklikher shkhite, vos iz ongefirt gevoren dirkh di haydamakes (The Destruction of Proskurov, in memory of the sacred souls who perished during the terrible slaughter of the Haidamaks) , Pruskurover Relief Association, 111 pp., New York, 1924. This is the yizkor book for Proskurov, a town near Felshtin. • Nevins, Dr. Michael, “Bloody Bacchanalia: The Pogroms of Proskurov and Felshtin,” www.felshtin.org , 2000. • Perlshtein, Tova, "After the Pogrom," (Excerpt from her unpublished memoir, Kupel: In Memory of My Shtetl and the Dear Ones Who Died There ), www.felshtin.org , 2000. • Shvidler, Mark, "The Proskurov Massacre," www.felshtin.org, an excerpt from Jewish Pogroms 1918-1921, Moscow, 1926. V JEWISH UKRAINE (HISTORICAL) • Abramson, Henry, A Prayer for the Government: Ukrainians and Jews in Revolutionary Times, 1917-1920 , (Harvard Series in Ukrainian Studies), 1999. • Abramson, Henry, "Jewish representation in the independent Ukrainian governments of 1917- 1920," Slavic Review , vol. 50, no. 3, Fall 1991, p. 542, 9 pp. • Arlt, Fritz. Polen-, Ukrainer-, Juden-Politik im Generalgouvernement fur die besetzten polnischen Gebiete 1939/40 und in Oberschlesien 1941/43 und im Freiheitskampf der unterdruckten Ostvolker Dokumenten, Ausserungen von Polen, Ukrainern und Juden: Richtigstellungen von Falschungen Erinnerungen eines Insiders , Lindhorst, Wissenschaftlicher Buchdienst, Herbert Taege, 1995 • Aster, Howard, Potichnyj, Peter J., Jewish-Ukrainian Relations, Mosaic Press; Distributed in the United States by Flatiron Books, Oakville Ontario and New York, 1988. • Ber, The memoirs of Ber of Bolechow (1723-1805 ), Oxford University Press, London, 1922. • Berman, Joseph, Un juif en Ukraine au temps de l'Armee rouge: des pogroms a la guerre civile , L'Harmattan, Paris, 1993. • Brook, Kevin A., The Jews of Khazaria , Jason Aronson, January 1999. • Brym, Robert, Ryvkina, Rozalina, Spier, Howard, The Jews of Moscow, Kiev, and Minsk: Identity, Antisemitism, Emigration , New York University Press, 1994. • Butt, V.P., Murphy, A.B., Myshov, N.A., and Swain, G.R., The Russian Civil War, Documents from the Soviet Archives , St. Martin's Press, June 1997. • Bykovsky, L. Solomon I., "Goldelman: A Portrait of a Politician and Educator (1885-1974)", Chapter in Ukrainian Jewish Relations , edit by Lubomyr R. Wynar,
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