Bălţi, Moldova

Table of Contents

Translated by Yocheved Klausner

• Preface Y. Mazor
  5
• Introduction Y. Mazor
  11

Chapter 1. Bălţi and its Jews

• House on the Răut (poem) Yaakov Fichman
  27
• “Beltz, Mein Shtetele Beltz” (poem) Y. Chaimson
  28
• Monograph on Bessarabia Ștefan Ciobanu
  30
• From Jewish History Dr. Schwartzfeld
  31
• The Beltz Jewish Community Until the First World War Prof. Eliahu Feldman
  33
• Bălţi in the 19th Century Shlomo Yovel
  44
• Bălţi Between the Two World Wars 1918-1940
  78

Chapter 2. The Jewish Community

• The Bălţi Community Council Y. Mazor
  100
• Yerachmiel Jaffe L. Kuperstein
  111
• Personalities in the Jewish Community Life in Bălţi Y. Jaffe
  116
• The Jaffe Family Y. Mazor
  134
• Memories From Bălţi Y. Mazor
  165

Chapter 3. Jewish Education

• Jewish Education Y. Mazor
  176
• The Talmud Torah Schools Y. Mazor
  183
• The Beginnings of the Hebrew High-School K. A. Bertini
  191
• ORT Y. Mazor
  229

Chapter 4. Zionism

• Zionism in Bălţi Y. Mazor
  264
• From Beltz to the Land of Israel Via Holland Fania Lanir
  318
• Beitar in Bălţi Y. Mazor
  381

Chapter 5. Culture

• Beltz in the Poetry of Yaakov Fichman
  445
• Poetry From the Purest Spring [Yiddish] Alexander Melechson
  465
• Bălţi Artists Y. Mazor
  481
• Sports in Bălţi Zeev Vergolis
  487
• Musical Life in Bălţi Jacob Soroker
  495

Chapter 6. The Economy

• The Economy in Bălţi Y. Mazor
  514
• Berka Frank Y. Mazor
  531

Chapter 7. The Holocaust

• The High-School During the Soviet Period Mordechai Motia Kogan
  560
• My Bălţi (Beltz) Menachem (Munia) Ackerman
  566
• Memories of Beltz at the Time of the Destruction [Yiddish] Goldiak Wolf
  604
• Episodes of the Jewish Tragedy 1941-1945 [Yiddish] Sonia (Faiershtayn) Katz
  618
• Travelogue: Impressions of Bălţi and Bessarabia, 1992 Y. Mazor
  653
• Epilogue Yitzhak Korn
  655

About this translation

This is a translation from: Sefer Beltsi Basarabia: yad ve-zekher le-yahadut Beltsi (Balti Bessarabia: a memorial of the Jewish community), ed. Yosef Mazor and Mishah Fuks, Jerusalem 1993 (Hebrew and Yiddish, 655 pages). The original book can be viewed online at the New York Public Library.

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