Vitebsk

# The Vitebsk Book — Summary

*Vitebsk in the Past; History, Memoirs, Destruction*, is the memorial (yizkor) book of the Jewish community of Vitebsk, published in New York, 1956, (Y), running to 664 pages ^[1].

Original-language title: *Vitebsk amol; geshikhte, zikhroynes, khurbn* (translated by the JewishGen Yizkor Book Project) ^[1].

The English translation is hosted by JewishGen ^[1]. The summary below is the book's own table of contents, organised as the book is. Each chapter entry links to its English translation page on JewishGen and gives the book's own page reference. Where the book is silent, this page is silent too — no statement about the community is inferred or invented.

Table of contents

- ^[2] "Vitebsk of Old (A Page of History)" - ^[3] "The History of the Jews in Vitebsk" (p. 1) - ^[4] "Jews in Vitebsk and in the Vitebsk Gubernia" (p. 57) - ^[5] "Jewish Institutions and the Zionist Movement" (p. 93) - ^[6] "Jewish Social Life in Vitebsk" (p. 178) - ^[7] "Dr. Chaim Zhitlovski" (p. 224) - ^[8] "Sh. An-ski the Folklorist" (p. 263) - ^[9] "The History of the Socialist and Labor Movement" (p. 294) - ^[10] "From Poalei Tzion to the Sejmists" (p. 333) - ^[11] "The Socialist Revolutionaries in Vitebsk" (p. 352) - ^[12] "Memories of an Artist" (p. 363) - ^[13] "Myself" (p. 391) - ^[14] "Vitebsk Artists" (p. 447) - ^[15] "The Famous Vitebsk Rabbi, Rav Shemaryahu Medalia" (p. 478) - ^[16] "The 1905 October Days" (p. 528) - ^[17] "The 1917 revolution in Vitebsk" (p. 542) - ^[18] "In the Time of the Bolsheviks" (p. 593) - ^[19] "The Vitebsk Benevolent Association" (p. 627)