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Articles about Shumsk Jewish Life and History

 

Translation of 1946 article by Muni Chazen published in the Shumsker Relief Society Souvenir Journal about the development and history of Shumsk.

Translation of 1952 article by Muni Chazen published in the Israeli periodical Yalkut Volhin, also about history of Shumsk.

The Kremenets Shtetl Co-op has translated the chapter on Shumsk from Pinkas Hakehilot Polin, published by Yad Vashem in 1990.

The Kremenets Shtetl Co-op has translated and published several entries in the Slownik Geograficzny Krolestwa Polskiego i innych krajow slowianskich (Geographic Dictionary of the Former Kingdom of Poland and Other Slavic Lands), including the 1889 entry for Shumsk.  Click here for the page, and click on Shumskoye to download the file.

Shumsk is included in this excerpt (in Polish) from a 1929 Polish guide to Volhynia. Click here for the Google translation into English.




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