Shmuel Batt: A tribute to the Shumsk-born Yiddish writer by his cousin Howard Freedman.

Zeev Berg: An interview conducted by Marlyn Katz Levenson and transcribed by Lynne Tolman

Betsalel Goren: His article Be Glad and Rejoice on Simchat Torah (at the Great Synagogue in Shumsk), from Voice of Kremenets Emigrants in Israel and the Diaspora, Booklet 17 (a translation of Kol Yotsei Kremenits beYisrael ve'batfutsot, Booklet 17), is a colorful recounting of a raucous celebration of Simchat Torah in Shumsk featuring townspeople Berele the Water Carrier, Moti Bochkes, and others (scroll to the second article).

Judith Kanfer Arshack and Toba Kanfer Kagan: Their story is recounted in The Grey Folder Project by Toby Sonneman. The introductory link is found here, and the sisters’ story is told in greater detail here.

Sadie Liftman: Memories as told to her niece Barbara Feinberg in 1975, with endnotes added by genealogy researcher Lynne Tolman.

David Eliezer Moldavan: An interview conducted by Harvey Morginstin and transcribed and edited by Enid Cherenson with research assistance from Rachel Karni.

Lillian Waldman Morginstin: An essay about her Shumsk childhood and immigrating to the United States.

Jan Savitt: Wikipedia entry about the popular Shumsk-born bandleader known as the “Stokowski of Swing.”

David Toback: The 1981 book The Journeys of David Toback, adapted from Toback's memoirs by his granddaughter Carole Malkin, provides an invaluable glimpse of Jewish life in Shumsk and Volhynia at the end of the 19th century in all its difficulty. You can read a review of the book by Ted Solotaroff and either purchase a used copy of the original Schocken edition here or purchase a new paperback reissue here.