Tales of Lytin (Hebrew)

Moshe Mandel

Esther Publications, 1984

Moshe Mandel was born in Lytin, Ukraine. He told and wrote about those living images of the Jews of Lytin; the religious Jews and the simple Jews, Hassidim and workers – about work days and the Shabath, about their worries and their joys, the life of the Jews at the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century. Most of these stories were published in the "Ha'aretz" newspaper in the 1930's, under the title "Types of a Generation Ago".

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Table of Contents

The City of Lytin – Who Knows It? By Dov Seidan

3

First Part: Jews in Lytin

Reb Aharon son of Reb Avraham Bar

9

Chana Raizel – Eshet Hayal

15

Shlomo’ni “Goy”

23

Elzi the Carpentar

29

Hirsch Meyer, the Community’s Shamash

34

Reb Yeheskel the Shochet (the Ritual Slaughterer)

38

Eli Bouah

43

David Shmualick Elzis

48

Second Part: And Rejoice in Your Holidays

And Rejoice in Your Holidays

58

The Days of Chanukah Before Us

65

A Great Miracle Was There

70

Tu B’shvat

74

Preparation form Passover in Lytin

77

Passover Eve Tarsag

83

Lag Baomer in Lytin

84

Third Part: Stories and Tales

The “Hakadesh” or “A Place to Sleep at Night”

91

The Society for the Fixing of Books

94

Those Who Praise the Baal Shem Tov

98

The Forefathers Ate Unripe Fruit (A Hassidic Tale)

110