Folks Blatt, articles about Rokiskis

Thanks to Sig member Oded Vermel for the following information:

 

In 1935 Folks Blatt, the Jewish Yiddish newspaper in Kaunas ran a series of articles about several shtettls, among them Rokiskis. The articles were written by local correspondents, and the Rokiskis entry was written by Yiddl (Yehuda) Gafanowitsch. It appeared in two installments in September 5 and 8, 1935. They can be found in the collection of Jewish newspapers at the Tel Aviv University under the following links:

 

 

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