Wanderings
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Wanderings
Melamed, Moishe, Filadelfye : Aroysgegebn fun M. Melamed bukh-komitet, (Mid-City Press) 1944- Yiddish autobiographical piece about Jewish life in Ungheni,
prior to 1905, the year of the author’s immigration to the U.S.
Dedication:
ONCE UPON A TIME
Never to forget the blessed souls who
Perished as martyrs in my shtetl,
Ungen, Bessarabia, during World War II
View sample pages translated into English:
See below the list of names (most without surnames) of Ungheni residents mentioned in the book. The time period covered is 1880 – 1905.
For more information about the book, contact Karen Albert .
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Names in Moshe Melamed’s “Wanderings” – Ungheni, 1944
- Relatives of author, Moshe Melamed/Malamed:
- Miriam Melamed; born Bobele Pearlman, -- wife
- Reb Shloyme- grandfather, Shames of the large synagogue
- Fruma Rokhl – grandmother
- Children of Shloyme and Fruma Rokhl: (Possible last name: Grunberg)
- Alter - a shoemaker; married to Brokhe (daughter of Rokhl)
- Elke- married to Moyshe, a writer, both died young- their children:
- - Eydl, married Yidl, the carpenter
- - Motl
- Dena –married Khaykl/Ezekiel Malamed/Melamed
- Khayke- middle daughter; married to Yosl, the baker
- Nekhame- daughter – had a daughter, Elke married to Yisrol, originally from Skuleni
- Mendl
- Zelik - youngest son, a carpenter, married to Soreh-Beyle -their children:
- Dena and Khaykl/Ezekiel Melamed/Malamed’s children:
- Moshe – the author
- Blond girl – not mentioned after first few pages
- Mendl /Manya/Emanuel – died in WWI
- Elka
- David
- Lipeh
- Rachel/Rokhl
- Hershel
- Townspeople:
- Shimon, a carpenter from Skuleni
- Yisrol/Isrol (served in Russian military)– Shimon’s son, married to Nekhame
- Gadl, a baker
- Hersh Lupatson (in America), friend of Khaykl Melamed
- Yoneh, a tailor and friend of Khaykl
- Tsirl, second wife of Shloyme, widow of Shames of the smaller, new synagogue
- Getsl, son of Tsirl and Shames of the smaller synagogue
- Reutsi, wife of Getsl
- Velvl, owner of the yardage store
- Yakhiel/Yekhiel, ice merchant
- Rabbi Chaks
- Falik, the shirtmaker
- Mendl, the moneylender
- Rabbi Dovid-Leyzer/David Layzner
- David Pearlman, father of Bobele/Miriam and Cantor in the new synagogue
- Rokhl Pearlman, wife of David, mother of Bobele/Miriam
- Belke, the seamstress
- Yidl Feldman – had a barn/theater
- Vasili, the blacksmith
- Hershele, youngest child of David and Rokhl Pearlman, brother of Bobele/Miriam
- Zeyd, the coachman
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