Dear Christian,
Just some notes re your starting point - Slonim.
I do not know whether you have heard in the past about the very large "tribe" that descended from the famous father of the Habad movement - Shneur Zalman from Lyady (in the Vitebsk region of BelaRus, he was born in Vitebsk). One of the traditional beliefs of the Habbad movement is that he is a 7th generation descendant of the famous Rabbi of Prague, the Maharal (the creator of the mythical Golem). He was the co-founder (the founder was the Rabbi of his father - the famous Baal Shem Tov) of the Hassidic movement in Eastern Europe's Jewish population (mainly in the villages at first) and was persecuted by the non-hassidic rabbis and their followers, who felt that he pollutes the very religious and pious Jewish community. Some went as far as to malign him to the Tsarist regime, who incarcerated him for a period.
On the day he was released - celebrated to this day by the Habad adherents - his grand-daughter Menuha was born. The name means "Rest" in Hebrew and was given to her to symbolize the release of her grandfather from prison. Menuha grew up and was married to one of the sons of the Slonim dynasty. and after several years moved to Hebron in Palestine (around 1840 I believe) enhancing there the local Habad community (which had been founded two decades before by her father, one of Shneur Zalman,s sons who visited Palestine) and together with her husband started the worldwide Slonim branch of the Habbad dynasty, who spread in Palestine of that time.
Unfortunately, 90 rears later, in a pogrom incited by fanatic local Arabs, many of the Slonim family living in Hebron were killed by their neighbors (the infamous 1929 pogrom in Hebron) and only a few survived because one of the neighbors sheltered them in his house, and stood with drawn sword at the door, threatening the incited Hebronites.
Nowadays there are quite a number of large families, many numbering hundreds, who are descendants of the Rabbi from Lyady, as he is called, the largests are the Shneurson and the Slonims, but also the Rivlin's. the Shmerlings, the Menuhins, and numerous others.
There are of-course some well known celebrities from these families, such as Yehudi Menuhin, or the president of Israel, Reuben (Rubi) Rivlin.
So, in a nutshell. I provide you and some of our members with a tiny part of the thriving Non-vanished world of Eastern Europe's Jewry. who left in time before the calamity of the Holocaust, their original places of origin you visited on this trip to Belarus.
Just for due disclosure - my late wife was a 5th generation descendant of Menuha Slonim (i.e. - a 7th generation descendant of the Rabbi from Lyady).
Regards and thanks for sharing your impressions and photos from the vanished Jewish world of Belarus
Mordecai
----- Original Message ----- From: Christian Herrmann Date: Sunday, May 26, 2019 23:14 Subject: [Cz-L] Belarus To: Czernowitz Mailing-Liste > Dear friends, > > I know, Belarus has not much to do with Bukovina. On the other > hand I know, some of you enjoyed my wanderings throught the > Jewish world of the past and present. I therefore did not notify > you day by day when publishing a blog post on my recent trip to > Belarus. But now, all posts have been completed and it's my > pleasure to invite you to a virtual trip to places as > fascinating as Indura, Mir or Slonim. You've never heard of > them? Well, than have a look! > >
https://vanishedworld.blog/ > > Warm wishes, > Christian > > ---------------
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