prayer book. And the student who got the right answer was praised. This way, he gave his children the desire to pray and it was indeed his intention. Mr. Jehuda.
In his time Jehuda Riftin was a teacher of Bible studies at our school. I remember that he used to ask his students about expressions and sentences that they had learnt, where they could also find them in the prayer book. And the student who got the right answer was praised. This way, he gave his children the desire to pray and it was indeed his intention. Mr. Jehuda Riftin was a religious and observant Jew and requested that his students also followed his way, but as a noble person he did not try to force them, but looked for a pleasant way to influence them. Mosze Majzels, Tivon
He came to Kutno from Pulawy, near Lublin, although he was born in Bielorussia. He became the private secretary and personal assistant of the famous wealthy Jew from St. Petersburg, Kopelman. As Kopelman was determined to establish a malt house
(where barley is transformed into malt for beer) in Kutno, he appointed Jehuda Riftin as his representative and business head; he then became a Kutno resident. The Kutno Jews Timkowski and Turbowicz worked in Kopelman's company as accountants – reliable people. Jehuda became a good scholar, a fervent Zionist and an intellectual. He became proficient in the Mishna [the six books of Jewish law] and interpretation. For some time, he studied in a yeshiva [religious school] in Volchin [now in Belarus], along with Chaim Nachman Bialik. About his integrity, there was once the following story in town: as a teacher of Jewish religion in the "Podrzeczna" school, he also managed the kitchen, which survived thanks to the products sent by the American "Joint" [US Jewish charitable organisation]. A former priest was in charge of the foodstuffs, appointed by the Polish authorities. It is said that Jehuda Riftin once took some bag of products, brought it to the kitchen, and realised that in the bag there was... sugar! Jehuda didn't think for long, carried back the goods because the priest had thought it was rice. Not only was the priest astonished, but the staff were too, since in those times sugar was worth its weight in gold! The whole world laughed at this action, seen as ineffectiveness. This prompted Jehuda to resign from managing the kitchen. A. Mendelewicz
He fought in the battle for Tobruk, where he excelled as a courageous fearless fighter. When he returned to Eretz Israel, he joined the. Fighters for the Liberation ...
Therefore, not much is known of the history of Jewish community of Kutno until mid- ... What is known is that the Jews were established in commercial activity, ...
6784 15976 42,00% Democratic Constitution that does not resist crises (1). 1926 ... after neighbouring villages were incorporated to city, for political reasons.
Chaim Zinger, Dawid Kleczewski, Ayzyk and others like them, were for the active members as a clear stream of water reviving the soul on a hot summer's day.
my way through the streets of my town. In. Sienkiewicza Street, I met Yanek the hunchback, who suggested I ... My heart seems to stop beating, only endless.
After two years, the girls were sufficiently fluent in the Hebrew language, though it was not only the girls that were more or less fluent; everyone wanted to learn it ...
slaughterer undertook its annihilation, along with six million brothers and sisters. For Jewish survivors of Kutno, it was clear that it was necessary to immortalize ...
so it was important that among the fire-fighters there should be devoted Jewish members who would not be late in putting out the blaze⦠Among the active ... happened to be dressed in civilian clothes. They ... Sunday, marched, practiced.
Now Kutno was left without her Jews, but death ... in my imagination I waited for the Jews to come out ... monument on a Russian army unit that passed by, but.
boys ("Talmud Torah") and for girls ("Beit Yaakov"). In Kutno an institute was founded by "Yesodei. HaTorah", headed by Reb Lajbel Mamlok and. Szlomo Majer ...
to the loss, by theft of their possessions. The death of ... My eldest brother Jacob Asz escaped to Russia. ... my sister Esterke, who lost her husband and child.
possible to extract information concerning the beginning of Jewish ... personal request, in 1555, was granted by King ..... A bar was a particularly acceptable form of ..... tenant. Some occasions of a written contract were also found. The conditions
The pictures of gravestones in this book have been put together from ... recovered since the 1980s by the municipality of Kutno, and specifically the ...... ____ lovely, the delight of his parents. ..... Chaim (Lan) died and went to his dwelling,.
The Chevra Kadisha (burial society) was founded in the 18th century (the oldest preserved entry in the register dates from 1755). ... greatest Torah scholars of his generation served as rabbi in Kutno â known in his lifetime as âthe Rabbi of the
