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• Itzke Feder, the watchmaker

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1. Moshe Galush and the Bund 2. The Hushak family  3. Khatche and Hetche  4. Hertzl the Gabbai –Mendl Tabachnik

• Khatche and Hetche two brothers, were horse dealers.
• Hirsh, the mason,
• [chapter 3] Mendl the house-painter, Yona the glazier, Nakhum the carpenter

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Father’s Project –Yitzkhak Trubovitz

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Father’s Project –Yitzkhak Trubovitz

• Alte was a seamstress
• On our left lived “Moshe the Shliaser” (locksmith). He used to prepare hand-made knives and almost every Jewish house in Kleck used them. His main customers were the farmers

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This is How We were Destroyed –Yeshayahu Kashetzki [HK]

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This is How We were Destroyed –Yeshayahu Kashetzki

[ch. 4] Yitkhak Reuven the blacksmith on Slonim Street.

[Ch. 5 ] Shaul Kaposta the carpenter

Yitzkhak Feder the watchmaker

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*Images from the Past –Rabbi Y. K. Goldblum

Itzik the carpenter headed the group of Tehilim in Beit HaMidrash.

Butchers: R’ Noakh and his son Binyamin and R’ Moshe Hirshl.

Melamdim: R’ Yoel Mote Boyoner and Itzi Shayah Volfson.

Peretz the tailor also served as Ba’al Tefila

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A Young Boy Goes to the Yeshiva –Israel Nakhman Adler

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A Young Boy Goes to the Yeshiva –Israel Nakhman Adler

Itche the Balegole, Yudl the tailor, lawyer Kolish

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R' Michael Turbovitz –Haim Yonatan Kraizer

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Dlugach was an expert dentist.

Inserted in frame: smithy – Yitzkhak Krepzki

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[inset] The Medic of Kletsk [Israel Shkliar] –Noach Epshtein

Israel Shkliar was the medic of Kleck. Doctor Mushkat, a real Pole, dentist Dlugash

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Kletzk In The Years 1932-1943 –Yosef Frenkel

[p310] Moshe Abes -The first Jewish lawyer in Kleck. His surname was Gelfand but he was called as was the custom in those days, as the son of his father: Moshe Aba’s

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*Images from the Past –Rabbi Y. K. Goldblum

Dr. Davidson one of the dayanim in the Beit-din

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Shulamit –Mendl Tabachnik [in chapter F]

• Hishiye, the kleizmer [professional musician],

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Father’s Home –Rabbi Yitzkhak HaLevi Epshtein

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Father’s Home –Rabbi Yitzkhak HaLevi Epshtein

R’ Iche Molier --- is the expert in fixing ovens.

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[Some specific] Common People –Aharon Cohen

The Houses in Kleck were made of wood.

Brick built houses moyern were less than two score.

One, brick built house, on Tzepra Street belonged to Hirsh Molier, called: Yirshl Yantzes.

With no technical education - - he built in Kleck the steam mill, the water mill, and the brewery in the estate of Prince Radzshivil. Formerly he instructed the building of machines for an oil-press from linseeds and refuse seeds. In his free time he himself mounted the machines and everything worked. It has been told that when the non-Jewish regional engineer when he came over to Kleck, he paid a visit to Pan Hirshko to solve for him specific technical problems which he could not solve himself…

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Superstitions –Yerakhmiel Itzkovitz

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My older brother had a shoe workshop with two big lanterns [lit then by oil / kerosene]

Eve of Yom Kippur the gabbai fetched the lanterns for the women’s gallery in the synagogue

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[Some specific] Common People –Aharon Cohen

Itche Kaposte, farberai [dye-works]

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Kletsk under the Soviets rule 1939-1941 –Yosef Frenkel

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A young man, worker in the oil/fats factory of Moshe Elianik , unknown until now.

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[Some specific] Common People –Aharon Cohen

Formerly he instructed the building of machines for an oil-press from linseeds and refuse seeds.

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Shulamit  - Mendl Tabachnik w297 [in chapter F]

Shulamit - A drama Club in Kletsk - Mendl Tabachnik w154

Shlomo Tarbur returned to Kleck from South Africa rented a shop in the market and started production of shoes

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[ch.4] Herzl returned a wealthy man. He opened in Kleck a tannery. He rented a big house on Keider street,

• The Tatars processed hides for the Jewish leather industry

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Yankl Lifshitz’s bakery and coffee house

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[Some specific] Common People –Aharon Cohen

About 10 non-Jews worked in his work-shop and processed cow-hides to produce boots for the rich farmers in the neighboring villages.

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Pinkhas Gavze, owner of fabric factory

R’ Shmuel Leib . He has a factory for soda-water.

Yosef Moshe’s deals in production of soda- water as well

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[Some specific] Common People –Aharon Cohen

Salovon “had a Matza factory active only from Purim to Passover. - - -

{There is an absolute mixture of what is next written about Yenkl Birg with this passage about Salovon. }

He looked for the neglected field-graves of the Jewish soldiers who were killed in 1915-1918.

He managed to bring their bones to Jewish burial in Kleck.

Shops

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[inset] The Medic of Kletsk [Israel Shkliar] –Noach Epshtein

Katzav’s bookstore {look up pharmacy}

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A store for selling wine and brandy Market place corner the alley near Jewish Street.

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On Monday, the regular market day in the shtetl, one could observe this phenomenon: the square is crowded as usual with carriages and horses belonging to the farmers. Shops and warehouses are open.

…he stayed in the hotel owned by the Liberman family in the Market Square

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• Yankl Lifshitz’s bakery and coffee house
• in the center of the market opposite Lisser’s shop.

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Memories of Youth –Menakhem Breslav

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From my Kletsk Memories –Menakhem Breslav

A Store for fabrics on Tzepra Street of R’ Mattityahu.

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[Some specific] Common People –Aharon Cohen

A store selling salt to the non-Jews

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Kletsk under the Soviets rule 1939-1941 –Yosef Frenkel

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His office is Katzav’s stone building, where the photograph shop of the M family was located.

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Father’s Home –Rabbi Yitzkhak HaLevi Epshtein

His daughter, Dinka, sells the product in a kiosk.

Yosef Moshe’s has a tea-house (cheine) for farmers.

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The shops were in the middle of market square. One non-Jew lived there and he spoke Yiddish

Shabbat was observed Jews did not work on that day.

Pharmacies

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Spirit of Sabbath & Holidays –Barukh Natan Shmushkevitz

pharmacy in 1887 in the market square, by the Pharmacy and Radzivilmont Street there was a shallow swamp.

I was seven and a half years old In 1887, after Sukkot, when I arrived in Kletsk from Stolvetz. I found all streets muddy. On Radzvilmont Street, by the pharmacy and Razivilmont Street there was a green washy swamp and most of the years pigs lay there enjoying themselves. 

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Chapters of Childhood –Israel Nakhman Adler

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On Radzvilmont street, pharmacy

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Shulamit –Mendl Tabachnik [in chapter F]

Tickets [for the show Shulamit were bought in Katzav’s pharmacy.

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A Melamed, a Revolutionary [also: Hayim “the white”, Old Mikhle, Ruf the pharmacist] –Noach Epshtein

Der Kletzker Apoteiker – Ruf/rof