bobruisk Yizkor Book

[Helen Winkler <winklerh...>]

The yizkor book discussion started me re-reading yizkor books again.  List 
members might enjoy looking at the Bobruisk book at
http://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/bobruisk/byb_764.html
Memories of Hlusk

It covers many of the topics that were mentioned in the "romanticizing the  
shtetl thread:"  music;i.e., the local klezmer band led by Reb Yoshke, the mud 
and the poverty and a few that we didn't cover such as the illegal horse trade 
and the secret language of the horse traders.
Helen

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