Celebrating Purim with a Yizkor book excerpt on the holiday on the JewishGen Facebook page #general
Bruce Drake <BDrake@...>
Each Friday, we publish an excerpt >from a Yizkor Book that JewishGen has
translated, but today is a special edition in celebration of Purim, which begins at sundown tonight. (If you are not familiar with the JewishGen Yizkor Book Project, please click on this link: http://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/faq.html) "Purim in the Shtetl" is a vivid account of the holiday celebration in Kaluszyn, Poland, about 35 miles east of Warsaw. S. Ben Moshe-Aaron recalls that "even before Purim started, the shtetl acquired a festive mood." Boys got out of school early and roamed the streets in colorful costumes, the reading of the Megillah was rehearsed, women made treats for the holiday and then quit the kitchen and got into their finery to go to synagogue, and then the "festivities lasted late into the night." The townspeople feasted happily "believing that Haman was annihilated." URL: https://www.facebook.com/JewishGen.org/posts/1686870084668473 Bruce Drake Silver Spring, MD Researching: DRACH, EBERT, KIMMEL, ZLOTNICK Towns: Wojnilow, Kovel
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