JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen This week's Yizkor book excerpt on the JewishGen Facebook page #general
Bruce Drake <BDrake@...>
">from Chasidic Synagogue to Revolutionary Activity" >from the newly-updated
Yizkor book of Jadow, Poland is a different kind of story than many of those which I have posted here. Max (Moshe) Goodman was the son of a Chasid, but despite his father's hopes for him to grow up as a religious Jew, but he found "yoke of Torah was too heavy" and ultimately his father, saying "one can be a religious Jew and also be a worker" agreed he should learn a trade that would "befit our family." Goodman went to Warsaw to apprentice as an engraver. It was the time of the first Russian revolution in 1904-1905 and he was exposed to the "great revolutionary events and general strikes in all parts of Russia... and social movements of workers, students and scientists." It was also a time of fierce pogroms, and Goodman would carry a weapon with him to defend himself and fellow Jews. His association with the Zionist movement and other political activities finally landed him in prison and exile. But he did one day make his way back to Jadow, and by 1910, had settled in America. His detailed account provides a unique portrait of the times. URL: https://www.facebook.com/JewishGen.org/posts/2068384213183723?__tn__==3DK-R Bruce Drake Silver Spring MD Researching: DRACH, EBERT, KIMMEL, ZLOTNICK Towns: Wojnilow, Kovel
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