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Bruce Drake
Jewish life hundred years ago in Korczyn >from the Yizkor book of
Korczyna in the southeast tip of Poland, is a wonderful compendium of details about life in this mostly Hasidic community which had a population of about 1,000 in 1900. You learn how the men and women dressed (a married man always wore a streimel, or fur hat, and married women had their heads shaved and wore a kerchief); what people did for the sick; and how the Sabbath was observed. Parental respect has its own section of the chapter: In those days, the father was the patriarch of the family in all respects and his word was law.There is much to say about the rituals of marriage >from the work of the matchmaker to the day before the wedding when the excited and nervous bride and groom first met: Love did not exist in Korczyn a 100 years ago. If a marriage resulted as a result of love, the parents would not divulge it for it was considered in poor taste. Korczyn met the fate of the other Jewish communities during the Holocaust. It is noted elsewhere in this book that With the end of the war, 15 men and one woman survived the German occupation and 11 men and 6 woman survived in Russia the war. These are all the survivors of the Jewish community of Korczyn. URL: https://www.facebook.com/JewishGen.org/posts/2192578187430991?__tn__=K-R Bruce Drake Silver Spring, MD. Researching: DRACH, EBERT, KIMMEL, ZLOTNICK Towns: Wojnilow, Kovel
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