JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen This week's Yizkor book excerpt on the JewishGen Facebook page #general
Bruce Drake
Most of the Yizkor book excerpts I present each week are dramatic
ones: harrowing tales of survival, grim tales of death and struggles of daily life. But I found myself touched by this affectionate portrait of a father in this chapter >from the Yizkor book of Rokiskis, Lithuania. In "My Father's Nigun" (melody), Shlomo Rubin remembers how his father - someone who had no education beyond the cheder and at a young age "had to hitch himself up to the wagon of life" - would wake up early, and fortified by tea, "read the Psalms with such a touching melody that engraved itself deep inside me." He was a man who saved the best of the fish he sold >from his cart for his poorer customers. And he was a man moved to copious tears in the synagogue, particularly during the Day of Awe, when his cries sounded like they had been "torn from the deepest cells in his heart - the pain that had collected in himduring an entire year." URL: https://www.facebook.com/JewishGen.org/posts/2495202600501880?__tn__=K-R Bruce Drake Silver Spring MD Researching: DRACH, EBERT, KIMMEL, ZLOTNICK Towns: Wojnilow, Kovel |
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