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Last Updated 1/13/03
 

Thanks to Bennett Weinstock and Michael Nevins for assistance in locating sources of information about Felshtin and Podolia. Please send corrections and additions to jazz@west.net.

I YIZKOR (MEMORIAL) BOOK

• Felshteen; zamulbukh lekoved tsum ondenk fun di Felshteener kdoyshim (Felshteen; in memory of all those who were killed in the Pogroms of Felshteen in the year 1919), Posy-Shoulson Press, New York, 1937, 670 pp. This is the Felshtin yizkor book published by the First Felshteener Benevolent Association.
• Huberman, Mina, "Impressions of a Visit to Felshtin (1931)", from Felshteen; zamulbukh lekoved tsum ondenk fun di Felshteener kdoyshim, Posy-Shoulson Press, New York, 1937. English translation by Sora Ludmir, © Copyright 1999 by the Felshtin Society, a New Jersey nonprofit corporation.
• Roskies, David G., Forging the Link: The Iconography of the Felshtin Yizkor Book, Felshtiner Landsleit: The Newsletter of the Felshtin Society, No. 1, 1999.
• Roskies, David, G., The Jewish Search for a Usable Past (The Helen and Martin Schwartz Lectures in Jewish Studies), Indiana University Press, July 1999. The Felshtin yizkor book is discussed on pp. 57-64.

II BOOKS, ARTICLES, REPORTS, MENTIONING FELSHTIN (SEE ALSO: DOCUMENTS)

• Baizer, E, and Weinstock, Bennett, Surnames of Felshtiners (A List), compiled from a variety of sources, including the 1937 Felshtin yizkor book.
• Baker, Zachary M., "Memorial Books as Sources for Family History," Toledot, Vol. 3, Nos. 2-3, Fall 1979-Winter 1980, pp. 3-4: "The first book to describe itself as a 'yizkor' book was the Yiddish-language Lodzer Yizkor Book, which appeared in New York in 1943. But models for this type of publication already existed in the memorial volume for the matryrs of the 1919 pogrom in Felshtin (New York: 1937) and in the tremendous historical volume, Toyznt Yor Pinsk [One Thousand Years of Pinsk] (New York: 1941)."
• Deich, Genrikh M., Sinagogi, molitvennye doma i sostoiashchie pri nikh dolzhnostnye litsa v cherte evreiskoi osedlosti i guberniiakh Kurliandskoi i Lifliandskoi Rossiiskoi imperii: 1853-1854: arkhivnye materialy po istorii i genealogii evreiskogo naroda, published by the author in New York, 1992. Includes lists of Felshtin congregants. See online searchable database: Index to Religious Personnel in Russia 1853-1854 by Genrich M. Deych.
• Evreiskaya Entsiklopedia, 1906-1913, St. Petersburg.
• Fischkin, Barbara, "Letter from a Cyber-Shtetl," Forward, February 19, 1999.
• Fischkin, Barbara, "Reconstructing Felshtin", Newsday, February 28, 1999.
• Friedman, Saul S., Paul Avrich Collection (Library of Congress) Pogromchik: the assassination of Simon Petlura, Hart Pub. Co., 1976. Discusses the Felshtin pogrom and Includes a photograph captioned "Cadavers in the snow in Felshtin, February 17, 1919."
• Gerstenzang, Leo, Report on Ukraine, Gerstenzang, 1920. Felshtin is mentioned on page 6.
• Heifetz, Elias, The Slaughter of the Jews in the Ukraine in 1919, New York, Thomas Seltzer Co., 1921. (One of the most detailed accounts of the Felshtin and Proskurov pogroms.)
• Heifetz, Elias, Pogrom geshikhte (1919-1920): di Ukrainishe shhite in 1919 (New York: Edyukeyshonal komite fun Arbeter ring, 1921, 285 p.
• Ludmir, Sora, " Discovering Felshtin," Felshtiner Landsleit: Newsletter of the Felshtin Society, No. 1, 1999.
• Lukin, Benjamin and Khaimovich, Boris, One Hundred Shtetls of Ukraine: Historical Guide. Vol. 1: Jewish Communities of Podolia, St. Petersburg - Jerusalem, Center for Jewish Art, 1997. In Russian.
• New York Times, April 7, 1919, page 2, report on the Felshtin pogrom.
• Nevins, Rabbi Danny,  Zikhronam Livrachia: Making their Memory a Blessing, September, 1998, in Felshtiner Landsleit: Newsletter of the Felshtin Society, No. 2, 2000.
• Nevins, Michael,"A Short History of Felshtin," Felshtiner Landsleit: Newsletter of the Felshtin Society, No. 1, 1999.
• Nevins, Michael, "Bloody Bacchanalia: The Pogroms of Proskurov and Felshtin," Felshtiner Landsleit: Newsletter of the Felshtin Society, No. 3, probable publication Summer 2001.
• Perlshtein, Tova, "After the Pogrom," (Excerpt from her unpublished memoir, Kupel: In Memory of My Shtetl and the Dear Ones Who Died There), in Felshtiner Landsleit: Newsletter of the Felshtin Society, No. 2, 2000.
• Roskies, David G., Forging the Link: The Iconography of the Felshtin Yizkor Book, Felshtiner Landsleit: The Newsletter of the Felshtin Society, No. 1, 1999.
• Roskies, David, G., The Jewish Search for a Usable Past (The Helen and Martin Schwartz Lectures in Jewish Studies), Indiana University Press, July 1999. The Felshtin yizkor book is discussed on pp. 57-64.
• Semionov-Tyan-Shanski, Piotr, Geografichesko Statistiheskii Slovar' Rossiiskoi Imperii (5 volumes), 1863-1885.
• Shaievitz, Sid, " Breaking the Silence," Felshtiner Landsleit: Newsletter of the Felshtin Society, No. 1, 1999.
• Ves Yugo-Zapadni Krai (Russian Business Directory), 1913. Includes Felshtin listing.
• Wolken, Dr. K.W., Jewish Pogroms in the Ukraine, Schmitt and Co. Publishers, Lemberg, 1919. The Proskurov and Felshtin pogroms are mentioned on page 8.
• Zinick, Shirley Kellenson, The Little Mother, Felshtiner Landsleit: Newsletter of the Felshtin Society, No. 1, 1999.

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III DOCUMENTS

IV BY OR ABOUT FELSHTINERS

• Baider, Chaim, "Izik Huberman, Poet of Youth," profile of the Felshtin-born poet appeared in the Ukrainian Jewish newspaper Sholom Alecheim. Translated by Dr. Natalia Meshkov. We are not certain of the date. Probably published in 1993.
• Baizer, E, Felshtin's Superstar: Rabbi Yisroel Kitover, in Felshtiner Landsleit, Newsletter of the Felshtin Society, #2, June 2000.
• Baizer, E, The Two Lives of Rabbi David Novoseller, in Felshtiner Landsleit: Newsletter of the Felshtin Society, #3, (probable publication date Summer 2001)
• Baizer, Louis, Mit andere oygn, novele. Seen otherwise. Farlag Nyu-York, 1959.
• Baizer, Louis. Tsug numer zibn: novele, published by Aroysgegebn fun a grupe fraynt, New York, 1939.
• Huberman, Mina, Impressions of a Visit to Felshtin, 1931, in Felshtiner Landsleit, Newsletter of the Felshtin Society, #2, June 2000.
• Kitover, Yisrael, Sa'adia ben Joseph, ha-Emunot veha-de'ot ... beur hadash ... shevil ha-emunah, u-berosho beur maspik 'al kol ha-milot ha-zarot ... kol ele pa'al ve-'asah, Glik, Bialystok, 1913.
• Kitover, Yisrael, Sa'adia ben Joseph, Sefer ha-emunot veha-de'ot / hibro Sa'adyah bar rav Yosef; ... 'im ha-perush Shevil ha-emunah le-rabi Yisrael ha-Levi Kitover. Makor, Jerusalem, 1961 or 1962.
• Nevins, Michael, Felshtin's Last Jew, in Felshtiner Landsleit: Newsletter of the Felshtin Society #2, June 2000.
• Rosenstein, Neil, The Unbroken Chain: Biographical Sketches and Genealogy of Illustrious Jewish Families from the 15th-20th Century, Computer Center for Jewish Genealogy, CIS Publishers, Revised 1990. Information about Felshtin's Rabbi David Novoseller appears on page 293, G15.2.
• Tsalevich, Etya, Etya Remembers (testimony about the holocaust), in Felshtiner Landsleit: Newsletter of the Felshtin Society, Issue #2, June 2000.
• Zinick, Shirley Kellenson, The Little Mother, Felshtiner Landsleit: Newsletter of the Felshtin Society, No. 1, 1999.

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V NEARBY COMMUNITIES

• Chapin, David A. and Weinstock, Ben, The Road from Letichev: The History and Culture of A Forgotton Jewish Community in Eastern Europe, (2 vols.), iUniverse.com, 2000.
• Cohen, Meyer S, Hayah Ish - Hayu Zmanim, M. Neuman Ltd., Jersualem-Tel Aviv, 1982. Translated from the Hebrew by Eliav Bar-Hai. The first chapter discusses life in Kupel, a shtetl near Felshtin.
• Khurbn Proskurov; tsum ondenken fun di heylige neshomes vos zaynen umkeygumen in der shreklikher shkhite, vos iz ongefirt gevoren dirkh di haydamakes (The Destruction of Proskurov, in memory of the sacred souls who perished during the terrible slaughter of the Haidamaks), Pruskurover Relief Association, 111 pp., New York, 1924. This is the yizkor book for Proskurov, a town near Felshtin.
• Nevins, Dr. Michael, Bloody Bacchanalia: The Pogroms of Proskurov and Felshtin, Felshtiner Landsleit: Newsletter of the Felshtin Society, Issue 3.
• Shvidler, Mark, "The Proskurov Massacre," from Felshtiner Landsleit: Newsletter of the Felshtin Society, an excerpt from Jewish Pogroms 1918-1921, Moscow, 1926.

VI UKRAINE (HISTORICAL)