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Bessarabia Province

Sorok District

 

Kapresty Moldavia

Capresti

Caprosti Colonie

Kapreschty

Kapresht

Kapreshti

47° 45' / 28° 28'

 

Population 1, 815

88 km NNW of Kishinev

NW of Odessa

located south of Soroki

 

1912 Yona Kaplivatzi (born 1862) was rabbi.

 

JGFF Researchers: Rob Weisskirch (Faerman);  Berkun Yackov (Kaplevatsky,  Potik, Bernstein, Pottick, Berenshtein ) Heather Thau (Schaposnik); Skladman Zvi (Skladman, Hochman); Marlene Staggs (Itzkovics, Derenbaum); Gamliel (Gena) Beyderman (Beiderman)

 

Sources: COH; LDL; PHR2; SF;

Yiskor Books

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Kapresht ayaratenu - undzer shtetele Kapresht; sefer zikaron le-kehila yehudit bje-Bessarabia (Kapresht, our village; memorial book for the Jewish community of Kapresht, Bessarabia) 1980. M. Rishpy, Av. B. Yanowitz. Kapresht Society in Israel. Haifa. Hebrew, Yiddish.

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Leket shel divre bikoret ve-ha'arkhah be-'ikvut ha-sefer "Kapresht - 'ayaratenu" = Zamlung fun kritik un opshatsung in di shpurn fun bukh "Kapresht - undzer shtetl". 1981. Collection of criticism and reviews of the book "Our Town Kapresht". Editor: Rishpy, Mordekhai. Kapresht Society in Israel. Haifa. Hebrew, Yiddish. Introductions in English, Spanish, Romanian.

 

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