Slutsk Chevra Kadisha:Documents of Lyakhovichi History

Documents- Chevra Kadisha Records: Slutsk

Lyakhovichi Residents in Slutsk Chevra Kadisha Records
by Deborah Glassman, copyright 2004 and 2005

In the article Lyakhovichi Residents in the Records of Nearby Towns and Cities I introduced the records of Burial Societies. These registers of burials were of a type kept throughout the Russian Empire's 2,000+ Jewish communities in Europe, yet only thirty-five are known to survive, including those of Lyakhovichi neighbors Nesvizh and Slutsk. Both have been microfilmed by the Jewish National and University Library on the campus of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. A research group, titled the Slutsk Historical Society, has created an English language translation of the Slutsk Register which can be purchased from them on CD.It is over 18,000 names long with many entries further annotated by the translator, Carleton Brooks. An explanation of the Slutsk Chevra Kadisha book and of the Society can be found at History of Slutsk Chevra Kadisha

The table I provide in this document is not anywhere near as breathtaking in scope. It is first, a list of the 134 people from 1848 to 1924 whose listing in the Slutsk burial register was accompanied by the phrase “mi Lekhovitz” (from Lekhovitz) or “Lekhovitzer”. Anybody who has associated with groups of Jews knows that “er” endings are fairly common on Jewish names so it is not easy to determine if a “Lekhovitzer” was a native of Lekhovitz or a form adopted by an ancestor as a surname. I did not try, I included them all. But even when the “from Lekhovitz” is clear in the register, it is less clear as to whether they are referring to the deceased, the deceased’s father, or for females, a husband. After you have figured out which of the parties is being identified with our town, you are still left with the confusion as to whether they came from Lyakhovichi of their own volition in their lifetimes, or if a corpse was transported from Lyakhovichi to Slutsk to be buried in association with other family members. Since the majority of those who died in Lyakhovichi were buried in Lyakhovichi, it seems reasonable that most of those “from Lyakhovichi” named in the Slutsk Chevra Kadisha were residents in Slutsk but originally from Lyakhovichi. This seems borne out by the great reduction in names from “out of town” in the years previous to 1848, when there were less economic incentives to bring Jews from towns to cities. There were only sixteen people from Lyakhovichi buried in Slutsk between the 1770s and 1830s and that in a time period in which the Lyakhovichi Jewish population was in the 700s and the Slutsk population just double that. If it had been a long tradition to transport the dead, the numbers would have probably remained consistent. So the list of 134 people who moved to Slutsk for economic reasons through the late nineteenth century and because of the war conditions of World War I, when many appear in Slutsk records as "refugees/displaced persons from Lekhevitz", is augmented by the much smaller proportion of 16 who died in the previous 100 years. We are well into the 1870s though, before one custom of the earlier burials disappears – recording the dead with a father’s name in lieu of a surname. This doesn’t mean that the dead did not use a surname that was well known, just that, in the conservative custom associated with recording deaths, the surname was not given. Finally, this table reflects my interpretations and transliterations of information relevant to Lyakhovichi and its inhabitants. You can find the original in Hebrew available for purchase from the Jewish National and University Library (on the campus of Hebrew University in Jerusalem) or you can contact the Slutsk Historical Society to purchase an English language translation of the document.

Note -Please continue past the first table below. We have, since writing this original material in June, continued extracting information on people from Lyakhovichi's small towns that also appear in the Slutsk register. Baranovichi and Gantsevichi both railroad boom towns that originally largely derived their populations from Lyakhovichi are here, as are Mush, and Medvedichi. We have searched for, but did not find, clear entries to other Lyakhovichi communities. Gorodeys, for example, is a common name and so we can't be sure to which town it refers unless the listing places it "near Baranowitz" or something comparable. We also have created in the first column on this page, an alphabetical index to the chronological list below and a name index to those from Lyakhovichi's nearby towns is embedded in that column's list.

Explanation of title headings in the table

Death Date - The register entry gave the death date in more detail than I provide. It always lists on what day of the week, the death occurred. That is a helpful attribute if the Hebrew date and the Gregorian calendar are to be aligned, or if a source must be searched for a confirming record, but this index does not include it.
Date Gregorian – I have confirmed with a Hebrew Calendar software program that the dates line up. But remember if searching among Russian records, the country was on the Julian calendar until it became the Soviet Union.
Surname – It is not always easy to determine what is a surname and what is an occupation or a patronymic. What you have here is my best judgement.
Town as given – I wanted it to be clear as to the source of my finding that this person was from Lyakhovichi. Sometimes the person was called Lekhevitzer, sometimes they are referred to as a refugee from Lekhevitz, sometimes the locale seems appended to their father’s name.
First Name – This is given as it is in the entry. But I caution that if someone had two names, i.e. Avraham-Moshe and was only called by one, use was likely to follow the European custom with the second name being the common name.
Father – Father’s name and titles as given in the register using the abbreviations that appear.
Status or Title - The descriptives and abbreviations given in the register as relates to the deceased. The comments are extracted from thoughout the report so multiple comments might have been separated by other observations.
Burial Info – In this column you will usually find the person whose grave they are buried next to with a death date of that person to distinguish them from others of that name. If there is a last name with this person and it is not in the Gaons’ row, it usually means that I have put in the name because the text just listed “next to the person who died on such and such a date.” The death dates of those they are buried near do not usually have a year unless it was in a previous year. Their burial location is given as r (row) and a number or a row title. It usually further describes the location by the town side or south side. Named rows listed here include – Gaons’ row (a row reserved for Torah scholars and rabbis); maids’ row (for never-married females); bachelors’ row (supposedly for never-married males but not clear this restriction was observed); kdoshin (a row reserved for martyrs); child-bearing women’s row (I am not sure if reserved for those who died in childbirth or if for mothers of young children); yiladim a row reserved for children.
Listing # – Number by which it is listed in the translation of the Slutsk Chevra Kadisha by the Slutsk Historical Society. Their translation process proceeded from the latest in the 1920s to the earliest so in this table you will find "number 2" who died in 1924 and number 17,350 who died in 1774.

LYAKHOVICHI PEOPLE IN THE REGISTER OF THE SLUTSK CHEVRA KADISHA
From Last Buried to Earliest

Death Date	Date - Gregorian	Surname	Town as given	First Name	Father	Status or Title	Burial Info	Listing #
20 Nisan	4/24/1924	SHMUSHKOVITCH	Lekhevitzer	Ozer	Mhr Binyamin SHMUSHKOVITCH	Mhr	By Aaron, d 7 Nisan,; r32 south side	2
21 Adar	3/27/1924	RIMER	Lekhevitz	Avraham-Moshe	rShmuel	Venerable mhr	By Yom Tov, d.26 Shevat; r31 town side	8
15 Kislev	11/23/1923	KOHEN	Refugees of Lekhevitz	Aharon	Avraham haKohen	The G-d fearing man, the Rabbi	By Shlomo Aryeh, d20 Av; r28, south NOT IN GAON’S ROW	50
19 Kislev	12/20/1921	AKINSKY	Lekhevitz	Noakh	Aharon haKhoen	Elderly mhr	By Yitzkhak, d 15 Kislev; south side	249
14 Tammuz	7/20/1921	RIMER	Lekhevitz	Pesha	Moshe-Shmuel	Wife o Avraham Moshe RIMER	By Feigel, d14 Shevat; new row 3, south side	336
6 Adar Sheni	3/16/1921	TSERNAMARETS	Lekhevitz	Betsalel	Mhr Avraham Tsernamarets	Man gentle in years, mhr	By Avraham Tsvi , d 5 Adar (sheni); row 29 south side	397
12 Adar A	2/12/1921	KAPLAN	Lekhevitz	Pesha Rokhel	Nakhum	Venerable woman, wife o Zev Wolf haKohen Kaplan	By Sara, d. 9 Adar a; row 27 South side	420
25 Tevet	1/5/1921	BREVDA	Lekhevitz	Binyamin	Mhr Yitzkhak Brevda	Mhr”r	By Avraham Yitzkhak Kohen d 23 Tevet; on south side	456
18 Elul	9/1/1920	GANTSEVITS	Lekhevits	Leah	Father’s first name not given, mhr	Maid, 12 years of age	in empty place to southside two graves away from maid Sara-Mindil d.1 Elul; and to town side by maid Sara row "maids" 6 by kdoshim" to south side.	533
29 Av	08/13/1920	KHVEDIK	Liakhavitch	Dvosha	Mhr David Khvedik	Maid, 15 years	By Sheina, d. 24 Av; row "maids" 6 by kdoshim" to south side.	550
18 Av	08/2/1920	RAZRAN	Lekhevitz	Bracha	Zanvil Tzvi from Lekhevitz	woman gentle in years, Wife o Tzvi RAZRAN from Pahost	By Schifra, d 16 Av; r27 to south side	569
11 Tammuz	06/27/1920	BEDER	Lekhevitz	Tsivya Liba	Hillel Beder	Maid, 14 years	By Itka, d.15 Sivan; r "maids" 6 " to south side	587
21 Iyar	05/9/1920	LIKHAVITSKY	Lekhevitz	Itka	Mhr Khanan	Woman 42 years, Wife o Avraham Likhavitsky of Lekhevitz	By Khana Hinda d. 11 Nisan; r27 to town side	600
Last day of Pesach	04/10/1920	KARABIENIK	Lekhevitz	Moshe-Yehezkel	Mhr “SZimil	mhr	By Mendel, d. 1 Nisan; R29 to south side	618
7 Nisan	03/26/1920	GELDFAND	Lekhevitz	Vela	Mhr Eliezer	Woman gentle in years, wife o Michael	By Gruna, 24 Adar; r 27 town side	626
5 Shevat	1/25/1920	LIFSHITZ	Lekhevitz	Mordekhai-Yosef	Mhr Aliksander Lifshitz	A dear man, mhr”r	By Shmuel Toker d. 1 Shevat; one row before a' a' to the south side.	676
23 Tevat	01/14/1920	SHUSTER	Lekhevitz	Khaya-Golda	Father’s name ellipsed	Elderly woman, wife of Shuster (first name ellipsed) of Lekhavitz	By Nekhama, d. 13 Tevet; row 27 to south side.	687
16 Tevat	01/7/1920	SHKOLNIK	Lekhevitz	Moshe Leib	Mhr Pesach Shkolnik from Lekhevitz	Elderly man of 80years, mhr	in empty place to south side by mh"rYakov d. 4 Kislev and to town sideone grave away from r' Yisrael 2 Heshvan; row 25 b"k to the town side.	689
5 Kislev	11/27/1919	YANKELOVITZ	Lekhevitz	Asher	Mhr David Yitzhak Yankelovitz	Bachelor, 16 years, mhr”r	By Bachelor Avraham Aba, d. 25 Tishri; bachelors, r7 to town side.	719
28 Heshvan	11/21/1919	BEDER	Lekhevitz	Ester Tseshya	Mhr Moshe	Wife of r”Hillel Beder	By Rivka Rokhel, d. 9 Heshvan; r1 across the "maids" to the south side.	722
5Tishri	9/29/1919	KHARLIP	Lekhevitz	Feiga	Mhr”r Moshe Kharlip from Lekhevitz	Maid, 11 years	By Rishe-Gitel d 23Shevat; r "maids" 6 to south side.	758
27 Elul	9/22/1919	SHAFTAN	Lekhevitz	Yisrael	Mhr Meir Shaftan	Elderly, 90 years, mhr,	By Moshe, d. 1 Elul; r25 to town side	761
18 Av	8/14/1919	GRINBERG	Lekhevitz	Yehoshua	Mhr”r Avraham Grinberg	Elderly mhr, shoemaker	By Y[Yehuda?] .Leib, d 9 Sivan; r25 to town side	772
5 Sivan	6/3/1919	BUSEL	Lekhevitz	Chaya-Mina	Mhr”r Isser	Venerable woman, Wife of Tzvi Busel	By elderly woman Mrs.Chaya Shapira, 20 Iyar; r 27 to south side	797
1st Day Khol haMoed Pesach	4/17/1919	KHARLIP	Lekhevitz	Fruma-Leah	Mhr”r Moshe Kharlip from Lekhevitz	Maid, 20 yrs	By maid Tzivya, d.11. Nisan; r"maids" 4 to the south side.	817
3 Nisan	4/3/1919	EPSHTEIN	Lekhevitz	Rivka-Rokhel	Mhr”r Yosef Epshtein	Elderly woman	By Lana, d 22 Adar b; r27 to south side	834
26 Adar	3/28/1919	FEINSHTEIN	Lekevitch	Moshe-Yitzkhak	Mhr Zisel Feinshtein from Lekhevitz	G-d fearing elderly rabbi, mhr”r	empty place to south side by r' Shlomo KANTEROVITZ d.4 Tevet 5675 (21 December 1914) and to town side by r'Tzvi who passed away on the eighth day of Adar 5677 (2 March 1918) one row before a' a' south	843
25 Adar Sheni	3/27/1919	MALAKHOVSKY	Lekhevitz	Yosef	Mhr Pesach Malakhovsky	Elderly man mhr”r	By Heshil Kolakir, d. 25 Adar; r 25 to town side	846
23 Adar a	2/23/1919	TSIRLIS	Lekhevitz	Barukh	Mhr”r Yakov Tsirlis	Bachelor age 35	By bachelor Reuven, d. 8 Adar a; r bachelors 5, by south side	875
14 Adar a	2/14/1919	FINEBERG	Lekhevitz	Ester	Mhr” Avraham	Wife of r Yakov Fineberg	By Chaya, d. 28 Shevat; r 27 to town side	881
2 Adar	1/2/1919	MEDRES/ MEDRESH	Lekhevitz	Ester-Reina	Mhr” Avraham	Wife o r Yosef Medresh	By Sara Boonin Sofer d. 23 Shevat; r 27 to south side	893
23 Shevat	1/24/1919	FEINSHTEIN	Lekhevitz	Khaya Feiga	Yitzkhak Feinshtein from Lekhevitz	no description	By ___ d. 15 Tevet 1918; r 27 to south side ; no woman is reg as died that date, possibly Khava Miriam Arantsik who died on 12 Tevet	902
23Shevat	1/22/1919	VALKOVISKY	Lekhevitz	Rakhel	Mhr”r Moshe	Elderly woman, wife of r Zev Volf VALKOVISKY	By Elka Agrodnitsky d. 20 Shevat; R26 to south side	903
16 Shevat	1/17/1919	TSEITMAN	Lekhevitz	Yehuda	mh"rReuven TSIETMAN	a G-D fearing man the rabbi mh"r; shamesh of beit-hamidras Isserlin	By mhr R Mendel d.20 Tamuz (30 June 1918), row before 6 by the "geonim" to the south side.	911
7 Shevat	1/8/1919	SHARNIK	Lekhevitz	Yehuda	mhr David SHARNIK	Elderly 84 years, mhr	By mhr Yakov d. 20 Tevet; R25 to town side	918
6 Shevat	1/7/1919	PINTSUK or PINTSHUK or PINSZUK	Lekhevitz	Khana Ester	Noakh	Wife of Moshe Aharon PINTSUK	Chaya Sara d. 28 Tevet; r 27 to south side	920
12 Tevat	12/15/1918	ARANTSIK or ARONSHIK	Lekhevitz	Khava Miriam	?	Wife of [?]	By Khasha Gita TREGER, d. 9 Tevet; r 27 to south side	934
11 Tevat	12/14/1918	BEREZIN/BREZIN	Lekhevitz	Rakhel	Mhr”r Shmuel BEREZIN	Elderly woman	By Kreina d. 12 Kislev; r 27 to south side	936
8 Tevat	12/11/1918	SIRKIN	Lekhavits	Leah	Mhr’ Yehoshua	Modest venerable woman, Wife of melamed Y. [Yekhiel?] Mikhael SIRKIN of Lekhavits	By Glila d. 1 Kislev; New row 3 by south side	943
9 Kislev	11/13/1918	PILNIK	Lekhevitz	Dov Ber	mh"r Avraham-Eliezer PILNIK	Bachelor, 16 years	By Yehoshua SULKIN, d. 5 Kislev; R bachelors 5 to south side	958.
28 Tishri	10/4/1918	LIPOVSKY	Lekhevitz	Moshe	the son of mh"r r' Yitskhak LIPOVSKY	mh"r r'	mh"r Shmuel RIKHLIN, d Hoshana Raba; row 28 by kdoshim to south side	994
Shabat "Shmini-Atseret"	9/18/1918	EPSHTEIN	Lekhevitz	Aharon	son of mh"r Y. Leib EPSHTEIN	a dear and G-D fearing man the rabbi the "melamed" mh"r	By Moshe d. 5 Av; row before 5 to the south side	1001
22 Elul	8/30/1918	GRINSHPAN	Lekhevitz	Ester-Bluma	daughter of mh"r Mordekhai HACOHEN	venerable; the woman, the wife of r' Yakov Moshe GRINSHPAN the "melamed" from Lekhevitz	Sheina BUNIN d. 11 Elul; row 1 across the row maids to the south side.	1032
10 Iyar	4/22/1918	MIESHKOVSKY	Lekhevitz	Tsesheh	daughter of Avraham BAKSHITSKY	the important woman the wife of r' YISRAEL MIESHKOVSKY from Lekhevitz	Leah GREENBERG , d. 4 th day of Khol haMoed; row 26 to the south side.	1072
4 th day Khol haMoed Pesach	3/26/1918	GREENBERG	Lekhevitz	Leah	Daughter of mhr [ellipse]	the elderly woman, wife of r’ [ellipse] GREENBERG from Lekhevitz	Dvasha Leah d 8 Nisan; row 26 to the south side.	1083
7 Adar	2/19/1918	EPSHTEIN	Lekhevitz	Shlomo	the son of mh”r Yitskhak HaLevy EPSHTEIN	elderly mh”r r’ from the refugees from Lekhevitz	Meir 2 nd day Rosh Hodesh Adar; row 25 to the town side.	1106
16 Shevat	2/29/1918	MUKASY	Lekhevitz	Yoel	son of mh"r r' M. Feivel MUKASY	elderly man eighty years of age mh"r r'; from the refugees from Lekhevitz	by Avraham d. 8 Shevat; row 28 south.	1116
25 Tevat	1/9/1918	LIFSHITZ	Lekhevitz	Khaya-Rakhel	Dtr of mh”r Aharon	the elderly woman, the wife of A.[Alexander?] Sender Lifshitz from Lekhevitz	Fruma –Riva TZAZIK d. 27 Kislev; row 27 to the south side.	1129
19 Tevat	1/3/1918	LITAROVSKY	Lekhevitz	Moshe Meshil	son of mh"r Yitskhak LITAROVSKY	venerable mh"r from the refugees from Lekhevitz	, [ellipse] row "twenty-five" to the town side.	1133
18 Tevat	2 Jan 1918	MALASHEVSKY	Lekhevitz	Brakha	the daughter of the rabbi r' Barukh Mordekhai HACOHEN r"m (Rosh Medina) of Lekhevitz	elderly woman the wife of r' Y. {Yisrael?]Isser MALASHEVSKY	Eta-Shula d. 8 Tevet; row 26 to south side.	1136
1 Kislev	11/15/1917	MALOVITSKY	Lekhevitz	Risya	the daughter of mh"r r' Yosef MALOVITSKY	elderly woman from the refugees from Lekhevitz	Khaya-Rakhel d. 13 Heshvan; row 27 to the town side.	1161
13 Heshvan	10/29/1917	ZMUDZAK	Lekhevitz	Moshe Binyamin	the son of mh"r r' Avraham ZMUDZAK	a dear man forty-five years of age mh"r from the refugees from Lekhevitz	mh"r r' Yosef d. 26 Elul row 2 by kdoshim to the south side.	1167
5 Heshvan	10/21/1917	YANKELEVITZ	Lekhevitz	David Yitskhak	the son of mh"r Todrus YANKELEVITZ	mh"r r'	mh"r r' Avraham-Yitzkhak d24 Tishri row 28 by kdoshim to the town side.	1177
Hoshana-Raba	10/7/1917	ABEL	Lekhevitz	Moshe	the son of mh"r r' Shaul ABEL	venerable mh"r r' from the refugees from Lekhevitz	rests by [...] who passed away [on...] row 25 to the town side.	1185
25 Elul	9/12/1917	MILNER	Lekhevitz	Menakhem	the son of mh"r r' Avraham MILNER	the venerable famous in "tora" mh"r r' "melamed" from the refugees from Lekhevitz	empty place to south side by r' Tzvi MEISEL d.18 Elul and to the town side by Asher who d. 6 Iyar row 7 by the "geonim" to the south side	1199
7 Elul	8/25/1917	EPSHTEIN	Lekhevitz	Miriam	daughter of mh"r Y.[Yehuda?] Leib	the elderly woman the wife of r' Avraham Yitzkhak EPSHTEIN from the refugees from Lekhevitz	the woman Rokhel the daughter of r' Tzvi Hersh the wife of r' Pesakh Dov PALEY who d. 8 Av row 27 to south side.	1208
6 Iyar	4/28/1917	NAKHMANOVSKY	Lekhevitz	Gnesha	daughter of r' Binyamin NAKHMANOVSKY from the refugees from Lekhevitz	the maid	the maid MENUKHA who d 13 Shevat (5 February 1917) row maids "four" by kdoshim to the south side.	1247
12 Nisan	4/4/1917	MENAKER	Lekhevitz	Leib Reuven	Son of r Pesakh from the refugees from Lekhevitz	R; In the kloize, from the refugees from Lekhevitz	r' Shlomo son of r' Yehuda HALEVY d.16 Adar; row 25" to the south side.	1257
2Nisan	3/25/1917	BOYER SHAPNER	She is buried next to a woman of Lekhevitz	Khaya	the daughter of r' Dov Ber	the woman; the wife of r' Moshe BOYER SHAPNER	the woman Rokhel PARTAL from Lekhevitz who d. 7 Adar (1 March 1917) row 27 to the south side .	1262
7 Adar	3/1/1917	PARTAL	Lekhevitz	Rokhel	the daughter of r' Eliezer PARTAL	The woman; from the refugees from Lekhevitz	the woman MINA the daughter of r' Barukh TZERUSKY row 27 by kdoshim to the south side.	1278
11 Shevat	2/3/1917	RIMER	Lekhevitz	Bosha	the daughter of mh"r Yakov RIMER	the child-bearing woman; from the refugees from Lekhevitz	rests by the child-bearing woman who passed away on Sunday the 15 day of the aforementioned Tamuz (16 July 1916) row child-bearing-women 15 to the south side.	1310
4 Shevat	1/27/1917	LIPMAN?	Lekhevitz	Eta Gnesha	the daughter of the rabbi mh"r r' Yehuda KHASID	important woman ; the wife of r' Eliezer LIPMAN "shat"s" of the city of Lekhevitz	the woman who passed away on Tuesday the twenty-ninth day of the aforementioned Tevet (23 January 1917) row 27 to the town side.	1315
14 Tevat	1/8/1917	TSERLIS	Lekhevitz	Sheina	the daughter of mh"r r' Aharon HALEVY	the venerable woman; . the wife of r' Yakov TSERLIS from the refugees from Lekhevitz	she rests in empty place to south side by woman who d24 Tamuz (25 July 1916) to town side one grave away from woman who d. 23 (22 August 1916) row 27 to the town side.	1332
6 Tevat	12/31/1916	VINOGRAD	Lekhevitz	Moshe	the son of the rabbi mh"r r' Mordekhai VINOGRAD	the venerable rabbi mh"r r'; from the refugees from Lekhevitz;	r' Yehoshua Heshel d.25 Tammuz 5675 8/17/1915) 28 th row 6 by the geonim to the south side.	1334
2 Tevet	12/27/1916	GANTSEVITSER	Lekhevitz	Rivka Leah	the daughter of mh"r Yosef	The woman; the wife of r' David GANTSEVITSER from the refugees from Lekhevitz	in an empty place to south side by woman who d Yom-Kippor and to town side by woman who d.24 Tamuz row 27 by kdoshim to the town side.	1336
24 Kislev	12/19 /1916	BEREZIN/BREZIN	of the refugees from Lakhovitz	Tcharna	the daughter of mh"r Moshe BREZIN	the elderly woman; from the refugees from Lakhovitz	aforementioned woman who d. 23Kislev row 27 by kdoshim south	1337
15 Kislev	12/10/1916	VIGORTZIK/ VIGORCHIK	of the refugees from Lakhovitz	Hinde Leah	the daughter of mh"r [...]	the elderly woman; the wife of r' [...] VIGORTSIK from the refugees from Lakhovitz	the woman Mrs. Rokhel Heshvan and to town side by the woman Mrs. Shosha who d. 18 Heshvan row 27 to town side.	1342
2 Kislev	11/27/1916	MEDRES / MEDRESH	of the refugees from Lakhovitz	Avraham	the son of mh"r Yakov MEDRES	the venerable mh"r r' ; of the refugees from Lakhovitz who was for several years a...	the elderly mh"r Yosef passed away on d. 2 Elul row 25 by kdoshim to the south side.	1349
28 Heshvan	11/24/1916	KOTON	Lakhovitz Of the refugees from Lakhovitz	Y.Yehuda?] Leib	the son of mh"r r' Katriel KOTON	passed away suddenly mh"r r' ; Of the refugees from Lakhovitz	Tzvi d.Hoshana-Raba row 2 by kdoshim to the town side.	1352.
24 Heshvan	11/20/1916	GERSHOVITZ	Lakhovitz	Rokhel	the daughter of mh"r r' S' Zalman GERSHOVITZ	the venerable woman; from the refugees from Lakhovitz	in empty place to south side by woman who d. 15 Heshvan and to town side one grave away from the woman who d.18 Heshvan; row 27 to town side.	1353
15 Heshvan	11/11/1916	POSTAN	Lekhevitz	Sara Ester	the daughter of mh"r Yehuda Dov Ber	the woman; the wife of r' Y'.Yehuda?] Leib POSTAN from the refugees from Lekhevitz	aforementioned woman who d. 6 Heshvan row 27 to the town side	1356
19 Elul	9/7/1916	POTSHAN (POSTAN?) .	Lakhovitz	Khaya	the daughter of mh"r Y. [Yehudah} LEIB	the elderly woman one-hundred and five years of age; the wife of r' YERAKHMIEL POTSHAN; from Lakhovitz	the woman Sara who d. 10 Elul row 27 to the town side	1369
10 Elul	9/8/1916	SHESHTAK	from the refugees from Lekhovits	Sara	the daughter of mh"r r' Meir SHESHTAK	the venerable woman; from the refugees from Lekhovits	in an empty place to the south side by the woman who d. 27 Av) and to the town side by the woman who d. 19 Iyar row 27 to the town side.	1375
6 Elul	9/4/`9`6	BREVDA	Lakhovitz	Meir	the son of mh"r r' Avraham Eliyahu BREVDA	the bachelor seventeen years of age mh"r; of the refugees from Lakhovitz	bachelor who d. 25 Iyar row 3 of bachelors" to the south side.	1379
27 Av	8/26/1916	KIRZNER	Lakhovits	Golda	the daughter of mh"r Eliyahu	the elderly woman ;the wife of r' [...] KIRZNER from the refugees from Lakhovitz	in an empty place to the south side by the woman who passed away on Tuesday the thirteenth day of the aforementioned Iyar (16 May 1916) and to the town side one grave away from the woman who passed away on Monday the nineteenth day of the aforementioned Iyar (22 May 1916) row 27 to the town side.	1386
26 Av	8/25/1916	TURBOVITZ	Lakhovits	Shimshon	the son of mh"r Y. [Yitzkhak/ Eizik TURBOVITZ	the bachelor ten years of age; mh"r; from the refugees from Lakhovitz	the bachelor who passed away on Monday the twenty-seventh day of the aforementioned Tevet (3 January 1916) row bachelors 3 to the town side.	1387
20 Av	8/19/1916	TURBOVITZ	Lakhovitz	Khana	the daughter of mh"r Eliyahu	the woman gentle in years; the wife of r' Y. [Yitzkhak/ Eizik TURBOVITZ from the refugees from Lakhovits;	the woman who passed away on Monday the first day of "rosh-khodesh" of the aforementioned M' Av (31 July 1916) row 24 by kdoshim to the town side.	1389.
16 Iyar	5/19/1916	KAROBYESHIK		(Mr.) Simkha	Son of Tzv I Hersh KAROBYESHIK	the bachelor eighteen years of age mh"r r'; of the refugees from Lekhovits	the bachelor who passed away on Thursday the twentieth day of the aforementioned Adar a' (24 February 1916) row "three" of bachelors south	1421
13 Iyar	5/16/1916	KAROBYESHIK	Basya		the daughter of mh"r [...] KAROBIESHIK from Lekhovit	the elderly woman	the woman Mrs. Feiga who passed away on Monday the eve of the aforementioned "Pessach" (17 April 1916) row 27 to the town side.	1422.
12 Iyar	5/15/ 1916	HALEVI-EPSHTEIN		Yakov Meir	the son of mh"r DAVID HALEVY EPSHTEIN	the bachelor twenty-eight years of age mh"r r' ;from the refugees from Lakhovits	the bachelor mh"r Yitzkhak d. 24 Shevat row bachelors 2 to the south side	1423
28 Nisan	4/12/1915	PEIMER /FYOMER	Lekhovitz – her husband rabbi there	Tzivya Baila	the daughter of the rabbi the gaon mh "r Noah Chaim Avraham zts"l SHAPIRA the gaon "av-beit-din" of Smorgan the son of the gaon, preacher of Torah mh"r Arye Leib zts"l SHAPIRA the gaon, av-beit-din of Kovna the son of the rabbi the gaon mh"r Menakhem Zundil zts"l the son of the gaon r' Shlomo z"l from Viekin a branch of a myrtle till our holy rabbi [this is what is written on the tomb of my great-grandfather the gaon r' Arye Leib z"l from Kovna]	in the evening twilight time ;my mother my teacher the "rebbitsen; the respected modest; the wife of my father my teacher and rabbi the gaon mh"r Meir zts"l a rabbi in Brezin 13 , ..., and in Karelits and in Lekhovits, the son of the gaon mh"r YOSEF zts"l PEIMER/ FYOMER who was a rabbi here in Slutsk “These are the words of her son who writes with trembling hands and with broken shoulders who anticipates seeing consolation, at the city that G-D is there, Yosef the son of the rabbi the gaon and pious mh"r Meir zts"l from Slutsk	she was brought to burial and was buried in the best of graves next to the grave of my father the gaon zts"l. who d 20 Iyar 5671 (5/18/1911)	1646
20 Iyar 5671	5/18/1911	PEIMER/ FYOMER/ FYUMER	He was a rabbi in Lyakhovichi “ And in the year 5655 (1894) he was accepted as a rabbi in the town of Lekhavitz, in the district of Minsk, and he there for a few months, and he left the rabbinic position of the aforementioned town and came to Slutsk, and resided as a "baal habayit", and several people approached him from several big towns, and he did not accept upon himself. And in the winter of 5663 (1902), the people of the congregation of Lekhavitch asked him to come to arbitrate as a Torah judge, and when he came there all the honorable people of the town greeted him and asked him not to turn them down and that he should accept upon himself the rabbinic position of their town, and he accepted. During his residence there he guided his flock faithfully with wisdom and established several issues: a wood offering, to give wood to the poor during the winter, and he guided them in the bread, as he established bread for the poor. How wonderful was the sight when he went himself, accompanied by two honorable people to gather money on behalf of these charities. And also he has put his eye and heart over the children of the Talmud Torah there, and often he would go to the Talmud Torah to examine the contents of the children, may they live, and he was concerned over their spirit and body.”	mh"r Meir zts"l PEIMER	the son of the gaon, the righteous, mh"r YOSEF zts"l FYUMER, who was a rabbi here for approximately 35 years.	in the morning, passed away and summoned to the upper chambers, my father, the rabbi, the gaon, the righteous, … My father, the rabbi, the gaon, mh"r, MEIR zts"l, aforementioned, was taught by his father, the rabbi, the gaon, zts"l, aforementioned, on the lap of Torah and fear of G-d. From the dew of his childhood, every man saw in him that he was created for greatness, and he bent his shoulder to bear the yoke of Torah, and put nights like days, and his mouth did not cease from learning. This is a much longer obituary with many details of his life and rabbinical positions.	He rests with honor by his partner in covenant the great, renowned rabbi mh"r Yosef ZUNDIL zts"l of Salant, who was a leader here for approximately 60 years, one grave away from the aforementioned, row 6 by the geonim to the s"s.	2136
4 Av	8/9/1910	SHUSTERMAN	Lekhvitzer (as surname?)	Sara	the daughter of mh"r Gavriel LEKHIVITZER [a surname?]	the woman gentle in years twenty-five years of age; the wife of r' Moshe SHUSTERMAN wagon-driver	woman d. 8 Adar b' row 1 before 18 to town side .	2244
28Adar	3/22/1909	ELISHEVITZ	LEKHEVITZER (as surname?)	Gruna	the daughter of mh”r r' Yitzkhak LEKHEVITZER the wife of r' David ELISHEVITZ		aforementioned woman d.25 Adar; row 24 by kdoshin to town side	2395
21 Tevet	1/14/1909	RASHIN	Father’s surname is LIAKHEVITSKY	Matlia	the daughter of mh"r r' Yakov Mikhel LIAKHEVITSKY	Before Mincha; the woman gentle in years twenty-six years of age ; the wife of r' Yosef RASHIN	in an empty place to south side by woman who d. 19 Av 5668 8/16/1908 and to the town side by woman Hinda who d. 20 Iyar 5667 5/4/1907 one row before 1 to south side	2434
1 Iyar	4/14/1907	BREWDA/ BRUDA	Driver on stagecoach route between Slutsk and Lekhevitz	Chaim Yosef	the son of mh"r r' Osher BREWDA	Killed by a “delizhan” [a Diligence a European stagecoach] May G-D have mercy on us; a dear and generous man mh"r r' ; and his years were fifty years who was a conductor on a delizhan and drove from Shtansa Lekhevitz here to Slutsk with shedakis and this occurrence was by Shtantsa Shinetsa and he fell from the delizan to the ground and the delizan went over him and immediately his soul left him on this spot that he fell on and they brought him on the aforementioned day to Slutsk and made a palitseh shletsvoh	and on the following day on Monday the second day of "rosh-khodesh" he was brought to burial; he rests two graves away from E’ ZELIG d. 4 th day Khol-haMoed Pessach ; row 5 to the town side.	2678
4 Kislev	11/21/1906	MELNIK	from the village of Lekhivits next to Pukhovits	Azriel	the son of mh"r r' Y.Yehuda?] Leib MELNIK from the village of Lekhivits next to Pukhovits	mh"r r' ; “Who suffered” [note he is one of many people who is noted as “passed away in an institution” but it is the first time suffering is mentioned so it is not clear if the institutions are generally hospitals or something else – by Deborah Glassman]	Hillel d. 25 Heshvan, row 23 to town side	2744
3 Nisan	3/29/1906	ZAYEDS	Father is called Lekhvitzer	Itke Gitel	the daughter of mh"r r' Mordekhai HALEVY LEKHEVITZER	the important woman; the wife of r' Y' EIZIK ZAYEDS	two graves away from the woman who d. 16 Kislev 1905 row 18 to town side.	2824
20 Kislev	12/22/1905	BREVDA	Lekhevitzer	Moshe	the son of mh"r r' Morkhe BREVDA Lekhevitzer	mh"r r'	David d. 19 Kislev row 23 to the town side.	2859
22 Elul	9/22/1905	SOFER (See also Shafron)	Lekhevitzer	Moshe Eliezer	the son of mh"r r' Y.Yehuda?] Leib SOFER Lekhevitzer	mh"r r'; died in a “delazan”	Gershon who d9Av row 1 against the wall to the town side.	2885
4 Iyar	4/19/1904	HALEVY	Lekhevitzer	Aharon	the son of mh"r r' Tzvi Hersh Leiv HALEVY Lekhevitzer	mh"r r' ; the bachelor;	from him began the row "May death be consumed for ever" ; by the feet of the bachelor who d. 4 th day of Khol-haMoed Sukot 5662 (1901) row bachelors before 1 by kdoshim.	3094
21 Tevet	1/9/1904	SHAFRON (See also Sofer)	Lekhevitzer	Rokhel	the daughter of mh"r r' Yeshaya Avraham ARANOVITS Lekhevitzer	The woman; the wife of r' Moshe Eliezer SHAFRON; she was brought here from Daroh [note – this means after she died she was brought here]	the woman Mrs. Shulya d.10 Kislev (29 November 1903) row 18 to the town side	3143
4 Shevat	2/1/1903	GOLDBERG -RIMER		Yosef Shimon	the son of mh"r r' Meir GOLDBIRG RIMER Lekhevitzer	venerable m'	Aharon who d. 1 Shevat; row 21by kdoshin to the town side.	3256
16 Tevet	1/7/1901	BUER- LIAKHAVITZKY		Yenta	the daughter of mh"r r' Y. [Yeheil] Mikhil	the wife of r' Shabtei LIAKHAVITZKY BUER	in an empty place to the south side by the woman who d. 8Elul and to town side one grave away from woman who d. 26 Elul; row 18 to the town side.	3553.
24 Shevat	2/4/1899	KOLBASHYER	Father called Lekhvitzer	Tzisha Leah	the daughter of mh"r r' Nekhemya LEKHVITZER	the wife of r' Moshe KOLBASHYER	woman who d. 14 Shevat) row 20 to the south side.	3827
9 Adar a	2/11/1897	PILNIK	Lekhvitzer	Y.[usually Yehuda in this case Yitzkhak] Leib	the son of mh"r r' Avraham PILNIK Lekhvitzer	mh"r r'	Y' Leib d 25 Shevat; row 16 by kdoshim to town side	4110
27 Nisan	4/10/1896	KLETZKER	Father called Lekhivitzer	Khana Ester	the daughter of mh"r Yitzkhak LEKHEVITZER	the venerable woman; the wife of r' Y' Leib KLETZKER	the woman who d. 7 Nisan, in row 20 on the south side.	4220
2 nd Day Rosh Hodesh Adar	2/15/1896	BROKERER	Father called Lekhivitzer	Ester	the daughter of mh"r r' David HACOHEN LEKHIVITZER	the woman ; the wife of Yaakov BROKERER	SARA who d.2Sivan 5655, 5/25/1895 in the row before 1 to the town side.	4247
26 Tevet	1/22/1895	LEKHEVITZER	Father called Lekhivitzer	Khaim Tzvi	the son of mh"r r' David LEKHEVITZER	the young man	one grave away by Noah who passsed away on Friday, the eve of the holy day of Shabat, the fifteenth of the aforementioned Tevet, (11 January 1895) in row "sixteen" , to the town side.	4388
25 Iyar	5/31/1894	KAPLAN	Father called “from Lekhevitz”	Khava	, the daughter of mh"r r' Yeshaya from Lekhevitz	the venerable woman; the wife of r' Yehuda KAPLAN,	the woman Keila who passed away on the holy day of Shabat, the sixth of the aforementioned Iyar, (12 May 1894) in the row before a' a' a', to the town side.	4460
7 Adar	3/15/1894	MLOTOK	Father called g”m Lekhvitzer	Rivka Pesya	,the daughter of mh"r r' Zev Dov g"m LEKHIVITZER	the child-bearing woman; the wife of r' Moshe MLOTOK	the child-bearing woman Sheina, in an empty place, who d. 28 Tevet 5653, 1/16/1893 to the south side, and one grave away from the woman Batya who d. 10 Adar 5653, 2/26/1893 in the row before16	4494
22 Shevat	2/8/1893	RIMER	Lekhevitz	Yeshaya	the son of mh"r r' Mordekhai Eli' RIMER of Lekhevitz	mh"r r'	Moshe d. 20 Shevat, row 14 south side	4647
21 Heshvan	11/4/1890	NO SURNAME	Lekhevitz	Bluma	“and the name of her father is not known”	“from Lekhevitz or from Shtlavits”	Tzviya who d. 13 Heshvan,) in the row before 16 by kdoshim, to the town side.	5012
5 Adar	2/25/1890	NO SURNAME	Lekhevitz	Eliezer Reuven	the son of mh"r r' [...] from Lekhevitz	Mh”rr’	Yehuda d21 Shevat, row 16 by kdoshim, to the town side	5107
9 Adar	3/12/1889	NO SURNAME	Lekhevitz	Michael	the son of mh"r r' Mordekhai of Lekhevitz	mh"r ; the father-in-law of r' Khaim SHUSTER	__ who d. 13 Shevat row before a', to the town sid	5266
14 Adar	2/26/1888	NO SURNAME	Lekhevitz	Eli	the son of mh"r r' Avraham z"z from Lekhevitz	mh"r r'	and he rests by the aforementioned Shalom IMMERMAN	5443
5 Nisan	3/30/1887	NO SURNAME	Lekhevitz	Breina	Not given	the woman ; the wife of r' Zev David g"s from Lekhevitz	Reizel d. 3 Nisan, row 19 to south side	5611
17 Iyar	5/2/1885	NO SURNAME	Lekhevitz	Liba Devora	the daughter of mh"r r' Eliezer Moshe from Lekhevitz	The woman	Sara who d. 11 Iyar, in the row before 16 by kdoshim, to the town side.	5862
11 Iyar	4/26/1885	MESANRET	father called Lekhevitzer	Sara Risa	the daughter of mh"r r' Dovber MESANRET Lekhevitzer,	the woman	Feiga who passed away on Friday, the eve of the holy day of Shabat, the ninth of the aforementioned Iyar, (24 April 1885) in the row before "sixteen" by kdoshim, to the south side.	5866
24 Shevat	2/1/1883	ZAYEDS	Lekhevitz	Toba	the daughter of mh"r r' Mordekhai HALEVY from Lekhevitz	the woman, gentle in years; daughter-in-law of r' Yehuda ZAYEDS (Ziedish in Historical Society Translation)	she rests to the right side by Yenta who d. 8 Tevet 5642, 12/30/1881; in the row before a', to the south side.	6262
2 nd day Khol HaMoed Sukkot	10/1/1882	MESHIL	Lekhevitz	Sara	the daughter of mh"r r' Moshe MESHIL from Lekhevitz [might not be surname but nickname]	the important woman SARA	Khaika d. 2 nd day Sukot in the row before a' , to the town side	6355
8 Adar	2/20/1880	NO SURNAME.	Lekhvitz	Yaakov	the son of mh"r AVRAHAM ak”h from Lekhvitz	`m”	Moshe d 24 Shevat in row 16 by kdoshim, to the south	6788
18 Elul	9/6/1879	NO SURNAME	Lekhevitz	Itka	the daughter of mh"r Eliezer from Lekhevitz	the woman	and she rests by the aforementioned.	6889
	1/19/1878	NO SURNAME.	Lekhevitz	Shimshon	the son of m' Eliezer from Lekhevitz	No description	and he rests by the aforementioned	7147
24 Tevet	12/30/1877	NO SURNAME.	Lekhevitz	Sara Leah	the daughter of mh"r Nakhum from Lekhevitz	the venerable woman	Khana who passed away on Thursday, the fourth day of the aforementioned Khol HaMoed Sukote, (27 September 1877) in row "nineteen" by kdoshim, to the town side.	7166
6 Heshvan	11/4/1875	KIRZNER	Lekhevitz	Eliezer	the son of mh"r YOSEF KIRZNER from Lekhevitz	No description	Pinkhas who d. 4 Heshvan in row 16 by kdoshim, to the town side.	7450
18 Elul	9/18/1875	NO SURNAME	Lekhevitz	Rafael	the son of the r' MORY from Lekhevitz [This is probably a title rather than a name]	No description	[...] who d. 1 Av; row 16 by kdoshim, to the town side.	7462
2 Nisan	4/7/1875	NO SURNAME	Lekhevitz	David	The son of Tzvi Hersh from Lekhivitz	"kh 12 m'	Yehuda who d. 22 Adar b', (29 March 1875) in row 16 by kdoshim, to the town side.	7513.
24 Tishri	10/26/1872	NO SURNAME	Lekhevitz	Feiga Mindil	the daughter of mh"r Meir from Lekhevitz	No description	Batye d. 2nd day Khol haMoed Sukot; row 17 by kdoshim to town side	7879
8 Tevet	1/3/1868	NO SURNAME	Lekhevitsh	Tzadok	the son of m' [...]from Lekhivitsh	`m’	Shlomo who d. 2Tevet, 12/28/1867 in row16, to the town side.	8760
11 Adar	3/18/1867	LEKHEVITZER?	Father called Lekhevitzer	Rokhel	, the daughter of mh"r r' MOSHE LEKHEVITZER	the important woman	Mikhla who d. 2 Tevet 12/101866 in row 9	8945
29 Nisan	4/18/1863	KRAKEVER	Lekhevitz	Baila	the daughter of the rabbi mh"r r' Aharon from Lekhevitz	the woman; the wife of r' Eli' KRAKEVER,	Grina d. 28 Heshvan, (11/21/1862) in row 7	9449
24 Nisan	4/13/1863	NO SURNAME	Lekhevitz	Moshe Asher	the son of mh"r r' YAAKOV from Lekhevitz	mh"r r'	Hertz d. 7 Tishri 10/1/1862 in row 1	9453
1 Sivan	5/29/1862	NO SURNAME	Lekhevitz	Sara-Golda	the daughter of mh"r r' Shmuel from Lekhevitz	The maid	Malka d. 23 Iyar in row maids by kdoshim.	9582
8 Nisan	4/8/1861	NO SURNAME	Lekhevitz	Bunya-Riva	, the daughter of mh"r r' Yosef,	the woman; the wife of r' Gavriel from Lekhevitz	two graves away from Batya d.3 Nisan row 9	9596
26 Shevat	2/6/1861	NO SURNAME	Lekhivitz	Mindel	the daughter of mh"r r' m' Feibil from Lekhivitz	The woman	Ester d. 13 Shevat, in row 15 to the town side.	9762
second day of Khol HaMoed Pesakh	4/6//1855	NO SURNAME	Lekhevitz	Moshe	the son of mh"r r' MEIR from Lekhevitz	the bachelor, in "yeshiva",	Herts d,1 Nisan) in row bachelors by kdoshim.	10,790
15 Adar	3/5/1855	NO SURNAME; father called Lekhvitzer	Father called Lekhvitzer	Notan Nota	the son of mh"r r' Dovber Lekhvitzer	R.	he rests by [...];d 25 Shevat in row11, to the town side.	10,813.
11 Tishri	10/3/1854	NO SURNAME	Lekhevitz	Eliezer	the son of r' Tzvi from Lekhevitz	Venerable, the r.	Shlomo d 5 Tishri; in row 11 by kdoshin to town side	10,930
12 Av	8/6/1854	NO SURNAME	Lekhevitz	Sheina	r. Gershon from Lekhevitz

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