Shtetl Links: Lyakhovichi

NAME	Business or Residence Description	Street Name or Location
ROSZOVSKY, Shloime	Shloimke Rozovsky is one of shop owners on Abraham Yankel Kaplan’s first floor	Market Place is at the east end of town. In the Market Place, two storied stone house of Abraham Yankel Kaplan with row of stores on first floor
COHEN, Itsche and his wife Nehama Raisels	An inn in the center of the city, Nehama Raisels Inn, (called before WWI by her husband’s name Reb Itsche Cohen) (Jewish clientele, primarily)	Market Place, the second two storied stone house; of Reb Itsche Cohen and his wife Nechama Raisels – an inn. Appears in 1905 property register for Lyakhovichi under the name Itsko Kagan.
	Cabs and Drivers tied up at Nehama Raisels Inn	Market Place, the second two storied stone house; of Reb Itsche Cohen and his wife Nechama Raisels – an inn
MISHKOFSKY, Israel	Legal advocate; scribe	Market Place, the third two storied stone house of Israel Mishkofsky; with state Liquor store on first floor (Monopol) and Israel Mishkovsky’s legal advice and scribal office on 2 nd floor. He is listed in the 1905 Property records as Srol, son of Girsh Myshkovskiy, owner of a stone building with the state wine shop. In 1874 Mishkofsky was living in his father's apartment on Klteskaya Street.
(EPSTEIN) aka Michael AGUSHKES, Michael Agushe, Michael Dodes; named also father Dode, son Dode, son Dode's wife Temma, and the children of Dode and Temme - a son Meirke, a daughter Hode	Inn / Hotel – modern with many Christian guests including noblemen	Market Place, the fourth building seeming to continue Israel Mishkofsly’s house, the hotel of Michael Dodes aka Michael Agushkes. (modern hotel, Christian guests) In the 1905 Lyakhovichi property records he is called Michael son of Dovid EPSTEIN and the building is said to rent "furnished apartments" in our translation. He is recorded owning that building since 1874. It is presumed that his co-name Agushkes is from his wife's name
(EPSTEIN) aka Dode (nickname for David) son of Michael Agushkes with his father Michael, his wife Temma, and the children of Dode and Temme - a son Meirke, a daughter Hode	Inn / Hotel – modern with many Christian guests including noblemen	Market Place, the fourth building seeming to continue Israel Mishkofsly’s house, the hotel of Michael Dodes aka Michael Agushkes. (modern hotel, Christian guests) In the 1905 Lyakhovichi property records he and his father are both listed and the building is said to rent "furnished apartments" in our translation. His father appears to own that same building since 1874. It is presumed that his father's co-name Agushkes is from his wife's name, but Dode's mother is not reported
(EPSTEIN) AGUSHE, Meirke son of Michael and Temma, died during WWI. No surname on page.	Graduate of Optician school; came home from big city on holidays	Market Place
MONYE, Idel (aka MEINISH, Idel) no last name appears to be present	Building description	Market Place, the fifth two storied stone building. After his death, a cooperative bank was upstairs, and on the first floor a road house (pub/inn)
ALEZAR, Peretz this may not be a last name but a formation from a father's name of Leizar	Tailor shop	Market Place, a wood building against Idel Monye’s building, Peretz Alezar’s tailor shop – not far from the Agushe stone house (Dodes Inn)
	Building description	Market Place, the shared building of Reb Leibe Kantorovich and Reb Yosef Bogin – the Kantorovcih sided served as Stoliner Shul, the Bogin side as Flour warehouse. Bogin appears in the 1905 property register of Lyakhovichi with this flour warehouse.
KANTOROVICH, Leibe	Owner of building	Market Place
NO SURNAME GIVEN Yitzhak Aron	Cheder teacher	Market Place
BOGIN, Yosef	Flour Merchant (links with largest flour companies in Russia) Founded a modern cheder.	Market Place, the shared building of Reb Leibe Kantorovich and Reb Yosef Bogin – the Kantorovcih sided served as Stoliner Shul, the Bogin side as Flour warehouse
NO SURNAME GIVEN Riva the widow (see also Shaindel POSTAN)	Soda shop	Market Place, the small shop below the Kantorovich-Bogin Building
POSTAN, Shaindel daughter of Riva the widow, with Berl Postan her husband	Soda shop	Market Place, the small shop below the Kantorovich-Bogin Building
MALOWITSKY, Michael Noah (listed on page as Michl Noah, no surname, but it names his children)	Building Description	Market Place – making a right at Bogin-Kantorovich house. There is in the 1905 Property register a Noah Malovitsky who owns property on Market place, 4 wooden buildings including a warehouse. He lives next door to an Abram Malovitsky who is called Abram son of Mikhel. But the names Michael Malovitsky and Noah Malovitsky repeat in this family and parties are easily confused.
MALOWITSKY, Abram	Building description	Market Place, next to Michael Noah Malowitsky (who is next to Bogin-Kantorovich) a small house adjoining Michael Noah’s house. An Abram Malowitsky son of Michael is listed in 1905 Registry of Property in Lyakhovichi owning property on Market Place.
VINOGRAD, Shlomo aka Reb Shlomo Feivels (brother of Boaz Vinograd)	Merchants of wax, pig bristle, and wood whose shipments went abroad as far as America.	Market Place, near Michael Noah Malowitsky’s house [??] is 2 story stone house of Vinograd family. Merchants of wax, pig bristle, and wood.
VINOGRAD, Gitel daughter of Shlomo Feivels		Market Place
VINOGRAD, Yitzhak son of Shlomo Feivels		Market Place
VINOGRAD, Boaz (brother of Shlomo Feivels)	Merchants of wax, pig bristle, and wood whose shipments went abroad as far as America.	Market Place, near Michael Noah Malowitsky’s house [??] is 2 story stone house of Vinograd family. Merchants of wax, pig bristle, and wood.
(TUKACHINSKY) SHAIYEL, Nechemyah aka Reb Cheme and his wife Bashe	cobbler (shoemaker) supplies	Market Place near Vinograd house, a little wooden house with store on market side and dwelling in rear. The only Nechemya found in the 1905 Registry of Property Owners, on Market Street, and also owning a wooden house with small shop was Nechemya TUCKACHINSKY. He had owned it from the 1880s and that Nechemya Tukachinsky lived near property owned by his brother Mordechai on Market Place, which corresponds to Nechemya Shaiyel's brother Mordechai Shaiyel. It turns out that the 1884 tax list identifies each of them with the patronymic of Shevel which is here called Shaiyel, and the author went on to describe Mordechai's children in ways that exactly match Mordechai Shevelovich Tuckachinsky - "a son in Shanghai" a dtr Broche murdered by the Nazis."
(TUKACHINSKY) SHAIYEL, Mordechai (brother of Nechemya)	Merchant and head of “Community Chest”	Market Place, single story stone house. Mordechai Shaiyel aka Mordechai b Shevel Tukachinsky is described with "a son in Shanghai" a dtr Broche murdered by the Nazis" which matches Nisan Tuckachinsky and his sister.
CHAZANOVICH, Yehoshua	Building owner	Market Place, stone house owned by Yehoshua and after his death by son Moshke. [ Ovsey Chazanovich owns a stone building on Market Place that houses a tavern in the 1905 Lyakhovichi property register. Ovsey is interchangeable with Govsey, and is a nickname for Joshua. - DGG]
CHAZANOVICH, Moshke son of Yehoshua	Buidling owner	Market Place, stone house owned by Yehoshua and after his death by son Moshke
PELZEL, Leibe (Pelzel is probably his occupation rather than surname) also lists his sons Yona and Yankel and calls them cousins to kibutzhik Yosel Busel	furrier	Market Place, stone house owned by Leibe Pelzel (the furrier)
BERKOVICH, Shimmel	Buidling owner	Market Place, the long courtyard of the brothers Shimmel and Berl Berkovich. Shimshel son of Borukh BERKOVICH and Berko son of Borukh BERKOVICH are shown as owning this building in 1905 following a previous ownership by Borukh son of Sholom BErkovich in the Lyakhovichi Property Records. A business on the property mentioned in those records was a beeswax shop.
BERKOVICH, Berl	Buidling owner	Market Place, the long courtyard of the brothers Shimmel and Berl Berkovich
BERKOVICH, Malke	resident	Market Place
Botche der Hoicher (the Tall)	Merchant, with business abroad	Market Place
MALAVITSKY	Merchants of pelts and wood	Market Place
Libe der Geller (the Redhead) with her son Lippe	Codfish shop run by the wife while husband works in Crimea (comes home at Pesach and High Holydays)	Market Place; Little house with tiny shop in front
KARELICH, Zundel Gedalyos	Melamed, scholar	Market Place -His wife had tailor shop at Market Place street corner, and he had a stall at “Between the Shops”
KARELICH, Tzippe (wife of Zundel Gedalyos)	Tailor shop	Market Place; on the street-corner
KARELICH, Dr. Yudel. Son of Zundel and Tzippe Karelich did not live in town as adult.	Physician – only visited in Lyakhovichi	Market Place
GAVZE, Pinye	Pelt merchant, lost his livelihood	Market Place, on the corner opposite the Karelich’s – an intersecting street?
Leibel Avrom-Yitzhak’s	Shop – not specified	Market Place: Near Pinya Gavze’s house
KURCHIN family - residence	Building description	Market Place – two houses same lot of Kurchin and Churgin families inherited by children from their fathers. In 1905 Faivel and Aron Kurhin owned a wooden house together on Market Place.
CHURGIN family - residence	Building description	Market Place – two houses same lot of Kurchin and Churgin families inherited by children from their fathers.
CHURGIN, Faye	Graduate of “Froebelist” teaching school of Yechiel Halpern in Warsaw	Market Place – two houses same lot of Kurchin and Churgin families inherited by children from their fathers.
WEINER, Yankele Shmuel	Bookbinder, worked for Sander der Ainbinder	Market Place
GANTSEVICH, Sander "der Ainbinder" (last name not given on page)	Bookbinder	Market Place, house and business of the bookbinder. In 1905 Lyakhovichi property register, Sender Gantsevich a bookbinder, owns a wooden building in common with Yossel Birger in Market Place, and it contains a confectionary shop and a bookbinder shop.
KAPEL, Rochel	Sold pastry	Not at a fixed location, in meetings and businesses
Sore Kalman-Yosels (wife of Zerach)	Café – soda, cookies and ice-cream	Market Place.
GAVZE, Alter	Manufactures glue	Market Place
MALEVITZKY, Yosel	Wood merchant	Market Place Next to Gavze in the second house
Moshe the Printer and son Nyome (Benjamin)	Prints documents and dyes peasant women’s blouses	Market Place “over there” is Moshe the Printer’s house
DITKOWSKY, Pesach aka Pesach Hinde Reizel’s	Merchant	Market Place -A little turn to the right and are standing next to Pesach’s house. In the 1905 Property registry his wooden house on Market Place is mentioned, no patronymic included.
DITKOWSKY, Hinde Reizel’s	pelt shop	Market Place -A little turn to the right and are standing next to Pesach’s house
Gershon the shoemaker	Location not given, customer of DITKOWSKY	ng
BREVDA, Aharon-Itshe	Brewery	Market Place Large house with brewery in yard
ROZOVSKY, Bayrech	goldsmith	Market Place; A low house
ROZOVSKY, Sore, wife of Bayrich	Jewlery store	Market Place
PINSKY, Rabbi Zalman Yitzhak with son Gedalyo	Building description	Market Place – not far from Rozovsky. He appears in 1902 Property Register with property on Market Square.
PINSKY, Aron Nisel	Bookeeper in Bank and operated a book store and library	Market Place – not far from Rozovsky, a second market home
MILETZKY, Gedalyo	merchant	Market Place -2 story wooden house with a manufacturing business below and his apartment in the courtyard
MILETSKY, Frumke aka Frume Naftolke’s, sister of Gedalyo Miletsky	Colonial business – a local name for a store selling drygoods and high-end merchandise from the Russian provinces “Renskovoy Pogrev” was the name of the business	Market Place - 2 story house
VARSHAL, Moshke aka Moshke Chayim Ber	Beer brewery	Market Place -Yard with brewery deep in the yard; big house big extended family. Avrom Lev refers to Varshal as Moshke Chayim Ber. There was a Hayim son of Yoel Varshal who owned this property in the 1870s. There was a Moshe son of Hayim who owned it in 1885. Perla dtr of Joseph, who appears in the 1903 Directory as a seller of beer-honey, may have been someone's wife or widow. she is listed in the 1905 Lyakhovichi property registry as the owner of the brewery on Market Place.
BUSEL, Stirl called on the page, Stirl der Kezeles (nickname and translation of Esther of the little cheeses) wife of Noah Leib (called sister of Broche wife of Yitzhak Yosel who had a cheese business in Riyadn street [Rejtan?]	Cheesemaker, seller of hard cheeses, cheese dumplings, fresh butter, and candles made by her husband	Market Place -Shop of Stirl der Kezeles
BUSEL, Noah Leib called on the page Noah Leib, husband of Stirl der Kezeles	Candlemaker	Market Place - 2 story house
BREVDA, Alter	photographer	Market Place -A “half” single story stone house with stairs in front and glass building in yard that is photography studio
BREVDA, parents of Levi Ben-Amittai (ne Lipa BREVDA)	residents	Market Place -A “half” single story stone house with stairs in front and glass building in yard that is photography studio; the parents of Israeli poet Levi Ben-Amittai live in the house. Ben-Amittai's real name was Lipa Brevda and in 1905 the property was owned by the heirs of Srol son of Itska BREVDA according to the Lyakhovichi property records. In 1905 it already included the photography studio that was owned by Alter (Mordechai Gershon) Brevda.
GELLIN, Yehudo	Credit Merchants, partners Yehudo Gellin and Nachmen Levin	Market Place -Lemtschich’s 2 story stone house with broad and shady entrance. The bankers live on seond floor
LEVIN, Nachman	Credit Merchants, partners Yehudo Gellin and Nachmen Levin	Market Place -Lemtschich’s 2 story stone house with broad and shady entrance. The bankers, their children and married children, live on seond floor
SOLOVEICHIK,son-in-law of Credit Merchants (one of Yehudo Gellin or Nachman Levin) of the family of the Brisker Gaon, Chayimke Soloveichik	Credit merchant?	Market Place -Lemtschich’s 2 story stone house with broad and shady entrance. The bankers, their children and married children, live on seond floor
LEMTSCHICH family	Building Description	Market Place -Lemtschich’s 2 story stone house with broad and shady entrance. The Lemtschich’s live on the first floor. (presumably the bar is there)
Mrs. LEMTSCHICH	Bar for teamsters and policemen	Market Place -Lemtschich’s 2 story stone house with broad and shady entrance. The Lemtschich’s live on the first floor. (presumably the bar is there)
Mottel the Tinsmith, der Blecher	Tinsmith	Market Place -Mottel der Blecher’s fine house – the credit merchants had a banking counter in his house
BIRGER, Gedalya son of Yudel	brewery?lunchroom	Market Place - Not listed by Avrom Lev. Appears in 1905 Property register as the owner of a lunchroom in Market Place and in the 1903 Business Directory as the owner of a brewery in Lyakhovichi. The building was made of wood and it was not his primary residence as he lived on Tatarskaya Street in a home owned by his brother.
GOLDBERG, Girsh Leib	tavern	Market Place - Not listed by Avrom Lev. Appears in 1905 Property register as the owner of a tavern in a stone building in Market Place. Previously it had been owned by Leiba GOLDBERG.
PINTSCHUK, Yitzhak Yosel with wife and son Yerucham	Colonial business – a local name for a store selling drygoods and high-end merchandise from the Russian provinces	Intersection of Riyadn Street and Market Place
RABINOVICH, Michael, son-in-law of Reb Avrom Yankev	Rabbi (called here “talmed chochim”)	Intersection of Riyadn Street – opposite Pintschuk’s colonial store
Shifretzke,	Seller of fruits and vegetables	Three Riyadn Stores (on Riyadn Street) “120 families made their livings here”
ZAYETZ, Nyome (Benjamin)	Built stone buildings for butchers on Riyadn Street; says elsewhere a building contractor with state contracts	Riyadn Street – stone stores and meat shops built by Nyome Zayetz to replace the former dirty wooden structures
Chaim Bashes	Colonial business – a local name for a store selling drygoods and high-end merchandise from the Russian provinces	Riyadn Street – stone stores
MOLOVITSKY, Alter aka Alter Bande,	Flour store	Riyadn Street – stone stores
Ittel wife of Zelig Shimel who was also called Zelig Ittels. Worked with her dtr Yocheved and her husband worked there sometimes	store sold staple groceries including sugar and tea	Riyadn Street – stone stores
BEDER, Broche called “Broche wife of Yitzhoch Yosel”and “sister of Stirl Noah-Leibe’s” on page	Dairy- Yitzhock Yosel’s dairy run by his wife: sold cheese, butter, cream cheese,	Riyadn Street to the right
BEDER, Yitzhak Yosef	Dairy	Riyadn Street to the right
-	Storekeepers dealing in flour	Granaries - The area called
Reichel the Bakerwoman	Concession selling cakes and breads	Granaries - The area called
Bashe the daughter of Reichel the Bakerwoman	Concession selling cakes and breads	Granaries - The area called
TZIMMERING, Shmuel-Dovid and wife Feige Dine. He owned store, she ran it	Little shop	Grainaries: To the right of
Reb Shaiye-Bere-Velvels	Store selling supplies to farmers.	Grainaries: To the left of the Tzimmerings are three or four stores selling supplies like wheelgrease, boot preservative, tobacco, kerosene, et al. One shop belongs to Reb Shaiye-Bere-Velvel's and another to Reb Yayrshel-Borech-Meir's.
Reb Yayrshel-Borech-Meir's	Store selling supplies to farmers. Wealthiest man in town, all his sons and dtrs in business	Grainaries: To the left of the Tzimmerings are three or four stores selling supplies like wheelgrease, boot preservative, tobacco, kerosene, et al. One shop belongs to Reb Shaiye-Bere-Velvel's and another to Reb Yayrshel-Borech-Meir's
1 or 2 Businesses whose owners are unaccounted for in this block	Store selling supplies to farmers.	Grainaries: To the left of the Tzimmerings are three or four stores selling supplies like wheelgrease, boot preservative, tobacco, kerosene, et al. (2 accounted for)
VAPNIK, Shimen	Little shop, not specified	“Between the Shops” two row of businesses, opposite each other. Starting one row with Shimen Vapnik’s shop and ending on other side with Yitzhkok Brevda’s [shipping?] business
BREVDA, Yitzchok	Shipping? (is the same Brevda who drove the stagecoach??)	“Between the Shops” two row of businesses, opposite each other. Starting one row with Shimen Vapnik’s shop and ending on other side with Yitzhkok Brevda’s [shipping?] business
DITKOVSKY, Hinde-Reizel	Leather business	“Between the Shops” two row of businesses, opposite each other. The second row starts with Hinde-Reizel Ditkovsky's leather business and ends with Reitze-Sore's shop with hatchets, axes, beads, and buttons
NO SURNAME GIVEN, Reitze-Sore	Notions and Sundries	“Between the Shops” two row of businesses, opposite each other. The second row starts with Hinde-Reizel Ditkovsky's leather business and ends with Reitze-Sore's shop with hatchets, axes, beads, and buttons
RATNER, Yosel	Runs Store while engaged in Torah studies	“Between the Shops”
RIVKIN, Shloime	Manufacturer; wealthy;	“Between the Shops”
Devoire Yaakov-Moishe’s	Haber- dashery Shop	“Between the Shops”
LEV, (Surname not given on page) Rifka- Leah the widow, daughter of Reb Shaike the Dayen (names 12 people in her photograph) This is the family of Betzalel and Rifka-Leah Lev; Her children are reported in the Holocaust pages of Testimony	Second store of Rivke-Leah	“Between the Shops”
Mendel the iron-worker (kalt-schmid)	Iron-worker	“Between the Shops”
RATNER, Ortsh’kel, the brother of Yosel Ratner and son of Etel-Gitl and Reb Noah	Small shop, he studied Torah	“Between the Shops”
RATNER, Etel-Gitl wife of Reb Noah	Small shop	“Between the Shops”
RATNER, Reb Noah	Melamed, from the description he seems to be deaf, but it is not clear if he is a teacher of the deaf
Reb Michael Kaile’s	Glass store: run by his wife and children while he teaches Advanced Talmud	“Between the Shops”
ALTVARG, Pesach	Tailor shop: run by his wife and children while he studies	“Between the Shops”
KARELICH, Zundel Gedalyos (page does not have surname)	Tailor shop: run by his wife	“Between the Shops”
VARSHAL, Avrom	storeowner	“Between the Shops”
KANTOROVICH, Aron-Leib	Business owner	Yener Zait Mark [“Market on the other Side”]. After the two rows of “Between the Shops”, we take a right to the shops of the (so-called) Yener Zait Mark
KANTOROVICH, Dine Rive wife of Aron Leib and mother of 12	Trades and travels to market fairs	Yener Zait Mark
Berl Michael Binyoninkas	Flour store	Yener Zait Mark
	Boarded up Fire Brigade Shed	Open field of market between Market Place, and Yener Zait mark; Across the empty market field, near the pump
DITKOVSKY, Pesach	Corner house	The Rampart (Der Vall) – residential area
Asher derZeigermachter's (the watchmaker)	As the wall is before us, Asher’s home is to the right in an apple orchard	The Rampart (Der Vall) – residential area
Avrom'l Rasl's	As the wall is before us, Avroml Rasl’s home is to the left	The Rampart (Der Vall) – residential area. Possibly Abram Begun who lived on the Rampart from 1885.
Rasl wife of Avroml Rasls	As the wall is before us, Avroml Rasl’s home is to the left	The Rampart (Der Vall) – residential area
Gedalyo the Melamed	Next on the left is Gedlayo the Melamed’s house	The Rampart (Der Vall) – residential area. In 1905 Gedalya Elina (Jelin) received a house on this block, from his father Naftali son of Gedalya Elina. Also in 1905 Gedalya Goldberg lived in a stone house on this road.
RIVKIN, Shloime	And across it to the right is Shloime Rivkin’ fine house	The Rampart (Der Vall) – residential area
MILLER, the Chemist also called Miller the Polish Pharmacist	And over there is Miller’s chemist shop surrounded by a fruit orchard	The Rampart (Der Vall) – residential area
-	Street description	The Rampart (Der Vall) – residential area
The Hekdesh of Idel Mones	Further along the wall, the hospice built that has stood empty and become a Zionist meeting area	The Rampart (Der Vall) – residential area
for us the [Sanitarians] road became “ Main Street”. It was the street where our Lechovicher Jews went to stroll on Shabbes and holidays	Street description	“Sanitarians' Street: Going through the back alley, from the Rampart, we come out to where the Sanitarians Street” begins
It seems that even in mid-week this street [Sanitarians' Street or “ Main Street”] is cleaner and more lit up than all our (Jewish) streets, except for Pinsker Street. The shtetl's intellectuals come here for a stroll even on mid-week evenings. Brides and grooms also stroll here to “look over” one another.	Street description	SanitarianStreet … whole length of street – from Reb Moshe-Mordechai Tokatshinsky's house to the … village school with two grades.
Village school	Building Description	SanitarianStreet … whole length of street – from Reb Moshe-Mordechai Tokatshinsky's house to the … village school with two grades.
TOKATSHINSKY, Reb Moshe Mordechai	Household described as wealthy	Sanitarian Street – residential, wealthy
Reb Mich'l Binyominke,	Household described as wealthy	Sanitarian Street – residential, wealthy
BERKOVICH, Berl	Household described as wealthy	Sanitarian Street – wealthy residential
BARNAK, Zundel	Household described as wealthy	Sanitarian Street – wealthy residential
LIS, Gershon	Household described as wealthy	Sanitarian Street – wealthy residential
MAIZEL family	Household described as wealthy	Sanitarian Street – wealthy residential
LITOVSKY family	Household described as wealthy	Sanitarian Street – wealthy residential
ROZOVSKY, Leibke and his wife Hanya and [adopted] daughter Sonya	Description of family	Sanitarian Street – wealthy residential
The local Polish doctor’s residence	Doctor’s residence	Sanitarian Street – wealthy residential
The Medical assistant’s residence (Christian)	Medical Assistant’s residence	Sanitarian Street – wealthy residential
Residence and government office of title holder – Volost Office	Government Offices and official residences	Sanitarian Street – wealthy residential
Volost Court	Government Offices and official residences	Sanitarian Street – wealthy residential
Zemski Oprave (local government admin)	Government Offices and official residences	Sanitarian Street – wealthy residential
Jail	Government Offices and official residences They bring prisoners past “Between the Shops” on Friday	Sanitarian Street – wealthy residential
Commissioner and 12 agents (gendarmes?)	To prevent break-ins like one in the past at the Monopol liquor store	Sanitarian Street – wealthy residential
	Street description	Sanitarian Street – wealthy residential
Shmuler the lawyer	lawyer	Sanitarian Street – wealthy residential: At far end of street resides Shmuler der Advocat
Avromele, the red-headed barber: Jewish revolutionary	Barber; – no location given
Old Cemetery	The road Stretches far and away to the New Cemetery while having to its side, the old cemetery where famous rabbis and rebbes are buried.	Death Road – to cemeteries   Go back a bit from Sanitarian Street and we come to the “death road” to the Old and New Cemeteries
New Cemetery	The road Stretches far and away to the New Cemetery while having to its side, the old cemetery where famous rabbis and rebbes are buried.	Death Road – to cemeteries   Go back a bit from Sanitarian Street and we come to the “death road” to the Old and New Cemeteries
BUCHBINDER, Schachne	Dealer in rags and old bones	Death Road – to cemeteries only one substantial Jew, Schachne Buchbinder, lives here, the rest are poor and beggers
-	Street Description	Death Road – to cemeteries     Up the other side of Death Road to “the Wenger” which stands before the continuation of Death Road.
-	Street Description	Synagogue Courtyard: Cross away from the Wenger on a small bridge and we come to the Synagogue Courtyard
Hasidic prayer houses	Author says 2 hasidic shtiblech	Synagogue Courtyard
The larger community Bes Midrash	Synagogue Description	Synagogue Courtyard
Cobbler’s Shul	Synagogue Description	Synagogue Courtyard
Tailor’s Shul	Synagogue Description	Synagogue Courtyard
Koidanover Shul	Synagogue Description - Too small to hold the huge crowds who would gather when the Koidanover Rebbe would come once a year	Synagogue Courtyard
	Street Description	Kletsk Street – leave the Synagogue Couortyard through a side alley to Kletsk Street
ZAYETZ, Nyome	Building Contractor with Russian government contracts	Kletsk Street
KOPPEL, parents of A. Mukdoni the Doctor of Philosophy who became famous abroad – the wife had a bakery here, the father was a melamed in “poorest district”	bakery	Kletsk Street
KOPPEL, father of A. Mukdoni	melamed	Kletsk Street
MINTZ, Shimshel	Lumber merchant	Kletsk Street – stone house
MASS, Hirshele	Religious leader	Kletsk Street – house on street of rabbis and leaders
RATZKEVICH, RabbiYisroel David	Rabbi	Kletsk Street – house on street of rabbis and leaders
PAYMER, Rabbi Meir	Rabbi	Kletsk Street – house on street of rabbis and leaders
LIOS, Noah	Big pelt merchant	Kletsk Street – house on street of rabbis and leaders
ZMUDZIAK, Shaiyel,	Big merchant who does business as far as Lemberg	Kletsk Street – house on street of rabbis and leaders
BERKOVICH, Pinye	Wood merchant	Kletsk Street – house on street of rabbis and leaders
SHIFRIS, Chaim aka Chaim from Nesvizh	Melamed	Kletsk Street – house on street of rabbis and leaders
POTSHTALION, Shloime	Mail delivery concession	Kletsk Street – house on street of rabbis and leaders
BARANEK, (surname not on page) Feigel-Bashe	“Colonial store”	Kletsk Street – house on street of rabbis and leaders and continues on to a “non-Jewish” section including the estate of Rushike which belonged to the Polish noblemen Reytans
Count Reytan	Landowner, nobleman	Kletsk Street- the estate of Rushike which belonged to the Polish noblemen Reytans
Countess Reytan (deported to Siberia by Soviets, alongside Jews from Lyakhovichi; she died there)	Landowner, nobleman	Kletsk Street- the estate of Rushike which belonged to the Polish noblemen Reytans
	Street Description	Kletsk Street shortcut behind and come out at the beginning of Pinsk Street, to the left of which stretch, far and wide, gardens and fields up to the Kaminker Forest and the railway station at Rushnevich.
LIOS, Leibe	Pelt merchant	Pinsk Street , in the part which led to the Market is located the “Golden Flag” [the “flagship”] of our shtetl,
KAPLAN, Yehoshuo son of Avram Yaakov Kaplan	Leading merchant	Pinsk Street , in the part which led to the Market is located the “Golden Flag” [the “flagship”] of our shtetl,
KAPLAN, Feigele wife of Yehoshuo, she aka Feigele Avram Yakov’s	Benefactor	Pinsk Street , in the part which led to the Market is located the “Golden Flag” [the “flagship”] of our shtetl,
WEINGER, Avrom Chayim aka the new prince (der nayer noggid)	With new wealth he founded a credit bank; bought up shops, and erected two fine houses in Pinsk Street	Pinsk Street , we go up a bit and come to the well-kept house of Avrom Chaim Weinger
WOLKIN (says Valkin on page) Reb Zalman	Lumber business	Pinsk Street
BUSEL, Noah Leib and his wife Stirel	Residence	Pinsk Street – On the opposite side of the street live … simple Jews with honest souls, like Reb Yidel der Melamed and Reb Noah-Leib Busel, with their families.
Yidel the Melamed	Residence	Pinsk Street – On the opposite side of the street live … simple Jews with honest souls, like Reb Yidel der Melamed and Reb Noah-Leib Busel, with their families.
Chotshe der Roife (the Doctor)	Medical Asst	Pinsk Street – opposite Nyome Zayetz
Avrom Yaakov der Roife	Medical practitioner	Mentioned in note about Chotsche der Roife
	Street Description	“Street that aint no Street” (Svyato Yanskaya) After Pinsk Street we take a left and enter a “street that ain't no street” but important Jews once lived here.
Reb Leibe-Motte-Sanke's	ladies' tailor; early ready ware factory	“Street that aint no Street” (Svyato Yanskaya) – on the right
Michael Aron the Baker	Baker	“Street that aint no Street” (Svyato Yanskaya)–exactly opposite [Reb Leibe Motte Sanke] by Mich’l Aron der Beker, lives one of our two town dentists in a stone house
GOLDBERG, Yitzchok-Gedalyo	Dentist	“Street that aint no Street”(Svyato Yanskaya) –exactly opposite [Reb Leibe Motte Sanke] by Mich’l Aron der Beker lives one of our two town dentists in a stone house
Reb Moshe Mordechai “ (Svyato Yanskaya)der Dardeke-Melamed” [the little children's cheder teacher] This is Rabbi Moshe Mordechai Winogrod who would die a few years later in Slutsk during WWI.	Melamed	“Street that aint no Street”(Svyato yanskaya) –Among the outstanding Jews on it
Reb Shaiye Chossid	Resident	“Street that aint no Street” – Not far from Reb Moshe Mordechai lives Reb Shaiye Chossid and a couple of paces on Reb Yankel “der Shoichet” [ritual slaughterer] and then, opposite, the talmed chochem Reb Meir Leibke's,
Reb Yankel der Schochet	Ritual slaughter	“Street that aint no Street” – Not far from Reb Moshe Mordechai lives Reb Shaiye Chossid and a couple of paces on Reb Yankel “der Shoichet” [ritual slaughterer] and then, opposite, the talmed chochem Reb Meir Leibke's
Meir Leibke’s	Resident	“Street that aint no Street”
LEV, Dovid Shlomo, son of Shaike the Dayan	Resident	“Street that aint no Street” – across from Meir Leibke’s pushed far back in the yard
Avraham Yankel der Roife	Medical Assistant, using title of Doctor	“Street that aint no Street” – Here extend courtyard after courtyard, built up with small, low houses and huts, almost one on top of the other. Here poverty nestles.
Alter son of Avraham Yankel der Roife	barber; strong-arm enforcer	“Street that aint no Street” – Here extend courtyard after courtyard, built up with small, low houses and huts, almost one on top of the other.
ROGOV, Chatzkel	barber	“Street that aint no Street” –Rogov’s house
SNOBL, Moishe	Artist, sign painter	Mentioned in note about Chatzkel ROGOV
	Street Description	Mislebozh Street – at its beginning a “Papayshchine” owned by an old Tatar woman who gave permission for Jews to relax under the trees on Shabbas
BURAKES- not a real surname, but a nickname	Jewish Farmers who planted vegetables and bred geese and sold goosefat	Mislebozh Street –next to the “Papayshchine”
Fire Brigade Building converted to a live theater around 1912	Building Description	When we go off a little to the right, where one catches up with Mislevozh Street – a stone building
Reb Noah “der Melamed” or Noah “Mislevozher”	melamed	Mislevozh Street
PINTSCHUK family	Resident	Mislevozh Srteet
PINTSCHUK, Shaiye	Resident	Mislevozh Street
ZMUDZIAK, Mendel aka Mendel Saban	lawyer	Mislevozh Street
Nache der Balagole (the Carter)	Team driver; carter; balagola	Mislevozh Street
MUSIKANT (No surname on page), Nishe the Klezmer Musician	Musician	Mislevozh Street
MUSIKANT (No surname on page),Shliome the flutist son of Nishe the Klezmer Musician	Musician	Mislevozh Street
Homes of non-Jewish burghers,	Street descrption	Mislevozh Street , homes of non-Jewish burghers, surrounded by gardens and orchards
GAVZE, Lemke aka Lemke Daiches	Weavers and building description	Mislevozh Street, at very end past the homes of non-Jwish burghers, in complete isolation
MAZHE, Ahare, der nayer noggid -residence	Wealthy man (title meant "of new-found wealth")	Tatars Street turned towards the town away from the part mostly inhabited by Tatars to the houses of outstanding ballebatim
KANTOROVICH, Aron Leib - residence	Residence description – wealthy man	Tatars Street turned towards the town away from the part mostly inhabited by Tatars to the houses of outstanding ballebatim
NEIMAN, Moishe	One of biggest pelt merchants in our region	Tatars Street turned towards the town to the houses of outstanding ballebatim
GAVZE, Shaiyel	Big pelt merchant	Tatars Street turned towards the town to the houses of outstanding ballebatim
GAVZE, Yehiel Asher son of Shaiyel	Big pelt merchant	Tatars Street turned towards the town to the houses of outstanding ballebatim
Rashe the baker woman, a poor widow	Baker, sold fresh bagels in the evening	Tatars Street