David-Horodok
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Aaron the Great
A renowned rabbi associated with Pinsk.
Zaslavl
A place that supported the Hasidim in their conflict.
Dombrovitz
A place that supported the Hasidim in their conflict.
Vilna Gaon
A leading opponent of Hasidism whose influence affected David-Horodok.
Lithuanian Jewry
Lithuanian Jewish society that influenced David-Horodok and received German Jewish immigrants.
Polesia towns
Other Polesia towns compared with David-Horodok’s early adoption of new ideas.
Surrounding towns
Nearby towns used for comparison regarding rabbinic disputes.
Hasidim
Religious group present in David-Horodok but relatively small and weakly influential.
German Jewish immigrants
Jewish immigrants from Germany admitted by Lithuanian authorities for economic reasons.
Germany
Country of origin for Jewish immigration into Lithuania.
Pinsk Jewish community
The organized Jewish community of Pinsk was formed in 1506.
Rabbi Avigdor
Leader of the opponents of Hasidism in the described conflict.
Jews of Lithuania
Jewish population described as having broad civil and religious rights.
Lithuanian courts
Courts where Jews were not summoned on Saturdays.
Cossack revolt
The passage says the Cossack revolt devastated parts of the country and impoverished Jews.
Napoleonic Wars
Economic conditions in Polesia improved after the Napoleonic Wars.
Jan Kazimir
The king permitted Jews to organize in guilds in 1669.
David-Horodok timber merchants
Merchants trading in forests and timber formed a notable local commercial class.
Watermen
Watermen formed part of David-Horodok’s notable merchant class.
Dnieper River
River where barge crews worked and transported cargo.
Kiev
Destination reached by downstream voyages from David-Horodok.
Yekaterinoslav
A destination eventually reached by downstream voyages.
Barka
Open vessel used mainly for transporting firewood and boards.
Idak
An older broad, heavy vessel type used in earlier periods.
Bergman family
A family from David-Horodok that operated large shipping-related businesses in the late nineteenth century.
Montefiore
Steamship acquired by the Bergman firm for transporting goods.
Nirtshe
Settlement near the Horyn River mouth, twelve kilometers from David-Horodok.
Morbatshik family
Family associated with the founding and growth of the Jewish settlement at Nirtshe.
Yosel Morbatshik
Person whose family began the Jewish settlement at Nirtshe.
Jewish settlement at Nirtshe
Jewish settlement founded in the early nineteenth century and later reaching about one hundred residents.
Morbatshik family
The Morbatshik family maintained a distinctive mixed agricultural and commercial livelihood.
Nirtshe
Nirtshe was a Jewish settlement whose residents farmed, traded, and supplied river traffic.
Prince Radziwill
Prince Radziwill owned Nirtshe's land and selected the settlement for a sawmill.
Radziwill's sawmill
The prince selected Nirtshe as the site for a sawmill, but the business later failed.
World War I
The text states residents would have left when World War I began in 1914.
Warsaw
Destination for cattle shipments from David-Horodok.