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A. L. Levinsky
Merchant and writer associated with Odessa writers and a teachers’ seminary.
Sarah Leah
Woman whose home housed the village library.
Rabbi Shimon Berman
Ritual slaughterer identified as Sarah Leah’s deceased husband.
Nahum Dorcin
Resident whose home housed the village library.
Zelig Hanser
Resident whose home housed the village library.
Yehuda Baruch Fromkin
Resident whose home housed the village library.
Yosil Plotnitsky
A man known locally as Yosil Smakdriges who discussed the bathhouse.
Lev Dortsin
A resident who regularly attended the first synagogue on Sabbaths and holidays.
Mordechai Nosentshuk
Community leader who taught children and supported the local school.
Yehuda Burstein
Shoemaker listed among Jewish laborers.
Yoshe Rimer
Leatherworker listed among Jewish laborers.
Moshe Feiglman
Carpenter listed among Jewish laborers.
Rabbi Shimon Berman
Ritual slaughterer who performed rabbinic duties for decades.
Rabbi Yechiel Michal Rabinovich
First rabbi of Roblya, brought to the village as its settlement grew.
Yosef Rabinovich
Young son of Rabbi Yechiel Michal Rabinovich and childhood companion of the narrator.
Abraham Elazar Rabinovich
Eldest son of Rabbi Yechiel Michal Rabinovich and Gemara study companion of Yudel.
Motil
Eldest son of ritual slaughterer Shimon Berman, taught Jewish dietary laws.
Wolf
A fervently religious man who opposed the young ritual slaughterer.
Rabbi Abraham the Teacher
A teacher whose classroom Wolf visited and supervised.
Rabbi Rabinovitch
A rabbi who served in the village for seven years before moving to Dombrovitz.
Davidl Berkovitz
A man who unsuccessfully sought a rabbinical appointment for his son-in-law.
Alta
Daughter of Davidl Berkovitz and wife of the deceased son-in-law.
Baruch Zeldin
A rabbinical graduate who unsuccessfully sought a rabbinate in Rublya.
Moshe Chaim Hechtman
Young rabbi who led a small congregation and later served as an official rabbi in Sarney.
Rabbi Hechtman
Rabbi associated with Rubeliah before leaving the village.
Yosil
Son of Rabbi Davidel who served as rabbi in Rubeliah.
Isaac Stolman
First village-born rabbi described as serving in Detroit.
Mordecai Grazulin
Village-born rabbi who rose through strong will and perseverance.
Hannah Grazulin
Mother of Mordecai Grazulin.
Nathan Elia Grazulin
Father of Mordecai Grazulin and a blacksmith.
Alexander Ziskind Rabinowitz
Writer cited for a story depicting a yeshiva archetype.
Abraham Hirsch
Hero named in Rabinowitz's story.
Moses Milman
Writer associated with the newspaper Davar and Kostopol rabbinate.
Grona Feigel
Parent of Moses Milman.
Shimon Shulman
Member of the Shulman family from the village.
Motil Shulman
Parent of Shimon Shulman.