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The Khalozhin rabbi
Rabbi who responded to the inquiry about the missing child.
Yukhnovitch Station
The nearest station to Khalozhin, located near Pinsk.
Pinhas Mikhal of Antapolye
A renowned rabbi and kabbalist associated with Antapolye.
Mordecai of Slonim
A renowned rabbi and kabbalist associated with Slonim.
Elijah Mordecai the Kholozhiner
A rabbi who became renowned in his surroundings as a new righteous figure.
Antapolye
A place associated with Pinhas Mikhal.
Wolfke, the blacksmith of Harbach
A Harbach blacksmith whose son returned from military service.
Alterke
Wolfke’s elder son, who returned from Russian military service.
Harbach
The town associated with Wolfke the blacksmith and Alterke.
Alter
The groom who returned to Harbach after the marriage conditions were written.
Jewish community in Harbakhe
Jewish community that included refugees and maintained a place of learning during occupation.
Eliyahu Mordekhai's followers
Followers knew that he should be left alone during two summer months.
Rabbi Patach
A rabbi named in a well-known story from Bava Batra.
Eliezer Moses
Person visited by Elijah Mordecai in Pinsk.
The neighbor’s daughter
The neighbor’s only surviving daughter later arrived as a poor wanderer.
Yosef David Shoiv
A shochet summoned by the grandfather for a conversation about burial customs.
Sarah Fiamecki
A midwife called to assist during the narrator’s mother’s labor.
Abraham Asher
A religious figure who studied in yeshivas and emigrated with his family to America.
Matityahu Warszawski
Abraham Asher’s son, described as continuing his father’s sacred work.
Shemuel
Named as a teacher and resident of Bereza before emigrating to America.
Molchad
Town where Moshe Velvl Shkalnik studied in a yeshiva.
Yeshiva in Seltz
Yeshiva attended by Moshe Velvl Shkalnik.
Aharon Kamavski
Chava Leah Shkalnik’s father and physician of the court.
Asna Shkalnik
One of the five children of the Shkalnik family.
Sarah Shkalnik
One of the five children of the Shkalnik family.
Joseph Kaplan
Son and successor of Rabbi Abraham Yehuda Kaplan.
Rabbi Moses Isser
Rabbi Mendel Kaminetzky's father and early teacher.
Minkov
A local nobleman mentioned in connection with a dispute involving Jews.
General Minkazu
A general associated with the Russian capture of Plevna.
Hersh Beilin
A rabbi from Pinsk who commented on Mendel’s intellect.
Chaim Brisker
A person described as Mendel’s associate.
Itsik
Asher Weitzel married Itsik’s daughter in Drohichin.
Rabbi Isaac Jacob Hafez Kalankawitch
A rabbi described as learned, pious, nonpartisan, hygienic, and from the old generation.
Binyamin Moses
A shochet consulted about establishing the Hasidic prayer house.
Avroml the locksmith
A locksmith consulted about establishing the Hasidic prayer house.
the monk
The monk ordered the narrator's father to stop construction.