Łuków
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Elke
Rachel's older daughter who worked in the shop.
Hannah
Rachel's youngest daughter and the household manager.
Yankel
Rachel's young son at the time described.
Leizer
Rachel's young son at the time described.
Rakhle
A person who served soda water to Butchele.
Reuven Tikatsky
A person present in the shop who proposed a drinking challenge.
Shashe
Yasl’s wife and the shop’s merchant.
Yasl
A shopkeeper who misunderstood a Polish-speaking customer.
Narrator
Twelve-year-old boy who prayed with his grandfather and visited the Beker household.
Narrator's grandfather
Prayed with the narrator at the Aleksander shtibl.
Peretz Markish
Poet invited to lecture in Lukow.
Romanian general
The landowner demanded payment for the old cemetery site.
General's coachman
The coachman was bribed to signal the general's return.
Menger
Competing grain merchant opposite the Hana-Shmaies grain merchant.
Meir
The narrator’s classroom friend.
Sarah
Meir’s grandmother, who lived in a ruin.
Meir Moshe Yitzhaks
A cantor or prayer leader from Chaya Sarah's Study House.
Shlomo Mendl
A cantor or prayer leader from the Alexander Study House.
Mordechai Mechl
A cantor or prayer leader from the Porzhever Study House.
Hersh Mendl
A cantor or prayer leader from Mizrahi.
Moshe the Water Carrier
A water carrier described as praying and mediating among street vendors.
Moshe Feker
A man who attended synagogue mainly on Yom Kippur.
Marmantshik
A nickname associated with Moshe Feker.
Chaim Meir Pastman
The synagogue officer who struck the table before the rabbi began.
Gershon Flug
The cantor who chanted Kol Nidre.
Hayim Yisrael Gotesdiner
Named contributor associated with Buenos Aires.
Rabbi Yitzhak Aitik
Religious man, communal arbitrator, and mohel in Lukow and nearby settlements.
Dvashe
Mother who supported and raised four children.
Icl-Haim
A H chumash teacher who lived in a private house by the cattle market.
The rabbi's wife
Children called the rabbi's wife “Tsaneche.”
Yankele Melamed
Head teacher for very young children, accepting both boys and girls.
Langer Loksh
A tall, thin assistant who transported and sometimes taught children.
Moshe Aharon Weintraub
A Jewish municipal council member and leader of Lukow communal organizations.
Moshe Aharon Lisibiker
An alternate name used for Moshe Aharon Weintraub.
Yona Noy
Jewish communal activist, scholar, and city-council representative in Lukow.
Zebulon Aryeh
Known as Rabbi Zebulon Melamed; taught Talmud in Lukow and later engaged in communal work.