Skala-Podilska
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Skala railway station
Station where departing pioneers were escorted during farewell ceremonies.
Mordechai Fingerman
Early Zionist immigrant from Russia who helped Skala residents immigrate to Palestine.
Skala kibbutz
A kibbutz in Palestine formed by Zionists from Skala.
HeHalutz
A Zionist organization listed in connection with Skala.
Bratrstvo
An anti-Zionist association called Brotherhood among Jewish workers and poor residents of Skala.
Soviet Union
Destination to which suspected Bratrstvo members fled.
Shalom Miahlmut
Director and talented actor who led Skala's amateur theater troupe.
Achva Workers Association (Bratrstvo)
Workers association founded during 1927–1928.
Velvel Wasserman
Jewish theater troupe member or performer mentioned in the passage.
Benish Vidberg
Jewish theater troupe member or performer mentioned in the passage.
Aryeh Shvartzbakh
Jewish theater troupe member or performer mentioned in the passage.
Esther Vidberg
Jewish theater troupe member or performer mentioned in the passage.
Moshe Wiesenthal
Jewish theater troupe member or performer mentioned in the passage.
Leyb Shvartzbakh
Jewish theater troupe member or performer mentioned in the passage.
Lviv
A city where Skala residents sought livelihoods and safety.
Motil Fish
A Skala Jew arrested by Soviet police and later killed in the Holocaust.
Soviet Ukraine
Region identified as Skala’s contemporary location in the passage.
Casimir the Great
Polish king associated with the restoration of the Skala fortress.
Turkey
Destination for goods sent by Skala’s early Jewish residents.
Jewish communities
Communities reportedly attacked by hostile mobs during periods of religious incitement.
Prussia
Prussia participated in the partition of Poland.
Austria
Austria ruled Galicia and later regained Podolia after Napoleon’s defeat.
Maria Theresa
Maria Theresa is identified as an empress during early Austrian rule in Galicia.
Jews of Austria
Jews in Austria gained civil rights after the revolutionary upheavals of 1848.
Yehoshua (Shike) Drimer
A prominent scholar, private banker, manufacturer, and landowner near Skala.
Shlomo Drimer
Yehoshua Drimer’s brother and the town rabbi.
Good Basiri
An estate near Skala owned by Yehoshua Drimer.
Elazar Zeidman
A wealthy Chartkover Hasid who owned an estate near Skala.
Kriwetch
An estate near Skala owned by Elazar Zeidman.
Hirshl Auerbach
A manufacturing partner of Shemaria and Moshe-David Meltzer.
Ezriel Goldshtein
Hirshl Auerbach’s brother-in-law and manufacturing partner.
Yisrael Brimer
A manufacturer in Skala.
Neta Drimer
A manufacturer who later became Skala’s rabbi.
Moshe Buksboim
A son and manufacturing partner of Velvel Buksboim.
Itzi Buksboim
A son and manufacturing partner of Velvel Buksboim.
Yitzhak Shvartsbach
A manufacturer who later emigrated to America.