Goldenshteyn1928 002.pdf
In this nineteenth-century memoirs, arguably the first by a Jewish religious functionary, the author Pinkhes-Dov Goldenshteyn (1848-1930), a shochet, describes his life in numerous cities and towns in Ukraine, Crimea, and elsewhere. Touro University Press has published Michoel Rotenfeld’s annotated English translation entitled The Shochet: A Memoir of Jewish Life in Ukraine and Crimea in two volumes. Click here for more information.