Zikhronot · Project Zikaron

18th- and 19th-century Jewish communal registers (pinkasim in Hebrew) obtained by special agreement with the Russian State Library.

The Old Jewish Cemetery in Prague, Czech Republic. See the "About" tab for details.

Details of four yizkor books and one communal history featured in Project Zikaron. See the "About" tab for details.

Documents associated with Rabbi Shimen Eisenberg, whose 2nd volume of memoirs was transcribed for Project Zikaron. See the "About" tab for details.

The manuscript of volume three of Avraham Shlomo Melamed's memoirs, which is included in Project Zikaron. See the "About" tab for details.

Three photographs of European Jews taken in the early 1910s. See the "About" tab for details.

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Shimshi (Shimshelevich), Tsvi (1862-1953)

1938

Jerusalem

Hebrew

Smarhon (Smorgon, Smorgonie, Smargon), Belarus (image 11)

Ashmyany (Oshmyany, Oszmiana, Oshmene), Belarus (image 14, 28)

Poltava, Ukraine (image 44.97)

Chechuysk, Russia (image 125, 148, 187)

Moga, Russia (image 135, 171)

Yerbogachyon (Yerbogachen), Russia (image 140)

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His son Yitsḥak Ben-Tsvi (1884-1963) was a historian, Labor Zionist leader, and the longest-serving President of Israel.