Volume Two
Part III: My Forty Years as a Shoykhet, and Moving to Palestine, 1873–1929
Chapter 22: As the Shoykhet of Slobodze, 1873–1875
Chapter 23: The Nobleman’s Attack and Moving to the Crimea, 1876–1880
Chapter 24: Corruption in Bakhchisaray and Ungrateful Relatives, 1880–1889
Chapter 25: The Threat of Banishment from Tsarist Russia, 1881–1884
Chapter 26: Persecution in Bakhchisaray, 1884–1889
Chapter 27: Raising My Children and My Wife’s Death, 1884–1897
Chapter 28: Remarrying and My Children’s Departure from Russia, 1896–1910
Chapter 29: Preparing to Leave for Palestine, 1910–1914
Part III—Addendum: My Life in Palestine, 1913–1928
Chapter 30: The World War and the Death of My Second Wife, 1913–1916
Chapter 31: Marrying Off My Niece and Writing a Torah Scroll, 1916–1917
Chapter 32: Exile to Kfar-Saba, 1917–1918
Chapter 33: Suffering in Exile and Returning to Petakh-Tikva, 1918
Chapter 34: Completing the Torah Scroll, the Arab Attack, and My Children Join Me in Palestine, 1919–1929
Appendices:
Appendix A: The Author and His Relatives
A1. The Author’s Final Years in Petakh-Tikva
His Houses, His Properties, and the Local Synagogues
Memories From Those Who Knew Him
His Demise
His Chabad Legacy
A2. The Author’s Children
His son Isruel (aka Israel Goldenshtein in France, 1873–1946)
His Daughter Nekhame Brakhtman (Noami "Nadya" Brockman, 1877–1955)
His Son Itskhok–Yosef "Yosl" (Joseph Edward "Joe" Goldeen, 1880–1954)
His Son Yankev :Yankl: (aka Jacon "James" Goldeen, 1882–1948)
His Son Shloyme Goldenshteyn (Shlomo, 1889–1962)
A3. His Nephew Itsl (Isaac Goldenshtein, 1862–1907)
A4. His Second Wife Feyge (ca. 1854–1916)
A5. Bashe's Tsores — The Story of the Author's Third Wife
A6. Salomon (Shlomo) Bernstein, Relative and Portraitist of the Author
A7. The Printing of the Autobiography
Appendix B: Translations of Documents Written by the Author
B1. Hebrew Engagement Contract for His Daughter Nekhame (1897)
B2. Hebrew Ethical Will (1920)
B3. Family Letters
January 23, 1914 Postcard from the Author's Son Isruel
June 1926 Letter from the Author
July 3, 1926 Letter from the Author
October 10, 1926 Letter from the Author
January 27, 1927 Yiddish Letter from the Author
March 14, 1929 Letter from the Author
April 1929 Letter from the Author
November 21, 1929 Yiddish Letter from the Author
July 15, 1930 Letter from the Author
October 30, 1930 Letter from the Author
August 28, 1939 Letter from the Author's Son Isruel in France
Appendix C: Translations of Additional Documents
C1. Hebrew Letter from Rabbi Medini (Sdei Khemed) Regarding the Author (1879)
C2. Episodes Related by the Author about Rabbi Medini (Sdei Khemed)
C3. Two Certificates in Sh’khita Obtained by the Author’s Son Refúel (1904 and 1906)
Appendix D: Genealogical Charts
D1. The Author’s Ancestors and Siblings
D2. The Extended Family of Ershl Teplitsky, the Author’s Brother-in-Law
D3. The Author’s Children and Grandchildren
D4. The Extended Hershkovitsh Family, the Family of the Author’s Wife Freyde
Bibliography
Introduction to the Glossaries and the Romanization/Transliteration Schemes
Glossary 1: Words and Phrases
Glossary 2: Jewish Personal Names
Glossary 3: Geographic Places in Eastern Europe
Index