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Please consider below meaning of dictionary
Galvanize: shock or excite (someone), typically into taking action
What is the right usage of this word? Please consider below sentences
A sudden sound in the doorway galvanized her.
He was galvanized to see a column of smoke.
Is this right usage? or do I need to use differently?
I have been observed that startle also perfectly suits here? Does it always acceptable to replace startle with galvanize?

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Apple's iBookstore has added 80 new titles to its collection, and comic book geeks might want to take note.
Marvel announced on Tuesday that it has added several graphic novel titles to the iBookstore including Civil War, Avengers, Stephen King's Dark Tower, Castle: Richard Castle's Deadly Storm, Spider-Man, Wolverine, Astonishing X-Men and more.
"For the first time ever, fans will be able to easily find and enjoy all of their favorite heroes including The Avengers, Spider-Man and The X-Men on iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch — one of the best digital platforms for reading comics and graphic novels." said Senior VP & GM of Marvel Digital Media Group, Peter Phillips.


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Hybrid OR a good investment in the future, even for medium-sized hospitals
The trend is clear – more and more hospitals are choosing to build hybrid ORs. While in the past these were mainly realized by large facilities, which combined a conventional operating room with large imaging equipment, medium-sized hospitals like the Rems-Murr Clinic in Winnenden, Germany, are increasingly being won over by the benefits of a hybrid OR. The latest intraoperative diagnostic and treatment options for vascular, trauma and neurosurgery, along with improved patient care, are the most convincing arguments for setting up a high-tech operating room. "For us, the hybrid OR is a key part of our goal to improve quality through interdisciplinary medical care," says Daniel von Bischopinck, Technical Manager of the Rems-Murr Clinic, explaining the decision to implement a hybrid OR. In addition, the hybrid OR is more cost-effective, thanks to its interdisciplinary usage options. The new technology will also allow the basic and standard-care hospital just outside Stuttgart, Germany, with its 650 beds, to position itself strongly in the regional health-care market.
Trend toward interdisciplinary collaboration is crucial
In June 2012, the new clinic in Winnenden was already under construction when the decisive step was taken toward a hybrid OR. "For us, the key was realizing that interdisciplinary collaboration is becoming more and more important for patient care," explains von Bischopinck. "Furthermore, modern medical engineering equipment that allows for innovative treatments is essential if we want to attract and keep first-class doctors and medical staff." After a thorough analysis, tours of Best Practice examples in other hospitals and a tour of hybrid OR specialist Maquet in Rastatt, Germany, the clinic decided to install a hybrid OR as part of the new building. To account for the additional space that the plan would require, Head of Medical Engineering Georg Kronschnabl and a team of specialized planners redesigned two of the originally planned ORs. "The wide range of possible uses make this spatial and functional concept for the hybrid OR much more ambitious than a plan for a conventional operating room," explains Kronschnabl. In contrast to a standard OR, the special challenge in implementing a hybrid OR is its complexity. In addition to measuring the space and choosing medical engineering equipment, numerous other planning and technical tasks like ventilation and air conditioning, electrical installations and radiation protection also need to be taken into account. "The big challenge was successfully working with all of the individual trades to create a single functioning system, on schedule and of course on budget," says Georg Kronschnabl in describing the project, which was implemented in just 14 months – from the planning phase to the call for tenders to installation.
OR table is the starting point for all other plans
At the heart of the hybrid OR are the MAGNUS OR table system from Maquet and the Allura FD 20 ceiling-mounted angiography system from Philips. In this project, the OR table plays a special role in the medical engineering plans – it serves as a reference point for all of the medical engineering equipment. The room concept requires a careful analysis of the application areas and technical requirements. "It is essential for the medical specialists and the OR team to be closely involved, especially during the planning phase, so the workflows can be perfectly mapped for all of the participating specialized disciplines," explains von Bischopinck. Through choosing the Magnus, Rems-Murr Clinic has received a full-fledged OR table system. "The great advantage is that the hybrid OR with the Magnus can also be used for normal OR procedures, which guarantees the best possible utilization of the space," says Kronschnabl. "That is not always an option with the tables from imaging manufacturers."
Positive responses validate the project
Since the end of September, the hybrid OR in Winnenden has had a very good interdisciplinary response to its first few procedures. For most doctors and the OR team, working in the hybrid OR is a new experience that involves a corresponding learning phase. As a rule, the various professions have to change their usual workflows in order to work together. That is why the Rems-Murr Clinic will focus on providing training for workflows and interdisciplinary approaches in the next few months. "The initial positive responses, and the strong interest in the new technology from doctors and the OR team, show that we are on the right path. I expect that the hybrid OR, along with all of its therapeutic, diagnostic and economic benefits, will be fully operational starting this summer," says Daniel von Bischopinck.


text: BASF Coatings GmbH and Henkel AG & Co KGaA have signed a joint venture agreement to develop corrosion protection solutions for the automotive industry. The 50/50 venture, pending approval of the German anti-trust authorities, will be headquartered in Düsseldorf. The joint venture is anticipated to launch in early 2011. The primary focus of the joint venture will be research and development. It is intended to bring together the competences of both companies in the areas of metal pretreatment and dip coating to develop products and processes that offer greater benefits in terms of cost, performance and environmental compatibility than the standard corrosion protection processes currently used within the automotive industry. Following a successful development of these products and processes Henkel and BASF Coatings intend to jointly market them in the automotive industry.


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The speaker suddenly became quiet, interrupting his speech. A dead silence reigned in the hall. The several hundred people, who had come to the International Socialist meeting of the English Labor Party, earnest and moved, were listening to the Jewish representative of the Polish National Council, the leader of the Bund, Shmuel (Arthur) Zigelboim. He described the gruesome deeds that the Germans were doing in Poland, read reports from the underground in Warsaw, told about the revolts in the ghetto about the heroic struggle and tragic death of the remnant of Jews. He had already been speaking for two hours to the non-Jews about the tragedy of a people who were being murdered systematically. Was he finished? The quiet lasted a minute. Zigelboim heard the quiet. He knew that he must speak further. He had lost the bond with those who were listening to him for only one minute, carried away by thoughts of the way people were living and seeing everything he was talking about and describing. He felt a meaninglessness in his speech, in searching for words, in giving speeches and making appearances in the light of the savage realities. This only lasted for a minute. He immediately brought himself back into the room; this was his duty, the only remedy to speak to them, to make them believe what was happening there, being struck by fear and calling forth a response of protest in the world. He started speaking again: Today, you have heard the frightening news from Poland; these are facts that make blood curdle in the veins. I have in my hand an excerpt from a letter that a Jewish woman in one ghetto wrote to her sister in another ghetto in Poland. The letter is a shocking call to the world. The woman writes:
My hand shakes. I cannot write, our minutes are numbered; only God knows if we will see each other again. I write and I cry; my children lament. They want so much to live We all say goodbye to you. [Zigelboim continues,] Thus is the atmosphere in which the Jews live in the ghetto of Poland. Try to imagine the people who see their nearest being dragged away to their death every day and each one knows that their turn must come. Imagine the thousands of Jewish mothers, the mothers who look at their children and know that their
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death is inevitable. Imagine the mothers from whom the children are torn from their hands with one smash into the wall. The little head of the child spatters in small pieces in front of the mothers. Imagine the great crime of methodically massacring an entire people. Each of us who understands the cruelty of the crime must be grabbed by the feeling of shame that we find ourselves among the living, to belong to the human genus, if means are not found to stop the greatest crime in human history. The conscience of everyone must be shaken; the serenity must be exploded for those who ignore the facts, with their self-deception that makes them skeptical. Each of us who does not do everything possible to stop the mass slaughter will take upon themselves moral co-responsibility for [the dead]. In the name of the hopeless innocent people sentenced to death in the ghettos of Poland, whose hands stretched out to the world cannot be seen, I call to all people, to all nations, whose conscience is still weak, wipe off the burning shame that is thrown on the human race, force the Nazi murderers to stop the systematic massacre of a people.
Zigelboim left the hall alone; the people who congratulated him disturbed him, shaking his hand for his beautiful speech. He ran from them. He again had the feeling of despair and helplessness. It was a year's time that he was the representative of Polish Jewry in the Polish Government in Exile. He wrote, spoke, warned, pressed, did not let pass any opportunities to enlighten, to persuade, to call and to beg for help and everything struck a deaf wall of disbelief and indifference. He was the representative of a people that was being killed cold-bloodedly. If only he was seen to save one single soul. Yes, people come to hear him. What he has to say affects the people. However, it is a superficial effect; afterward they return to their daily lives. A few do not believe him. It is said that this is characteristic Jewish hysteria and, if there is a little truth, it is far away and, meanwhile we are alive. Yes, he knows that many of his Jewish and non-Jewish friends have begun to avoid him. He poisons their lives; they feel uncomfortable in his company. He knows what they think: How can such a person always and constantly live only with one thought; he takes this too seriously, this Zigelboim. Well, yes, of course, one can be a representative, give public speeches, send telegrams of alarm to the world and then sit at home or in the company of friends, moaning, crying and have a little joy from life, do what everyone else does. His eyes flashed with anger. He
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pressed his hands into a fist and with anger, even a little brutally pushed through strolling Sunday crowds, almost running. He saw an empty spot on a bench in the square and suddenly felt so tired that he could not take another step; he sat down heavily. It was a beautiful spring day, one of the rare sunny days in foggy London. Here the trees were in bloom and spread an intoxicating aroma. Everything here was so normal.
True, London was living through difficult days, was being bombed by German airplanes. And then such calmness, security. Between one bombardment and the second, one went out into the street, strolled. Zigelboim watched two children playing in the square: a young boy of seven and a young girl of the same age. He looked at their radiant little faces; looked at the two mothers who looked at them with such pride. He was transported by the sunshine and bright joy of the children and a smile, such a rare guest in recent times, played on his face. The ball with which the children played rolled over to his feet. He took it in his hand, wanting to throw it back. The children stood waiting with little outstretched hands and bright open eyes. Zigelboim looked at them for a time; his hand remained hanging in the air. He face twisted in a grimace and his eyes became bloodshot. He saw the last report from Poland; saw the outstretched little hands and the eyes of thousands and thousands of children open in childish astonishment and fear, in wagons, autos and on foot driven to their death, to the ovens. He tore himself from the spot and again began going fast, running. He again stopped at a square and here again heard the sound of childish laughter. How would it be, he thought, if these mothers of the beloved children were taken and they were sent there to look and see what the Germans are doing to the children of his people. How would they react? Would they shudder, scream, hit the murderers with their fist; or perhaps they would watch nonchalantly, and perhaps help. This is what the greatest number of the Polish people is doing. Throughout his life, he believed deeply in the people. With optimism, he went step by step in the strength of this belief. And what is socialism, if not the deep belief in the ascent of man. At age twelve, he left his poor home full of hungry children in Chelm, to go to the large strange city, full of belief in people, and saw for himself socialism, the Jewish workers' movement, the Bund, sensed in them the beauty, the exaltation of throwing oneself into the stormy, salty sea of human suffering and tears, fighting for justice and nobility. He walked with the masses and moved ahead; he became their leader. His optimism and belief in people helped him persuade them. They listened to him; the Jewish workers believed him. He was always ready for them, during the weekdays of communal work and on holi-
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days, in struggle, in danger. Ready for the highest sacrifice for them, for the Jewish workers' movement, for the Jewish people. And now, when his people were perishing in blood, they presented him as their messenger to the world, a messenger to the world from a people who are being murdered and he cannot help. He cannot break down the wall of indifference and near-sightedness.
Somewhere a clock chimed. Zigelboim listened to the monotone of the tick-tock that poured a coolness on his heated head. He looked around: the sun had set long ago, it was dark, the city began to be enveloped in a damp cold fog. The coolness refreshed him. His brain again began to think logically. One is not allowed to feel doubt. He must do everything possible, take advantage of every opportunity; he must fulfill his duty. He comes to his room, sits again at the writing desk. Looks again over the proposal worked out against anti-Semitism in the post-war liberated Poland. Tomorrow morning, he has to propose the draft at the session of the National Council. Yes, he is also convinced of the victory of the Allies; a liberated Poland will arise. However, will there be Jews? He hastily lays down the draft. No! He will not get tired of demanding that first of all, everything must be done so that Jews remain alive. This must be before the law against anti-Semitism. He wrote three proposals that he would bring to the session in the morning:
1) The National Council demands of the government that it ask all of the Allied nations, particularly America and England, to immediately devise a plan of special acts against Germany that will force an end to the slaughter of Jews.
2) The dropping of precise descriptions of the slaughter of Jews in the German language in large numbers from airplanes over Germany.
3) The government should take steps for a special conference of all of the Allied governments to be called quickly to publish a blazing protest and a strong warning in the name of all the fighting nations to the German people and their government.
Zigelboim stood up from his place and began walking around the room. Doubt again bored into his brain. He already had brought in proposals twice about undertaking sanctions against the Germans. He had sent the proposals to Churchill and Roosevelt. The responses were diplomatically evasive. No! I will not tire of demanding my due, he shouted. And on the same day, he sent an appeal to President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill.
As the plenipotentiary representative of the Jewish workers' movement in Poland and in the name of the Jews who are being murdered in vast numbers behind the gates of the ghetto, I turn to your governments with this last des-
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perate appeal. Here is an excerpt from the last report that has again come from Warsaw: a fierce storm is raging on the heads of Polish Jewry and the terrible storm gets stronger with each day. The entire Jewish population is being exterminated, the men, the women and the children. Of the three and a half million Jews from before the war, there now remain alive no more than a few thousand and the mass murder continues further. The surviving Jews in Poland beg you to find the means to save the remnant of Polish Jews who remain alive. As a man who represents the unfortunate Jewish population of Poland, I give you their last appeal for rescue.
He ended the letter and, tired, let his hand fall on the table. His eyes looked steadily in the distance. This time, would it move them, the leaders of the civilized world?
Jan Korski, the emissary from the Polish underground movement who came to London, also had a mission for the Jewish representative. He asked Zigelboim to wait for him at 5 o'clock. He was a little late. Zigelboim was already waiting for him. They heartily greeted each other and sat down. Korski asked, What do you want to hear? About the Jews, I am a Jew; tell me what you know about the Jews in Poland.
Korski calmly and matter-of-factly began to describe everything he knew about the Jews, everything he had seen. He told about the hunting of Jews in the street, about the aktsias [round-ups] in the ghetto, about the hundreds and thousands of wagons full of Jews which go away in indefinite, but then definite directions. He told of his talk with the Jewish representative before his departure. Zigelboim sat stiffly, with his body shoved forward. He heard, absorbing the horrors, his eyes wide open, looking far behind the speaker; he did not blink, his face was frozen, just a nervous twitch went back and forth on his countenance. Korski, speaking, studied his face. He looked very tired. His eyes protruded from their sockets and the twitch on his face appeared more frequently. Zigelboim suddenly began to ask questions. Tell me exactly how the Jews in the ghetto appear? How do the children's faces you have seen look? What did the women say who watched the hunting in the ghetto with you? How do the bodies of the dead Jews on the streets of the ghetto look? Do you remember the last words of a child who you saw die on the street? Oh, I forgot, you do not understand any Yiddish. Korski began to be irritated by all of the unimportant questions and details. He was also tired of the experiences, conversations.
Herr Zigelboim, he interrupted, a bit nervously all of this is not important. In general, the conditions are terrible and savage. The pop-
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ulation in the ghetto lives in a state of death, in a constant threat of death. I have delivered the instructions that the Jewish leaders in the ghetto gave me to the representatives of the English government, who answered me that this is not feasible for political and tactical reasons.
Zigelboim jumped from his place and moved nearer to Korski, his eyes flaring with anger and contempt. Listen, he screamed, I beg you not to tell me what has happened here, what is said here, what is done here This I know better than you, I want to hear what is happening there, what they want there, what they are saying there! He yelled out his words and nervously began to pace across the room. Nu, good, Korski answered with brutal simplicity and matter-of-factly. I will deliver to you what your representatives in the ghetto want from their leaders in the free nations of the world. Here, this is what they have told me to say: They [the Jewish representatives outside Poland] should go to the most important English and American offices and agents, they should not budge until they receive a guarantee that a decision has been made to do everything to save the Jews. They should not eat and not drink; they should die face to face with the world's indifference; they should die. Perhaps this will shock the conscience of the world.
Korski stopped. Zigelboim stood opposite him reconciled, with wide open eyes and looked at him. His face was a little clear and a smile had almost lightly moved his lips. But in his eyes there was something that had not been noticed earlier, such a strange fire that it frightened him a little. Zigelboim stuck out his hand, Korski gave it a firm press. Herr Korski, I will do everything I can to help them, everything! I will do everything they demand; you do not believe me? Korski left the room, closed the door behind him and remained standing. Something did not let him leave. The eyes with which Zigelboim had looked at him! And perhaps he need not have reported everything [he had seen and been told in Poland]; he turned around and knocked on the door. No one answered. From behind the door could be heard a nervous pacing across the room. Korski went down the stairs, tired and heavy.
Half the night passed. Through the open window, a thick, damp fog crept in that dissolved in the darkness of the room. Zigelboim stood near the open window, looking at the darkness. All his senses were on edge. He had already decided, finished For a long time he had felt his physical existence was immoral as death and annihilation reigned around him. Earlier, he had not permitted the thought to come to him, while they there, in whose name he spoke, needed him to remain vigilant. They believed that he could somehow help. However, now they, too, do not believe in this and ask of him to try this last thing; perhaps that would help? Perhaps the world would hear? Why is he still standing; why is he dawdling? Zigelboim, the
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sober, logical idealist, had always accompanied Zigelboim the dreamer, accompanied and competed and demanded perfection. Now they both screamed at him, tore him: It is nonsense. the logical one screamed at him. You need to remain on the watch, fulfill your duty, do everything that can be done. You have become frightened, tired and this is for a showman, melodramatic. Commit suicide? Every lovesick boy, every weakling can do this. And what will be accomplished with your death? Will such a generous gesture change the course of your enemy? They will only be happy with it; they will rub their hands with joy. The opposite just one more martyr and they will be able to do everything that they wish, undisturbed. And those you will affect with your action cause to shudder nonsense, they will at most shed a tear, lay a few flowers on your grave and continue their cold diplomatic calculations. Futilely give away your life for what? Consider the logic?
Zigelboim torn himself away from the window and began pacing across the room.
Stop. Cynic, the second one shouted at him. Everything is not yet lost; the world will have to hear.
What is logic? Write an appeal to statesmen, confer with them, make the effort to be logical and to the point, persuade them, when everything tears in me and they examine everything logically, with calm faces. They diplomatically make the calculations; it does not pay; it cannot be done and, meanwhile, the people perish. No, no, perish with them; this is the only way that remains to me, the envoy of a hopeless people.
I will not accomplish anything here. I bang my head on a hard, deaf wall. Those who hear the banging have already become accustomed to this; it no longer has any effect. It is necessary to throw oneself at the wall with momentum, spray it with one's own brains. Perhaps this will have an effect? They, there, believe in the perhaps. And the perhaps began to grow with him, took on a real form.
He stopped his pacing back and forth, went to the table, sat down and began writing, stopped momentarily, reflected and again wrote. He ended; his hands remained laying on the table. He lifted his head a little, took notice of all of the small things on the writing table and his gaze stopped at the three red roses. The owner, an old working
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woman who had looked after him with care, had placed the roses on the table, deeply moved by his speech at the meeting the night before. They stood, the roses, opposite him in bloom as with open mouths. Their beauty, literally, screamed; he gave one of them a caress. The velvet smoothness burned his hand. He drew it back, stood up and with quick steps went to the dark background of the room where the bed stood. The lamp on the table remained on and lit the last written words:
I cannot remain quiet, I cannot live when the remnant of the Jewish people in Poland, whose representative I am, are being killed. My comrades in the Warsaw Ghetto perished with weapons in their hands in the last heroic struggle. I was not destined to die like them, together with them. However, I belong to them and to their mass graves.
Now comes the last act of the tragedy behind the walls of the ghetto that has no equal in history. The responsibility for the crime of the annihilation of the entire Jewish population in Poland falls in the first instance on the murderers themselves. However, indirectly the responsibility also falls upon all of humanity, the people and the governments of the allied nations that have not made any effort up until now with concrete action for ending the killing. These nations became partners of the murders by passively watching the murder of unprotected millions of tortured children, women and men.
With my death I will express the strongest protest against the passivity with which the world looks at and permits the extermination of the Jewish people.
I know how little a human life is worth today. However, while I could not do anything during my life, perhaps with my death, I will help to break the indifference of they, who have the ability to save now, perhaps, at the last moment the still living Polish Jews.
My life belongs to the Jewish people in Poland and, therefore, I give it away.
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Dr. Y. Sziper had already been in contact with the Chelemer group, Poalei-Zion. The Jewish officer in the Austrian army was a great historian and scientist, who later, by chance, was chosen by the Jews in the Chelemer poviat [district] as deputy in the Polish Sejm [parliament].
A mixed population of various nationalities lived in Chelm in the southeast corner of Congress Poland Ruthenians, Uniate peasants, Greek Catholics, Ukrainians, Poles and Jews. A quiet, but stubborn struggle took place among the various peoples, mainly between the Ukrainians and Poles in regard to making Chelm more Polish.
The Jews were in a vice, not knowing on which side to orient themselves. They did not reveal their choice in relation to one side of the other, not being sure which of the sides would triumph in the territorial disputes. The civil Jewish parties declared their neutrality, not wanting to come out with a separate voting list for the Sejm elections in Chelm.
The Central Committee of the Bund then decided not to take part in the Sejm election throughout Poland.
The Poalei-Zion in Poland decided to take part in the election and thus the only Jewish candidate list in Chelm was for the Poalei-Zion party.
The election ordinances were then genuinely democratic. The Poalei-Zion party sent out propagandists through the province to make the population aware of the positions of P.Z. in the Sejm elections. Although a few campaigning comrades
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were then beaten in several villages, they enthusiastically and energetically continued their work.
It is very interesting to highlight the following reason that brought a few hundred voters to the P.Z. list: a number of Ukrainian peasants during the Czarist regime - were in a Kiev jail with B. Borokhow. There in the jail they became familiar with the socialist ideas that the leading theoretician, Borokhow, taught them. When the Ukrainians heard that the P.Z. list had a connection with Borokhow's ideas, they all voted for the Poalei-Zionist list.
The Krakow lawyer, Dr. Max Rozenfeld, who died traveling from Vienna to Warsaw before the opening of the Polish Sejm, stood first on the P.Z. list no. 2. Since, Dr. Y. Sziper was the second candidate on the list, he automatically became the deputy from the Chelemer poviat (district) in the Polish Sejm. This was on the 19th of March 1919, when Dr. Y. Sziper became Sejm deputy.
As a deputy, Dr. Y. Sziper would come very often to Chelm to give lectures, reports and the like. He also often intervened with the authorities when a Chelemer Jew turned to him.
My young friend, Shneiur Wasserman, the well known writer and poet from Chelm, states in his memoirs about the destruction of Chelm in Morgn Freiheit [Morning Freedom] the following important episode: - During the Polish-Bolshevik War, when the Polish Halertchikes [soldiers under the command of General Jozek Haller during and after the First World War, who were widely reported to be anti-Semitic and perpetrators of violence against Jews], arrived in Chelm, they would often attack the Jews and rip their beards. A pogrom against the Jews in Chelm also broke out at that time in which approximately 100 Jews were wounded and one Jew was killed. Many houses and shops had a pogrom against them.
The Chelemer Jews, in their deadly fear, turned to Warsaw and to their deputy, Dr. Y. Sziper, who immediately came to Chelm.
All of the Chelemer city fathers and the police officials reacted indifferently to the excesses against the Jews, but in Sziper's presence they took steps to calm the infuriated crowd; perhaps, they, themselves, had incited the mob.
Dr. Y. Sziper remained in Chelm for several days and conducted a meticulous investigation of the excesses that had occurred and he put together a list of those suffering and the value of the material damages.
At the next sitting of the Sejm, Sziper gave a speech about the pogrom in Chelm and about the Polish
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pogroms in general. The speech made a great impression all over Poland. He often repeated that the Polish government was responsible for all of the troubles and excesses against the Jews, that: Pogroms are swords with two edges; they harm the murderer just as much as the victim. He proclaimed: Make a clear account, my gentlemen, whose losses are greater, the material and physical damage that the Jews suffered through the pogroms, or your moral ruin that you plant among the young Polish generation through incitement and pogroms against the Jews.
Turning to the gallery of the Sejm, he asked the Polish wives, mothers and sisters, how do they react to the rowdy deeds of their sons and brothers who invade the women's mikhvah [ritual bath] (such incidents happened then in Chelm) and bully the deathly frightened, ashamed, naked women.
Although his speech did not stop the waves of pogroms in the country, there was a certain compensation for the Chelemer Jews and for the Jews in Poland in general in that there was someone to openly and loudly protest in the Sejm.
Dr. Sziper, as a Sejm deputy, was never intimidated and he did not stop protecting Jewish respect and Jewish life with pride and honor.
Arrests of communal political activists (the majority Jewish ) occurred in Poland in 1920, and in Chelm, too, the arrestees were Jewish political activists from all factions. Several arrestees were ordinary, impartial Jews, even several young students in the Chelemer Jewish gymnazie.
Among the arrestees were Dr. Mirlas (chemistry teacher in the Jewish gymnazie); Distler (from Galicia, bookkeeper of the P.Z. cooperative at the worker's
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home); Moshe Larber; A.D. Hipszman (a print worker, chairman of the P.Z. org.); Haim (a water carrier, a Bundist); N. Laks, etc.
Also, Miss Bluma Loszojnsztejn (the only woman among the arrestees, she was imprisoned with the female criminals).
I received a note from Mr. Rozenblum (a tailor, he was then treasurer of the P.Z. org.) a few days after the arrest asking that I come to see him. Rozenblum was then in hiding in an attic somewhere on Lubliner Street. L. Rozenblum instructed me to go to Warsaw to Dep. Dr. Y. Sziper [to ask him] to intercede with the Polish government about freeing the arrestees.
I then (a 17-year old young man, leader of the Poalei-Zion youth organization) went to Warsaw. It was, in general, the first time that I traveled by train and suddenly I was in such a seething city as Warsaw.
I remembered the address of the P.Z. worker's house in Warsaw, Karmelicka 23. There I learned that Sziper lived with his father-in-law the Zionist leader and lawyer, Yitzhak Grynboim on Tlomackie 6, opposite the Tlomackie synagogue.
Dr. Sziper received me with great comradely friendship and he told me that he could not go to the minister to intercede on behalf of the Chelm arrestees because, Arrests took place all over Poland. His school friend, Dr. Szreiber, was arrested, too, and he could not help him because he first had to learn from the minister the reasons and intentions in general of the government toward the arrestees. He would then be able to intercede and see that the innocent Jews were released. He advised me to go home and to see that all of the arrestees' families were assured that everyone would be released quickly. Arriving home in Chelm, I calmed everyone with the certainty that now the arrestees would be released.
On the fourth day after returning to Chelm, five policemen came to our house at night for a search. The house, the books and papers were ransacked and I was taken to the police station, and after several days, to the Chelemer jail where the Polish activists were imprisoned.
My information from Warsaw and the assurances from Dr. Sziper that
(Photo, caption: Poalei-Zion group in Chelm. Dr. Yitzhak Sziper is found in the center of the photo.)
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we would all be quickly freed brought great reassurance. On a dark night, three days after the arrests in Chelm, we, the great criminals, were lead out of jail and taken away under heavy guard to the train, everyone was placed in special prisoner cars and taken to the Kielcer prison.
I was among the 12 communal activists. I was the youngest of all of the arrestees in the Kielcer prison.
After three months sitting, the communal activists from Chelm were released from the Kielcer prison without a trial, thanks to the intervention of Deputy Dr. Y. Sziper. Because the formalities about me still had not been taken care of, I sat for several more days.
Three days after the Chelemer communal activists were freed, I saw my brother Nukhem walking on the other side of the fence of the prison. At my signal, he called up to me that I would soon be freed. An hour later, I was called to the prison office and given notice that I was free!
On the street, my brother informed me that Dr. Y. Sziper had specially traveled to the Lublin district for information and clarifications about my arrest; and thanks to Dr. Sziper's intervention, after four months I saw the free world.
Several days after my homecoming, Dr. Mirlas, may he rest in peace, who became sick in prison, died.
Meanwhile, during my arrest, the Poalei-Zion conference took place in Danzig and the organization spilt into the right and left. Dr. Y. Sziper remained with the right wing of the party. A few weeks later, after the split, Dr. Sziper came to Chelm for a meeting that then took place in the auditorium of the Jewish community under the chairmanship of chairman Anshel Biderman, and Dep. Dr. Y. Sziper asked those assembled if they had continued confidence in him as deputy.
Besides a group of comrades from P.Z., the assembled crowd shouted: We are devoted to Dr. Sziper as deputy! Long live Dr. Sziper! During the second Sejm elections, Dr. Sziper was chosen as the deputy of the Zionist organization in Poland.
When the writer of these lines studied in Warsaw at the Jewish teachers seminar run by TSISHO [tsentrale yidishe shul organizatsye Central Jewish School Organization; a system of schools organized by the Bund] in 1923-1925, Dr. Y. Sziper taught us the subject, Jewish History, consisting of the following cycles: a) The History of the Jews in Poland; b) The History of the Old Yiddish Literature and c) The History of Yiddish Theater Art and Drama.
Then, in 1923, Dr. Y. Sziper entrusted to me his manuscript: The History of Yiddish Theater Art and Drama, in order to transcribe it for the Cultural League publishing house. I, then, had the opportunity to see the utterly
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masterful scholarly work of Dr. Y. Sziper: Tens and, perhaps, hundreds of old Purim songs, texts of various Purim plays that the historian, Dr. Sziper, had collected for his work. I tried to do the transcriptions without errors, with the greatest precision. When the book was published, I received a copy as a gift from Dr. Y. Sziper, which I safeguard with the greatest love.
While transcribing the manuscript, I had the occasion to be at Dr. Y. Sziper's house often and I also accompanied him home to Tlomackie Street, after his seminar lectures. I had the opportunity to speak with him. I was enriched with much news and profound thoughts after every conversation.
In May 1935, the day before my departure from Warsaw to South Africa, I went to say goodbye to my kindly teacher and friend, Dr. Yitzhak Sziper. After a long conversation, Dr. Y. Sziper said to me: It is already 37 years that I have been a Zionist. Nu, in around three years it will already be 40 years, just as many as the Jews were in the desert and entered Eretz-Yisroel. I hope to emigrate to Eretz-Yisroel in a few years and settle there. And I will give lectures at Jerusalem University in Yiddish about the new history of the Jews in the world, stressing that Yiddish is not an obstacle to Hebrew.
When the war broke out in 1939. Dr. Sziper was still in Warsaw and shared the savage, torturous fate of the Jewish people. He consoled and called on the Jews not to lose their courage, advising that whoever was able to should go over to the Aryan side, to do it because there were more opportunities to remain alive there. However, he, himself, remained in the ghetto. He appeared publicly with reports and lectures in the ghetto; he awakened and called for resistance.
Dr. Y. Sziper, who was devoted to his historical mission, who lived with and was energized by Polish Jewry, perished with the historic old Jewish settlement in Poland.
Dr. Sziper searched for and found the warmth of the simple Jew, from his dreary day-to-day individual and collective existence. First, he breathed a new communal, national and democratic spirit into the science of Jewish history. Dr. Yitzhak greatly modernized Jewish historiography in Poland.
The Zionistic Socialism that united both the Jewish national ideal and the general progressive thought; the struggle for worker rights and social justice on one side and the awakening Yiddish cultural renaissance; the deep love of the Yiddish popular language and
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popular literature, were the chief basis of Sziper's synthesis and harmonious world view. Dr. Y. Sziper gave his time, his erudition, his great knowledge, energy and his life for his wonderful and important ideas.
Y. Sziper takes a primary place in Jewish historiography along with the great historical and famous personalities such as: Prof. Sz. Dubnow, Prof. M. Schor, Prof. M. Balaban. These Jewish people, the Polish Jews will never forget Sziper, one of the most outstanding sons of Polish Jewry in the last decade.
The Hazan [cantor] Yakov Likhterman (former hazan of the Noyzk synagogue in Warsaw), who now lives in Capetown, wrote in the Rosh Hashanah edition of the Africaner Yidishe Zeitung [African Jewish Newspaper] dated, Friday, the 12th of September 1947 in an article entitled, How Dr. Yitzhak Sziper Perished: That when he, Likhterman arrived with the last transport of Jews that were sent out from the Warsaw Ghetto to Majdanek on the 5th of October 1943, he met Dr. Yitzhak Sziper, sitting hunchbacked in a corner near the wall holding a little knife in his hand and peeling potatoes in the large hall among the 300 male potato peelers.
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During a check, there was an S.S. member who controlled a number of prisoners, making sure that their identification numbers were hung in the correct place and Dr. Y. Sziper had just then worn the tin number a little lower on his chest; the S.S. bandit harshly beat him over the head with a rubber stick until Sziper fainted to the ground, unconscious. He lay this way until noon; then he was carried into the camp.
From then on, Sziper's feet became swollen, so that every day, the Hazan, Y. Likhterman, along with Sziper's son-in-law, had to carry him to work to peel potatoes.
On a certain day, in July 1943, the great Jewish historian breathed out his soul.
Unable to endure the hardship, hunger, blows, illnesses, the exhausted detained refugee, Dr. Y. Sziper, died in the extermination camp, in the historic, mournful place in Majdanek, Chelemer poviat [district].
He always lived and struggled for the Jewish masses; even in death he was the great Jewish tribune among the Jewish masses who he comforted and loved.
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The Chelemer malamed [religious teacher] unfurls his handkerchief with a trembling hand
Takes out a small tobacco box and takes a sniff
Then he wipes his spectacles and strides
Off the ship to the Haifa shore.
The cat comes and among Jewish sacks and packs
The Chelemer malamed lays down on his bundle:
It is said, a Jewish lord comes to the shore
To look through the packs of sisters and brothers
Well, it probably has to be like this, probably.
And here indeed, the Jewish lord approaches:
Nu, Reb Yid, what kinds of things do you have in your sack
He asks with a gemara melody.
Plenty of good things, says the Chelemer with quiet joy,
His eyes dropped modestly:
I carry, carry a humble cage,
A humble cage, with humble birds.
It must be, laughs the lord, a bird with a piercing whistle.
He unties the sack with damaged eyes,
In the sack a cage, and in it festive whistling,
Birds hop as on branches of trees
Now, the lord opens his eyes in amazement:
Uncle, what can we learn from the birds?
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I, says the Chelemer, brought them from Chelm.
The birds are really Chelemer [from Chelm].
The story is simple, do you want to listen?
(Wonder of wonder, the creation )
A day before I left for Palestine
It was Shabbos Shire.
I stand on my stoop in the middle of the market
(the Jewish market, but without Jews ) Father!
Suddenly I see from the white mountain
A flock of birds flying
Oy father, birds, birds
And raboysay [gentleman] I ask you a question:
As Jewish children no longer share the snow
On Shabbos Shire there is no cereal for birds,
That Jewish children are in Chelm no longer,
What will the birds do without Jewish children?...
Nu, I did what I did nu,
Ha, now you understand?...
The Jewish lord opens his eyes, like a common Jew,
And the Chelemer opens the cages:
Fly birds, fly to Jewish children
And the birds obeyed and flew
And the Chelemer malamed saw through his spectacles
The way in which the lord wiped his eyes
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These were my feelings when I arrived at YIVO. I need not say that my new work and research spot did not create a remedy for my wound, at first The leaders of the Institute Z. Kalmanovitch, M. Weinreich, Z. Reizen as well as the research students, were all pronounced Lithuanian types, who with their expression and clear scholarly bearing, simply threw a fear into my Polish Jewish sentimental soul. On the first day I wandered around the building on Vivulska Street 18 as if stupefied by the splendor of the treasures that opened before my eyes, and I continuously thought, what do I have to do to fit into the surrounding order of authority, erudition and industry?
During one of those days, a person who I met working in the YIVO library and to whom I turned for several books helped me make sense of my confusion. He looked at me with a sharp, inquisitive, pointed look and said to me in my own Lublin accent:
I think you are from my regionAt that moment, these few words sounded like music Is it possible? In the distant and strange Vilna, a Jew was talking to me in my familiar manner and with tenderness and feeling that only my manner of speech could generate.
Who are you? Where are your from? I murmured, delighted.This is how I made my acquaintance with Lerer. I had no inkling then that fate would later often bring me together with him and I would
Moshe Lerer from Chelm
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need to be a witness to his enormous suffering and torments. For the present, however, it was as if a burden was removed from me, that is, there was a close neighbor here in YIVO, not just pure Litvaks and there would be someone to speak to in my own Lublin dialect
Lerer also diverged from the YIVO representatives on the question of language. In this sense, he considered himself a student of Noakh Prilucki, who did not have any fear of making certain old Deitchmerizmen more Yiddish. [Translator's note: Deitchmerizmen are words and phrases that cultivated Yiddish speakers considered too much like German and frowned upon their use.] Such words as: alzo [therefore/then], gelungen [succeed], farzictik [assured], endgiltik [final/definite/ultimate], etc, were rejected by Kalmanovitch, Weinreich and Reizen and they suggested that bekheyn, geratn opgehitn letstgiltik be substituted However, Noakh Prilicki and his follower, M. Lerer, said: What? You want, alzo [therefore], to make our Yiddish bloodless? You will not gelungen [succeed] in this. Be farzictik [assured] with your surgical knife; the endgiltiker [final] judgment will belong to the people!
Both the teacher and his student derived their vocabulary and concepts from the original sources of the common folk. However, each of them gave a different, a separate meaning to the concept of folk. Noakh Prilicki the community leader and communal man considered himself an heir of Dubnow's scholarship about Jewish universality and striving for full cultural autonomy. [Translator's note: Simon Dubnow, the author of History of the Jews in Poland and Russia, stressed that the survival of the Jewish people depended on spiritual and cultural strength and their autonomy.] Moshe Lerer, on the contrary, spiritedly defended the Soviet-Jewish theory about separate Jewish territories that have only weak common bonds. Each regional group yearned for its designated area for their own specific cultural expression. Lerer's assigned task
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in his narrow field at YIVO was to continue to fully understand the peculiarities of the Jews of Congress Poland. Only in this way can we partially explain the friction between him and the YIVO leadership. And the bitterness of M. Lerer now becomes entirely understandable to me. He was convinced that I his landsman and neighbor did not share his view on a series of questions. He always helped me find the necessary materials for my research theme, Yiddish Prose in Poland. Therefore, he would very often reproach me and even be angry:
You have almost become a Litvak with your speech. This is the way a Jew from Rabiechow speaks?
How is it possible? How is it possible? He pleaded with a shaking voice.Little by little, Lerer became accustomed to the dark truth of that slaughter. However, there remained a constant mark on his soul from then on. This mark was not washed away by all of the later encouraging events in his life from 1940 to 1941: not the fact that Noakh Prilicki became an official professor at the Lithuanian University in Vilna and lecturer of Yiddish philology; and not even the fact that the Soviets chose him as the responsible caretaker and conserver of the YIVO treasures. On this historical day, when the fate of Vilna weighed on the scale, Lerer, it seems, had taken spiritual stock of himself, once and for all. In his quiet, self searching glance, a penetrating eye could read the difficult, unstated question:
What kind of significance does this all have compared to the slaughter of so many thousands of innocent people from my hometown?
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looked like an old man who was already critically ill, with his bent body, extinguished eyes and deep, sunken cheeks. His resignation, it seems, was noticed by the rowdy element in the camp and they bullied him. Tears get stuck in my throat when I remember the heavy work that was intentionally placed on his bent shoulders. We all tried to make it easier for him and to take upon ourselves some of his duties; if this work was with peat or in unloading goods the younger ones among us tried to make it easier for him everywhere and to take his place. He appreciated this very much and a sort of tender feeling to all of us was planted in him along with his resignation and he wanted to comfort and cheer us up.
This love for us caused a series of changes in him and his character and ideology. A communist according to belief, he became tolerant of belief and
took part in all religious meetings in the camp. As if by a magic wand, his former nervousness vanished and there appeared in him instead distinct signs of understanding, of fatherly devotion to his camp comrades and even hope. I still remember his enthusiasm when, due to my endeavors, Tiszka, the Troker priest, (later shot by the Germans) became a friend of the camp workers, warned about the dangers that threatened us and came to us in his free moments to study Hebrew. At first he [Lerer] was afraid that here the priest was somewhat of an outsider. Later, when everyone became convinced of Tiszka's pure, humanitarian intentions, Lerer seemed to have been revived. There are still, it seems, he said, virtuous non-Jews here in the land. If this is so, everything is not yet lost!!..
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and with his beloved work, he felt stronger and exhilarated. He began to take an interest in cultural work in the ghetto and took part in communal life. Just before the liquidation of the ghetto, he took an active part in the initiative of several groupings to expand the activities of the United Partisan Organization (P.P.O.) and to place it on a wider popular footing.
This initiative did not succeed. Lerer, the office man, ignoring his weak health, wanted to serve the underground structure in some way. He withdrew into himself immediately after this and again returned to his same quiet cultural service.
Several months later after the attempted expansion of the resistance, the liquidation of the ghetto began and the transportation of the Vilna Jews to the Estonian camps. Moshe Lerer was in one of the transports. Z. Kalmanovitch was sent away almost immediately after him. Both YIVO co-workers met in the same concentration camp, Kivioli. Their joint suffering and the dreadful fate of the people united these former opponents who were now in the same boat. Face to face with death, they helped and supported one another. Lerer died, weary, his life sucked out by the difficult camp torture rack, in Zelig Kalmanovitch's arms.
From Zalman Reizner's Lexicon of Yiddish Literature, Second volume, Vilna, 1927
Born in Chelm, Lubin area, in family of rabbis. Until age 14, he studied in khederim [religious schools] and shtiblekh [small houses of study]. Then devoted himself to self education. Went to Warsaw in 1912, where he gave lectures. 1913-1916 lived in Odessa, worked in an office, later returned to Chelm and became active as a teacher in a P.Z. [Poalei-Zion] Jewish public school; was engaged in collecting Yiddish folklore of all kinds, published several philological-folkloric articles and notes in Moment, Literarishe Bleter, (For example: about Peretz's Yiddish in no. 101) Yidish Filololgie, Landoy Bukh (Material for an Idiotikon (regionalisms) of Chelm). Lately in Warsaw, as the regular correspondent for the Yidishe Vishshaflekhn Institut.
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From the YIVO Bleter, Volume 26, num. 1, September-October, 1945, from the article, Yiskor [prayer for the dead].
From Sz. Kaczergyynski's book: Khorban Vilna, from the article, Life and Death of Z. Kalmanovitch in Estonian concentration camp Narva, pages 109, 110. (The book Khorban Vilna was published by the United Vilner Aid Committee by the CIKO publishing house, New York, 1947).Zelig Kalmanovitch slept with Moshe Lerer on plank cot num. 17, on the third level of the third barracks. They would talk to each other, write and Lerer would tell me they had already written down a great deal. Lerer became sick with the widespread stomach illness [dysentery] before Chanukah. Kalmanovitch would watch over him, would take care of him. Lerer died at Chanukah time and Kalmanovitch said kaddish [the prayer for the dead] for him. Lerer's death greatly affected Kalmanovitch. He walked around sick, ate little and once, when I came from work (a few weeks after Lerer's death), I was told that Kalmanovitch had died in an ambulance. Their bodies, like the bodies of others who died and were murdered, were burned in a heating boiler at the manufacturing factory where our barracks were.
Told by Meir Slivkin, Vilna, lived on Vilner Street, no. 21. Received and recorded by Sz. Kaczergyynski, Vilna, 1 May, 1945.
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We publish Moshe Lerer's philological work that was published in the periodical publication, Jewish Philology bi-monthly pages of linguistics, literary research and ethnography, under the editorship of Max Weinreich, Noakh Prilucki and Zalman Reizen. Volume 1, 1249, Publisher Culture League, Warsaw.
The groom was called up (to read from the Torah) on the last Shabbos before the wedding and the mothers-in-law and closely related women in the women's section would shower him with nuts, candies and raisins.
During the day, there were refreshments at the groom's home. In the evening, there was a prelude a feast with klezmorim [musicians].
Again in the evening, there was a wedding reception on the eve of the wedding at the bride's home; the klezmorim would play all kinds of dances, and the bride's friends would dance and receive refreshments.
After, the klezmorim would go to play for the in-laws, relatives and good friends separately to each one's home.
The night before the wedding day, the relatives, friends and acquaintances would be invited to a party that was called a khosn-mol [pre-wedding feast]. The majority also then made a feast for the poor (for the poor people) with a beautifully covered table with many good things, after which they were given money.
If the groom needed to travel to the bride's residence for the wedding, there was a doubling of the rejoicing in taking leave of him. There was also a daytime celebration, if there was a rush to depart and accompaniment by klezmer out of the city.
The night before the wedding, when the bride would be taken for the emersion for purification, in addition to sharing cake at the bathhouse with the bathhouse attendants, the ritual bathhouse attendants she was accompanied by klezmer, playing in the street and a celebration began in the house, during which the bodkin [jester who created humorous rhyming improvisations at a wedding] made the bride tender with his moralizing rhymes.
There was a klezmer accompaniment for the groom's arrival at the bride's residence and they made a ceremonial procession around the city hall, the market ring seven times. They stopped about a few verst [Russian measurement equaling .66 miles] from the city and gave a forewarning by way of a herald, a rider, to the bride's side. Thus, no step was made without music almost from the call for an aleiyah, until the last of the seven benedictions during the party at the home of the newly married couple on the Shabbos after their wedding. The noisy music was proudly played the entire time.
In general, the wedding began 12 to 1 during the day.
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The reception of the groom at his lodgings on the main night before the veiling of the bride is called kaboles-ponem [welcome]. Then, the groom also had the ability to show his learning and originality with a hair-splitting argument before the invited relatives, associates and friends good students of the Talmud.
The visit to the bride with presents most of them rings by the mother-in-law for the veiling of the bride [prior to the marriage ceremony] was called, s'ketzl kumt [the kitten comes] (s'ketzl kumt!, mother-in-law; she would be accompanied with great joy).
The next morning after the khupah [ceremony], when the sheitl [wig] had already been sent to the bride at home, the regal siddur [prayer book] in the golden cloth with a lock, a shkot (a mirror in a [wooden] frame), etc, according to one's financial ability, the groom's mother, often with all of the relatives went to see the nakhas [proud enjoyment], that is, if the mitzvah was done in the true Jewish way, and the bride was lifted from the bed. After undressing her, her hair was cut, during which the young, often 14 or 15 year old bride heartbreakingly would cry over her beautiful cut locks and braids. After the cutting, the bride would be veiled. Afterwards, as a dairy meal was eaten, such as coffee with butter cakes, etc., a joyous musical march was led, that is, the groom's mother invited the bride and all on her [side] to the station, accompanied the entire way by klezmer. The refreshments here were: beverages, fruit layered cakes, preserves and the like. Here the mother-in-law also gave the young wife a present a bracelet, brooch, rings and the like that was called shein-gelt [literally, beautiful money] (inspection money for looking at the bride in her veil for the first time in the groom's house). Everyone who wanted to be treated to the honor of looking at the bride, who the excited in-laws were allegedly hiding, disguised had to pay a fee.
For the feast, one would return to the bride's side: for lunch.
During the sheva yemei hamishte [seven days of celebration], a feast was made almost every day, often with klezmer. A sheva bruchos [seven blessings recited under the wedding canopy] was made on the shabbos after the wedding and the young couple was taken to shul to pray. The bridesmaids invited the bride with each of those close to her.
A very proud and lively feast was made on the last day of the sheva-bruchos with celebrating late into the night.
The week up until the [groom was called up to the Torah] was called the silver week; the week after his being called up to the Torah until the wedding was the golden week (stemming from the golden broth that was given to the fasting groom and bride after the wedding; the crowd would grab the leftovers).
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New Tigers Prepare for 2014 Season
NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Head softball coach Jeff Dabney is preparing for the 2014 season with the completion of their fall playing season and individual workouts. Dabney moves into his fourth season with nine returners and eight newcomers. Freshmen Angela Adkins (Bowling Green, Ky.), Rebekka Gross (Angels Camp, Calif.), Olivia Lawson (Rogersville, Tenn.), and Hannah St. Clair (Taylorsville, N.C.), along with sophomore-transfer Carmen Hill (Marietta, Ga.) join 2012 early signees Courtney Gearlds, Sydney Shoulders and Liz Stansberry as the new group of Tigers for the upcoming season.
"These five, and when you add Sydney (Shoulders), Liz (Stansberry) and Courtney (Gearlds), is a great incoming class," said Dabney. "I think each year we have gotten better with quality athletes. This group, if you set aside the athleticism and the pure playing ability, they bring the one aspect we needed around here, that is a new prospective and a great attitude."
Adkins was a four-year starter at Greenwood High School and closed out her senior season as part of the only undefeated team in Kentucky fastpitch history as the Lady Gators captured the state championship with a 44-0 record. Adkins won the National Guards Best and Brightest Award and the South Central Outstanding Regional Excellence in Sports Award, as well as being named GHS Best Female Athlete. As a freshman, she was voted Rookie of the Year at GHS and was a three-time Best All-Around Player selection. Adkins earned a spot on the All-State, All-Region and All-District teams as a sophomore and as a senior.
The outfielder was selected to play in the Kentucky/Tennessee All-State Game and was a two-time member of the Kentucky East/West All-State game. Adkins was also a four-year member of the basketball team and was named to the All-District team in 2011 and 2013 and earned a spot on the All-Region team as a senior. Adkins played travel ball for the Louisville Magic who finished ninth at the 2013 PGF Platinum National Championships. Off the field, Adkins was a two-year student volunteer at the Bowling Green Humane Shelter and was a pledge drive volunteer for WKYU.
"Angela is someone we tried to get in the early signing period," Dabney said. "She is a great kid with a great personality and has a big upside. I anticipate a great career out of this kid. She's an outfielder who can play the infield. She is the type of kid we are looking for; solid bat with speed, a good arm, good instincts, and she understand the game."
Gross is a four-year letter-winner for head coach Jacey Bray at Bret Harte High School. The catcher hit .393 as a four-time All-League and All-Area selection. Gross was also a four-year member of the basketball team and served as captain for both sports during her senior season. The California native played her travel ball for John Heinz and the All American Sports Academy, as well as for the late Phil Mumma and Sorcerer Softball.
"Becca was an accidental find," Dabney stated. "I saw her playing centerfield the first time I ever watched her. She was a solid outfielder, but at the time, we weren't really looking for an outfielder. It was during a camp and she came up and asked what I thought, I asked her if she did anything else besides outfield. She replied, 'I am a catcher'. We were in the market for a catcher. We put her behind the plate and it did not take long to realize she understood what it took to be a catcher. She was a person you could not just say no too. I had to have her in our program. Great instincts behind the plate and she is exactly what we wanted. Our pitchers will love throwing to her."
Lawson batted .479 with a .825 slugging as a four-year player at Cherokee High School under Charlie Christopher. Lawson was selected to the All-Conference team as a sophomore, junior and a senior, as well as to the District All-Tournament Team in those same seasons. The utility player was named All-Lakeway as a senior. Lawson was a four-year member of the CHS volleyball team and won the Hustle Award as a junior and named All-Conference in her senior campaign.
In the classroom, Lawson was a 4.0 Athletic Award recipient and a Tennessee-Virginia Scholar. She ranked seventh in graduating her class and was a member of the Beta Club and Mu Alpha Theta. Lawson finished school with perfect attendance from Kindergarten-through-end of senior year, as she graduated with honors and distinction.
Lawson started her travel ball career with the Morristown Hurricanes where she batted .575 for head coach Kenny King. Lawson continued her playing career with Mike Mayfield and the Tennessee White Lightning before closing out her travel experience hitting .500 for Coach Courtland Styles and the Knoxville Speed.
"We did know exactly what we were getting in (Olivia) Lawson," Dabney commented. "I saw her on video and saw potential. She played multiple positions and having a true utility kid, in every sense of the word, is good for us. What I didn't realize is how she is such a big of a competitor and hard worker. She just brings a high level of competitiveness to the field all the time. I like what she is going to bring in the circle and I believe she will be able to give us good quality innings. I like what she is going to bring at the plate as a strong kid with power potential. But, her attitude is the biggest draw for our program."
St. Clair played for four seasons with coach Montey Sherrill and Alexander Central High School. The pitcher was selected as the MVP of the State Championship team her sophomore season. St. Clair competed in volleyball, soccer and basketball while at ACHS and earned the Coaches Award in volleyball. She was an Honor Graduate and a member of the Beta Club. St. Clair competed in the 2013 ASA National Tournament with the Atlanta Vipers, coached by Charlie Sullivan.
"We were looking for quality another arm and she stood out," Dabney stated. "I love her mentality; she is a competitive kid and likes to work. Everything we needed in a freshman pitcher. Hannah came to camp last year and we're watching this kid moving the ball around and popping the glove pretty good. Obviously, pitching is a big part of this game and I believe she will be a big part of our success this year."
Hill transferred after one season as a member of the SWAC Champions, Mississippi Valley State. At MVSU, the outfielder played in 19 games, starting 16, and finished with a perfect 1.000 fielding percentage in 81 chances. Hill excelled academically being named to the President's List and an NFCA Academic All-American.
Hill competed for Nancy Donnelly at Marietta High School. The four-year letter-winner was named defensive MVP as a junior and team MVP as a senior. In her final season at MHS, Hill earned a spot on the All-Region 1st Team. During travel ball, her Georgia Elite team, coached by Daniel Caldwell, claimed a Top-10 finish at the 2011 Premiere Nationals.
"We had seen her in the summer prior to going to MVSU," Dabney said. "Our staff really thought she could play, but we didn't have the means at the time. We had signed everybody by the time she popped up on the radar. It just happened to work out that she wanted to be a student at Tennessee State. So we took a chance on her, and having played against her former team, we had a chance to see her in person. She will fill a role and will have the potential to play."
The additions of this year's class will look to mesh with the returnees.
"We have heard from the returners about how much they like the newcomers," Dabney said. "When your freshman class fits in quickly, the chemistry works. If they keep doing things the right way, that, in itself, makes us a better team and a better program.
Beyond that, kid-for-kid, they are bringing a level of play that they are all going to push for playing time. A few of them are going to be everyday starters. I can see that already. From top to bottom, we have solid pitching, speed, power, athleticism, leadership qualities and flexibility. Outside of Hannah as a pitcher, there isn't one person in the group that plays just one position. Everybody else has flexibility. You can put them anywhere on the field and they will still thrive. That will give us more options as a program. Our goal when we first got here was to have a team that was so athletic, so flexible, that we never had to worry about injuries or slumps. There is always someone who can play a position."


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The Goat is one of the less threatening monsters in the dungeon, and any character who specializes in melee damage can destroy them with great ease. They are commonly referred to as "murder bait" and it's often possible to attack and kill goats three or even four levels above yourself. This makes them one of the best sources of bonus XP that you can find in a dungeon.
The best approach to killing a goat is to use temporary buffs such as CYDSTEPP or ENDISWAL to withstand a few extra attacks. Due to their low HP, goats simply cannot survive repeated attacks without a chance to heal and will quickly fall to a well-prepared onslaught. Spellcasters may have a more difficult time due to the goat's magic resistance.
Because of their magic resistance, poison from the APHEELSIK glyph is unreliable. However, their resistance is not particularly high so poison still has fairly good probability of working. If you cannot kill a high-level goat by other means and you only need one or two more attacks to pull off the kill, then this can be a very worthwhile gamble.
The goat boss, Bleaty, is one of the most devastating in the game. On some of the more difficult scenarios where monsters have boosted stats, Bleaty nearly reaches 300 points of damage. This makes survival even a single attack exceedingly difficult. In addition, Bleaty has a whopping 60% magic resistance, so BURNDAYRAZ is ineffective against him. To defeat this boss, you will need to prey on his low hit points or else find some way to survive his damage.
The best way to fight Bleaty is by worshipping Binlor Ironshield. Virtually all of Binlor's boons are valuable for your battle against Bleaty. Since he can grant you temporary 65% physical resists, a character with sufficient hit points can survive the goat quite easily. He can also reduce Bleaty's magic resist to leave him vulnerable to conventional spellcasting. His Stone Form and Stone Fist boons both improve the potency of your physical attack, allowing you to finish the battle more quickly.
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Look infront of the Kogalla Village Hotel - walk straight through the main reception or there is one main local's access to the lhs - currently another large hotel is being built on the point!!
DistanceTake a car
WalkInstant access (< 5min)
Easy to find?Easy to find
Public access?Public access
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Wave qualityNormal
ExperienceExperienced surfers
BottomReef (coral, sharp rocks etc..)
PowerHollow, Fun, Ledgey
Normal lengthNormal (50 to 150m)
Good day length
Good swell direction
Good wind directionNorth, NorthWest, NorthEast
Swell sizeStarts working at 1.0m-1.5m / 3ft-5ft and holds up to
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Best tide movementRising and falling tides
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Great reffy left - holds up even in medium cross-onshore conditions.
There is also a very powerful beahbreak - right, but very short, powerful and punchy for Sri Lanka!
Great spot, a few locals who are soooooo friendly. No competitivelness in the water and sharing waves the norm.
Turtles - but beware of a white tip reef shark about 6 foot long - very inquisitive of the white man!
Great place to waste away two weeks surfing waves by yourself with no ther beginners throwing their boards all over the place as opposed to other more well known spots such as Mitigama!!
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By Andy W , 02-05-2007
reply to previous messages - I agree re sharks but one was there!See photo 2 Midigama lefts to prove I have surfed the place. Midigama lefts when small is weak and full of beginners. I didn't mention the right, which I agree with you, can be a very shallow blaster. Hope never to surf with you...and I am from Gower, not 'old China' you cupcake! PS love the way you spelt 'me old' you fool. Spread the love not the arrogance.
By Anonymous , 18-12-2006
Sharks? - Suprised that the reviewer has mentioned sharks here in Sri Lanka on the South/West coast... dont know of a local surfer here yet who has ever spotted a shark... that's the way i'd like to keep it too... what we dont know wont hurt us...
By Anonymous , 01-12-2006
- love the way this guy cant spell midigama, kinda says to me hes not been there, and the wave out front at rams is far from a beginers wave me ol china cupcake, this place is ok on its day but loads better places to go
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I adore these postcards I have that capture the lives of animals in an imaginary world...they are so colorful, detailed, and sweet!
The first is titled "The Balloon Seller" and you will notice the brightly colored balloons, the newly blooming tree (crabapple? china blossom?), the bunny and little mouse being carried up in the air by a red balloon...the tiny shoe of the bunny has come off ! and his friend is reaching to help him. There are also pinwheels in the basket next to the lady bunny selling the balloons. This postcard image can really put one in a good mood.
The second one is so adorable and utterly English in nature when I view it. Its title is "Catching the Post," which seems to be the main event on this little lane where there is only one mailbox and the mail probably only gets picked up and delivered once a week or so. Even the bird on the mailbox, a frog in a purple coat, and a mouse have letters to mail! Too cute!
For anyone who has ever read "The Tale of Peter Rabbit" by Beatrix Potter, you may associate that children's story a bit with the third postcard above. It is a scene of a classroom taught by (what else) a wise old owl and the black board to the right seems to have the 3 major dangers that the children animals are to beware of...traps, dogs, and guns! This postcard is titled "Prize Day."
The fourth postcard shown above is titled "The Vegetable Seller" and it is another one of my favorites! The details in the drawings, the 'human' quality of the bunnies, the earthiness of the scenery...it is so sweet and peaceful.
All four of these postcards were drawn by the artist Racey Helps, whom I have no information about, but he or she did a splendid job on these images and I hope you will agree.


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The sun is out and Bruce the Moose can come to the rescue!
I read this from a very dear friend of mine off Facebook this week.
'Sickening. Grrr! Just saw a woman in the village get out of her car, bright red shoulders/arms/back from too much sun. Then her daughter got out, no more than 4 yrs old…..exactly the same. Do it to yourself, by all means, but pile the sun cream on your toddling, innocent child, for Gods sake'
I could not agree more, it makes me so cross that some parents do not protect that children's skin and it is so delicate and precious when they are young.
Now we cannot grumble about the weather (loving the sunshine at the moment) and it may be that because it is March we can be caught off guard from a sun protection point of you, but we must not think that sun protection is only needed when the sun is out in full volume. The UV rays from the sun can be very powerful when hidden by clouds as well and now with warmer temperatures and shorter sleeves we must make sure we are protecting our little ones.
Last month I was sent the brand new Sudocrem Moisturising Mousse and Sunscreen Mousse to try out. I emailed to say could I delay the review to warmer climates so that I could actually test out the sunscreen. I did not expect that time to be March but we have had to use Sunscreen a few days last week and this week. Two of my three little ones are very fair-skinned and I cannot afford to take chances.
The Sudocrem Sunscreen Mousse is very effective. You actually don't need very much and it spreads really well. It rubs in with ease and does not leave any greasy residue. This is topped off by the fact that it smells very pleasant too despite the fact it is perfume free! Often after being smothered in sunscreen BBcan get appear very hot and bothered and sweaty which can result in prickly heat, but using this mouse I found this did not happen, which made me see that is lets the skin breathe.
We have been Sudocrem cream fans since day dot of having kids and the cream has been particularly brilliant with Chilled out Boy and his Eczema and dry skin. The moisturising mousse has been much easier to use and although not as intense has been a great cream to have in the changing bag to whip on when out in the wind or after swimming. The application is what makes it so brilliant because you can cover a limb in seconds. I tend to use the mousse during the day to rub in, and then use the thick barrier cream on the backs of his knees at night when it does not matter it rubs in instantly. I won't be returning to ordinary lotions for the day time now I can use this mess free option.
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Congratulations on getting hitched!
You obviously know a lot more than just how run a good play action pass. You chose Candice over Jessica (good call), you bought her the 8-carat yellow diamond (much more tasteful than the 20.5 carat rock Kris gave Kim), and apparently you bought my book, Recipes Every Man Should Know!
Clearly you're on track to be one of the elite. I've put together a few pointers for you to help you make it to the hall of fame, for marriage, that is: Always put the large plates in the back of the dishwasher. Remove cleats before walking on the new Brazilian hardwoods. And one evening when she least expects it, surprise Candice by making her the Creamy Shrimp Fettuccine on page 86 and the Sexy Strawberry Zabaglione on page 136. Then get ready for lots of rushing and scrambling.
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DENVER (AP) The ever-changing Western Athletic Conference is adding Chicago State University next July, meaning the league will keep its automatic qualifying berths for the NCAA men's and women's basketball tournaments for another year.
Chicago State joins Cal State-Bakersfield, Grand Canyon, Idaho, New Mexico State, Seattle and Utah Valley in the WAC, which is losing the University of Denver to the Summit League next year.
Leagues need seven schools to maintain their AQ status for NCAA basketball tournaments, but because Grand Canyon is in the process of moving up to Division I, it is ineligible for NCAA postseason bids next year.
The WAC has a two-year grace period in which it can have six Division I schools, however, so it maintains its AQ status for 2013-14 with the addition of the Cougars.


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A Little Lunch Music - City Recital Hall
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Please note that once you have finished your transaction you will be returned to the Selby & Friends website. You will be presented with a 'post transaction' form in which you may be required to provide us with some additional information about your purchase.
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This past week I had the opportunity to speak at three SQL Server R2 Launch events. I spoke in three cities in four days. On day one I spoke in Omaha, NE, the next day we stopped in Overland Park, KS and finally St. Louis, MO. Each event was held at a Microsoft facility. The largest crowd was in St. Louis, there were approximately 75 people in attendance. I traveled with one of our Salesmen and two Microsoft Employees.
My role in each event was to do all the demonstrations. The topics that I covered were structured completely around Self-Service Business Intelligence. In addition we also did a couple chalk talks on the new data warehousing methodologies and appliances that are available or will be available soon from Microsoft, Fast Track and Parallel Data Warehouse. Overall they were all accepted by the audience with a few questions regarding the true practicality of the features in a large organization. As expected, the Power Pivot demonstration was a big hit. However, I was surprised that several attendees in each city was excited about the Utility Control Point and Date Tier Applications.
I will be doing a SQL Lunch on each of the demonstrations in the upcoming months. The topics will include: Power Pivot, Report Builder 3.0, Utility Control Point, and Data Tier Applications. Stay tuned here and the SQL Lunch for the dates.
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When I try to install mplayer from pkgin, it gives the following error:
What follows is more of a personal opinion.
NetBSD supports over 30 different architectures and attempts automated packages builds for all of them.
The binary builds utilize their pkgsrc system which has quarterly releases and 2013Q3 is current at this time. So port maintainers submit their updated code to a quarterly release which the build system utilizes to make binary packages. As you can expect, not all packages build but while a quarterly release is active there are tweaks to the build code to allow more packages to build.
With that background:
1) Build it yourself from pkgsrc
2) Wait for the build system to produce an mplayer-share package. Not guaranteed to happen - some complicated packages, eg. a native libreoffice, have yet to build and others build but do not run.
3) Try an earlier build ie 2013Q2 - caveat: You will get into trouble if you mix 2013Q2 and2013Q3 packages.
I would recommend looking a the NetBSD mailing lists, Pkgsrc.se and perusing the ftp sites: NetBSD FTP sites. In your case you would find mplayer packages absent but that vlc packages compiled sucessfully.
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I think it was after I upgraded to NetBSD 6.1 that I started experiencing the same problem, when pkgin would decline to install some package. In most cases I bypassed it by using the good old pkg_add.
I took a slightly different route and compiled mplayer from source, without using the pkgsrc system. This will install it under /usr/local instead of /usr/pkg. The advantage is you don't have to know anything about pkgsrc compilation. The disadvantage is you won't learn anything about pkgsrc compilation.
I did this for MPlayer-1.1.1 on i386 (can't say if it will work for amd64). Just get the source and install any prerequisite binary packages. Then my notes say:
To compile, and especially re-compile, for NetBSD, **** be sure to use __ gmake __ **** So: Install the codecs. > gmake distclean OR gmake clean > CFLAGS= ./configure > gmake # gmake install | tee Install.Out
Compilation was well, but long, VLC works well on this platform, so I could have skipped mplayer. I should have remembered that "pkgsrc was derived from FreeBSD's ports system" as stated in its guide, and found them nearly identical in their operation. Updating source was easy through CVS.
I made the packages, but it seems the policy is not to accept them from non NetBSD developers (which I understand in these times of malware). So they will have to stay in my root raidctl raid1 mirror (yes, I dared to do it).
As a side note, I have to say that I find OpenBSD's softraid easier to operate, although raidctl have more "disciplines" supported. I wish I had not used up all the disks' space because I wanted to use encryption with CGD, and now I am limited to vnd.
P.S.: I see that vnconfig in NetBSD does not integrate cryptography, so I suppose I can do i t with CGD.
My next step is to set up Xen and use this machine a a stable platform.
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Degol Hailu argues that policy responses to the economic crisis is turning Indonesia into a developmental state. I think the same can be said about pretty much every country that initiated some trade restrictions and implemented fiscal stimulus in the past two years. We are becoming more Keynesian than ever!
In the first quarter of 2009, rubber exports fell by 32 per cent. Farmers have suffered most. In some provinces tapping has completely ceased. The policy response was to cut shipments of rubber exports by 700,000 tons, a cartelist measure that was taken in concert with Thailand and Malaysia. The hope is to keep prices high and maintain constant income levels, just as the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) does.
The price of tin, another major Indonesian export, fell from US$23,595 per ton in July 2008 to US$12,355 in April 2009. The government suspended the quota system that set minimum limits on tin exports. When prices were high, provinces such as Bangka Belitung and the Riau Islands were required to export at least 90,000 and 15,000 tons of tin, respectively. By suspending the minimum quota, the government is encouraging producer to cut their output and keep prices stable in the face of slow global demand. As a result, tin production fell from an average of 120,000 tons between 2005 and 2007 to 80,000 tons in 2008.
The target for the footwear and textile industry is to switch the above percentages: 60 per cent for domestic consumption and 40 percent for exports. As part of its stimulus package, the government is providing direct subsidies for the purchase of machinery under the Machinery Revitalisation Programme.
Rcently, the footwear industry received a cash subsidy of US$5.17 illion, and US$22.1 billion was provided to the textile industry. The government stepped in and launched a scheme to increase cotton output to 48,000 tons in the next few years, and to double the area under cultivation to 40,000 hectares. The provision of subsidised seeds and farm inputs has already started in Gunung Kidul, Yogyakarta, Pati, Kudus, Blora, East Java, and South Sulawesi provinces.
The government's response to the crisis has also included macroeconomic policy changes. The interest rate was cut to 7.8 per cent in 2009 from 9.5 per cent in 2008. A fiscal stimulus of US$7 billion, or 1.4 per cent of GDP, has also been announced. The stimulus comes in the form of tax cuts (76.5 per cent of it), infrastructure expenditure (16.8 per cent) and direct subsidies (6.7 per cent). Fortunately, 2009 started with a fiscal deficit of 1.2 per cent of GDP, which gave the government room for deficit financing.