Slonim

Slonim - Cultural Heritage Card

Slonim is a town, a district center of Grodno region in the Republic of Belarus.

Slonim appeared on the lands inhabited in early Middle Ages by East Slavic tribe the Dregoviches. Convenient location on the banks of the Shchara river turned the town into a center of highly developed handicrafts and trade.

The people of Slonim had a special dish called a gutman. (This is a sort of pudding of buckwheat meal, sautéed with fried onions and rose oil.) It became a strictly observed custom for my young hostess to bake me a small gutman every Sabbath.

My "Days" in Slonim

Yizkor book of Slonim

Pinkas Slonim (Memorial book of Slonim), Editor: Kalman Lichtenstein, Former Residents of Slonim in Israel, Published: Tel Aviv 1962-1979 (4 volumes H, Y, E)

Slonim guidebook

Pol. Słonim, Bel. Слонім, Yid.סלאָנים

Playing with his peers a game of the strange-sounding name “klipa” in 1930s Slonim; listening to visiting cantors in the Slonim synagogue; together with his father reading newspapers that had been imported from Warsaw or London; learning Latin at school; and going to the synagogue every Saturday and on holidays, Briker lived in a big world.

Galina Levina, on the childhood Slonim memories of Tzvi Shefiet (chairman of the Association of Slonim Jews in Israel)