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Ostroh - guidebook

Ostroh - guidebook

Ukr. Острог, Yid. אָסטרע

It happened in Ostroh. I was young then, spent days and nights in Beth Midrash, studying the Torah. During the day, when the Jews went home, I sometimes locked Beth Midrash and stayed alone among the books...

Tailor of Lublin, in: Jewrejskie skazki narodnyje, predania, byliczki, rasskazy, anekdoty, sobrannyje E.S. Rajze (Rus. Jewish folk tales ...,), Ed. Valery Dymszyc, St. Petersburg 2000

Yizkor book of Ostroh

Yizkor book of Ostroh

Sefer Ostrog (Vohlin); matsevet zikaron le-kehila kedosha (Ostrog book; a memorial to the Ostrog holy community), Editor: Yitzhak Alperowitz; Chief Coord: Chaim Finkel, The Ostrog Society in Israel, Published: Tel Aviv 1987 (H, Y, E, P 436 pages)

An old man and his ten-year-old son were leading a camel through the desert. Their way was long, the sun was hot, and they were tired.

Pleasing All the World

One Saturday evening in fall, after the holidays, my great-grandmother was standing beside the stove rendering down goose fat.

The Passover Elf Helps great-grandmother

The houses on the road side were built of wood, in some instances, however, covered with plaster, and all certainly in far better condition than those we had seen on the other side of the Dnieper.

A Jewish town Ostroh

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Memorial plaque on the synagogue in Ostroh

Interior of the synagogue in Ostroh

Ostroh, Marshad’s house

Ostroh, Marshad’s house

Ostroh, general view of Zamkova Gora

Library in Ostroh

Ostroh, Krasna Gora

Ostroh, Krasna Gora

Ostroh, engraving of Napoleon Orda

Jewish cemetery in Ostroh

Fragment of the matzevah at the Jewish cemetery in Ostroh

Jewish cemetery in Ostroh

Matzevot at the Jewish cemetery in Ostroh

An old house with a sukkah in Ostroh

Interior of the synagogue in Ostroh

Synagogue in Ostroh

Round Tower of the Ostroh Castle

Ostroh, Great stone Synagogue

Ostroh, Jewish cemetery

Ostroh, Jewish house

Ostroh, old cellars under Zamkova Gora

Ostroh, Assumption of the Virgin Mary Church

Ostroh, monument of those who died in the Second World War

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