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The article, based on archival, documentary and literary sources, presents biographical
information about the most prominent and important representatives of the Jewish community
of the city of Hlukhiv of the 19th - early 20th centuries, whose tombstones have survived to the
present day. There is the grave of a Jewish writer, publicist and teacher Lazar David Zwefeel
on the Jewish cemetery, also a monument to Abram Isaakovich Rusakov - the grandfather of
the outstanding Soviet painter and graphic artist Alexander Isaakovich Rusakov and a number
of graves of individuals who made significant contributions to the history of Hlukhiv and the
Jewish community of the city. There are teachers, artisans, merchants, merchants, bankers
and religious figures on Jewish cemetery - people who have contributed to the economic and
cultural development of the city. Among the preserved tombstones are the monuments of
merchants Isaac Yakovlevich Aizenshtadt, Zalman and Getsel Esmansky, Aron Borochovich
Lucinschi, Girshi Velkovich Samuilovich, Mendel Borisovich Samuilovich, Samuel Yankelevich
Samuilovich, Mendel Samuilovich Lokshin, Mendel Abramovich Mesezhnikov, Khaya
Samuilovna Krasovitska and Khasy Shklovska. The graves of merchants Girsha Zalmanov
Kaplunov, Girsha Zalmanovich Tiraspolsky, Girsha Zalmanovich Fishkin, Benzion Velkovich
Shklovsky, Abram Moiseevich Rutskin, Elya Nepomnyashchy, Malka Krasovitskaya, Aron
Haimovich Volkov and Meer Falev Volovik. Among the artisans of the city are gravestones on
the graves of Abram and Mordukh Pindrik, who kept a metal workshop in Glukhov. Equally
with the tombstones of people who have contributed to the economic and cultural development
of the city, monuments of historical significance, installed on the graves of the victims of 2
Jewish pogroms: February 22-23, 1918 and a few weeks of November 1919 are also mentioned.
The article in details provides information about the most prominent personalities, describes
some of the monuments and attempts to assess their historical and cultural significance. |
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