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Contributions Collected in Brisk Synagogues
An item in Hamelitz no. 219, column 5012, October 23, 1888:

Donations offered by Brisk synagogues and batei midrash
By permission of the Historical Jewish Press

This article lists the synagogues and batei midrash that collected money on the eve of the previous Yom Kippur, in Brisk D'Lita, for the benefit of Ovdey Adama. The article details how much each institute collected in rubles and krons:
  Name of prayer house Name of donor/s Amount
1 Synagogue of Rabbi Meir Padua   15 r
2 Beit Midrash Hekdesh Ben-Zion Neimark+Menashe Kaplan 24.21 r
3 Beit Midrash Niskhizer A. bozarsky+Yaakov Feinshtein 7.41 r
4 Beit Midrash Finkelstein Dover Bernshtein 7
5 Beit Midrash Israel Volf Ze’ev Rabinovitz 6.65
6 Beit Midrash Natan Tishper Yehuda Leib V/Zolkind 5
7 Beit Midrash Slovodka Binush Kaleditzky 3.70
8 Beit Midrash Lisker Arye Eliezer Grebel 3.60
9 Beit Midrash Ziskind Levi Katzenelenboigen 3.43
10 Beit Midrash Khevra Levaya Dov Fridenberg 3.20
11 Beit Midrash Khatzkil Zelik Shapira 2.71½
12 Beit Midrash Feivel’s Avraham Yundef 2.67½
13 Beit Midrash Yitzkhak Khalish Avraham Menes 2.55
14 Beit Midrash Mishmar Shmuel Neimark 2.31½
15 Beit Midrash Shvartz M Goldshtein 2.12
16 Beit Midrash Itelr Yokhanan Itelr 2.
17 Beit Midrash Kharash Hillel +Khana Brodsky 1.85
18 Beit Midrash Harav Tzvi shulmagn 1.84½
19 Beit Midrash Bogotzelnie Moshe Neta 1.52
20 Beit Midrash Fishel M Rubigrota 1.50
21 Minyan Kutzinski M Kutzinski 1.15
22 Minyan Meshartim [service workers]   1.01
23 Minyan Khazan Yaakov Meir Veinholtz 1.
24 Beit Midrash Khayatim [tailors] Mezeritzki 80 ko
25 Beit Midrash Norodok Khyaim Zonenberg 80 ko
26 Beit Midrash Greener Papa 66 ko
27 Beit Midrash Katzavim [butchers]   60 ko
28 Beit Midrash Meshtzanski   30 ko
29 Minyan Rotenberg   52 ko
  Khatzer Deshotin, district Tshernigov Moshe Huver 3. r’
    Total: 1 10.13 r’
Compare the above to this list of synagogues and batei midrash in Brisk.

 

Notes: Ovdey Adama : workers on the land, peasants; possibly referring to Jewish farmers in Eastern Europe and/or Israel.

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