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A Life Reborn
1 Eva Hoffman, Shtetl: The Life and Death of a Small Town and the World of Polish Jews, p. 30 2 Adam Zamoyski, The Polish Way, p. 106
3 Hoffman, Ibid,, p. 42 4 Hoffman, Ibid., p. 42 5 Devora Gorin Wiseman, in Ludvipol’s Yizkor book 6 Zamoyski, Ibid., p. 344 7 Hoffman. Ibid., p. 112 8 Joint Distribution Committee, Archives, Volhynia 1919 and 1920
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9 Joint Distribution Committee, Archives. Dr Jacob I. Golub’s relationship to the Golub family In Ludvipol is not known During the eighteen-month period in which he lived in Rovno and traveled to every Jewish community in the region, he saw “at close range the impact of virulent typhus and the economic problems of [Jewishl refugees “in 1922, Dr Golub directed the construction or repair of twenty-eight bath houses, including ai least one in Ludvipol, A letter of recommendation, dated May 29, 1924, from Bernard Flexner then-chalrman of the Joint Distribution Committee’s Committee on Medical Affairs, to Norris A Miller in Boston, refers to Dr. Golub as “a man of splendid charac - ter personally, and of loyalty to the work that he may at any time be engaged in He has demonstrated executive ability above the average, and I think you will have no fault to find as to his knowledge of public health.” Later, in 1947. Dr Golub directed a med - ical mission to study the” health needs of Europe’s surviving lews in eight European countries. In 1948, he was director of the Hospital for Joint Disease in New York and chairman of the JDC’s Committee on Health. 10 Julia and Frances Butwin, “Get Thee Out,” Favorite Tales of Sholom Aleichem, p. 648 in . [Jewish] refugees.” In 1922, at then-chairman . Jews
11 Hoffman, Ibid., p. 171 12 Ludvipol’s Yizkor book
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