Pinkhes-Dov Goldenshteyn, center, in Petach Tikva in 1922. Standing on the first step is Rabbi Yisroel Aba Tzitron, the rabbi of Petach-Tikva and son-in-law of Rabbi Yosef Rosin, the Rogatchover Gaon.
The Shochet: An Unparalleled Autobiographical Account of Life in the Shtetl
The Shochet—A Memoir of Jewish Life in Ukraine and Crimea— is an unparalleled autobiographical account of faith and piety amid poverty, suffering and loss experienced by a smart, rambunctious and traumatized orphan living in the fast-disappearing traditional Jewish communities in late 19th-century Eastern Europe.
