Język Polski
English
Volpa. The Old and New
Abstract
The article is devoted to the history of the Jewish community in Volpa. Until 1939 the town was the centre of a commune of the Grodno district of the Bialystok voivodeship, and now it is part of the Volkovysk district of the Grodno region of the Republic of Belarus. The article describes the economic, religious, cultural, and national life of Jews, who naturally complemented the life of the Belarusians and Poles in Volpe providing an example of mutual understanding and cooperation. Particular attention is paid to the fate of the unique wooden synagogue of the 17th century and the activities of Zionist groups and clubs. A separate place is given to the story of the tragic death of the community during the Holocaust and the attempts to preserve the memory of their small homeland by the modern generation of Volpa residents. The article was written following the author's visit to Volpa in 2018 and it is based on rare archival data, scholarly publications in Hebrew, English, Polish and Russian, periodicals, and interviews with local residents.
Keywords:
Vlopa, Belarus, Zionist groups, synagogue, monument, 17th century, the HolocaustMost read articles by the same author(s)
- Леонид Смиловицкий , „Write, while I’m alive; my life is transient” About life and death in war. (On pages from letters and diaries of Jewish soldiers and officers in the Red Army, 1941-1945) , Jewish Studies. Almanac: Vol. 8 No. 7-8 (2018)
Details
References
Statistics
Authors
Citation rules
Licence
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.