Novoslitza
Novoslitza was, up until the first World War, a border town between Russia and Austria, with each one of the countries controlling a part of the town.
The town was used as a transport town for immigrants, and between each program more Jews gathered from all over the Russian country.
It should be noted that the Austrian part was much more developed than the Russian part.
In 1918 Baser Via was conquered by Romania. In the first years of Romanians in Baser Via were interested in acquiring the affection of the Jews, and to lessen the impact of the Russian culture on the Jewish population. As a result of this, in Novoslitza a grand building of the school "Tarbot" was built and many children learned there. More Jews, which were still learning in the traditional "Heder" began to learn Hebrew and Russian as well, an hour or two a day, with private tutors.
Later on the Zionists formed the Modern Hebrew school, and founded the fisrt national library in the town. Most of the Zionist town meetings were held at the synagogue "Dahhisi Boyan". In 1937, the destruction and the crumbling of the Jewish community in Baser Via began.
The public instituions of the Jewish community fell apart.
In 1940, the Romanians left Novoslitza, and the town went unready to the Soviet reign.
All the town institutions were paralyzed in a single night, as if they had never existed.
posted by COHEN EIDELMAN AYALA @ 4:12 AM
