pdf available - Multiple Choices

90 LUBOML
to the parents, spiced with talmudic sayings.
One Friday afternoon we met in the Rizhiner
shtibl, where my parents davened [prayed], and
we made a number of posters which we then
pasted on the doors of most synagogues in advance
of the Friday
evening service, as
was customary in
those days. The
posters were handwritten,
in the
beautiful penmanship
of Leibele
Melamed, who was
f
Mordche Grimatlicht, the
first halutz to emigrate to
Eretz Yisroel.
known to have artistic
talent (after a
while, he went to
Soviet Russia,
completed studies
at the academy in
Kiev, and exhibited
in many
shows. During the
Stalinist bloodbaths Leibele Melamed was killed,
too).
We hoped that the appeal would make a big
impression on its readersour parentsand that
they would unanimously and immediately decide
to establish the Hebrew school.
But only a few hours passed before our enthusiasm
began to wane. Our parents read the poster,
some superficially, some intently, but they called
no meetings and did not even speak about itas
if it did not
concern them.
Despite our
disappointment,
we were not discouraged,
and we
continued to
bother the more
active parents
about it. We also
used the fact that
in the neighboring
town of
Masheve there al-
Rachel Leah, the bobe
(midwife).
\VI
Motek Royle and family, the first Jews from Luboml to emigrate to Eretz Yisroel, 1921.
ready was a
Tarbut school and
we told our parents
it would
make them look poor in comparison if they did
not achieve what a small town like Masheve had
managed to accomplish.