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In my childhood memories, the cheder occupies
a central place; my father brought me to the
cheder when I was only a boy of five years. My
first rebbe [cheder teacher] was R. Natan
Hamunetzer, who lived near the Big Shul. From
him I passed on to R. Moyshe Shneyers
[Povroznik]; and then to R. Moyshe Yoseles
[Melamed]. All these melamdim [cheder teachers]
lived on one narrow alley, and it seems to me
that all Luboml children passed through this alley.
After this, as we progressed, all of us began
to study at the cheder of Avrom der Poylisher
[Avrom the Pole], whose real name was R. Avrom
Goldhacker. He was a respected Jew who also had
a good disposition. But in his capacity as a rebbe,
he was pleasant to us only until Thursday. For on
Thursdays we had to review what we had learned
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in the Gemara [commentaries on the Mishnah]
that we had studied all week. Then he examined
us very strictly. Incidentally, three of his sons ran
away during the war to Russia and reside now in
Leningrad. Prior to the war, the oldest son, Leybl
Goldhacker, was a teacher in the town's public
school.
To write about Luboml, it is impossible not to
mention its strong Zionist movement. I remember
when an emissary from Eretz Yisroel came to
our town to organize a chapter of the Hechalutz
movement: This was in the 1930s. He was Aaron
Berdichevsky from Kibbutz Yagur.
I was a member of HeChalutz Hatsair, whose
leaders were Yitsik Samet and Berl Volvushes
[later known as Doy Ivri]. They were our guides,
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