10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «DVINSK»
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From Russia To New York Via Portland, Oregon Marcus Rothkovich was born on
September 26, 1903, in Dvinsk, Russia, as the youngest of four children. His
parents, Jacob Rothkovich (born in 1859) and Anna Goldin Rothkovich (born in ...
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Mark Rothko: A Biography
until 1772 when the town was annexed by the Russians, who later, in 1893,
renamed it Dvinsk. "In this city East and West face each other most closely, so
that Daugavpils has long been an object of dispute and more than once has
been ...
James E. B. Breslin, 2012
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Soldiers of Destruction: The SS Death's Head Division, 1933-1945
Less than forty-eight hours later, after encountering only light, scattered
resistance, the Fifty-sixth Panzer Corps reached the Dvinsk highway at
Wilkomierz — 105 miles from the East Prussian border. Manstein covered the
remaining eighty ...
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Hitler's Panzers East: World War II Reinterpreted
It can be argued that the Germans did eventually encircle Leningrad even though
they did not exploit their initial grand opportunity at Dvinsk. That the Germans
reached the great Russian city on the Baltic in September supports my argument
...
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From the Shtetl to America: Jacob Rassen's Lifetime Journey
From Dvinsk—we stayed in the ghetto of Dvinsk for a long time—we were
transferred to other ghettos, then to concentration camps, then to labor camps.
We went through all the extermination processes of the Jews. We were driven out
to, ...
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Belorussia 1944: The Soviet General Staff Study
The five divisions from the 22d and 23d Guards Rifle Corps were brought up to
the Dvinsk axis after completion of their battles to seize Polotsk. Attaching great
significance to the Dvinsk axis, the German command attempted to prevent our ...
David Glantz, Harold S. Orenstein, 2004
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Everyday Jewish Life in Imperial Russia: Select Documents, ...
I, Lieutenant Colonel Priklonskoi (the assistant head of the gendarme
administration of Vitebsk province for Dvinsk, Drissa and Lepil'sk districts) on the
matter of the petition of Sofiia Zil'berman, a townswoman of Dvinsk, to change her
surname ...
ChaeRan Y. Freeze, Jay M. Harris, 2013
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The Story of the Great War, Volume 4 of 8
For, of course, no matter how brilliant the gunnery, how wonderful the cannon,
howdevastating theshells, ifthe target at which they areaimedis sufficiently
farawayand sufficiently small, theresult willbe disappointing; and the Russiansat
Dvinsk ...
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Learn Torah, Love Torah, Live Torah: HaRav Mordechai Pinchas ...
The communities of Vienna, Riga and Dvinsk each wanted the honor of being his
burial place, but the people of Dvinsk, after promising to pay for the
hospitalization, the funeral train and permanent upkeep of the grave, persuaded
R. Zak of ...
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The A to Z of World War I
Dvinsk Russian fortress town on the banks of the Dvina (q.v.) River, also called
Dunaburg; it is now known as Daugavpils and is in Lithuania. Its position on the
river, together with its junction of the Petersburg-Warsaw and Riga-Smolensk ...
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «DVINSK»
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'Mark Rothko: Toward the Light in the Chapel,' by Annie Cohen-Solal
Born in Dvinsk, Russia, in a territory then known as the Pale of Settlement, where Jews were compelled to reside, Marcus Rotkovitch emigrated ... «New York Times, Jun 15»
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His Torah presentations emphasize a text based methodology that often extend the insightful chidushim of Rav Meir Simcha of Dvinsk, author ... «Jewish Link of New Jersey, Jun 15»
Mark Rothko: a brilliant artist, a complicated life
The youngest of four children, he was born Marcus Rotkovitch in Dvinsk, Latvia, in 1903. For complicated reasons, his family decided in 1913 to ... «The Australian Financial Review, Jun 15»
Is 'The Holy Land' Necessarily Holy Land?
Rabbi Meir Simcha of Dvinsk (the Meshech Chochmah), in regards to the seemingly very holy tablets that Moses brought down from Sinai and ... «The Jewish Week, Jun 15»
Op-Ed: The Most Appreciated Gift For a Mother, Her Life
Rabbi Meir Simchah of Dvinsk, a late 19th/early 20th century scholar, teaches that one reason women are not included in the mitzvah of peru ... «Jewish Exponent, May 15»
Mark Rothko's tortured, brilliant life explored in new biography
... as Dvinsk when the Rotkovitch family lived there. When Breslin explored the town in the early 1990s, Rothko was still virtually unknown there. «OregonLive.com, May 15»
Annie Cohen-Solal's 'Mark Rothko' traces the tensions underlying …
Marcus Rotkovitch, "born in Dvinsk, a northwestern city of the Russian Empire, the fourth child of Yacov Rotkovitch, a local pharmacist, and his ... «cleveland.com, Apr 15»
Emor: Introvert/Extrovert
The 20th century sage and rabbi of Dvinsk in Latvia, Rabbi Meir Simcha, was intrigued by these and other contrasts between Shabbat andYom ... «Arutz Sheva, Apr 15»
The Fire Was Not Consumed
Mark Rothko was born Marcus Rotkovitch in Dvinsk, Latvia, in 1903. His family, like millions of other Jews prey to virulent anti-Semitism, made ... «Wall Street Journal, Apr 15»
Repairing the World: The Road to The Rothko Chapel
Born in 1903 in Dvinsk, which is part of Latvia today but then part of the Russian Empire, young Marcus Rothkowitz grew up in a “reading family” and early on ... «Big Think, Apr 15»
