On the Gezerot Gonta (Gonta persecutions) of 1768.
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Title:
On the Gezerot Gonta (Gonta persecutions) of 1768.
Description:
Handwritten copy of a work by Menahem Nahum Litinsky, written in 1890, and given to Dubnow by the writer Sholem Aleichem. Yiddish.
The document is titled: "On the Gezerot Gonta (massacres of Gonta), of 1768," and is excerpted from Litinsky's "History of the Jews of Podolia," 1890.
The last page of the document is a Yiddish language prayer, written in the style of a poem, concerning these atrocities.