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+====== Bobruisk Yiskor Book ======
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+Slutsky, Yehuda. "Bobruisk Yiskor Book", Tel-Aviv, 1967.
+Online:
+  * [[http://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/bobruisk/Bysktoc1.html|JewishGen Translation]]
+  * [[http://yizkor.nypl.org/index.php?id=2904|Original Version]]
+</WRAP>
+===== First Chapter =====
+  * 1639 inventory of Bobruisk ordered by Sigsmund III
+    * No Jews living in the area
+    * City craftsmen shops: locksmiths, carpenters, tanners, blacksmith, barber-surgen, "prizerer", goldsmith, shoemaker, baker, whiskey distiller
+    * Employment: some in trade.  Most were farmers, hunters and fishermen
+    * heavy taxes to the "royal court": money, grains, honey, pelts, eggs, wood; labor obligations include 2 workdays per week
+    * Inns and mills were monopolies of the castle, which leased to various tenants
+  * 1648-1667, Cossak revolution and war between Russia and Poland
+  * 1702-1708, Swede-Russia war