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PARTIAL TRANSLATION OF AMDUR, MI PUEBLO NATAL
THIS IS NOTES OF THE SPANISH INTRODUCTION TO THE 1973 EDITION.
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pS1: [Spanish title page: 
AMDUR, MI PUEBLO NATALE (AMDUR, MY BIRTHPLACE SHTETL) by YedidyaEfron, Buenos Aires, September 1973,  Talleres GraficosZlotoopioro SACIF, calle Sarmiento 3149, Buenos Aires.
Photocopy from Yad VaShem library, #74-79.
Published by the Comite de Homenaje a la Memoria de Iedidio Efron,Buenos Aires
pS2: (Spanish): Printed in Argentina, Copyright by David Efron,Buenos Aires.  Hecho el deposito que marca la ley 11.723

pS3 Dedicated to the memory of my parents, Mordechai ben David, and Peshe bat Reb Yehuda [QV:  Could this be Yehuda Leib, ourancestor, whose sons were Abraham, Issac, and (Rabbi) Jacob?
  
pS4: Blank

ppS5-S33:  Prof. Lazar Salaman: Introduction to life and work ofD.(on?)  Yedidya Efron (Spanish):  


Amdur mi Pueblo Natal
N.B.:  This is a Spanish introduction to a 1973 reprint of the1951 Yiddish original, which is apparently reprinted from the sameset-up.  So the page-numbering in this section, which begins atthe left end of the book, duplicates the initial page numbering ofthe Yiddish reprint, which reads right-to-left.  So these pagesshould be prefixed with an S-

Notes on Spanish Introduction (1973) by Prof. Lazaro Schallman:,pp:  S5-S33
                     
Spelling in Roman characters is Amdur.
Cites a book published in 1951, Grodner Opkanguen (Ecos deGrodno), y la directionon de Miguel Sinay y Fany Rems.

David Efron is the oldest son of (Don) Iedidio [Yehuda] Efron.
[incidentally, the name is spelled in Yiddish with an Alef: AFRON.

Iedidio Efron died in 1951.

I believe there was a major terrorist bombing of the Buenos Airescultural center in 1994(?); many records dealing with Amdur andits people may have been lost in that.
                 
The start of SECTION II of the introduction, pp8--9   , ought tobe translated; it deals with Amdur.
I re-input it here:
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pS8: 
	Don Iedidio Efron llego a la Argentina con los padres yhermanos en 1895, per intermedio de la J.C.A., que los trasladosin demora alguna desde el puerto de Bueonos Aires a la Provinciade Entre Rios y los instalo como agricultores en la Cononia Clara.
	Don Iedidio tenia entonces 17 anos y yha era un profundoconocedor de la Biblia y del Talmud. 
	Habia nacido en Amdur, el 11 de julio de 1878.  Fue el quintode los siete hijos que alegaron el hogar de Morjejai Efron y PesheSerguei; un hogar de clase media, en el que resplandecian latradion religosa y la rectitud moral.
	Cabe destacar desde ya que Amdur fue un centro importante decultura rabinica.  Dubonow lo cita al par de Pinsk, Vilna y Minsk;lo cual basta para avalar su significacion en la historia de latradicion religiosa judia.  Amdur enreiquecio la vida judia enlituania con un nucleo calificado de judios eminentes, sabios"gueonim" y "askanim".  Gon Iedidio dedica en su libro un capituloespecial as la "ieshiva" de Amdur, subrayando que otrascomunidades mas populosas no habian contado con una "ineshiva"propia.
	Los amdurenses se gloriaban, por otra parte, de que algunavez hubiera celbrado sesion alli el famoso "Vaad Araba Artzot"(Consejo de los cuatro paises) {start p. 9} que solia reunirse dosveces por ano, por lo general en Lublin (Polonia) o en Jaroslav(Galizia), durante los siglos XVI y XVII, fijando normas para lavida interna de las comunidades judias y adoptando mediadas endefensa de las mismas.
	Criado en una atmosfera asi, especificamente judia, no es deextanar que, conforme a lo adoctrinado por Rabi Yehuda ben Teimaestudiara ya la Biblia a los cinco anos, y a los diez, suscommentarios, y a los trece, los preceptos de la Ley, y a losquince el Talmud.  Pero lo preceptuado por el Pirke Avot (V, 24),para los anos venideros, hubo de sufrir un apazamiento forzosoporque al cumplir Iedidio 17 anos, la familia emigro a laArgentina, y el adolescente immerso en las profundidades de laGuemara hubo de hacer un parentesis en el estudio talmudico, yaplicarse a lasa duras faenas del campo en la Colonia Clara.    
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	My Spanish stops shortly before the distinction betweenburritos and tortillas, but here's a partial and rough gloss:

	Yehuda AFRON (Efron) he was born in July 11, 1878, toMordechai Efron & Peshe Sreguei, and came to Argentina at age 17,in 1895.  He had received, as was usual, a religious education.
	Amdur was known as an important rabbinic center; Dubonowcompares it to Pinsk, Vilna (!), and Minsk.  Amdur enriched theJewish life in Lithuania with a number of eminient Jews,scholars(?), "gaonim", and "askanim".  Iedidio Efron includes inthis book a chapter on the Yeshiva of Amdur, noting that other,more populous [Jewish] communties did not have a proper Yehiva.
	Amdur was also distinguished as the seat of the Council ofFour Lands, with sat for 2 weeks a year (for Lithuania, Poland,and Galicia? [and I think Russia]) during the 16th and 17thcenturies.


[S. Hyman Amdursky, my great-great-grandfather, came to Pittsburghin 1888; I think he was preceeded by my grandfather, BenjaminAmdursky.   So this book, the author's recollections of his youth(from ca. 1888, when he was age 10, to his departure at age 17 in1895)  is roughly contemporary with the presence of our ancestorsin Lithuania; and might include recollections of them.]


N.B.:  I'm not sure how seriously one should take the descriptionin Chaim Grade's The Yeshiva; he seems to have seen Amdur only asa small town; and to have disregarded its significance.

pS9:  Refers to A Rabbi Yehuda ben Teima.  I'm not sure if he wasof Amdur.

pS9: At that time Amdur was under Czarist Russia.
Speaks of "Jewish gauchos", who settled virgin lands; apparentlyIedidio Efron was one.

pS13:  Iedidio Efron married Sara Miriam Steinberg (1903?);children David, Simon, tobias, Rafael, and Raibe.

pS17:  Notes that he was always a militant Zionist.
pS21:  Jewish population of Argentina ca. 500,000 ca. 1950?? 

pS32:  Abraham Zak, also a native of Amdur, wrote the introductionto this book.

Dr. Itzhak Rivkind, also from Amdur, a famoous hisotian andlinguist, wrote the epilogue.              

pS33:  Fany Rems and Avraham Zak, both of Amdur, prepared the bookfor printing.