Note 142 — Chapter V · THE AUTONOMOUS CENTER IN POLAND DURING ITS DECLINE (1648-1772)
Israel Friedlaender translation
From the Hebrew text it is not clear whether they offered themselves voluntarily as victims, or whether they were picked out by others. According to the local tradition in Ruzhany, the former was the case. [See Dubnow in the Russian Jewish monthly Voskhod, July, 1903, p. 19, n. 1.]