Monasterzyska: a Memorial Book
(Monastyrys’ka, Ukraine)

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Translation of Sefer Monastrishtz

Edited by: Meir Segal

Published in Tel Aviv, 1974

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This is a translation from: Sefer Monastrishtz Monasterzyska: a Memorial Book,
Meir Segal, editor. Tel Aviv, 1974: Monasterzyska Association in Israel (Irgun Yozei Monasterzyska b'israel) H,Y,E

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MONASTERZYSKA

A MEMORIAL BOOK

Edited by M. SEGAL

Translated by Yocheved Klausner

Preface		2
Remember		3
Introduction		7

The Book of Monasteryzyka

History of the town		11
Geographical conditions		11
Climate, flora and fauna		12
Industry, crafts and commerce		13
Economic and social activity of the Jews		13
History of the Jewish Community		14
Life in the Community		14
The Shabbetay Zvi era in the Eastern part of Poland		15
Schools		16
The beginnings of the Zionist Movement in Monasteryzyka		18

The Safrin Family

The Safrin family		25
Religious life in our town		27

Our Townspeople Tell Their Stories

Aharon Oshpiz		35
Yitzhak Rauber		38
Zvi Shmueli		38
Shalom Blank		39
Chaia Bartfeld		42
Shlomo Segenreich		43
Mina Reibel–Dolberg		43
Etka Dolberg–Yakov		44
Chaim–Yitzhak Schwartz		47
Dov Singer		48
Malka Waldman		49
Moshe Bauchman		50
Aba Reiner		53

Poems [Yiddish]

Mother	Malka Lee	65
My little town	M. S.	67
Taking from Jewish children	Aharon Zeitlin	69
The Tchortkow Kloiz [synagogue]	M. Segal	71
Yiddish	A. Lyessin	73
Am Israel Chai [The Jewish people are alive]	Malka Lee	77
Childhood years	Mordechai Gebirtig	79

Yiddish
Memories and Testimony from the Holocaust

The extermination of the Jews in Eastern Galicia	Dr. Phillip Friedman	83
Our shtetl in the course of 70 years	Meir Ben Mordechai	90
Our youth between the Two Wars	Meir Ben Mordechai	93
A walk through Monasteryzyka	Meir Ben Mordechai	96
Gone with the wind…	Meir Segal	101
How I was saved	Yenta Lerch–Falik	110

Yizkor Am Israel [May the Jewish people remember]		113

The names of the martyrs (Necrology)		115

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