Translated by Gloria Berkenstat Freund (Yiddish)
and Yocheved Klausner (Hebrew)

Introduction		9
Foreword		11
Chapters of the History of Nowy-Dwor
Nowy-Dwor and its Jewish Settlement	Dov Berish First	19
The Niehofer Printer of Hebrew Books	Dr. Emanuel Ringelblum / Johann Anthon Krieger	45
Printers and Books in the Nowy Dwor Printing House	Haim Dov Friedberg	57
At the Beginning of the Twentieth Century
How I Remember My Town	Sam Bernstein	63
From the Besmedresh [house of study, also used for worship] to the Revolutionary Movement	Avraham Goldberg	70
In 1905	Shimkha Waga	79
My Father's Workshop	Meyer Blake (Blakharek)	83
We, the Embroiderers	Ester Malka Knaster	85
The First Jewish Socialists in Nowy Dwor	Hershl Himelfarb	90
The Tailors Are Singing	Etke Finker–Szimonowicz	98
Between Two World Wars
Nowy Dwor – One of the Nicest Towns	Yitzhak Grinbaum	101
Jewish Occupations	Shmuel Kokhalski	103
The Anti–Semitic Falanga [Fascist political organization]	Meyer Blake [Blakharek]	107
Heroism in the Nowy Dwor Market	Dovid Tap	108
Between Two World Wars	Fayvesh Kronenberg	109
Before 1939	Aron Pinker	117
Rabbi Ruven Yehuda Neufeld, the Last Rabbi of Nowy Dwor	Dov Berish First	119
The Rabbi of Nowy Dwor in Tsarist Times	Menashe Unger	130
About the Jewish Community of Nowy Dwor	Dov. F.	133
Khadorim and Schools in Nowy Dwor	Josef Lichtenstein	137
From the Kheder Metukan to Modern Schools	D. Ben Sore	142
The Tarbut School	Zvi Flesser	146
Letter from Keren Kajemet LeIsrael [Jewish National Fund]		151
The Jewish–Secular Tsysho School	Shloyme Wronski	154
Parties and Organizations
The Bundist Movement in Nowy Dwor Between the Two World Wars	Khaim Babitz	159
About the Elections to the kehile	Moyshe Babitz	172
The Bundist Faction in the City Council	B. Khaim	174
The Fight in the City Council	Khaim Rudowski	179
The Embroiderers' Union	Sore Rozenman–Treger	182
The Communist Organization	Ben–Avraham	185
A Bloody May First	Leyzer Kirshteyn	187
The Right Poalei Zion in Nowy Dwor	Sholem Kartsovitsh	189
Our Party [Right Poalei Zion] and the Frayhayt	Shmuel Kokhalski	195
Our Zionist Activism	Yitshak Griner	199
The Zionist Youth Movement	Yosef Shimkovitsh	201
A few Notes About Zionist Activity	Dov First	209
The Visit of Deputy Yitshak Grinboym	A. Klarman	211
The kibbutz of the Torah and Work Movement	Yehuda Perlmuter	212
The First Immigrants to Eretz Yisroel from Nowy Dwor	Dov Berish First	215
The Poalei Agudat Israel	Y.Finkel	217
Drama Circles	Malka Top–Kartsovitsh	220
Visits by Writers and Speakers	P. Dov	226
Jewish Sportsmen and Sports Organizations	Kalman Pitulski	229
A Shtetl [town] Between Rivers
There on the Road	Dov Berish First	237
Stars Turned to Ashes	Shmuel Top	244
On the Narew River	Simkhe Pinker	247
Around the Market Place	Yankev Vronski	248
My Town, My Streets	Yosef Top	251
The Balcony on the Piasek	Anshel Frid	253
My Town, Nowy–Dwor	Boaz Young–Yungvits	255
In Tsarist Times	Meyer Blake (Blakharov)	265
Around The Nova Giorgievsk Fortress	Kh. Shoskes	272
There, Where I Remained True	Helen Yerazalimska–Safir	281
Personalities of the Gerer shtibl [small, one–room synagogue]	Dovid Segal	283
Henekh's Melody	Sholem Kartsovitsh	287
Aunt Khane	L. Lefkovitsh	288
Doctors, Feldshers, and Royfers	D. Ben Sore	289
At My Grandfather's in Nowy Dwor	Yankev Litman	294
The Melody of a Jewish Family	Dov Ben Khaim	300
Three Generations of the Yures Family	D. Ben Yisroel	305
The House on the Narew	Shmuel Kokhalski	307
Aristocratic Yikhes Names for the “Gentlefolk” of Nowy Dwor	Noekh Prilutski	310
My Father's Witty Sayings	David Top	310
Nicknames Used in Our Town	A.B.	311
My Mother's Tear	Shloyme Vronski	312
Death and Resistance
Extract from the “Poem of the Murdered Jewish Folk”	Yitshak Katzenelson	315
The First Testimony	From Ringelblum's Archive	316
The Torment and Destruction of the Jewish Population	A. Goldbroch and W. Shliamowicz	320
The Nowy Dwor Jews under the Nazi Rule	Sender Blank	326
The Members of the Jewish Council (Judenrat) and the Jewish Police	Leybel Kokhalski	337
The Jews of Nowy Dwor during the Holocaust	Mordekhai Landsman	340
In the Pomiechowo Camp	Ringelblum Archive, Mariam Arpa, Tzwi Arpa	343
And You, Young Boy	Yakov Glatstein	345
A Child on the Roads	Yehudit Przenica	346
Wandering and Camps	Chaya Litman Perlowicz	349
In the Warsaw Ghetto and in the Camps	Chava Szklanka-Wolanska	352
From the Warsaw Ghetto through Majdanek and Auschwitz	Glike Szajnboim	358
In the Warsaw Ghetto and in the Wyszkow Forests	Penina Papjer	367
Nowy–Dworer in the Fight of the Warsaw Ghetto	Melech Neustadt	381
The Nowy Dwor Rabbi in the Warsaw Ghetto	L. Feingold	383
From Nowy Dwor to the Revolt in Treblinka	Yakov Domb	385
Nowy Dworer in the Treblinka Revolt		389
Back from the Death Pits	Itshe Tap	390
An Encounter in the “Buna” Concentration Camp	Leibel Kochalski	391
From Drancy to Auschwitz	L. Majlekhowicz	394
In the Fight near Nowy Dwor	Feywl Karkowicz	398
Among the Partisans	Moshe Shulman	401
Nowy-Dworer in Russian and Polish Armies in the Fight Against the Nazis		403
At the Eichmann Trial		403
My Arrest in Baranowka	Chaim Babitz	404
The Beginning of the End	Hershel Weiss	408
My Encounter With Nowy Dwor After the War	Yankev Evenson	411
My Father's Tears	Anshel Fried	415
At the Memorial for the Defenders of Modlin	A. Kiwejko	416
The Righteous Gentiles	Dov Berish F.	417
A Memorial in Waldstadt	Aron Pinker	420
The list of the Martyrs of Nowy Dwor		424
In Memory
Jews of the Former Nowy Dwor: Reb Meyer Lichtenstein, Reb Moshe Nowodworski, Reb Hershel Jerozolimski, Reb Itche Meyer Mundlak, Reb Binyomin Pinker, Reb Avremele Kokhalski, Reb Zekhariah Karcowycz, Yakov Hildenbrand, Mordekhai (Motel) Rozenstajn, HaRav Elimelekh Neufeld, Reb Berish Zilberman, Reb Shimshon Note Srebernik	Dov Berish First	437
Reb Shimshon Nute Srebernik	Yitzkhok Griner	447
Shmuel Grabman	Shlomo Korcowicz	448
Reb Yakov Meyer Salomon and His Children	Y. Jerochemzon	449
Reb Tovya Fried	Anshel Fried	451
Reb Nute Noson Kaufman	Avrohom Kaufman	452
Reb Berele Wengozh	Sarah Rosenman–Treger	453
Lipe Mundlak	M.A. Brajnhandler	454
Nokhem Neufeld	Shmuel Kokhalski	456
Menashe Kokhalski	Kalman Pitulski, Khaye Litman	457
Hersh Ber Pinker, My tragically murdered brother	Simkhe Pinker	459
Figures of the Nowy Dwor Bund: Leon Grabman, Khaim Yitshak Rudowski, Mendl Roznfeld – “Trotsky”, Hertsl Dubnikow, Didek Zilbertal, Nisn and Leye Shteynberg, Tankhem Kronenberg, Matis Papier, Borekh Kelervays, Shamay Kalikshteyn	Chaim Babitz	460
Our Devoted Khaim Rudowski	Emanuel Novogrudski	465
Hershl Himlfarb in the Bundist Movement	Y.Sh. Hertz	467
Genye Pertshikow Dubnikow	R. Klepfisz, Dov First	470
Dovid (Dadek)Kaufman	Avrom Kaufman	472
Avremele Guterman, the Nowy Dwor Painter	Dov First	473
The Artist Avrom Guterman	Yosef Sandel	474
Once There Was a Town	Eta Shimanovitsh–Pinker	477
Nowy-Dworer in Israel and in Other Countries
The Preparatory Work for the Memorial Book	The Book Committee in Israel	481
The Beginning of Irgun Yotzei Nowy Dwor [organization of people from Nowy Dwor in Israel]	Chaim Cohen	484
Our Work in Israel	Eliezer Lichtenshteyn	485
Our Housing in Holon	Sholem Kartsovitsh	489
The Celebration For the Nowy Dwor Housing		491
Helen Grinblatt (Khayke Gersht) and her Bequest	P.Dov	494
The Nowy Dwor Society in Chicago	B. Rappaport	497
The Nowy Dwor landslayt in America	Avraham Goldberg	503
The Nowy Dwor Committee in Los Angeles	Rokhl Klaynbard–Marako	509
Among Nowy Dworers in America	Sam Bornstein	511
Nowy Dworers in Canada		515
Nowy Dworers in Argentina	Nakhman Novodvorski	516
Friends of Nowy Dwor in Paris	LL. Maylekhovitsh	519
Necrology		523-556
English Abstract of Nowy Dwor Pinkas
Dates and Events in the Life and Destruction of the Jews of Novy-Dvor		III
The Origin and Development of Novy-Dvor	Dov Berish First	IV
The Religious Life of the Jewish Community Of Novy-Dvor		VI
Jewish Social Life in Novy-Dvor Until World War II		XI
The Struggle and Dissolution of the Jewish Community in Novy-Dvor		XV

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