Turiysk, Ukraine

Memorial Book of Trisk
(Turiysk, Ukraine)

51°06' / 24°32'

Translation of
Pinkas ha-kehila Trisk; sefer yizkor

Editor: Natan Livneh

Published in Tel Aviv 1975

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This is a translation of: Pinkas ha-kehila Trisk; sefer yizkor (Memorial book of Trisk),
Editor: Natan Livneh, Trisk Society, Published: Tel Aviv 1975 (H,Y 376 pages)

Note: The original book can be seen online at the NY Public Library site: Turiisk

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Translated by Yocheved Klausner

Since the time it was destroyed [H]	N. L.	7
It has been thirty three years [Y]		9

The Shtetl
Trisk in the encyclopedias [Y]		14
Turiysk: People and Landscapes [H]	L. Olitzki	16
My shtetl (poem) [Y]	Z. Weinfer	24
Hassidic Trisk and secular Trisk [H]	Dov Harari	26
Trisk	Shlomo Keiser	33
The ribbon (poem) [Y]	L. Olitzki	36
Little tombstones [H]	Erka and Arie Greenstein	37
Deeds and misdeeds in the shtetl [H]	Moshe Weiner	48
The Verbitchna village [H]	Aharon Tchessner	50

Trisk in Poem and Tale/Poets and Writers
Poems from Trisk	Baruch Alitzki
1. Fathers and sons [Y]		55
2. To a Trisk poet [Y]		56
Baruch Alitzki	B. E. B., Nachman Meizel	57, 59
Poems for my brother Baruch	(Hebrew: N. Livne	66
On Hasidic books [Y]	I. I. Wahl	68
I. I. Wahl	Avraham Epstein	72
	Prof. S. Halkin	74
1. R'Moshe Wahl [H]	Yochanan Twerski	77
2. Miracles in Trisk (stories) [H]		81
Yochanan Twerski [H]		84
How the Place of Turiysk Was Uplifted [Y]	Z. Weinfer	85
Zisha Weinfer [H]	Nachman Meisel, Hebrew A. Meitus	95
Z. Weinfer	David Bergelson	96, 97
	Efraim Auerbach
	Nachman Meisel
	S. Nieger
The appeased (a tale) [H]	Arie Tabkay	98
Arie Tabkay [H]	Arie Greenstein	108
“The full life” of Arie Tabkay [H]	B. Mordechai	110
Two revived trees (a tale) [Y]	A. L. Euventhal	112
Avraham L. Euventhal [Y]		115
The poet Kalman Liess [H]	L. Olitzki, Hebrew I. Teitelker	116
Dr. Moshe Markuzi [Y]		120
Leib Alitzki [Y]	Z. Weinfer	122
Itzie Balegule [the wagon driver] (poem) [Y]	L. Alitzki	128

In the Rebbe's Court, R'Avreim'ele Magid
Righteousness is from God	S. Y. Agnon	138
R'Avreim'ele Trisker (poem) [Y]	Z. Weinfer	139
R'Avreim'ele from Trisk [H]	Hebrew N. Livne	140
Father [H]	Yochanan Twerski	141
Farewell [H]		145
Farewell [Y]	Yiddish N. Livne	146
With the rabbi R'Yakov Leibenyu (a tale) [Y]	Z. Weinfer	147
Rabbi Hilel Finkler	Yehuda Elyush	152
The Rebbe's court [Y]	S. Keiser	153
The Yahrzeit [memorial day] of the Trisker Magid	Mordechai Eliezer Perl	157
From the Trisker Court [Y]		160
The Trisk Rabbi [Y]	I. I. Wahl	162
Kloizen and Shtiblech in Trisk [Y]	A. Sucher	162
The Rabbi R'Velvele from Kobel [H]	Dr. Reuven Ben–Shem	163
The Trisk Shtiebl in Kobel [H]	Moshe Better	164
The Chernobyl dynasty [H]	Prof. S. Dubnov	164
A story about R'Dov–Ber the Magid of Miedzyrzec, who wanted to bring the Geula [salvation] (a ballad, H)	Nathan Livne	165
From the sermons of the Magid of Trisk		169

Synagogues and Societies, Rabbis, Slaughterers, Melamdim
Societies in Trisk [H]		172
Batei Midrash and Minyanim (prayer–groups) in Trisk [H]		172
The Chevra Kadisha (burial society) Register [Y]		173
The first Craftsmen's Minyan [prayer quorum)		174
R'Moishele, the rabbi's son [Y]	Ben–Zion Scher	175
R'Nachum Moishele, the rabbi's son–in–law [Y]	R. AviShlomo	176
My Grandfather, Rabbi Zechariah Yosef	Azriel Glazer	178
The Last Three Rabbis of Turiysk [Y]	Mordechai Eliezer Perl	179
Trisker slaughterers [Y]	Beile	181
My melamdim [Y]	Leibl Yek Meirs
1. In R'Yankel Melamed's cheder [Y]		186
2. Stories from the beloved melamed, of blessed memory [Y]		191

People in the Shtetl
To my brother Simcha (poem) [Y]	Mates Alitzki	201
Malka from Radowice (poem) [Y]	Z. Weinfer	202
R'Bunem and Malka Radowiczer [Y]	M. A. Perl	204
Srulik Schneider (Rosenfeld) [Y]		206
R'Shmuel Lederwarger (Frishberg) [Y]		207
A Trisker Jew [Y]		208
Mother Sosel [Y]	Baruch Mendelson	211
R'Zalman Balebos [Y]	S. Keiser	214
Treitelche the female melamed [Y]	R. L. Maspanis	218
Zalman Foren	Nechemia Beer	220
Crumbs from my Trisk table [Y]	R. AviShlomo	221

Culture and Education
The First Library in Turiysk [Y]	Mordechai Eliezer Perl	230
The establisment of the Jewish folk–library [Y]	Hershke Greenstein	234
Neite Weiner	Teitelker	238
Moshe Shachat		241
Leibl Reichenbaum		242
Etke Lyubranitzki [H]	A. Lehrer	243
I was teacher in Trisk [H]	Tonya Frishberg (Tepper)	244
My Jewish school [Y]	Ethel Yerisyuk–Scheffer	251
Shaye Samet and Feigele Tzurif [Y]	A. Maspali	254
The struggle was burning up my heart [Y]	Reuven Nachmani	256
Portraits [H]	Penina and Tamara	257
An odd visitor [Y]	R. Ben–Nachman	260

Organizations, Pioneers
The Hashomer Trumpeldor movement [H]	Kalman Liess	266
Kalman Liess [H]	Israel Dietl, Avraham Gozani, Zelig Sobol	271
A training group in Trisk [H]	Dov Harari	272
The communist movement in Trisk [Y]	Itzik Bick	275
In the service of an idea [H]	Arie Greenstein, Sara Segal, Sara Tennenboim	280
Theater, and more [H]	Tamara and Penina	288
The first girls travel to Klasov [Y]	Nechemia Beer	290
I fled to Klosova [H]	Malka Greenstein	294
Pages from a diary [H]	Dubit Bar – Ben Artzi	296
Flight and Aliya, fragments of discussions	Participating: Gad, Shayke, Ben–Zion, Sara L., Sara S., Sara T., Duba, Nacman, Arie, Erka	298

Holocaust
In mourning (poem) [Y]	L. Alitzki	318
In mourning (poem) [H]	Hebrew: N. Livne	319
The first Germans [Y]	Itzye Binder	320
On the long road to life [H]	The Stcherev Family	329
“The tent” [H]	Moshe Duvshani (Honigman)	336
My eyes are a source of tears (see Jeremiah 8:23) [H]	Bracha Order	342
Upon the ruins of Trisk [H]	Moshe Arder	348
R'Velvele's bitter death	Ben–Zion Scher	350
About Lieber Brenner		353
The Purim Aktzia in the the Czestochowa ghetto [Y]	Lieber Brenner	354
A ballad about two children [Y] (poem)	M. Alitzki	357
Machlye Glaz (poem)		358
Mother (poem) [Y]	Z. Weinfer	359
A bundle of letters [H]	Pu'ah Wahl	360

The Trisk Martyrs, May God Avenge Their Blood		363

A Memorial to the Sons
Vulunteers of the Jewish Brigade in WWII	Binyamin Ackerman	371
The Six–Day War	Uzi Burstein	372
The Yom–Kippur War	Yehoshua Yahalom (Finkelstein)	375
The sportsmen killed in Muenchen by terrorists	Zev Friedman	376

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