Translated by Yocheved Klausner

Preface by the Book-Committee		5
The fate of the Tlomackie Synagogue		6
Executive, Board of Directors of the Farband of Warsaw and the Book Committee		8
Our Warsaw Anthology		9
The Pogrom of December, 1881, and “Dos Lid fun Rabonik”		10
Introduction		13
Contents by author		19
The Articles in this Anthology		26
The Anthology: 139 writers in all types of literary forms and one theme		31
Already More Than Half a Century	Efraim Auerbach	33
A Memory: At Peretz' Grave – On the Tenth Anniversary of His Death	Rokhl Auerbach	37
The “Dignitary” – Moshe Montefiore in Warsaw in 1846	Menashe Unger	39
Irena	Zvi Eyznman	52
A Sabbath Eve at the Bazar: Nowolipie 35 – Leshne 40	Yehoshua Albert	60
In Warsaw	Borukh Olitsky	67
What to do With the Mothers on Dzike and Pave? [a poem]	Borukh Olitsky	68
A Cursed House	E. Almi	69
The Stock Exchange of Ideals…	E. Almi	71
Noyakh Prilutsky (A Poem)	E. Almi	76
Peretz and Dineson: Peretz in his last year	S. An-sky	77
In Warsaw	Y. Opatoshu	83
The Day of Judgement	Y. Opatoshu	87
On the Djibow	Y. Opatoshu	92
Miriaml – The Ninth Scene – The Providers	Thea Artzishewska	95
Y. L. Peretz Demands his Theatre	Thea Artzishewska	98
Warsaw 1914	Sholem Asch	105
A First of May	Sholem Asch	109
A Farewell Speech in Warsaw – 1926	Sholem Asch	115
Two Jews Die a Martyr's Death in Warsaw in 1596	Gershom Bader	117
Kol Nidrei in the Gensher Cemetery	Yakov Botoshansky	121
An Attempt to Establish the First Hebrew Printing House in Warsaw	Meir Balaban	131
The Shot in Grokhov	Moishe Basok (Basuk)	135
Sections from the poem “Poland”	Menachem Bareisha	139
With This New Generation	Menakhem Boraysha	141
The Trip to Warsaw and Wonder of Wonders	Yitzkhak Bashevis	143
I Become a Collector	Yitzkhak Bashevis	148
Simhat Torah	Yitzhak Bashevis	153
Marianska Street Number Ten	Mikhal Burshteyn	159
A Letter to Yakov Dinezon After the Passing of Peretz	Khaim Nakhman Bialik	164
My Beauty, My Sorrow	Fishl Bimko	166
Bankrupt	Herz Bergner	169
Girlfriends	Hertz Bergner	175
Peretz's Holiday Leaflets	Mordkhai V. Bernstein	181
To the stars	Moshe Brodersohn	186
Beigel bakers and beigel traders	Bernard Goldstein	188
Having fun	Shlomo Gilbert	191
The Medem Sanatorium	Shloymo Gilinski	195
In Warsaw – on the way to Lublin	Yakov Glatstein	199
The first year of the First World War	Vladimir Grossman	204
Moishe Kerner	Yitzkhak Grinboym	209
Berek Yoselevitch and his Jewish Regiment	Shimon Dubnov	212
A Letter to S. Ansky	Yakov Dinezon	217
The First Time at the Theatre…	B. Demblin	220
The Marketplace	Yehiel Hoffer	228
Manufacture	Yekhiel Hofer	232
Warsaw – The Final Act of My Theatre Troupe	Peretz Hirshbein	236
Smotche My Home [a poem]	Binem Heller	240
I Move [a poem]	Binem Heller	241
My Way [a poem]	Binem Heller	242
The Nalewke Neighbourhood in Warsaw	Yehuda Leib Wohlman	244
Hunger is coming	Oizer Warshawski	247
Dr. Gershon Levin – The Jew and the Doctor	Dr. Leyb Wohlman	250
My Production of the Play “Kiddush Hashem” by Sholem Asch	Mikhl Weichert	254
Dr. Ludwig Samenhof in the Jewish hospital	Moshe Weissman	262
The last days of Y. M. Weissenberg	Perl Weissenberg-Silberberg	265
“Gut-Shabes Jews” – charity collectors of food for the sick in the hospitals	Moshe Sonnschein	272
Bressler's library	Moshe Sonnschein	274
The Nalewke [Jewish neighborhood]	Avraham Zak	278
Nomberger's funeral	Avraham Zak	279
The “Heint” and the “Moment” conquer Warsaw	Avraham Zak	279
In the Hospital	Beinish Silberstein	286
The young laborer	Beinish Silberstein	287
In the Heider	Y. Y. Singer	288
“The rabbits” group	Y. Y. Singer	292
Mates from Pjosk moves to Warsaw	Y. Y. Singer	301
The Warsaw Community Council	Yakov Zerubavel	308
A review of the Warsaw Jewish cultural development	Mordechai Halamish	312
The first of May in Warsaw	Shmuel Top	317
The newspaper seller	Yosef Tunkel	318
The “German School”	Sigmund Turkov	323
Janush Kortchak, the holy child-educator	Janos Turkov	329
Esther Rachel Kaminska and her crown role	Yitzhak Grodberg-Turkov	337
The last role	Yitzhak Grodberg-Turkov	342
The bank of the Polish Jewry: “D. M. Schereschovski”	Mark Turkov	345
Granitce Street 7	Avraham Teitelbaum	350
Seven chapters of the seven-volume work “Poland”:   – The Prives family   – Chana'le   – My engagement   – My wedding   – The “friend”   – The fall of the Prives family   – Stormy days on Tlomatchke Street 13	Y. Y. Trunk	357
R'Ahrele Koszenitzer	Paul Trepman	373
A wedding in a Warsaw courtyard	Melech Tchemni	381
In Carol's courtyard in the Nalewke neighborhood	Melech Tchemni	385
The gates of the Lower Heaven: Otwacek – Schwieder – Jozepow – Polenitze	B. Yaushsohn	389
“Hey Leva, hey Prava” [a poem]	S.Y. Lodzinski	394
The “Bund” in Warsaw – 1905	A. Litwak	395
Two episodes	Shmuel Lehman	402
On the edge of the abyss	Yakov Leschinski	406
Guests	Kadia Molodovski	412
A mother	Kadia Molodovski	414
The basket	Kadia Molodovski	415
A tale of a wash-tub	Kadia Molodovski	417
The ballad of the white bread	Itzik Manger	420
The fall	Yoel Mastboim	422
S. An-ski's funeral	Avraham Morevski	426
Three Warsaw sonets	Peretz Markish	431
The great theater-symposium in 1910	Dr. A. Mokdoni	433
On Moshe Sonnshein's book: “Jewish Warsaw”	Gitl Meizel	440
Chaim Nachman Bialik in Warsaw	Nachman Meizel	443
The first pogrom in Warsaw	Yakov Milch	451
Mila Street	Yosl Mlotek	459
When the call is ringing	Yosl Mlotek	460
The prologue of the dramatic poem: Discarded	L. Malach	461
The Tenth Pavilion	Wladimir Medem	463
My rabbi, R'Pinches'l	Herschel Metolovitch	468
Peretz in Warsaw	Slomo Mendelsohn	472
The Moshe-Nadir night in Warsaw	Moshe Nadir	478
The death of Y. L. Peretz	Hersch David Nomberg	481
Y. L. Peretz's funeral	Hersch David Nomberg	482
At the tombstone of Peretz	Hersch David Nomberg	483
Neighbors	Hersch David Nomberg	485
Joke writers of long ago	M. Nudelman	493
The Nalewke	Yehezkel Moshe Neiman	498
R'Shmuel Zbitkever	Nahum Sokolov	500
Y. L. Peretz	Avraham Suskever	503
Four poems	Z. Segalovitch	504
Warsaw	Z. Segalovitch	505
Warsaw	Chaim Semyaticki	511
The question	Yente Serdacki	512
A young couple	Mordechai Spector	515
The Ghetto benches...	Yehuda Ellberg	520
A blemish in the family	Israel Emiat	529
The C.J.S.O. [Central Jewish Schools Organization]	Yakov Patt	532
Warsaw welcomes the Leiwiks	Gershon Pomeranz	536
At my father's table	Yosef Papiernikov	539
The workers' quarters	Yosef Papiernikov	539
The dead road	Yosef Papiernikov	540
I have seen Peretz	Yosef Papiernikov	542
Let it be [a poem]	Yosef Papiernikov	544
The worker's children	Avraham Petashkin	545
Still, he cried once	David Pinski	546
Fifi, the literary cat	Yitzhak Perlov	551
Nine o'clock in the morning	Yehoshua Perle	556
The foreign wedding-dress [a scene from a play]	Yitzhak Leibush Peretz	560
Bontche Schweig	Yitzhak Leibush Peretz	563
“Hachnasat Kala” [a charity fund to help poor brides]	Yitzhak Leibush Peretz	570
A “Seder-night” [the first night of the Passover holiday]	Yitzhak Leibush Peretz	575
The last year, the last day...	Rose Laks-Peretz	579
Sayings, proverbs etc.	Folk lore	581
Over and across the Warsaw Jewish streets	Lea Finkelstein	585
“Our Express”	Menachem Flakser	590
The Nicolai Nicolajevitch expulsion	David Flinker	593
I Thee Wed	David Frishman	603
From the Jewish Warsaw of yore	Mordechai Tzanin	608
Warsaw in 1912	Aharon Zeitlin	614
The literary house	Elchanan Zeitlin	619
On the eve of the fire	Elchanan Zeitlin	625
The idea to publish “Our Warsaw Yearbook”	Hilel Zeitlin	627
The grandmother from Prague	Efraim Koganovski	630
Jewish courtyards	Efraim Koganovski	634
The Stavki Lane	Efraim Koganovski	638
The Jewish garden	Efraim Koganovski	641
The Jewish hospital	Efraim Koganovski	645
Evenings	Y. L. Kohn	649
The general Jewish School is born in Warsaw	H. S. Kazdan	651
The Old City	Alter Katzizne	655
“Wandering traders” [peddlers]	Alter Katzizne	657
We travel to a summer camp	Janos Kortschak	662
Avraham Droszkash is mourning the death of Peretz	B. Kutcher	667
The advertising agent	Menachem Kipnis	676
Hunger	Yosef Kirman	678
My sister's death	Yosef Kirman	679
Sheindele and Gitchel from the Koszle Lane	Moshe Knapheiss	681
Heischerik, Herschele and Tchebotzki – the three most inpoverished Warsaw Jewish writers	Melech Ravotch	687
“To be continued”	Ber Y. Rosen	693
Shalom Ash begins writing his book “Der Thilim Yid”	Shlomo Rosenberg	699
Rabbi Shloimele Malach, of blessed memory	Shmuel Rothstein	704
Israel Stern, the “mentch”	Yehoshua Rapaport	708
The signboards on the Nalewke [a poem]	Yosef Rubinstein	713
A question [a poem]	Yosef Rubinstein	714
Marshalkowska [a poem]	Yosef Rubinstein	714
The Jerusalem Boulevard [a poem]	Yosef Rubinstein	715
Shabat on Smotche	Yosef Rubinstein	716
Shabat evening on Smotche	Yosef Rubinstein	717
Nalewke	Avraham Reisen	719
Buying and selling! Buying and selling! (The peddler) [a poem]	Avraham Reisen	720
Warsaw 1910	Avraham Reisen	720
Warsaw	Avraham Reisen	721
The walker (the peddler)	Avraham Reisen	721
The years of the Russian-Japanese War	Avraham Reisen	724
Name changes of Jewish streets in Warsaw	Dr. Emanuel Ringelblum	731
Warsaw 1896 – Warsaw 1903	Lamed [L.] Shapira	738
Jan Bagomil Bloch – 1836-1901	Dr. Yakov Schatzki	742
How Hasidism achieved victory over the “Learning Warsaw”	Rav Dr. Meir Schwarzman	750
The poem of my sad blood	Mark Schweid	756
The “Haskala” [“enlightment movement”] in Kroszinski's garden	Mark Schweid	757
Peretz in in the Warsaw streets	Mark Schweid	761
Awaiting	Moshe Schultein	764
Eviction on the Smotche Street	Moshe Schultein	765
Smotche – a street in Warsaw	Esther Schumyatcher	767
A little orphan is laughing	Israel Stern	769
Bread and poetry	Israel Stern	770
One week with Y. L. Peretz	Shalom Aleichem	775
Two letters from Warsaw	Shalom Aleichem	779
Adam Nathansohn and his son	Binyamin Schlewin	781
The last rabbi in Warsaw	N. Shemen	790
A poem to a stick	Ber Schnapper	796
In the Warsaw streets…	Zalman Schneor	798
Memories about Binyamin Shimin and other Warsaw publishers	Halina Shimin-Schneiderman	800
The sad geography of the Nalewke neighborhood	S. L. Schneiderman	808
The stair climber	Baruch Schefner	816
We are not allowed to sin	Baruch Schefner	822
Scenes from the life of the Halutzim [pioneers] in Warsaw	Leib Spiesman	828
Chronology – 525 years of Jewish history in Warsaw 1414 – 1939		833
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