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Title	Author	Page(s)
A. These are the Annals of Zambrow		17-103
From History	Yom Tov Lewinsky	19-41
a. When did Zambrow become a City?		19
b. Rights of the City		20
c. The First Sign of Jews		20
d. The Name of the City		21
e. The Political Situation		21
f. Geography and Topography		22
g. Jews Build the City		23
h. From When were there Jews in Zambrow		24
i. T. Tyktyn Oversees the Jews of Zambrow		25
j. The Jews of Zambrow in 1716		26
k. Cieciorki does not Belong to Zambrow		28
l. To whom does Sendzowo Belong?		29
m. The Founding of the Burial Society (Chevra Kadisha) in 1741		30
n. There was still no Communal Organization in 1767		30
o. The First Cemetery in 1828		32
p. The Synagogue and Study Halls		33
q. The Bathhouse		35
r. “Prszwionta”		36
s. The Army Region		36
t. The Post Office		37
u. The First Fire		38
v. Gangs		39
w. The Second Fire		41
From Days Gone By	Mendel Cybelman	48-72
a. Reb Moshe and Reb Yisrael the elders of the Beadles (Shamashim) in Zambrow		48
b. The Russian Army Expands the City Bounds		49
c. The Barracks		51
d. The Veteran Families of Zambrow		52
e. Prayer Houses		53
f. The Head of the Rabbinical Court and the State Appointed Rabbi		54
g. The Cholera Epidemic		54
h. Father on a Horse		55
i. The Expulsion of the Magid Reb Elyakim Getzel		56
j. The First Fire		57
k. The Coronation of Nikolay II and the Closing of the Jewish Taverns		59
l. The Russo-Japan War of 1905		60
m. Murder in the Forest		61
n. Army Rebellion Sprouts Up in Zambrow		62
o. Fear of Pogrom		63
p. The False Accusation of the Revolution in Zambrow: The Tailor and the Strongman, Pillage of the Army Fund, Pillage of Josef Pilsudsky, The Holiday of the Constitution		64
q. Imprisonments		70
r. The Second Fire		72
Zambrow at the Head of the Suwalk-Lomza Kolel in Jerusalem	Yom Tov Lewinsky	80
Blood Libel	Tovia Fenster	82
Miscellaneous	Aryeh Golombek
a. I am the Commissar of Zambrow		85
b. Two Tables		87
c. The Power of Father of Blessed Memory		88
d. The Holiday Festivities of the Jewish Tailors in the Russian Army		88
e. A Jewish Soldier Defends the Honor of Jewry		89
How Disturbances were Prevented in Zambrow	Sender Syckowsky	91
During the time of Emergency	Sender Syckowsky
a. Saving the City from Fire		95
b. With the Rise of Independent Poland		97
c. The Murder of Szklubyn the Pharmacist		98
Three Who Made Aliya to the Land of Israel	Yom Tov Lewinsky
a. The Elder Shamash Kucapa		99
b. Mendel the Partial Carpenter		100
c. Pesach the son of the Winemaker		101
Jablonka	Yosef Kruliwicky	103
B. The Destruction		106-217
In Memory of Mother (a poem)	Yelin (Translated by Yom Tov Lewinsky)	108
On the Threshold of the Sunset	Yom Tov Lewinsky	109
Blood, Fire and Pillars of Smoke	Yitzchak Golombek (Translated by Yom Tov Lewinsky)	119
a. Zambrow the Vista of My Hometown		119
b. The War Between Poland and Germany		120
c. The Beginning of the Expulsion of Ostrow-Mazowiecki		120
d. The War Between Russia and Germany		121
e. The Terrible Tuesday		122
f. Negotiations Regarding a Ghetto for the Jews		124
g. A New Aktion		124
h. Preparations for Entering the Ghetto		125
i. Life in the Ghetto		126
j. The Typhus Epidemic		126
k. Jews Give Over their Possessions to the Gentiles		127
l. Glicksman and the “Truth” on his Lips		128
m. In the Forest		129
n. We Left Our Mother in the Forest		130
o. Third Day in the Forest		131
p. The Way to the Barracks		132
q. The Entrance to Hell		132
r. I Escaped from the Camp and Returned		133
s. Bread for Starvation		134
t. The Exiles of Lomza Prepare a Desertion		135
u. The Tidings…		136
v. Glicksman the Go-Between		136
w. Preparations for the Journey		137
x. In the Czyzewo Train Station		137
y. We are not Going to Treblinka		138
z. To the Birkenau Camp		139
aa. In the Bathhouse		140
bb. Block Number 21		141
cc. Traveling to Buna		142
dd. Typhus Epidemic in Buna		143
ee. In the Hospital		144
ff. The Murder Apparatus at Auschwitz-Birkenau		145
Black Tuesday	Yitzchak Golda	159
Collection of Testimony	Yitzchak Golda	161
A Brand Plucked from Fire	Recorded by Yosef Yerushalmi from the Mouth of Yosef the son of Berl Lewinsky	168
A Letter from that World (Natan Smoliar)		178
The Piercing of Death	B.Tz. Gvurin	181
We Organized a Partisan Group – Adventures	Yitzchak Stupnik	183
A Zambrow Native at the Head of the Fighters of the Minsk Ghetto		187
The Third Fire	Izak Malinowicz	190
Four Graves	Yosef Sowiecki	194
The City After the Destruction		215
On the Ruins	Chaya Zukerowicz-Netzer	216
A Letter of Correspondence (poem)	Moshe Wiliamowsky (translated by Y. L.)	217
C. Beis Midrashes, Rabbis, Clergy		219-302
The Rabbi's Melody (relevant to page 258)		220
Houses of Worship and Communal Institutions 50 Years Ago	Yom Tov Lewinsky
The White Beis Midrash		221
The Red Beis Midrash		228
The Synagogue		232
Chevra Shas		236
Beit Chassidim		238
Rabbis		241
Rabbi Lipa Chaim		241
Rabbi Yisrael Salanter in Zambrow	Shalom Avner Bernstein	242
The Holy Rabbi Rabbi Dov-Menachem Regensberg may G-d avenge his blood		245-270
A Small City and a Great Rabbi	Yisrael Ulsha	246
From the Words of his Grandson (Written by David Pels)		249
At the End of the Century		251
Sated in Years		253
His Studies		254
His Activities		255
His Relationship to Zion		257
Written by his grandson Heshel		258
His Home is his Wife	Naomi Blomerozen	259
The Spark Turned into a Flame	Yisrael Lewinsky	261
At the Rabbi's Table	Pinchas Broder	266
His Strength of Spirit	S. Sickowsky	267
The Prophesy of the Rabbi	Yosef Krulewicky	268
The Rabbi of Zambrow Spoke	Chaim Groda (translated by Y. L.)	269
Rabbi Aharon Yaakov Klopfisz, the Rabbi's Son-in-law	Y. Masheoli	271
Rabbinical Judges
Rabbi Zalman Kaplan		276
Rabbi Shabtai Kramarsky		277
Rabbi Avraham Goronczyk of holy blessed memory		278
The Chief Rabbi of the Israel Defence Forces – Colonel Shlomo Goren may he live long	Yom Tov Lewinsky	279
Rabbi Yudel Shochet may G-d avenge his blood		281
Rabi Berl Nigowczer		283
Rabbi Leib Rozing		284
Cantors
Reb Pinchas and his wife Shifra; Reb Shlomo Wismunsky		285
Preachers (Maggidim)	Yom Tov Lewinsky	287
Reb Elyakim Getzel Lewitan		287
Reb Akiva Rabinowicz		290
Reb Alter (Moshe-Zalman Orowicz) the Maggid		291
Shamai Leizer		292
Chaim-Velvel Pow		293
Scholarly Women	Yom Tov Lewinsky	295
a. Hashka the Carpenter		295
b. Beila the Fat		295
c. Heni-Itka		296
d. Bluma the Blind		296
e. Pesha Golombek		297
f. Grandmother Rivka Gittel		297
g. Chaya Zukerowicz		297
h. Women who Received a Pension from the Community		298
i. Malka Cymbel		299
j. Sheina-Mindel		299
Scribes – Eliezer Pow		302
D. Education and Culture		303-354
Yeshiva	Yom Tov Lewinsky	305
Cheders	Yom Tov Lewinsky	307
Bercha the Melamed (Teacher)		308
Fishel		309
Yehoshua		309
Thunderstruck	Yisrael Lewinsky	311
Reb Meir Feivel the Melamed	Chaim Ben-Dor	313
Reb Yisrael Lewinsky of blessed memory	Yom Tov Lewinsky	315
The Modern Cheder of Feivel Zukerowicz		319
A Teacher and Educator	Yaakov Tobiasz	321
From the Words of Students: Naomi Blomerozen, Aryeh Kosowsky		327
The Russian People's School	Yom Tov Lewinsky	327
The Yiddish People's School	Yom Tov Lewinsky	328
The Borochov School		329
The Polish People's School	Yom Tov Lewinsky	332
With the Approach of the Holocaust		333
The Spinoza of Zambrow	Aryeh Kosowsky	334
The Polish Gymnasium in Zambrow	Tzvi Slowik-Zamir	336
Alter Rotenberg	Yom Tov Lewinsky	338
The Library	Yom Tov Lewinsky	340
Dramatic Clubs	Yom Tov Lewinsky	347
Maccabee	Sh. Gutman	349
E. Folklore		355-410
a. Statements, Songs, Idioms		357
b. Agricultural Folklore According to the Annual Calendar of Zambrow		375
c. Purim in my Town		384
d. The Fifth Year (1905)		389
e. The “Brogez” (Anger) Dance		393
f. The Miserables		395
Alter Koti		395
Avraham Berl Klein		396
Moshel “Kolike”		398
Birech the Mute		398
Kachke		400
The Daughter-in-law of the City	Meir Zukerowicz	401
An Act of Treason	Yisrael Lewinsky	404
Kometz Aleph O	Mendel Cybelman	407
F. Factions		411-454
The Zionist Movement	Y. Lewinsky
Prior to the first World War		413
Renewal of the Movement		417
Youth Organizations	Sh. Gutman	419
Poale Zion, Young Zion, Bund, Communists		427
Worker's Movement		429
Poale Zion	Pinchas Bruder	429
The Zionist Youth Movement	Tzvi Zamir	432
a. Pirchei Zion		432
b. Herzliya		432
c. Tzeirei Zion Youth Movement		434
d. Hechalutz		436
e. Hachsharah		437
f. Actualization		437
The Founding of the First Hashomer Hatzair	Ch. Ben-Dor	438
Seven Reasoned Responders, Productive Work (The Founding of Young Hechalutz)	Ben Zion Sandak	438
The Disturbances of 5689 (1929)	Aryeh Kosowsky	439
The Hashomer Hatzair Branch	Yehuda Serbrowicz	439
Torah Vaavoda	Tzvi Chanit	444
Zionists	Yaakov Grabes	444
Zionists: The Tree that was Cut in the Midst of its Growth (Yitzchak Sucharowicz)	M. Sabidor	447
Levi Poziner	A. Kosowsky	448
Avraham Hershel Kagan	M. Burstyn	448
Michael Jawkowsky	Tz. Zamir	450
Noach Zukerowicz		451
Yechezkel Zamir		452
Noach Zamir, The Ratoswicz Brothers, Chaim Silberstein, Pesia Furmanowicz	Tz. Z.	453
G. Families		455-518
The House of Mashka the Koritker And her son Binyamin Tenenbaum	Yisrael Lewinsky	457
Chronicle of Three families (From An Oak in the Storm)	Professor Berl Mark	460
a. Between Radzilowa and Zambrow		460
b. Grandfather and Grandmother		461
c. A Visit to Zambrow		463
d. Mother Rachel Leah		464
e. Aunt Sarake and Uncle Aharon-Leibl		466
f. My Uncle Yitzchak Blomerozen		467
g. My Uncle Alter Mark		467
h. Chezki Mark		468
i. Chezki is sent to a Desolate Place		471
j. In the Footsteps of Chezki		472
Good Jews and Exemplary Farmers	Yehoshua Golombek	479
The Golombek Family	Y. Lewinsky	480
Father's Home	Tzvi Zamir	485
Yaakov Tzvi Zukerowicz	Yosef Srebrowicz	487
The Family of Gershon Srebrowicz	Y. S.	488
Reb Shmuelke Wiliamowsky	Y. Lewinsky	489
The Kushar Household	Yosef Yerushalmi	490
The Yerushalmi Family	Yosef Yerushalmi	492
Reb Avraham Shlomo Czinciol	Yisrael Lewinsky	494
The Civic Leader Reb Avraham Aba Rakowsky (Avcha)	Yom Tov Lewinsky	497
Bibliographical List of the Writings of A. A. Rakowsky (not complete)		505
My Forbears the Martyrs of Hebron	A Shmuel Gutman	506
Parental Home and Scenery of my Native Town	Ahuva Greenberg	508
The Aliya of Reb Yehoshua Binyamin Kwimkoler	Recorded by Yisrael Lewinsky from the mouth of his son	512
Binyamin Kanan, Yaakov Yeshaya Cohen	Y. Lewinsky	513
The Cinowicz Family	Rachel Slocky-Rosenblum	514
Lipman Slowik	Ch. Ben-Dor	514
Baruch Surawicz, Avraham Rozen	Y. Lewinsky	514
Elia Rodniker-Goren	Y. Lewinsky	515
Dr. Yosef Feinsilber	Y. Lewinsky	516
Memorial Candles	Chaya Kosowsky	517
H. Work and Industry		519-575
Small Scale Manufacturing in Zambrow	Y. Lewinsky	521
Three Flourmills: a. Grajansky, b. Goldin, c. Feifer	Y. Lewinsky	522
Tradesman	Y. Lewinsky	525
Reb Tovia Skocanadak		528
Elinka	Y. Lewinsky	528
My Father Reb Moshe Aharon the Builder	Chaim Ben-Dor	530
My Father Itza the Bricklayer	From his Son Sender, Recorded by Yisrael Lewinsky	537
Reb Nachman Yaakov Rotenberg, Wagon Drivers	Yisrael Lewinsky	540
The Shoemaker from Gosz, Y. Sh. Kukawka	Y. Lewinsky	542
Binyumka the Shoemaker	Y. Lewinsky	543
Moshe Yosef the Paver	Yisrael Lewinsky, from the mouth of Sender Sickowsky	544
Natan (Noska) the Bricklayer	Naomi Blumerozen	546
Yisrael Poiker (the Drummer)	Yaakov Grabes	547
Sabbath Festivities		548
Beila the Milk Woman	A. Kosowsky	549
Shmuelka Zerah and Zundel	A. Kosowsky	549
These I Remember	Tzvi Chagit	550
Portraits of Town Natives in the United States	Mendel Cybelman	552
Social Assisance	Yom Tov Lewinsky	555
Tending to Guests (Hachnasat Orchim)		555
Physicians		557
Medics		558
Poorhouse		560
Ahavat Achim Organization	Yisrael Lewinsky	560
Help and Arrangements for Refugees	Y. Lewinsky	561
Linat Hatzedek	Y. Lewinsky	562
Shlomoke Czinciol, Women's Organization	Y. Lewinsky	564
A Group of Letters about the Bad Material Situation of the Jews of the City		566
Centas		569
Gemilat Chasadim Fund		571
Father and the Gemulut Chasadim Society	Ch. Ben-Dor	573
Mother, Alta Sokolicha	Chava Sokol	575
Missing: Moshe Klopfisz of blessed memory		577
Chava Sokol-Almog	Tz. Zamir	578
Golda Zarimowska-Rotkowicz	Tzvi Zamir	578
Brands Plucked from the Fire		579
I. Zambrow Natives in the Diaspora		581-610
Our Brethren in the United States		581
The Workers' Circle Branch 149	Mendel Cybelman	581
The Aid Committee of our Natives in Chicago	Mendel Cybelman	584
The History of the Zambrow Society in the United States	Yitzchak Rozen	588
From the Book of Minutes	Yom Tov Lewinsky	589
The United Assistance Organization	Moshe Eizer	594
Natives of our City in Mexico	Yitzchak Rotberg	598
Natives of our City in Argentina	Boaz Chmiel	602
Chaim Yosef Rodnik of blessed memory		605
Organization of Natives of our City in Israel	Tz. Zamir	606
Yisgadal Veyiskadash Shmei Rabba…		611
Memorial Days in the Annals of the City	Y. Lewinsky	612
Yizkor – 64 monuments to 400 deceased – most of whom perished in the Warsaw Ghetto		613-624
Abridged Content in English		1-69

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Yiddish Table of Contents

Translated by Jerrold Landau

[Translator's note: Starts in the middle of NYPL scan #21. Overlaps to a large degree with the Hebrew, but there are discrepancies, and many of the page numbers are different. In some cases, the titles of the same article were worded differently in English and Yiddish. I preserved the differences in wording.]

Title	Author	Page(s)
Index of Photos		13
Name Index		14-16
Hebrew and Yiddish Tables of Contents		18
A. These are the Annals of Zambrow		17-105
From History	Yom Tov Lewinsky	17-47
a. When did Zambrow become a City?		19
b. Rights of the City		20
c. The First Sign of Jews		21
d. The Name of the City		21
e. The Political Situation		22
f. Geography and Topography		23
g. Jews Build the City		24
h. From When were there Jews in Zambrow		27
i. T. Tyktyn Oversees the Jews of Zambrow		28
j. The Jews of Zambrow in 1716		30
k. Cieciorki does not Belong to Zambrow		31
l. To whom does Sendzowo Belong?		31
m. The Founding of the Burial Society (Chevra Kadisha) in 1741		35
n. There was still no Communal Organization in 1767		36
o. The First Cemetery in 1828		37
p. The Synagogue and Study Halls		41
q. The Bathhouse		42
r. “Prszwionta”		43
s. The Post Office		44
t. The First Fire		44
u. Gangs		47
v. The Second Fire		47
From Days Gone By	Mendel Cybelman	48-80
Introduction		48
a. Moshe Shamash and my Father Yisrael David		49
b. In the Second Half of the 19th Century		51
c. The Zambrow Barracks		55
d. The Good Times Begin		57
e. My Father Rides a Horse and Drives the Cholera Out of the City		59
f. The Expulsion of the Magid Elyakim Getzel from Zambrow (1895)		60
g. The First Fire		62
h. Nikolay II is Coronated over Zambrow (1896)		65
i. A Jewish Murder (1905)		67
j. The Revolutionary Parties		68
k. A Rebellion in the Zambrow Barracks		70
l. According to a Zambrow Businessman – Exposing a Revolutionary Military Organization		71
m. A Theft from the Military Treasury		72
n. Pilsudsky Plunders the National Treasury in Wysokie Mazowieckie		74
o. Zambrow in 1905		75
p. They Arrested Me		77
q. Fear of a Pogrom in Zambrow		79
r. The Second Fire		80
Zambrow at the Head of the Suwalk-Lomza Kolel “Distribution” in Jerusalem		81
Blood Libel	Tovia Fenster	82
Miscellaneous	Leib Golombek	85
a. I am the Commissar of Zambrow		85
b. Two Tables		87
c. Father's Intermediation		87
d. The Holiday Festivities of the Jewish Tailors in the Russian Army		87
e. A Jewish Soldier Defends the Honor of Jewry and Averts a Pogrom	Sender Syckowsky, transcribed by Yisrael Lewinsky	93
At Wartime	Sender Syckowsky transcribed by Yisrael Lewinsky	95
a. Saving the City		95
b. With the Rise of Independent Poland		97
c. The Murder of Szklubyn the Pharmacist		98
Three Who Made Aliya to the Land of Israel	Yom Tov Lewinsky
a. The Elder Shamash Kucapa and his wife		99
b. Mendel the Partial Carpenter		101
c. Pesach the son of the Winemaker		102
Jablonka	Yosef Kruliwicky (Buenos Aires)	103
B. The Destruction		106-218
In Memory of Mother (a poem)	Tzalka Yelin	108
On the Threshold of the Doom	Yom Tov Lewinsky	109
The Last 5-6 Years		109
A City Starves, Who Will Help Us, The Help Committee in Chicago		111
From A Bundle of Letters		112
Jewish Zambrow is Empty…		112
Culture Struggle Brings In Life		113
Pickets		113
The Market		114
Assistance Committee for Zambrow in Chicago		115
Linat Hatzedek		115
The Beginning of the End	Yitzchak Stupnik	116
A Letter to the Land of Israel		117
Blood, Fire and Pillars of Smoke	Yitzchak Golombek	119-157
a. My Native Town		119
b. The War Between Poland and Germany		120
c. The Expulsion of the Jews of Ostrow-Mazowiecki		122
d. The War Between Russia and Germany in 1941		123
e. The Terrible Tuesday		126
f. Negotiations Regarding a Ghetto for the Jews		128
g. A New Aktion		130
h. Preparations for Entering the Ghetto		132
i. Life in the Ghetto		132
j. The Typhus Epidemic		133
k. Jews Give Over their Possessions to Gentile Hands		135
l. Glicksman and his “Truth”		137
m. In the Forest		137
n. We Left Our Mother in the Forest		140
o. My Third Day in the Forest		141
p. The March to the Barracks		142
q. The Entrance to Hell		143
r. I Escaped from the Camp and Returned		145
s. Bread for Starvation		147
t. The Exiles of Lomza Prepare to Flee		147
u. The Tidings…		148
v. Glicksman the Go-Between		149
w. Preparations for the Journey		149
x. In the Czyzewo Train Station		150
y. We are not Going to Treblinka		150
z. March to the Birkenau Camp		152
aa. Into the Bath!		152
bb. Block Number 21		153
cc. Traveling to Buna		154
dd. Typhus Epidemic in Buna		155
ee. In the Hospital		156
ff. The Murder Apparatus at Auschwitz-Birkenau		157
Black Tuesday	Yitzchak Golda	159
Collection of Testimony from a Christian		165
Out of the Fire	Moshe Lewinsky, transcribed by Yosef Jeruzalimsky	168
A Letter from that World (From Nuska Smoliar)		178
The Piercing of Death	B.Tz. Gvurin	181
We Organized a Partisan Group – Death Sentence	Yitzchak Stupnik	186
A Zambrow Native at the Head of the Fighters of the Minsk Ghetto		188
The Third Fire	Izak Malinowicz	190
The Holocaust Survivors: Heartrending Outcome Plucked From Fire, 2 Central Addresses – Jerusalem and New York	Yosef Sowiecki	197
The Food Packages		199
Moshe Icer and Yosef Mawecki		201
From a Bundle of Letters (36 letters from Surviving Brethren to the American Assistance Committee)		201-210
Redemmed Souls: Beinush Sarni		211
Chana Koperman	Y. Lewinsky	211
After the Destruction (Excerpts from a Letter)		215
On the Ruins	Chaitsha Zukerowicz –Netzer	216
I Write a Letter (a Poem)	Moshe Wiliamowsky (Williams) of blessed memory	217
C. Beis Midrashes, Rabbis, Clergy		219-302
The Rabbi's Melody (Text on page 256)		220
Houses of Worship and Communal Institutions 50 Years Ago	Yom Tov Lewinsky
The White Beis Midrash		221
The Red Beis Midrash		228
The Synagogue		233
Chevra Shas		236
The Hassidic Shtibel		238
Rabbis, the First Rabbi		241
Rabbi Lipa Chaim		241
Rabbi Yisrael Salanter in Zambrow	Shalom Avner Bernstein	242
The Holy Rabbi Rabbi Dov-Menachem Regensberg may G-d avenge his blood		245-270
A Small City and a Great Rabbi	Yisrael Ulsha	246
From the Words of his Grandson		250
David Writes		250
At the End of the Previous Century		251
In Old Age		252
His Studies		253
His Activities		254
His Relationship to the Land of Israel		255
Related by His Second Grandson, Hershel		255
The Rabbi's Home	Naomi Blomerozen	259
The Spark Turned into a Flame	Yisrael Lewinsky	261
At the Rabbi's Table	Pinchas Broder	266
His Strength of Spirit	Sender Sickowsky	267
The Prophesy of the Rabbi	Yosef Krulewicky	268
The Rabbi of Zambrow Spoke	Chaim Groda	269
Rabbi Aharon Yaakov Klopfisz, the Rabbi's Son-in-law	Y. Masheoli	271
Rabbinical Judges
Rabbi Zalman Kaplan		276
Shepsl the Judge		277
Rabbi Avraham Goronczyk of blessed memory		278
The Chief Rabbi of the Israel Defence Forces – Rabbi Shlomo Goren	Yom Tov Lewinsky	279
Rabbi Yudel Shochet	Yoef Yismach	281
Rabi Berl Nigowczer		283
Rabbi Leib Rozing		284
Cantors
Reb Pinchas and his wife Shifra; Reb Shlomo Wismunsky		285
Preachers (Maggidim)	Yom Tov Lewinsky	287
Reb Elyakim Getzel Lewitan		287
Reb Akiva Rabinowicz		290
Reb Alter (Moshe-Zalman Orowicz) the Maggid		291
Shamai Leizer		292
Chaim-Velvel Pow		293
Scholarly Women		295
a. Hashka the Carpenter		295
b. Beila the Fat		296
c. Heni-Itka		298
d. Bluma the Blind		298
e. Pesha Golombek		298
f. Grandmother Rivka Gittel		299
g. Chaya Zukerowicz		300
h. Women who Received a Pension		300
i. Malka Cymbel		301
j. Sheina-Mindel		301
Scribes – Eliezer Pow		302
D. Education and Culture		303-349
Yeshiva	Yom Tov Lewinsky	305
Cheders	Yom Tov Lewinsky	307
Bercha Sokol		307
Fishel		309
Yeshia the Melamed (teacher)		309
Thunderstruck	Yisrael Lewinsky	311
Reb Meir Feivel the Melamed	Chaim Ben-Dor	313
Reb Yisrael Lewinsky	Yom Tov Lewinsky	315
From my Notebook	Yisrael Lewinsky, Feivel Zukerowicz	319
A Teacher and Educator	Yaakov Tobiasz	321
The Russian-Yiddish School	Yom Tov Lewinsky	329
The Borochov Yiddish People's School		329
The Yiddish-Polish People's School		332
With the Approach of the Holocaust		333
The Spinoza of Zambrow	Aryeh Kosowsky	335
The Polish Gymnasium in Zambrow	Hershel Slowik	336
Alter Rotenberg	Yom Tov Lewinsky	338
The Library	Yom Tov Lewinsky	340
Dramatic Club	Yom Tov Lewinsky	348
Maccabee	Sh. Gutman	349
E. Folklore		355-410
From my Childhood	Yom Tov Lewinsky	357-401
a. Statements, Songs, Idioms		357
b. The Green Jewish Calendar of Zambrow		375
c. Purim in my Town		384
d. The Fifth Year		389
e. The “Brogez” (Anger) Dance		393
f. The Miserables		395
Alter Koti		395
Avraham Berl Klein		396
Moshel “Kolike”		398
Birech the Mute		400
Kachke		400
The Daughter-in-law of the City	Meir Zukerowicz	401
A Story with a Stranger	Yisrael Lewinsky	405
Kometz Aleph O	Mendel Cybelman	407
F. Factions		411-454
The Zionist Movement prior to the First World War	Y. Lewinsky	413
Renewal of Zionist Activity		416
Youth Organizations	Shmuel Gutman	419
Poale Zion, Young Zion		419
Bund		420
Communism		420
The Bund Workers' Party	Y. Lewinsky	421
The Renewed Bund	Y. Lewinsky	424
The Workers' Movement	Y. Lewinsky	429
The Poale Zion Movement	Pinchas Bruder	429
Zionist Youth Movements	Tzvi Zamir	432
Hashomer Hatzair Chapter	Yehuda Sreberowicz	443
Zionists	Yaakov Grabes	444
Yitzchak Sucharewicz: The Tree that was Cut in the Midst of its Growth (Yitzchak Sucharowicz)	M. Sabidor	447
Levi Poziner	A. Kosowsky	448
Avraham Hershel Kagan	M. Burstyn	448-449
Michael Jawkowsky	Tz. Zamir	450
Noach Zukerowicz	Tz. Zamir	452
Yechezkel Zamir		452
Noach Zamir		452
The Ratowowicz Brothers		453
Chaim Silberstein, Pesha Furmanowicz	Tz. Zamir	453
G. Families		455-518
Mashka the Koritker and her son Binyamin Tenenbaum	Yisrael Lewinsky	458
A Chronicle of Three families (From An Oak in the Storm)	Professor Berl Mark	460
a. Between Radzilowa and Zambrow		460
b. My Grandfather Avraham Moshe Blumerozen and my Grandmother Breincha		461
c. A Visit to Zambrow		464
d. Mother Rachel Leah		466
e. Aunt Sarake and Uncle Aharon-Leibl		468
f. My Uncle Yitzchak Blomerozen		467
g. My Uncle Alter Mark		467
h. Chezki Mark		468
i. Chezki is Sent to the Far East		476
j. In the Footsteps of Chezki		477
Good Jews and Exemplary Farmers	Yehoshua Golombek	479
The Golombek Family	Y. Lewinsky	480
Father's Home	Hershel Slowik	485
Reb Yankel Zukerowicz	Yosef Srebrowicz	487
Gershon Srebrowicz		489
Reb Shmuelke Wiliamowsky	Y. Lewinsky	490
The Kushar Household	Yosef Jeruzalimsky	491
The Jeruzalimsky Family	Yosef Yerushalmi	492
Reb Avraham Shlomo Czinciol (Fracht)	Yisrael Lewinsky	494
The Golden Flag: Avcha Rakowsky	Yom Tov Lewinsky	497
My Forbears the Martyrs of Hebron	A. Shmuel Gutman	506
Parental Home	Ahuva Greenberg	508
A Jew Travels to the Land of Israel	Recorded by Yisrael Lewinsky from the mouth of his son	512
Binyamin Kanan, Yaakov Shaya Kahn	Y. Lewinsky	513
The Cinowicz Family	Rachel Slocky-Rosenblum	514
Lipman Slowik	Ch. Ben-Dor	514
Baruch Surawicz	Y. Lewinsky	514
Avraham Rozen	Y. Lewinsky	514
Elia Rodniker	Y. Lewinsky	515
Dr. Yosef Feinsilber	Y. Lewinsky	516
Let us Light Candles	Chaya Kosowsky	518
H. Work and Industry		519-580
Small Scale Industry in Zambrow	Y. Lewinsky	521
Three Mills	Y. Lewinsky	524
Tradesman	Y. Lewinsky	525
The Zambrow Jewish Proletariat	Eliezer Pow	527
Reb Tovia The Candle Lighter		528
Elinka	Y. Lewinsky	529
My Father Reb Moshe Aharon the Builder	Chaim Ben-Dor	530
My Father Itza the Bricklayer	From his Son Sender, Recorded by Yisrael Lewinsky	539
Reb Nachman Yankel Rotenberg, Wagon Drivers	Yisrael Lewinsky	540
The Shoemaker from Gosz	Y. Lewinsky	542
Yaakov Shlomo Kukawka	Y. Lewinsky	543
Binyumka the Shoemaker	Y. Lewinsky	544
Moshe Yosef the Paver	Yisrael Lewinsky, from the mouth of Sender Sickowsky	544
Noska the Bricklayer	Naomi Blumerozen	547
Yisrael Poiker	Yaakov Grabes	548
Sabbath Festivities		548
Beila the Milk Woman	Aryeh Kosowsky	549
Shmuelka Zerah and Zundel	A. Kosowsky	549
These I Remember	Tzvi Chagit	551
My Zambrowers -- Yudek Kozak	Mendel Cybelman	552
Herman Yagoda		552
Markowicz the Lawyer		553
Betzalel		553
Social Assisance	Yom Tov Lewinsky	555
Tending to Guests (Hachnasat Orchim)		555
Medical Aid		557
Medics (Feldschers)		558
Physicians		559
Poorhouse		560
Ahavat Achim Organization	Yisrael Lewinsky	560
Help and Arrangements for Refugees	Y. Lewinsky	561
Linat Hatzedek	Y. Lewinsky	562
Shlomoke Czinciol	Y. Lewinsky	564
Women's Organization		564
The Assistance Fund of the Handworkers' Association		567
Dark Waves are Fast Approaching		567
Who Knows What Will Happen With Us?		569
Centas		569
Beiza Singer		570
Gemilat Chasadim Fund		571
Mother, Alta Sokolicha	Chava Sokol
Images: Moshe Klopfisz of blessed memory		577
Chava Sokol		578
Golda Zarimowska-Rotkowicz		578
Those Saved from the Nazi Inferno		579-580
I. Zambrow Natives in the Diaspora		580-610
Our Brethren in the United States	Mendel Cybelman	581
The Workers' Circle Branch 149 (Zambrower)	Mendel Cybelman	581
The Zambrower Aid Committee in Chicago	Mendel Cybelman	584
The History of the Zambrow Society in the United States	Itche Rozen	585
From the Book of Minutes, 1940-1943	Yom Tov Lewinsky	589
The Zambrow United Assistance Organization	Moshe Eizer	594
Remarks Yom Tov Lewinsky		596
Zambrowers in Mexico	Yitzchak Rotberg	597
Zambrowers in the Landsmanschaft Organization of Lomza, Zambrow and Region, Buenos Aires (Argentina)	Boaz Chmiel	599
Chaim Yosef Rodnik (memorial)		604
Zambrower Organization in Israel	Tzvi Zamir
List of Zambrowers in America who Subscribed to the Book		610
Yisgadal Veyiskadash Shmei Rabba…		611
Memorial Days in the Annals of the City	Y. Lewinsky	612
Yizkor – 64 memorials to 400 murdered natives of our city		613-625
Abridged Content in English		1-69

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