Belz Memorial Book - Belz, Ukraine

Belz Memorial Book
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Translation of
Belz, Sefer Zikaron

Edited by Yosef Rubin

Published by Belz Societies in Israel and America

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This is a translation from “Belz, Sefer Zikaron”, (Belz Memorial Book);
editor Yosef Rubin; Published by Belz Societies in Israel and America; Tel Aviv, Israel, 1974

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Belz – Remembrance Book

A Compilation of the Irgun/Organization of those who left
Belz and the surrounding areas who now live in Israel and with
the help of the Jews from Belz in America

Title Author Lang. Page

Mein Shtetle Belz (song) Alexander Olshanetzky (music) Yiddish 9

Foreward Hebrew 13

Foreward Yiddish 15

The History of Belz Chaim Holtzman Hebrew 19

The History of Belz Chaim Holtzman Yiddish 29

CHASSIDISM

Belzer Chassidism. (Introduction; The Master, Our Teacher R. Sholom Rokach; The Master, Our Teacher R. Yehoshua Rokach; The Master, Our Teacher R. Yissachar-Dov (Ber) Rokach; The Master, Our Teacher R. Ahron Rokach (R. Ahrelah)) Yosef Rubin Hebrew 43

Belzer Chassidism. (Introduction; The Master, Our Teacher R. Sholom Rokach; The Master, Our Teacher R. Yehoshua Rokach; The Master, Our Teacher R. Yissachar-Dov (Ber) Rokach; The Master, Our Teacher R. Ahron Rokach (R. Ahrelah)) Yosef Rubin Yiddish 99

A Visit To Belz in the Year 1903 Dr. Yosef Patai Hebrew 157

A Visit To Belz in the Year 1903 Dr. Yosef Patai Yiddish 159

Shabbat in Belz Dr. Yosef Patai Hebrew 162

Passover in the Rebbe’s Court Elazar Adler Hebrew 169

At the Belzer Rebbe’s Elazar Weinberger Yiddish 171

An Accounting Yosef Pollack Yiddish 173

The Rebbe R. Yissachar Dov Stays in Our Hotel Peretz Zeifert Hebrew 175

The Rebbe R. Yissachar Dov Stays in Our Hotel Peretz Zeifert Yiddish 176

ECONOMY – SOCIETY – CULTURE

The Structure of the Economy of the Jewish Population Meir Roter Hebrew 181

The Structure of the Economy of the Jewish Population Meir Roter Yiddish 192

Gemilut Chesed Fund David Meir Reiss Yiddish 204

Chosen to Account to the Austrian Reich Yosef Mintzer Yiddish 204

The First Zionist Organization David Meir Reiss Yiddish 206

Secular and Jewish Education Meir Roter Hebrew 208

Secular and Jewish Education Meir Roter Yiddish 212

Zionists Vs. (Against) Chassidim Eliezer Berger Yiddish 217

Toward A History of “The Unity (Party)” in Belz Chanula Meir Hebrew 219

To Gordonia (Left Wing of HaPoel Hatziyonim) in Belz Yitzchak Meir Hebrew 225

From the Letters of Aharon Reuven Meir Z”L Aharon Reuven Meir Z”L Hebrew 229

Land and Work Peretz Zeifert Hebrew 230

The Beginning of the Mizrachi Youth (religious Zionists) in Belz Isaac Lieberman Yiddish 232

My Path in the “Torah and Service” Movement Miriam Eliash Hebrew 236

In the Zionist Youth Mirel Korngut (Holtzman) Yiddish 238

Cultural Customs and Activities Meir Roter Hebrew 241

Cultural Customs and Activities Meir Roter Yiddish 254

The Left Wing Movements (Bund and Communists) Meir Roter Hebrew 268

Elections Meir Roter Hebrew 273

REMEMBRANCES – CUSTOMS – FOLKLORE

Between Two Rivers Bruriyah Honigman (Falk) Yiddish 281

In The First World War Chaya Rachel Stieglitz (Holtzman) Yiddish 282

Elul Yosef Falk Yiddish 287

The Enemy of the Jews and his Downfall Sima Hillman Yiddish 290

Remembrances About the Belzer Rav Chantshah Holtzman Yiddish 291

A Fire in the Beit Midrash (Study Hall) Raphael Bitterman Yiddish 294

Laboring Families Meir Roter Hebrew 296

A Tale of the Belzer Rebbe with Reb Berele Marschalikand Commissar Brandel Beila Holtzman Yiddish 303

A Tale of a Belzer Chassid Who Traveled To Eretz Yisroel (Israel) Sima Hillman Yiddish 304

The Tale of the City Elder and the Old Cemetery Beila Holtzman Yiddish 307

The Eve of Yom Kippur Yosef Falk Hebrew 308

Children’s Teachers Yonah Bringer Yiddish 312

In Cheder (young children’s schoolroom) Moshe Haderi Yiddish 314

Talmud Teachers Yosef Rubin Yiddish 317

A Story (a “Bilbul”) With Hesheles Son Avraham David Meir Reiss Yiddish 323

What Fanaticism Can Lead To Bluma Berger Yiddish 324

Belz – A Concept Meir Holtzman Hebrew 326

Yossele Bronder – “The Messiah Seeker” Isaac Lieberman Yiddish 328

Customs Meir Roter Hebrew 331

I Installed Electric Lighting In the Rebbe’s House Peretz Zeifert Hebrew 336

I Installed Electric Lighting In the Rebbe’s House Peretz Zeifert Yiddish 338

My Town, Belz Miriam Elias Hebrew 342

The Shocking Murder of Mania Tzon M-CH (initials) Hebrew 343

The Synagogue in the Beit Midrash Moshe Haderi Yiddish 345

The Game of Kings (Chess) Peretz Zeifert Hebrew 348

The Game of Kings (Chess) Peretz Zeifert Yiddish 349

Three Types (of people) Isaac Lieberman Yiddish 350

Yiddishe Mamas Old Person’s Committee Chana Basia Donner Yiddish 352

Berele and Leibele and the Rebbe’s Decision Peretz Zeifert Hebrew 354

Berele and Leibele and the Rebbe’s Decision Peretz Zeifert Yiddish 355

I Wasn’t Born In Belz Chaya Bringer Hebrew 357

IMPORTANT PERSONS AND IMAGES

Rabbi Pinchas Twerski (Rav Pini’le) Z”L written by 'Friend of Writers' Hebrew 361

My Zeide (Grandfather) Rabbi Levi Dayan Z”L Moshe Muttner Yiddish 368

My Father’s Path In Life Miriam Elias Hebrew 372

Rabbi Mordechai the Judge (Weinberger) Z”L Elazer Weinberger Yiddish 378

Rabbi Mord’cha’le the Judge (Rebhun) Z”L David Rebhun Hebrew 379

Rabbi Moshe Mintzer Z”L – The Prodigy from Zolkiew Dov Sadan Hebrew 380

Dr. Heinrich Prostig Z”L Dr. Adolf Gevandter Yiddish 382

In Memory of Aharon Reuven Meir Yerucham Tulkas Hebrew 385

Aharon Erlich Z”L Moshe Haderi Hebrew 387

Yosef Falk Z”L Yisroel Ashendorf Yiddish 390

My Father’s House Moshe Haderi Hebrew 392

Chanoch Holtzman Z”L Moshe Etzyoni Hebrew 395

Rav Elazar Weinberg Z”L Peretz Zeifert Hebrew 398

Chaim Holtzman Z”L Yosef Rubin Hebrew 400

IN THE TIME OF THE HOLOCAUST

Yizkor (a poem) A. Lieberman Yiddish 407

Dr. Leon Taube Goes of His Will to the Sacrifice (Akeidah) Aharon Moshe Kook Hebrew 408

Dr. Leon Taube Goes of His Will to the Sacrifice (Akeidah) Aharon Moshe Kook Yiddish 410

Belz – Siberia - Buchara – Belz Chaim Holtzman Hebrew 411

Belz – Siberia - Buchara – Belz Chaim Holtzman Yiddish 431

In the Ghetto, In the Town, Among Partisans * Sheva Renner (Mutner) Hebrew 457

In Premislan and the Slaughter of My Family * Sheva Renner (Mutner) Yiddish 460

Belzers in the Rawa Ruska Ghetto Aharon Moshe Kook Yiddish 464

“Shema Yisroel” On the Way to the Cemetery ** Malka Rosenbloom Hebrew 465

From Russia Back to Poland ** Malka Rosenbloom Yiddish 467

Twenty Months in the Bunker Chana Freundlich Hebrew 470

Twenty Months in the Bunker Chana Freundlich Yiddish 473

I Struggled With the Nazis For Five Years Ahouva Shamai (Grussfeld) Hebrew 477

I Struggled With the Nazis For Five Years Ahouva Shamai (Grussfeld) Yiddish 481

The Kaddish Avraham Zilberberg Hebrew 487

The Kaddish Avraham Zilberberg Yiddish 490

Among Good People Avraham Zilberberg Hebrew 493

REMEMBRANCES (photographs) 501

THE MEGILLAH OF THE DESTRUCTION – listing of those who died 517

* = seem to be the same in different languages
**= seem to be the same in different languages

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Title	Author	Lang.	Page
Mein Shtetle Belz (song)	Alexander Olshanetzky (music)	Yiddish	9
Foreward		Hebrew	13
Foreward		Yiddish	15
The History of Belz	Chaim Holtzman	Hebrew	19
The History of Belz	Chaim Holtzman	Yiddish	29

CHASSIDISM
Belzer Chassidism. (Introduction; The Master, Our Teacher R. Sholom Rokach; The Master, Our Teacher R. Yehoshua Rokach; The Master, Our Teacher R. Yissachar-Dov (Ber) Rokach; The Master, Our Teacher R. Ahron Rokach (R. Ahrelah))	Yosef Rubin	Hebrew	43
Belzer Chassidism. (Introduction; The Master, Our Teacher R. Sholom Rokach; The Master, Our Teacher R. Yehoshua Rokach; The Master, Our Teacher R. Yissachar-Dov (Ber) Rokach; The Master, Our Teacher R. Ahron Rokach (R. Ahrelah))	Yosef Rubin	Yiddish	99
A Visit To Belz in the Year 1903	Dr. Yosef Patai	Hebrew	157
A Visit To Belz in the Year 1903	Dr. Yosef Patai	Yiddish	159
Shabbat in Belz	Dr. Yosef Patai	Hebrew	162
Passover in the Rebbe’s Court	Elazar Adler	Hebrew	169
At the Belzer Rebbe’s	Elazar Weinberger	Yiddish	171
An Accounting	Yosef Pollack	Yiddish	173
The Rebbe R. Yissachar Dov Stays in Our Hotel	Peretz Zeifert	Hebrew	175
The Rebbe R. Yissachar Dov Stays in Our Hotel	Peretz Zeifert	Yiddish	176

ECONOMY – SOCIETY – CULTURE
The Structure of the Economy of the Jewish Population	Meir Roter	Hebrew	181
The Structure of the Economy of the Jewish Population	Meir Roter	Yiddish	192
Gemilut Chesed Fund	David Meir Reiss	Yiddish	204
Chosen to Account to the Austrian Reich	Yosef Mintzer	Yiddish	204
The First Zionist Organization	David Meir Reiss	Yiddish	206
Secular and Jewish Education	Meir Roter	Hebrew	208
Secular and Jewish Education	Meir Roter	Yiddish	212
Zionists Vs. (Against) Chassidim	Eliezer Berger	Yiddish	217
Toward A History of “The Unity (Party)” in Belz	Chanula Meir	Hebrew	219
To Gordonia (Left Wing of HaPoel Hatziyonim) in Belz	Yitzchak Meir	Hebrew	225
From the Letters of Aharon Reuven Meir Z”L	Aharon Reuven Meir Z”L	Hebrew	229
Land and Work	Peretz Zeifert	Hebrew	230
The Beginning of the Mizrachi Youth (religious Zionists) in Belz	Isaac Lieberman	Yiddish	232
My Path in the “Torah and Service” Movement	Miriam Eliash	Hebrew	236
In the Zionist Youth	Mirel Korngut (Holtzman)	Yiddish	238
Cultural Customs and Activities	Meir Roter	Hebrew	241
Cultural Customs and Activities	Meir Roter	Yiddish	254
The Left Wing Movements (Bund and Communists)	Meir Roter	Hebrew	268
Elections	Meir Roter	Hebrew	273

REMEMBRANCES – CUSTOMS – FOLKLORE
Between Two Rivers	Bruriyah Honigman (Falk)	Yiddish	281
In The First World War	Chaya Rachel Stieglitz (Holtzman)	Yiddish	282
Elul	Yosef Falk	Yiddish	287
The Enemy of the Jews and his Downfall	Sima Hillman	Yiddish	290
Remembrances About the Belzer Rav	Chantshah Holtzman	Yiddish	291
A Fire in the Beit Midrash (Study Hall)	Raphael Bitterman	Yiddish	294
Laboring Families	Meir Roter	Hebrew	296
A Tale of the Belzer Rebbe with Reb Berele Marschalikand Commissar Brandel	Beila Holtzman	Yiddish	303
A Tale of a Belzer Chassid Who Traveled To Eretz Yisroel (Israel)	Sima Hillman	Yiddish	304
The Tale of the City Elder and the Old Cemetery	Beila Holtzman	Yiddish	307
The Eve of Yom Kippur	Yosef Falk	Hebrew	308
Children’s Teachers	Yonah Bringer	Yiddish	312
In Cheder (young children’s schoolroom)	Moshe Haderi	Yiddish	314
Talmud Teachers	Yosef Rubin	Yiddish	317
A Story (a “Bilbul”) With Hesheles Son Avraham	David Meir Reiss	Yiddish	323
What Fanaticism Can Lead To	Bluma Berger	Yiddish	324
Belz – A Concept	Meir Holtzman	Hebrew	326
Yossele Bronder – “The Messiah Seeker”	Isaac Lieberman	Yiddish	328
Customs	Meir Roter	Hebrew	331
I Installed Electric Lighting In the Rebbe’s House	Peretz Zeifert	Hebrew	336
I Installed Electric Lighting In the Rebbe’s House	Peretz Zeifert	Yiddish	338
My Town, Belz	Miriam Elias	Hebrew	342
The Shocking Murder of Mania Tzon	M-CH (initials)	Hebrew	343
The Synagogue in the Beit Midrash	Moshe Haderi	Yiddish	345
The Game of Kings (Chess)	Peretz Zeifert	Hebrew	348
The Game of Kings (Chess)	Peretz Zeifert	Yiddish	349
Three Types (of people)	Isaac Lieberman	Yiddish	350
Yiddishe Mamas Old Person’s Committee	Chana Basia Donner	Yiddish	352
Berele and Leibele and the Rebbe’s Decision	Peretz Zeifert	Hebrew	354
Berele and Leibele and the Rebbe’s Decision	Peretz Zeifert	Yiddish	355
I Wasn’t Born In Belz	Chaya Bringer	Hebrew	357

IMPORTANT PERSONS AND IMAGES
Rabbi Pinchas Twerski (Rav Pini’le) Z”L	written by 'Friend of Writers'	Hebrew	361
My Zeide (Grandfather) Rabbi Levi Dayan Z”L	Moshe Muttner	Yiddish	368
My Father’s Path In Life	Miriam Elias	Hebrew	372
Rabbi Mordechai the Judge (Weinberger) Z”L	Elazer Weinberger	Yiddish	378
Rabbi Mord’cha’le the Judge (Rebhun) Z”L	David Rebhun	Hebrew	379
Rabbi Moshe Mintzer Z”L – The Prodigy from Zolkiew	Dov Sadan	Hebrew	380
Dr. Heinrich Prostig Z”L	Dr. Adolf Gevandter	Yiddish	382
In Memory of Aharon Reuven Meir	Yerucham Tulkas	Hebrew	385
Aharon Erlich Z”L	Moshe Haderi	Hebrew	387
Yosef Falk Z”L	Yisroel Ashendorf	Yiddish	390
My Father’s House	Moshe Haderi	Hebrew	392
Chanoch Holtzman Z”L	Moshe Etzyoni	Hebrew	395
Rav Elazar Weinberg Z”L	Peretz Zeifert	Hebrew	398
Chaim Holtzman Z”L	Yosef Rubin	Hebrew	400

IN THE TIME OF THE HOLOCAUST
Yizkor (a poem)	A. Lieberman	Yiddish	407
Dr. Leon Taube Goes of His Will to the Sacrifice (Akeidah)	Aharon Moshe Kook	Hebrew	408
Dr. Leon Taube Goes of His Will to the Sacrifice (Akeidah)	Aharon Moshe Kook	Yiddish	410
Belz – Siberia - Buchara – Belz	Chaim Holtzman	Hebrew	411
Belz – Siberia - Buchara – Belz	Chaim Holtzman	Yiddish	431
In the Ghetto, In the Town, Among Partisans *	Sheva Renner (Mutner)	Hebrew	457
In Premislan and the Slaughter of My Family *	Sheva Renner (Mutner)	Yiddish	460
Belzers in the Rawa Ruska Ghetto	Aharon Moshe Kook	Yiddish	464
“Shema Yisroel” On the Way to the Cemetery **	Malka Rosenbloom	Hebrew	465
From Russia Back to Poland **	Malka Rosenbloom	Yiddish	467
Twenty Months in the Bunker	Chana Freundlich	Hebrew	470
Twenty Months in the Bunker	Chana Freundlich	Yiddish	473
I Struggled With the Nazis For Five Years	Ahouva Shamai (Grussfeld)	Hebrew	477
I Struggled With the Nazis For Five Years	Ahouva Shamai (Grussfeld)	Yiddish	481
The Kaddish	Avraham Zilberberg	Hebrew	487
The Kaddish	Avraham Zilberberg	Yiddish	490
Among Good People	Avraham Zilberberg	Hebrew	493
REMEMBRANCES (photographs)			501

THE MEGILLAH OF THE DESTRUCTION – listing of those who died			517

* = seem to be the same in different languages **= seem to be the same in different languages