Kalisz, Poland

The Kalish Book
(Kalisz, Poland)

51°45' / 18°05'

Published by the Israel-American Book Committee

Tel Aviv 1968

Acknowledgments

Project Coordinator

Judy Wolkovitch

Our sincere appreciation to Genia Hollander
for typing up the English text to facilitate its addition to this project.

Our grateful thanks to Sondra Ettlinger
for obtaining the pictures to be included in this translation.

This is “The Kalish book”,
Published by the Israel-American Book Committee; Tel Aviv 1968 (E 329 pages)

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Members of the Publication Committees
Foreword	The Editorial Committee	7
Yizkor		8
Memorial Stones	Baruch Tall	10

History of the Jews in Kalish	Dr. N.M. Gelber	15

The Men of the City
The City of Blessed Memory	Dr. S. Zalud	57
Jews in the commerce and industry of Kalish	Stefan Frenkel	72
The Lace Industry	K. C.	76
The Trade Union Movement	I. Klechevski	78
Our City	Leon Solnik	83
Five Years of Communal Work. 1931-1936	J. M. Heber	85
Blaszki	B. C.	86
Stawiszin	Shraga Engel	89
Religious life in the City	Rabbi Dr. Meir Schwartzmann	90
The “Magen Abraham”	Moshe Feinkind	91
The Gaon Reb Abbele Harif	Mordechai Weiss	94
Rabbi Hayyim Eliezer Wachs	M. Kalishai	96
Rabbi Ezekiel Liebshitz	A. K.	98
Torah & Prayer	Aryeh Bornstein	100
The Cantors of Kalish	E. Krotianski	101
In the Yeshiva	Shlomo Yehiel Nobel	104
The Jubilee of the Eruv	M. Ben Menahem	105
A Pogrom in Kalish in 5638 (another version)	M. Menahemai	106
A Blood Libel in Kalish	Hanski	107
Kalish as a Family Name	Joseph Milner	108
The Jewish Press of Kalish	A. K.	110
1904-1920	Peretz Walter	111
The Clattering Machines	Simon Horonchik	115
The Beginnings of the Century	Morris Walter	121

Society & Culture
The Jewish Political Parties		125
Seeking for the Way	Hayyim Stein	131
The “Lamifal” Training Kibbutz in Kalish	Edzia	133
Cultural Life	Meir Packentraeger	135
Cultural Activities. 1918-1939	S. Baum	136
'Turn un Sport Verein'	Isaac Klecz	138
Rowing Club K.W.30	Pinczewski	139
The Budgetary session of the Kehilla Council, 1930	M. M.	140
Results of Elections to the Kehilla Council, 1936	A. K.	144
The Jewish Hospital	Dr. P. Beatus	145

A Decade
Kalish in 5687		149
Kalish in 5688		152
Kalish in 5689		156
Kalish in 5690		159
Kalish in 5691		161
Kalish in 5692		163
Kalish in 5693		166
Kalish in 5694		168
Kalish in 5695		170
Kalish in 5696		172

The Final Years
The Attacks on the Market Dealers in Grodzisk	K. W.	179
The Dreadful Fate of the Market Travellers	A. Avenavitz	180
Competition	M. Warshawski	182
The Only Way Out	Yedidia	183
Kalish Miniatures	Baal-Davar	185
My City	S. Rubin	186
On the Bridge of Kalish	Observer	188
During the First World War	Katriel Stein	189
On the Island	L. Shurek-Halevi	190
The New Year	M. Packentreger	194
The Ninth of Av in 1914	H. Solnik	196
My Eyes Perceive You	Meir Packentreger	198
Daily Life	Gershon Wroclawski	198
Oppenheim House	Benjamin Zvieli	200
The Old Bridge in Kalish	Joseph Sieradzki	201
The Café Goers	J. Holz	203
We Are Taking Steps	Alexander Poznanski	205
19, Ciasna Street	I. Holz	207
N°3. Nova Street	Bluma Wroclawski	208
A Lag Ba'Omer March	M. B.	209
Lag Ba'Omer Rambles	Roshem	211
The Herzl Assembly at a Hashomer Camp	Bar-Saba	212
The Gymnasium	Micia Jedwab–Katsir	214
The Jewish Theatre and Amateur Groups	W.K.	215
Hehalutz	S.R.	217
Map of the City		218
The City Remains Solitary	Baruch Tall	219
The Organization of Immigrants from Kalish & District in Israel		222
The Committee of Kalish Landsleit in Jerusalem		229
The Kalish Landsleit organization in Haifa		231
Mission to Poland, 1946	Joseph Arnold	232
The Story and Activities of the Non–Partisan Relief in the U.S.A.		236
Kalish Immigrant Societies in the U.S.A.	Kalman Aronovitch	242
Kalish Townsfolk in Australia		248

The Holocaust
The End of the Community	Dr. Moshe Gross (Henryk Zeligowski)	251
Kalish, Kosminek and the Camps	Wolf Lassman	275
Kalish in August 1939 and After	From the Ringelblum Archives	281
Some Figures	S. Glicksman	287
Kalish in May, 1962	Abraham Milgrom	288
The Finish	Dov Zielonka	289
My Dream	Halina Liebeskind	293

Those Who Fought Back
Joseph Kaplan		296
Adek Boraks		301
Jacob David Sitner		305
Abraham Diamant		306
Zerah Silberberg		308
Temkin		311
Israel Shari		312
Misha Adelstein		313
Yossele Goldshmidt		313
Yehiel Tenzer		314
Kalish Women in the Resistance – Vitka Kempner	Hava Shurek	315
Hannah Aronovitch-Rackman	Hava Shurek	317
Rivka and Vera Shurek	Hava Shurek	317

Yizkor		318

The Roll of Honour		320

Kalish Book Committees in U.S.A. and Israel		328

The tale of Kalish closes here unended		329

Illustrations
Kalish Jews Day by Day	between pages 64-65
The Face of Kalish City	between pages 176-177

The English version, prepared by I. M. Lask, was completed and printed on the Eve of Passover 5678 (1968).

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