The book of Lublin

The Book of Lublin
(Poland)

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Translation of
Dos bukh fun Lublin

Editors: Former Residents of Lublin in Paris

Published in Paris, 1952

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This is a translation of: Dos bukh fun Lublin (The book of Lublin),
Editors: Former Residents of Lublin in Paris, Paris, 1952 (Y, 695 pages)

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TOC translated by Yocheved Klausner

Foreword		9
Introduction		13

PART ONE
Lublin in the Framework of Jewish History

A Jewish Metropolis	I. Milner	19
Pages from the past (Jewish settlement in Lublin from antiquity to the 18th cent.)	I. Trunk	25
The MAHARSHAL from Lublin	N. Shemen	59
The Bet Hamidrash in the name of the Parnas [leader of the congregation]	B. Byaler	83
The blood–libel trial in 1636	Bella Mandelsberg–Schildkraut	98
From the Lublin Archives – economic and judicial situation of the Jews in the 17^th cent.	Bella Mandelsberg–Schildkraut	101
Historic Tombstones in the Old Lublin Cemetery		105
The Jewish Sejm in its blooming period		118

PART TWO
Jewish Lublin Between the Two World Wars

From 1914 to 1939	M. Lerman	133

This was our Hometown (Memories and Images)
Memories from the years of youth	Dr. Shlomo Herschenhorn	138
A walk through the once Jewish Lublin	Yosef Achtman	141
Streets and alleys	H. I. Teig	143
The beloved town of the childhood years	Dina Stamfather	145
Memories from the Twenties	Yitzhak Green	147
The “Spoldam” Co–operative	Z. Flamm–Franenberg	149
The Lublin garden and the Jewish children	Hella Marder	150
Remarcable figures	Tzadok Feffer	153
Images from home	Matis Zhelaza	157
Ruska Street	Moshe Katz	159
The sand suburb	Shlomo Stockfisch	160
Tchechiv and Wohlye – two Lublin suburbs	M. Schildkraut	163
Jewish Councilmen in the Town Council in 1928 (from “Lubliner Togblatt”)		166
The Jewish community 1928–1929 (excerpts from Lubliner Togblatt)		169
The religious life	I. L. Hurwitz	171
Additional information about the religious life	A.L. Betman, A. Feuertag, S. Silberberg	183

Political Life

The “Bund” organization before WWI	L. Lehrer	185
The “Bund” in Lublin from 1916 to 1939	Dr. S. Herschenhorn	187

The Zionist Movement
From Hovevei Zion to Hechalutz	N. Korn	192
The youth of the General Zionists	N. Korn	198
The Mizrahi Organization	A. Z. Meisels	200
Po'alei Zion (left) – the Jewish Labor Party united with ZS	M. Zukerman	200
Po'alei Zion (left) – the Jewish Labor Party	Toibe Lieberman	203
Twelve–years activity of “Yungbar” in Lublin	D. Stockfisch	206
Hashomer Hatza'ir	M. Lehrman	211
Potchantkovska 22	Esther Schwartz	214

The Communist Movement
The Communist Organization 1931–1932	Teshke Tennenbaum–Forstetter	215
Jewish communists in the twenties	M. Zhekaza	220
The establishment of the proletarian youth movement	P. Lesman	222
The Association of the school young students (Z.M.S.)	M. Sternfinkel	223
The “Zamek inhabitants” (the life of political prisoners in the Lublin prison)	Dr. L. Wallerstein	225
A Borochov celebration in the Lublin Prison	D. Stockfisch	232

The Professional Movement
Workers' struggle in Lublin in the years 1915–1920	I. Stammfather	234
The professional union of the printing workers	I. Reichenstein	242
The Lublin porters	I. Freud	246
The union of the leather workers	M. Roitboim	248
Founding the Textile Workers Union – their first struggle	S. Shapira	249

Cultural Life (Cultural Organizations and Schools)
Jewish cultural institutions (Hazamir, Jewish Theater, Cultural League)	I. Trachtenberg, I. Schwarz	252
“The Y.L. Peretz Community Center”	B. Krempel	254
The Tarbut School	N. Korn	256
The Jewish–Polish (government) High–Schools in Lublin	Dr. N. Blumenthal	259
Memories of the Jewish Elementary School graduates	Gitel Schildkraut–Edelstein	266
The “Workers' Evening Courses” Society	M. Schildkraut	270
The Association of the Jewish Students in Lublin	M. Sternfinkel	271

The Jewish Press

The “Lubliner Togblatt” [The Lublin Daily]	M. Raschgold	273
“Shliessen di Ghetto”	A. Schwartzer	277
“Mischel Zhidowska”	A.Z. Meisels	278

Institutions and Organizations (Health, Banking, Professional)
The Jewish hospital	Rivka Arbuz–Koppelman, Dr. A. Kerschman	280
The TOZ Society in Lublin		282
The Bank	M. Lehrman	283
The Free–of–Interest Loan Fund		284
The Craftsmen's Union	I. Schwartz	284
The split in the Craftsmen's Union	A. L. Wallach	285
The Socialist Craftsmen Union	N. Lepler	288

The Sports Movement
Jewish Sport Clubs in Lublin	I. Reichenstein	289
Shimshon – the first Jewish gymnastics and sports Association	I. Freud	292
Maccabi and Yardenia Sports Clubs	A. Rubinstein	296
The “Wienijawa” Sports Club	Z. I. Koppelman	298
Jewish life as reflected in the “Lubliner Togblatt” newspaper		300
Community activists and personalities in Jewish Lublin (biographical notes and data): Moshe Eisenberg, Smuel Eichenboim, Chana Ackerman, Imanuel Binder, Simcha Bromberg, Lipe Bloch, Hadassa Bloch, Yakov Blechman, Pesach Brikman, Leibush Geliebter, Bella Dobzhinska, Dr. Karl Hollenberg, Boleslav Wahrman, Dr. Moshe Seideman, H.I. Silber, Shmuel Jitomirski, Chaim–David Langfuss, Dr. Gershon Levine, Asher Levinsohn, Azriel Mantelmacher, Eliezer Nissenboim, S.I. Stopnitzki, Yitzhak Slobodkin, Meir–Yitzhak Serebnik, Avraham Englender, Moshe Ehrlich, Pinchas Edelstein, Dr. Plotkin, Shaul Finkelstein, Ben–Zion Kupperstein, Yakov Kerschman, Yitzhak Rosenberg, Ludwig Rechtschaft, Ovadia Schoenbrunn, Avraham Schieff, Yehuda–Leib Sper.		326

PART THREE
The Destruction of Lublin

Introduction to the available material about the destruction of Lublin	The Editorial Board	341
Deportation and annihilation of the Jewish settlements in the Lublin District – numbers and data	T. Brustin–Bernstein	346
Sanitary conditions and death–rate in the Ghetto	I. Trunk	357

Maidanek

Death–Camp Maidanek (report of the Polish–Soviet committee for the investigation of German crimes in the death–camp Maidanek)		527
The Gas–Chamber in Maidanek	From the Brochure of Constantin Simonov	537

PART FOUR
Lublin Jews in the Resistance Movement

Jewish partisans in the Lublin–Bichova Didtrict	Testimony of Motl Sternblitz	549
A group of partisans in Plashovice	Testimony of Alter Rasset	553
Jewish partisans in the “Armia Ludowa”	Testimony of Michael Lauterstein	555
The soldier and fighter Shlomo Mittelman	M. Schildkraut	567
Lubliner in Israel's War of Independence	M. Roshgold & M. Zukerman	571
A Lubliner in the Spanish battlefields – memories about Yehezkel Honigstein	A. Liessner	573
A Lubliner in the Normandy Landing 1944 – corporal Moshe Yosef Schweid		576
The resistance member Dr. Moshe Blumenstock		577
Three resistance fighters in France: Yosef Burstein, Salek Batt, Henri Peretz	D. Steg	578
The Spain Fighter Gedaliahu Shapira	S. Silberberg	582
The partisan Eliahu Wallach – his friendship with Romain Roland		583

PART FIVE
Lubliner Around the World

Lublin after World War Two	Nachman Blumenthal	593
The Liberation of Lublin	M. Schildkraut	599
The Lubliner Landsmanshaft in Poland	I. Reichenstein	601
Reflections on the Jewish Resistance	Yitzhak Greenboim	638
Two poems: Standing in front of the clothes in Maidanek; I saw a mountain	Moshe Schulstein	640
Community activists in Jewish Lublin (biographical notes): Yosef Siegel, A. Lew, Bella Mandelsberg–Schildkraut, Eliezer Mokotovski, Dr. A. Mesch, Dina Feder, Bracha Katznelenbogen, Israel Katznelenbogen, Yitzhak Sade		642

YIZKOR

Lubliner survivors remember those who have perished		645
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Street names mentioned in this book		665
Pre–war localities mentioned in book		665
Index of Persons		667

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