Kosiv, Ukraine

Memorial Book of Kosow-Kosow Huculski
(Kosiv, Ukraine)

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Translation of
Sefer Kosow-Galicia ha-mizrahit

Editors: G. Kressel, L. Oliczky

Published in Tel Aviv 1964

Acknowledgments

This is a translation of: Sefer Kosow-Galicia ha-mizrahit (Memorial book of Kosow-Kosow Huculski),
Editor: G. Kressel, L. Oliczky, Former Residents of Kosow and Vicinity in Israel, Published: Tel Aviv 1964 (H,Y 430 pages)

Note: The original book can be seen online at the NY Public Library site: Kosow

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Translated by Yocheved Klausner

The book about the Kossow Community	G. Kartel	7
The Jewish Kossow (poem) [Y]	L. Alitzki	11
Introduction	A. Z. Stein	12

Memories from the Past
Our Community Kossow	Avraham Zvi Stein	19
Kossow - its life [Y]	Dr. Meshulam Simcha	51
The beginnings of the Zionist Movement in Kossov	Yeshayahu Ish-Horowitz	103
Memories and impressions	Dr. Yosef Meir	126
Kossow and its ADMORs	Rav M. Ch. Efraim Bloch	142
The Zionist Kossow	Yitzhak Tennenboim	158
Jewish Schools and Kindergartens	Penina Stein	159
Distinguished personalities [Y]	Malka Raat	165
About craftsmen and about my father z”l	Aharon Appelboim	167
Pages from the past [Y]	Zalman Moiler	170
The Jewish shtetele Kossow [Y]	Meir Mayern-Luzer	173
About Kossow my town	Dr. Yehuda Felix	176
Memories	Yosef Winter	182
Kossow people in the Kibbutzim	Shlomo Kalmann	188
The “mountain merchants” in Kossow [Y]	Yakov (Buzie) Reicher	193
The Poalei Zion party [Y]	Yosef Winter & Baruch Engler	196
Our hearts cry after our Shtetl [Y]	Dr. Meshulam Simcha	202
Kossow - Kitow [Y]	Victoria Mandel	210
Memories from my home town	Dr. G. Ravitz	211
Types and images [Y]	Munye Fuchs	212

Figures
R'Shmuel Avraham Heisler	Avraham Zvi Stein	223
Avraham Kreisel	Avraham Zvi Stein	229
The “Mizrachi” minyan [prayer-quorum] in Kossow	Avraham Zvi Stein	237
From Avraham Kreisel's articles in the Hebrew Press	Avraham Zvi Stein	242
Dr. Yosef Meir	Avraham Zvi Stein	250
Dr. Yakov Gertner	Avraham Zvi Stein	254
Jews, help! - in memory of R'Hershele Feier	Yissachar Spiegel	257
My father Eliyahu Finster and my grandfather Pini Heisler	Rivka Kesser	267
Chaia-Sara Bartfeld [Y]	Baruch Engler	270

Destruction and Holocaust
The destruction of Kossow [Y]	Dr. Meshulam Simcha	275
The Holocaust in our town and surroundings	Dr. Meshulam Simcha	313
The Zavie community	D. Spotheim	332
How I jumped from the death train [Y]	Buzie Odelsmach-Klich	334
Kossow is “Judenrein” [Y]	Baruch Engler	339
Kossow without Jews	Baruch Engler	372
YIZKOR		391
In everlasting memory		392
List of the holy and pure martyrs (Necrology)		393

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