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Translation of Sefer Sandz
Edited by Dr. Raphael Mahler
Published by the Sandzer Society
Project Coordinator
Renee E. Miller zl
This is a translation from Sefer Sandz , (The Book on the Jewish Community of Nowy Sacz);
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Rafal Mahler | Forward | 11 | ||
Introduction | 13 | |||
GENERATIONS OF JEWS IN SANDZ | ||||
About the History of Jews in Sandz In the Era of Old Poland | ||||
I. | The City of Sandz Without Jews from the Beginning of the Thirteenth Century Until After the Gzires TKh [massacre of Jews by Cossacks, 1648] [Y] | 21 | ||
II. | The Hundred-Year Kehile [Organized Jewish Community] in Former Poland (from 1673 to1770) [Y] | 45 | ||
From the Partition of Poland Until the Austrian Constitution | ||||
I. | The First Period of Austrian Rule [Y] | 135 | ||
II. | In the Era of Josephine's Reforms, Massacres and Tax Exploitation (From Kaiser Joseph II Until the People's Spring [1848 - 1867]) [Y] | 168 | ||
III. | From the People's Spring to the Constitution (1848-1867) [Y] | 195 | ||
Demographic and Economic Statistics: The Days of Puronyes [Affliction] | ||||
I. | Jewish Statistics 1866 [Y] | 202 | ||
II. | The Development of the City: Statistics of Jews in Sandz and in the Sandzer District at the End of the Nineteenth and in the Twentieth Century [Y] | 224 | ||
After the Sreyfe [Fire] (Poem) [Y] | 231 | |||
III. | Jewish Melokhe [Trade] and Industry in Sandz in 1921 [Y] | 233 | ||
IV. | The Plunder [Y] | 237 | ||
SANDZER KHSIDES [THE MOVEMENT OF HASIDISM] | ||||
Rafal Mahler | R' Chaim Halberstam and His Generation | |||
I. | The Divrei Chaim" [Rabbi Chaim of Sanz (1793-1876)] [Y] | 247 | ||
II. | The Makhloykes[Feud] Sandz - Sadugora [Y] | 291 | ||
Harov Shmuel Meir Hacohen Hollander | Monuments to the author of the Divrei Chaim (Rabbi Chayim Halberstam) and his Family [H] | 342 | ||
Fayvel Levinson | Boti Tfile [Houses of Prayer] and Yeshivas in Sandz [Y] | 346 | ||
List of Subscribers to a Sefer [Religious Book] [Y] | 348 | |||
COMMUNAL DIRECTIONS (AIMS) AND INSTITUTIONS | ||||
Szmuel Mahler | The (Lecture in 1896) Held in theSchool [Y] | 351 | ||
R. M. | About Szmuel Goldberg [Y] | 353 | ||
Kalman Mahler | How Kheyder-Yingl [Boys from Religious Grade Schools] Became Zionists [Y] | 354 | ||
M. D. Berl (Dubi) | The Zionist Movement in Sandz [H] | 357 | ||
Alter Neiman | The Development of the Hebrew Movement in Sandz [H] | 362 | ||
Naftali Zigl | I Became a Teacher in Sandz [H] | 366 | ||
Yitzhok Frenkel | The First Jewish Worker-Party Z.P.S. (Jewish Socialist Party) [Y] | 371 | ||
Dr. Abraham Comet | Poalei-Tsion in Sandz (1905-1918) | 374 | ||
Jehuda Knebel | Between Two World Wars [Y] | 411 | ||
Rafal Mahler | The Circles of the Student Youth [Y] | 434 | ||
Baruch Stern | The Yugent [Youth]-Organization in Neisands [Nowy Sacz] [Y] | 448 | ||
Yitzhok Zaifert | Zikhroynes [Memories] of Poalei-Tsion [Y] | 463 | ||
Majer Landerer | The Zionist Movement [H] | 466 | ||
Liba Klapholtz | A Beloved Corner - A Cell of the Hashomer Hatzair in Sandz [H] | 476 | ||
Icchak Bitner | The Gordonia Movement [H] | 483 | ||
* * * | The Zionist Youth Movement [H] | 486 | ||
Blima Kampler | Bnei Zion [The Sons of Zion] [H] | 490 | ||
Benny Luks | Youth and Hope - The Dror [Freedom] Movement in Sandz [H] | 491 | ||
Rabbi P. Rozengarten | From My Memories of the Mizrachi Movement - Torah and Labor [H] | 496 | ||
* * * | About the Mizrachi Movement - Torah and Labor [H] | 500 | ||
* * * | Development of Jewish Sports in Niesandz [Y] | 513 | ||
THEATER, PURIM-SHPILN, AND FOLKLORE | ||||
Chaim Flaster | The Beginning of Yiddish Theater in Niesandz [Y] | 519 | ||
Moyshe Shlanger | The Dramatic Circle [Y] | 523 | ||
Leon Ablezer | Amateur Troupe in The Sandzer Circle [Y] | 524 | ||
Purim Shpiln [Y] | 527 | |||
Kalman Mahler | A Political Purim Poem [Y] | 538 | ||
Leon Ablezer | A Purim in The Sandzer Environs [Y] | 539 | ||
Menachem Zilberstein-Torem | From Sandzer Folklore [Y] | 542 | ||
Rafal Mahler | Yiddish in Sandz [Y] | 545 | ||
Political Leaders and Klal-Tuer [Community Leaders] | ||||
M. D. Berl (Dubi) | The Brothers Dr. Leon (Aryeh) and Bernard (Baruch) Nusboym [H] | 567 | ||
M. D. Berl (Dubi) | R' [Reb] Mojsze ben Aryeh Nusboym [Y] | 569 | ||
Dr. Chaim Hilfstein | Dr. Hersz Syrop[Y] | 570 | ||
Kalman Lustbader | Dr. Hersz Syrop and The General Zionists in Sandz [Y] | 571 | ||
Blima Fishler-Kempler | Recollections of Dr. Hersh Syrop [Y] | 579 | ||
Rafal Mahler | Szaul Amsterdam [Y] | 581 | ||
Albin (Tobiash) kts [Cohen=of the priestly class] | Bernard (Buzhiek) Rozenfeld [Y] | 591 | ||
M. | Khenukh Shprey [Y] | 593 | ||
I. Shamir | Y. Shamir - With Chanoch When The Tower Was Built [H] | 594 | ||
Dr. Elihu Tish | Shmuel Mashler and the Jewish Children's Home [Y] | 595 | ||
Yehuda Knebel | Meir Landerer [Y] | 600 | ||
Writers and the Scholarly | ||||
R. M. | R' Menachem Eliezer Mahler [Y] | 601 | ||
M. D. Berl (Dubi) | The Youth [Early Years] of Ben-Zion Rappaport [H] | 607 | ||
M.A Kurtz | The Letter [Last Testament] of One Jewish Martyr [H] | 609 | ||
M. D. Berl (Dubi) | Dr. Yermiahu Frenkel [H] | 613 | ||
Dov Shtuk-Sadan | Yermiahu Frenkel at Fifty [H] | 614 | ||
Sh. Shpan | Dr. Yirmiyahu Frankel in Our Land [H] | 617 | ||
Rafal Mahler | Heshek Shweid (Tsvi Israel) [Y] | 621 | ||
Prof. Zofia Ameizen | Memories of My Father [Y] | 624 | ||
R. M. | The Brothers Zsupnik [Y] | 629 | ||
Sh. D. Zinger | Mendl Neugreshel eh [May He Rest in Peace] [Y] | 632 | ||
Mendl Neugreshel | From the Book Collected Poems: An Interview About the Shtetl [Y] | 636 | ||
My Shtetl Sandz [Y] | 637 | |||
Popular Figures | ||||
Rafal Mahler | The Model Melamed - R' Chaiml Amkroyt [Y] | 638 | ||
R. M. | R' Chaiml Herbst [Y] | 640 | ||
Yitzhok Frenkel | Several Figures (R' Ber Szupnik, Tserele, the Family Safir) [Y] | 641 | ||
Heroes | ||||
Rafal Mahler | Dr. Emanuel Ringlblum, Historian of Polish Jews and of Their Umkum [Violent Death] and Gvure [Heroism] [Y] | 644 | ||
Rafal Mahler | Pethahiah Mahler, the Sandzer Hero from the Bialystoker Ghetto Uprising [Y] | 670 | ||
RECOLLECTIONS | ||||
Menachem Mendl Zilberstein-Torem | My Sandz Is No Longer There [Y] | 677 | ||
Benjomin Landau | A Stroll through the Streets of Niesandz [Y] | 679 | ||
Zalka Firer | Sandzer Traditions and Figures in the Nineteenth Century [Y] | 699 | ||
Yitzhok Zeigert | Two Shabosim [Sabbaths] [Y] | 705 | ||
HURBN [TOTAL DESTRUCTION] SANDZ | ||||
Mendl Neugreshel | Folk Song About Sandz and Podolya [Y] | 711 | ||
Rafal Mahler | THE TOTAL DESTRUCTION AND MASS MURDER | |||
The First Months Under the Nazi Boot [Y] | 723 | |||
From the Beginning of 1940 Until the Spring of 1941 [Y] | 728 | |||
Statistics on Hardship and Hunger [Y] | 748 | |||
The Last Year in Sandzer Ghetto (From the Summer of 1941 Until the Spring of 1942) [Y] | 769 | |||
The Jewish Remnants in the Sandzer Ghetto [Y] | 791 | |||
The Epilogue: The Toyt-Yesurim [Death-Agony] in the Workers' Camps; The Light of Gvure [Heroism] Still Flickers [Y] | 793 | |||
Memories and Witness | ||||
Shloyme Wolf | The Medical and Welfare Assistance in the Sandz Ghetto [H] | 798 | ||
Dov Hirshtal | About Sandzer Kines [Lamentations Upon the Destruction of Jerusalem; Used Here for Catastrophes] [Y] | 802 | ||
Szmuel Laufer | My Memories of the Destruction [Y] | 823 | ||
Abraham Segulis | The Tragedy of Paolei-Zion [Workers of Zion] {radical nationalist labor party}] in Niesandz [Y] | 840 | ||
Dov Zilbiger | The First Great Shkhite [Slaughter] [Y] | 845 | ||
Rena Anisfeld | Gevies Eydes [Bearing Witness] | 850 | ||
Hersh Beldegrin | Gevies Eydes [Y] | 862 | ||
That is the Entire Punishment. (Haman's Punishment - From the Press) [Y] | 876 | |||
SANDZER LANDSMANSHAFTN [Organizations of People Who Come From the Same Town] AND THE NEW YORK BOOK COMMITTEE | ||||
Shmuel Lustgarten | The Sandzer Society in New York [Y] | 879 | ||
Rafal Mahler | Those Who Are No Longer With Us (Yidl Keil, Dr. Mendl Neugreshel, Efrim Shiper) [Y] | 883 | ||
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