Hebrew |
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Since It Reached Me |
Zalman Shazar |
5 |
Regional Map |
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7 |
Steibtz Town Map |
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8 |
Foreword |
The Book Committee |
17 |
The Star of Steibtz |
David Zakay |
18 |
Steibtz, My Town |
Zalman Shazar |
19 |
Zalman Shazar – President of the State of Israel |
(From the Press) |
24 |
The President's Words on Receiving Honorary Citizenship of Jerusalem, the Nation's Capital |
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25 |
On the Occasion of the Pope's Visit to Israel |
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26 |
The President, Honorary Member of the Capital's journalists |
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26 |
The Monthly – A Hebrew Newspaper |
|
27 |
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History of the City |
The History of the Jews in Stoiptz |
Mordechai Machtey |
29 |
My Town Steibtz |
Reuven Levine |
31 |
With the Outbreak of World War One |
Mordechai Machtey |
35 |
|
Rabbis |
Rabbi Dovid Tevli |
M. Cinowitz |
38 |
Rabbi Simcha Shmuel |
M. Cinowitz |
39 |
Rabbi Binyamin Ben Shmuel |
M. Cinowitz |
40 |
Rabbi Meir Noach Halevi Levin |
M. Cinowitz |
40 |
Rabbi Shlomo Mordechai Brodneh |
M. Cinowitz |
41 |
Rabbi Avraham Yitzchak “Maskil–L'Eitan” |
M. Cinowitz |
42 |
Rabbi Yoel Carmel Sorotzkin |
M. Cinowitz |
43 |
Rabbi Yoel Carmel Sorotzkin |
Yosef Dov Lechovitsky |
44 |
Rabbi Avraham Yitzchak Maskil–L'Eitan |
Rabbi Reuven Katz, of blessed memory |
45 |
Rabbi Yoel Sorotzkin |
Rabbi Zalman Sorotzkin |
48 |
Rabbi Yehoshua Dov Lieberman |
Tzvi Stolovitzky |
52 |
Rabbi Moshe Neifeld |
Yitzchak Lungin |
54 |
Rabbi Yerachmiel Leizerzon |
Rabbi Elchanan Sorotzkin |
54 |
Rabbi Avraham Yeshaya Karelitz, the “Chazon Ish” |
Getzel Reiser |
55 |
The Personality of the “Chazon Ish” |
Tzvi Stolovitsky |
56 |
The Gaon Rabbi Reuven Katz of Blessed Memory |
Tzvi Harkavy |
58 |
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Rabbis – Natives of Steibtz |
Rabbi Yochanan Mirsky
Father and Son – Rabbi David and
Rabbi Moshe Vilentzik
Rabbi Yaakov Vilentzik |
M. Cinowitz |
59 |
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From the Press |
Haskala and Zionism in Steibtz |
|
60 |
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Movements and Parties |
In Those Days |
Getzel Reiser |
66 |
Memories From My Life in the Youth Movements |
Dov Ben Yerucham |
68 |
The Youth in the Working Zionism |
Baruch Aloni (Shatzkin) |
70 |
Hashomer Hatsa'ir in Steibtz |
Tamar Amarant |
73 |
The Dry Bones |
Dr. Yisrael Machtay |
73 |
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Institutions |
Public Institutions |
Mordechai Machtey |
76 |
From All My Teachers |
Zalman Shazar |
80 |
The Mir Yeshiva in Steibtz |
Mordechai Machtey |
88 |
The Tarbut School and Its Teachers |
Eliezer Melamed |
90 |
School |
Tamar Amarant (Rabinovitz) |
91 |
The New Study Hall |
Mordechai Machtey |
92 |
Religious Schools: Talmud Torah Chorev; Beit Yaakov; The Small Yeshiva; “The Tifferet Bachurim” Circle |
Tzvi Stolovitzky |
93 |
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Persons of Note |
Introduction |
Aharon Machtey |
95 |
The Appearance of the High Priest Mareh Cohen |
Dr. Yisrael Machtey |
95 |
Alter the Teacher |
Menachem Halevi |
98 |
In Memory |
Moshe Bar' Natan Akun |
99 |
Nachum R' Elihas |
Getzel Reiser |
100 |
Rabbi Yisrael Yehudah Ha–Levi Kapushchevski |
Rabbi Moshe Levin |
100 |
Yitzhak Alter Yossilevitz |
Shmuel Epshtein |
102 |
Rabbi Meir Chaitovitz |
Yitzchak Tunik |
102 |
Torah Scholars and Men of Learning |
Tzvi Stolovitzky |
105 |
HaRav R' Shlomo Chari |
|
106 |
HaRav R' Dovid Shmuelovitz |
|
107 |
HaRav R' Moshe Gitelis |
|
107 |
HaRav R' Yaakov Domnitz |
|
107 |
Rabbi Yehudah Leib Stolovitzki |
|
108 |
Rabbi Moshe Melamed |
|
108 |
Rabbi Yosef Miskov |
|
109 |
HaRav R' Yeshayahu Borishanski |
|
110 |
Itche (Yitzchak) Margolin |
Getzel Reiser |
110 |
Hillel Akun
Shlomo Yosef Eichel |
Mordechai Machtey |
111 |
The Model Teacher |
Dov Ben-Yerucham |
112 |
“One Kaddish” |
Rabbi Zalman HaLevi Ori (Fibushuvitz) |
114 |
The Last Rabbi of Steibtz |
Rabbi Zalman HaLevi Ori (Fibushuvitz) |
115 |
The “Mesharet Moshe” |
Mordechai Machtey |
115 |
The Image of a Dear Friend of My Youth |
Rabbi Yitzchak HaLevi Epshtein |
117 |
The Rebbetzin, Chassiah-Miriam Sorotzkin-Carmel |
HaRav Eliezer Maskil-L'Eitan |
118 |
|
Memories |
A Matter of Dispute |
Zalman Shazar |
120 |
Memories of My Childhood Days |
Mordechai Machtey |
124 |
Untitled Poem |
Yehezkhel Ben Moshe (Plaksin) |
127 |
Memories |
Gershon Rabinovitz |
127 |
My Parents' Home |
Tamar Amarant (Rabinovitz) |
128 |
My Parents' Home |
Chana Borsuk |
129 |
Our Home |
The Prosinovski Sisters |
129 |
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Between Two Regimes |
The Year 1939 |
Dr. Aharon Machtey |
131 |
A Story of Wandering |
Avraham Borsuk |
132 |
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The Holocaust |
My Small Town Steibtz |
Nachman Flaksin |
134 |
My Escape To The Forest |
Shlomo Aginsky |
135 |
How I Remained Alive |
Zalman Aginsky |
137 |
Departure from the Ghetto |
David Levin |
139 |
In the Camp and in the Forest |
Isaac Berkovitz |
140 |
The Holocaust |
Eliezer Melamed |
146 |
On My Brother's Death
| Isaac Berkovitz |
169 |
And You Shall Tell Your Son |
David Levin |
170 |
|
Dreamers and Fighters |
Yosef Harkavy |
Eliezer Melamed |
171 |
Moshe Zaretsky |
|
172 |
Boaz Axelrod |
|
173 |
Hirsh Posesorski |
|
173 |
Yaacov Spiegel |
|
174 |
Feiveh Aginsky |
Getzel Reiser |
176 |
A. Yehoshua Pekker |
Dov Ben-Yerucham |
176 |
B. Yaacov Riefler |
Dov Ben-Yerucham |
176 |
C. Meirka Machtey |
Dov Ben-Yerucham |
177 |
D. Asaf Shachnai |
Miriam Shachnai |
177 |
Sarah Gershenovitz |
Eli and Miriam Shachnai |
178 |
Tanchum Rabinovitz |
M. Neched |
178 |
Elimelech Machtey |
Dov Ben-Yerucham |
181 |
At the End of the War |
E. Melamed |
182 |
Greetings at the Celebration in Beit Hanassi |
Mordechai Machtey |
185 |
|
Yiddish |
|
The Editorial Board |
|
189 |
Foreward |
Zalman Shazar |
190 |
|
The Town and Its Development |
Steibtz of the Past |
Motl Machtey |
191 |
A Lifetime With My Little Village |
Zvi Hirsh Neifeld |
196 |
a. Sixty Years Ago |
Mendl Machtey |
216 |
b. The Ferry Over the Niemen River |
Mendl Machtey |
220 |
c. Designating Borders |
Mendl Machtey |
223 |
|
Movements and Parties |
The Political-Social Life |
Mordechai Machtey |
225 |
Zionist Organizations |
Shachne Shatskin |
228 |
The Founding of Betar |
Shachne Shatskin |
230 |
|
Institutions |
Social Activity Before the First War |
Mordechai Machtey |
232 |
Stoibtz Firefighters |
Mordechai Mirsky and Betzalel Baskin |
235 |
The Gemillut Chesed in Stoibtz – The Benevolent Society in Stoibtz |
Getzl Reiser |
239 |
The Bikkur Cholim – Visiting the Sick (Society for the Care of the Sick) |
Getzl Reiser |
243 |
The Artisan's Association |
Getzl Reiser |
245 |
|
Folklore |
My “Shtetle” Stolpce |
Ben Yerucham |
246 |
Wagon Drivers |
Mendl Machtey |
255 |
Memories |
Shmuel Milcenzon |
257 |
My Memories of Shteibtz |
Leibel Mirsky |
261 |
a. He Kept His Word
b. My Last Lag Ba'omer in Steibtz |
Yitzchak Russak |
262 |
Stolpce My Shtetele |
Aharon Chayat |
264 |
A Memory |
Roze Dvoretsky |
268 |
The Family of a Village Jew |
Yisroel Proshtsitski |
269 |
Gutkele |
Rozze Petshenik–Prusinovski |
271 |
|
Institutions |
The Last Rabbi of Stoibtz – The Gaon Rabbi Yehoshua Dov Lieberman |
Rabbi Nissen Waksman |
272 |
The Rabbi Reb Yehoshua Dov Lieberman |
Yitzchak Isaac Shapiro |
278 |
My Stolpcer Melamdim (Religious Teachers) |
Mordechai Machtey |
281 |
A Bundle of Memories |
Aharon Chayat |
283 |
A. Two Communal Workers
B. Reb Leib Rozowski the Warden of the Yurezdikke Synagogue
C. The Kitayevicz Family |
Getzl Reiser |
287 |
Mulye Kaplan |
Chana Borsuk |
291 |
Shlomo and Chiene Ruchl Mirsky |
Arye Leibl Mirsky |
292 |
Elegy About Chazon Ishai |
Chaim Gradde |
293 |
Pillar of Fire |
Chaim Gradde |
294 |
|
Morning Stars |
a. The Protectors of the Town |
Zalman Shazar |
296 |
b. The Revenge of the Rebuke |
|
301 |
c. Viera Yakovlevna |
|
310 |
|
Death |
In the Ghetto and in the Concentration Camp |
Getzel Reiser |
316 |
With Partisans |
Shmuel Leib Aginsky,
of blessed memory |
325 |
Fragments from “Forest in Flames” |
Josef Reich |
329 |
Of Those Terrible Days |
Nachema Inzelbuch |
336 |
Fear and Pain |
Esther Bruchansky [Mednitzky] |
338 |
A Terrible Day |
Dovid Slutzak |
339 |
How I Survived |
Shimon Epshtein |
341 |
The Death of the Jews in the Villages |
Mendel Machtey |
342 |
Remembrance |
Basia Milcenzon |
344 |
I Remember |
Betzalel Ben Moshe Baskin |
345 |
How Can We Forget |
Nachman Flaksin |
347 |
A. Back to Stoibtz in July 1944 |
Getzel Reiser |
348 |
B. Protocol of the Mourning Session |
|
350 |
A Letter |
Noakh Borsuk |
351 |
The First Letters from Stolpce |
Rywka Kantorovitz |
353 |
The First Letters from Stolpce |
Azriel Tunik |
353 |
The First Letters from Stolpce |
Chava Tunik |
354 |
A Letter from a Soldier of the Jewish Brigade |
Dov Germiza |
354 |
Letters from Africa and Argentina |
Bashke (Basia) Milcenzon |
355 |
|
Yehezkel Russak |
355 |
|
Henie Kushnir |
358 |
Our Organization in Israel |
The Editors |
358 |
Articles of the Association |
The Editors |
359 |
|
Landsmanschaftn – Association of Immigrants from the Same Region |
A Short Report of Our Activities |
Rozze Dvoretzky |
362 |
A Report from Our Committee |
Betzalel Baskin |
363 |
“The Stoibtz Mirror” |
Harris Malbin |
365 |
My Memories of 30 Years |
Sam Tunik |
366 |
Scenes from My Birthplace |
Dr. Zeyfert |
369 |
A Story of Childhood Years |
H. Lempert |
370 |
The Story of My Childhood |
Nachum Rozowsky |
372 |
Stoibtz As I Remember It |
Dr. Zeyfert |
373 |
A Jewish Fellow–Countryman Society Dismantles After 60 Years and Sends Its Torah Scrolls to Israel |
“Forverts” |
374 |
Reb Yosef Yeshayahu Cohen [Yossel Shaya The Teacher] |
Mordechai Machtey |
375 |
To All Former Stoibtz Jews! |
The Committee |
376 |
I Turn Around |
Zalman Shazar |
377 |
Poems |
Nachman Flaksin |
377 |
Two Stoibtz Golden Weddings |
The Association of Former Stoibtz Residents in Israel |
378 |
|
The Book of Swerznie |
The Book of Swerznie |
|
379 |
Members of Editorial Board |
|
380 |
Table of Contents |
|
381 |
First Memorial Service to the Martyrs of Swerznie - 15 Cheshvan 5614 – Tel Aviv 1953
|
A. D. Shkolnik |
382 |
Swerznie, the Dear Town of My Birth |
Reuven Sperans |
385 |
From the Life of the Town Swerznie As I Remember It |
A. Rozansky |
387 |
The Rabbis of Swerznie |
M. Cinowitz |
387 |
Sounds of the Past
(Impressions of the Way of Life in Swerznie) |
Yaacov Shalom Katzenellenbogen |
389 |
Memorial to a Life – There Once a Jewish Town of Swerznie |
A. Rozansky |
392 |
From the Life of the Town Swerznie – There Was Once a Jewish Town Swerznie |
A.D. Shkolnik |
393 |
From the Life of the Town |
Yekhiel Shmushkovitsh |
441 |
Memories of Our Little Town of Swerznie |
Manya Protas |
441 |
Social Life and Youth Movements in the Town of Novy-Swerznie |
Simchah Reznik |
443 |
Refugees in Swerznie |
Chanah Vineberg |
447 |
Jews in the Struggle Against the Nazi Occupier |
A. Kaplan |
452 |
The Holocaust and Heroism - Memoirs From the Nazi Occupation |
Peysekh Epshtein |
454 |
Swerznie in its Agony |
Yisrael Tzelkovitz |
456 |
The Last Night |
Michael Grandde |
463 |
“Not Like Sheep to the Slaughter” |
Munia Yossilevski-Yaron |
464 |
A Memory To Those Who Fell Heroically |
Munia Yossilevski-Yaron |
477 |
The Final Liquidation of the Svershzne Jews |
Khave Bernshtein |
480 |
|
Other Towns |
Rebzevitsh (Rubiazhevichy, Belarus) |
Mendl Machtey |
485 |
The Destruction of the Jews of Rebzevitsh and its Vicinity |
Gishke Polayesh |
486 |
From the Press [H] |
M. Cinowitz |
488 |
HaRav R' Arye-Leib Pupko, son of the Chofetz Chaim, a resident of Rubezhevitz |
|
489 |
My Little Town Derevne |
Aharon Broide |
490 |
The Town Nalibok, Its Life and Extermination |
Chaim Shlosberg |
491 |
* |
The Publishing Committee |
494 |
|
Alphabetical List of Martyrs |
|
495 |
There are the Names of the Martyrs of Swierzne |
|
503 |
List of Partisans Who Have Fallen in the Forests and in battle |
|
506 |
List of Former Stolpce Residents Who Died in Israel |
|
507 |
List of Former Stolpce Residents Who Died in Argentina |
|
507 |
Obituaries - For Their Holy Remembrance |
|
508 |
Family Photographs |
|
517 |
|
English Section at the end of the book |
Foreword |
Zalman Shazar |
IV |
The History of Steibtz |
|
VIII |
A Short Report of Our Activities |
Rosa Dvoretsky |
IX |
A Short Report of Our Activities |
Icheskel Russak |
XIII |
Germiston Pioneers Celebrate Golden Wedding |
|
XIV |
How Steibtz Was Destroyed |
|
XV |
The Founding of Our Society in Israel |
|
XIX |