Journal for the Double Celebration of 25 Years of the Mutual Aid Society of Belchatow, Poland

0 Journal for the Double Celebration of
25 Years of the Mutual Aid Society of Belchatow and vicinity
and the Dedication of our own building
and the 7^th Anniversary of the Cooperative “Superacion”
(“Overcoming”)

(Bełchatów, Poland)

51°22' / 19°23'

Translation of
Publicacion Aniversario dedicado al la Inauguracion de la Sede Propia y
el 25°Aniversario de la Sociedad de Socorros Mutuos de Belchatow

Published in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in August 1967

Technical Editor: P. Katowsky

Acknowledgments

Project Coordinator

Roni Seibel Liebowitz

Editing and Technical Support

Jerry Liebowitz

This is a translation of: Publicacion Aniversario dedicado al la Inauguracion de la Sede Propia
y el 25°Aniversario de la Sociedad de Socorros Mutuos de Belchatow
(Journal for the Double Celebration of 25 Years of the Mutual Aid Society of Belchatow and vicinity
and the Dedication of our own building and the 7th Anniversary of the Cooperative “Superacion” [“Overcoming”]),
ed. P. Katowsky, Published in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in August 1967

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Translated by Flora Rotblatt and Jerry Liebowitz

Yiddish front cover
Our Quarter of a Century	Editorial	1
Twenty Five Years	A. Laib	3
The Belchatowers in Argentina	Zainwel Przedborski	5
Countrymen [Landsleit] (song)	L. Miller	8
On the Beginning of the New Building	Yosef Gliksman	9
The Belchatowers in the Argentine Textile Industry	Y. M. Pukacz	11
With Belchatowers in New York	S. Zhitnitski (Zitnicki)	15
To the Holiday [Yom Tov] of My Countrymen in Argentina	Mendel Kaufman	18
The participation of the Belchatowers in the Argentine Community	H.-E.	21
Our Mutual Aid Society and Our Cooperative	Laibl Hecht	23
Belchatowers in Australia	S. P.	24
The Women's Committee of the Belchatowers	Bracha Freiman	25
25 Years [since the] Destruction of Belchatow		26
Do Not Forget Our Destruction	Melech Podlowski	27
Silent Sounds	Moshe Yoel Yerzhi (Ieryi)	28
The Struggle for Survival	A. Beiliss	30
About the Six Historic Days	M. Kaufman	32
Belchatowers In Israel and their Accomplishments	Yehuda Feld (Yudl Flawner)	33
Years and Situations in the Lives of the Belchatow Jews	Yakov Tzingler	35
Naftali Huberman [obituary]		39
The Belchatower Committee in Israel		40
The Artistic-Way of the Belchatow painter H. Shilis	Ben Eli	44
Strike Day in Our Shtetl	M. Tzimels	45
The Start of the Textile Industry in Israel	Moshe Afrati (Moritz Freitag)	49
Belchatowers in My Memory	Moshe Laib Freiman	51
Helen Rosenberg – The Belchatow Painter [artist]	M. Gliksman	54
Celebration of Comrade Abraham Laib's First 70 Years	Yankl Meyer	56
The Speech of Comrade Abraham Laib		57
A Wall that Talks		60
A Small Shtetl of Large Stature	Hodl Gliksman	61
The Word from Itzik Gilberg		62
And If We Want to Open the Doors…	A. Zeiticker	63
The Holiday Seder in our Organization		66
The Management of the Mutual Aid Society of Belchatow and Vicinity*		68
The Management of the Cooperative “Superacion”*		69
Membership of our Countrymen in Australia*		70
Letter to the Editor		70

The Spanish Section

Spanish back cover
Directory of Officers of “Superacion” (inside back cover)*
Twenty-Five Years	A. Laib	1
“Superacion” and the “Belchatowers”	Salomon S. Wilhelm	3
Seven Years of Life	Simon Naparstek	5
“Superacion” and the Youth	Shimsen	6
Financial charts*		7
The Tragic Four Days	Z. Liberman	10
Abstracts of the Articles in Yiddish		13
List of Associates*		16
Advertisements*		21

* [Ed: Items with asterisks do not appear in the Journal's actual Yiddish Table of Contents.]

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