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Bielsk-Podlaski; Sefer Zikaron
Edited by: H. Rabin, Bielsk Societies in Israel and the US.
Published in Tel Aviv, 1975
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| Page | Section Title | Author |
| Cover Page | ||
| 3 | Bielsk Podliasks in the Sources and the Book of Bielsk: An Historical Survey | H. Rabin |
| 3 | I. Antiquity of the Jewish Settlement of Bielsk | |
| 4 | II. Business, Economy and Society in old Bielsk | |
| 7 | III. The Continuity of Jewish Settlement in Bielsk | |
| 9 | IV. A Case of Blood Libel in Bielsk | |
| 10 | V. Bielsk in the Book of Bielsk | |
| 11 | VI. Image of a Society | |
| 12 | VII. Kehila and Rabbinate | |
| 13 | VIII. Opinions Views and Ideological Movements | |
| 19 | Encyclopedia Povshekhna (vol. III) | Angelbrand (1860) |
| 20 | Slovnik Geographichny | P. Solimerski, B. Halivoski, W. Wolovski (Warsaw, 1880) |
| 21 | Bolshaia Encyclopedia (III, IV) | (1901) |
| 22 | Jevreyskaia Encyclopedia | Dr. Katzenelson. Dr Harkavi |
| 23 | Historia Yivreiska Naroda (Vol. I 1914) - The Blood Libel In Bielsk | |
| 24 | Encyclopedia Judaica (German) Vol IV | W. Schneider sed. (Berlin, 1929) |
| 25 | History of the Jewish economy | Dr. Y. Shiper (1929) |
| 26 | Vielka Encyclopedia Povshekhna | (Warsaw, 1965) |
| 27 | In the Bielsk ghetto & the camps | Meir Peker |
| 40 | Shabbot in a small town in Russia - Before the First World War | I. Semiat |
| Hebrew Section TOC translated by Sara Mages |
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| Page | Section Title | Author |
| 3 | A Word from the Editorial Staff and the Organization | |
| The City of Bielsk | ||
| 11 | Bielsk-Podliasks in the Sources and the Book of Bielsk: an Historical Survey | H. Rabin |
| 33 | Something About My Father z”l | Aharon Shtaynberg |
| 41 | Bielsk the District Town | Motos Kaplansk |
| 44 | Special Bielsk | Fanya Greenberg |
| 48 | Bielsk - Its Rabbis, Teachers and Jews | Tzvi Ben-Daat |
| 59 | The Impressive Bielsk | Bracha Zefira |
| 64 | From the Notebook of the Registrar of Pinkas Bielsk | Yakov Baileys |
| 79 | Decisions On The Fate Of Bielsk | |
| 83 | Bielsk in the Turmoil of the First War | A. Grodnai |
| 93 | An Episode of One Underground | Devora Frankel (Schitzky) |
| 95 | Centers of Interest in Bielsk | B. Carmon |
| 100 | Economy and Education in Bielsk | Baruch Glend |
| 103 | From a Teacher's Memoirs | Sara Ginzburg |
| 107 | Bielsk in the Eyes of a Teacher | L. Ginzburg |
| Bielskim in the Holocaust | ||
| 111 | In the Bielsk Ghetto and the Camps | Meir Peker |
| 123 | A Sixteen Year Old to the Holocaust | Naftali Grudzinski (Grodnai) |
| 127 | Hardships on the Road and Funny Episodes | Shmuel Levin |
| 140 | In the Holocaust in Russia and also Bielsk Before and After its Destruction | Yehiel Chrabolowski |
| 145 | A 13 Year old Bielski in the Days Holocaust and Exile | Yochanan Olejnik (Bashourai) |
| 149 | Our Bielsk In 1957 | Leah Rosenberg |
| 158 | The Last Jews in Bielsk-Podlaski Ready for Aliyah | S. L. Shnayderman |
| 161 | The Jews of Bielsk-Podlaski | |
| Distinguished People in Bielsk | ||
| 165 | The Rabbis' Deeds haRav [the Rabbi] Bentzion ben [son of] haRav Aryeh Leib Sternfeld | M. Alpert |
| 167 | Yefeh Ha 'Einayim [The Beautiful Eyes] - HaRav R Aryeh Leib Yellin | |
| 170 | Rabbi Moshe Aharon Benda'at, The Last Rav of the Community of Bielsk Podlaski | |
| 172 | R' Yechezkel Levintal, Dayan [Judge] of Truth | |
| 174 | The Personalities of my Youth | Reuven Utzyski |
| 193 | My Father, haRav Ben-Da'at | Sara Simner |
| 196 | R' Isser (Alpert) Shamash z”l | |
| 199 | About Chuna Tikotzky and his background | David Farber-Argaman |
| 202 | The Shochet Scholar Reb Shmuel Katz z”l | A. Ginzburg |
| 204 | Efraim Melamdovitz | M. S. B. |
| 205 | Bielsk – As I Saw It From My Grandfather's House | Ginzburg |
| 209 | Chaim Radilevsky | From the book “The pioneers of Ramat-Gan” |
| 210 | Some Words about Yoseph Levartovski | B. Carmon |
| 212 | Simcha Bagan | |
| 213 | Binyamin Bushka-Braverman | |
| Pages to Yefeh 'Enayim | ||
| 217 | The Life Story of R' Aryeh Leib Yellin | |
| Movements and Institutions in Bielsk | ||
| 235 | Human Institutions in Bielsk | Moshe Alpert |
| 244 | We were Orphans in Bielsk | Tziril Lev |
| 249 | The Orphanage | Malka Goldvitz |
| 251 | Behind One Photograph | Rivka Slutsky |
| 253 | Sports and more in Bielsk | Y. Chrabolowski |
| 255 | Self-defense in Bielsk | B. Carmon |
| 259 | Bielsk Podlaski – My Birthplace | Gedalia Shtaynberg |
| 265 | About “HeHalutz” and Pioneering in Bielsk | Zev (Leish) Leishkes |
| 269 | About “Betar ” in Bielsk | D. Melamdovitz |
| 272 | The Game of Shadows and Lights in Bielsk | Yakov Shemesh |
| 275 | “Hashomer Hatzair” | Motos Kaplanski |
| 282 | Why was Kadima Founded | M. Kaplanski |
| 285 | HeHalutz Hatzair as an Active and Activating Force | Yakov Zahavi- Goldvitz |
| 288 | Additional Details to “HeHalutz Hatzair” | Naftali Yogev |
| 290 | In the Hakhshara - in Bielsk | Rosenholtz |
| 295 | My Town and My Movement | Shaike Vaser |
| 297 | The Activities of Eretz Yisrael Haovedet | Motos Kaplanski |
| 302 | “Tarbut” School in the Eyes of a Guest | Yakov Lubliner |
| Passed Away in Israel | ||
| 307 | Aharon Grodnai | S. Oron |
| 308 | “From the Community to the Individual” - Preventive Social Service | Arye Nesher |
| 311 | My Father Yehezkel | Edna Cohen |
| 313 | Yehezkel Weinstein | Reuven Levin |
| 314 | Words about the Home and Childhood of Ben-Daat | G. Shtaynberg |
| 315 | Tzvi Ben-Daat | G. Hanovits |
| 317 | Tzvi Ben-Daat z”l | (From the kibbutz pamphlet) |
| 319 | Mechla and Motel Klemantinovski | The Scheinman family |
| 320 | Levartovski- Finkelstein Yosef | |
| Miscellaneous | ||
| 323 | The Temporary Committee for the Organization of Former Residents of Bielsk-Podlaski in Israel | |
| Yiddish Section | ||
| Page | Section Title | Author |
| 331 | My Bielsk on Shabes | Itskhak Semiat |
| 339 | My Dear Bielsk | Jeruchem Kleszczelski |
| 344 | Community Life in Bielsk | Zvi Kadlabowski |
| 363 | Victims of the Communist Idea in Bielsk | Khava Kestin |
| 371 | Once there Was… (poem) | Itskhak Crystel |
| 373 | A Little Bielsk Legend | Z. Kadlabovski |
| 374 | Bielsk Fifty Years Ago | B. Shtern |
| 380 | My Shtetl Bielsk (poem) | D. Crystel |
| 381 | A List of the First Bielsk Revolutionaries | |
| Death and Horror | ||
| 385 | “Trifles” about the Great Human-Catastrophe | Eliezer Davidovitch |
| 409 | I Was Once One of Them | Fayvl Shpira |
| 416 | From the Bielsk-Bialkystok Ghettoes to Auchwitz-Birkenau | Mikhal Davidovitch |
| 433 | A City Destroyed (poem) | A. Lev |
| 434 | Bielsk under Soviet Rule | R. Litmans-Pelner |
| 438 | Write a Book/Remember | Motl Levkovski |
| 443 | To Mr. Arnold Sukenik (America) | Franciszka Kotaszewska |
| 445 | “We Will Not Forget the Bielsk that Was Destroyed” | Chuna Tikotzky |
| 448 | In Bielsk after the Destruction | Chuna Tikotzky |
| 449 | The Last Jews in Bielsk | Sh. L. Schnayderman |
| Institutions in Bielsk | ||
| 455 | Aid Institutions | Zvi Kadlabovski |
| 458 | The Free Loan Organization Yesterday and Today | Sh. Y. Stupnitski |
| 462 | Synagogues, Sextons and Trustees | Moyshe Alpert |
| 466 | Banks, Commerce, and Democracy in Bielsk | Tz. Kadlubovski |
| 469 | The Jewish School in Bielsk | Libe Utzyski |
| 473 | The Jewish Folk School in Bielsk – A Second Home | R. Litmans |
| 479 | Disputes with Rabbis in Bielsk | B. Shtern |
| 484 | Like Children to Their Mother | L. Utzyski |
| 488 | A Call for Help from the Bielsk Yeshiva (article) | |
| Personalities | ||
| 491 | Nachum Moyshe Syrkin, z”l | A. Steinberg |
| 493 | Stupnitski, Shaul Yitzchak, z”l | Aharon Steinberg |
| 497 | Yosef (Yosl) Katz | From the Lerer Yizkor Book |
| 500 | Moyshe Jaungerman | Libe Utzyski |
| 504 | Three Heroes and Martyrs of Bielsk | Wolf Yunin |
| 509 | Yosef Levartovski | Sh. Zakhariash |
| 517 | To the Memory of Bielsk and my Six Girlfriends | Rivkah Littman (Felner) |
| Bielsker Relief in America | ||
| 523 | Response from America after the Holocaust | Eliyahu Samuels |
| 526 | A Letter to Y. Kleszczelski | Eliyahu Samuels |
| 528 | Report from the Regular Meeting of April 20, 1947 | Eliyahu Samuels |
| 529 | United Bielsker Relief of New York Presents an Ambulance to Magen David Adom | Eliyahu Samuels |
| 533 | Closing Remarks [H] | |
| 535 | These are the holy names of Bielsk Podlaski [H] | |
| 552 | Our People Who Died in the State [Israel] [H] | |
| 554 | Our sons who died as martyrs for our State [Israel] [H] | |
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