Brzeziny, Poland Memorial Book

Brzeziny Memorial Book
(Poland)
51°48' / 19°45'

Translation of Bzhezhin yisker-bukh

Edited by: A. Alperin, N. Summer

Published in New York: Brzeziner Book Committee, 1961 (Y)

Brzeziny Plaque

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This is a translation from: Bzhezhin yisker-bukh, Brzeziny memorial book, ed. A. Alperin,
N. Summer. New York: Brzeziner Book Committee, 1961 (Y)

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Monument erected at the cemetery of the
New York landslayt as a memorial to the martyrs

Jacob-David Berg	Our Book	XI
A. Alperin	Sefer Brzezin (A Short Introduction)	XIII
Jacob Pat	About Sefer Brzezin and the Destroyed Town of Brzezin	XVII

FIRST PART BRZEZIN AND BRZEZIN JEWS
Joseph Shaibowicz	Brzezin in History	3
Aaron Fogel	Past Generations	21
Yehiel Erlich	The Last Kaddish	31
David Lencicki (Leczycki)	Brzeziner Tailors	40
Sh. Pinczewski	Brzeziner Rabbis and Hasidim	44
Jacob-David Berg	The Jews of My Generation	46
Jacob-David Berg	Our Melamdim (Teachers of Children in a Heder)	56
Melekh Hershenberg	Benjamin Malamed	59
Aaron Mendlewicz	Two Mishpokhes (Families)	61
Moishe Frank	A Bintel Zikhroynes (A Bundle of Memories)	69
Israel Kahn	A Brzeziner Jew – A Grand-Vizier in Turkey	72
	List of Brzeziner Jews – Menadvim (Contributors) to Keren Kayemeth in 1913	75
Joseph Shaibowicz	Towards a History of the Brzezin Kehilah [Jewish Community]	78
	The Great Synagogue in Brzezin	84

SECOND PART BETWEEN PROSPERITY AND DESTRUCTION
Fishel Maliniak	Brzezin Between Two World Wars	87
Fishel Maliniak	Election of Rabbis in Brzezin	97
Abe Rosenberg	Brzezin's Way of Life	98
Abraham Abramowicz	The Workers Movement in Brzezin	104
Yehiel Erlich	A Shpatsir (Stroll) Through Our Shtetl	108
Icchok Janasowicz	My Gate to the Great World	109
Velvl Rosenblum	Two Victims: Memories of the First World War	112
	Herzl – Organization in Brzezin	116
Abe Rosenberg	Jewish Sports in Brzezin	118
Velvl Rosenblum	Icchok Kacenelson in Brzezin	122
Malke Rose (Rosenblum)	Yiddish Theater in Our Shtetl	124
Nahum (Nathan) Summer	Poems	126
	My Shtetl Brzezin Our Besmedresh (Prayer House) Yudel the Watercarrier Geheylikt (Honored) The Oyel (Structure Over the Tomb) of Reb Shimon Bel-Rakhmones
Nahum Jud	Shnayder-Yinglekh (Tailor Apprentices) (Fable)	130

THIRD PART ON THE KHURVES (RUINS) OF OUR SHTETL
	The First Korbn (Victim)	133
Aaron Fogel	The First Shocking Encounter	134
Dr. S. Warhaft	I Saw the Destruction of Our Shtetl	135
Abraham Blanket-Sulkowicz	Destruction of Brzezin	140
David Tuszynski	There Once Was a Jewish Shtetl Brzezin	144
Dora Zagon-Winer	I Saw the Hurbn (Destruction)	147
Chaim-Leib Fuks	Our Two Shrayber-Kdoyshim (Writer-Martyrs)	149
1) Jacob-Ber Gips	Poems of Jacob-Ber Gips	151
2) Melech Fogel	A Shnayder-Lid (Poem about a Tailor)	153
Genia Brandschaft	The Wretched Cry	154
Rebecca Tajczer	In the Tragic Years	154
	Matseyve (Gravestone) in Bergen-Belsen	155
Rebecca Hendler-Gociol	The Brzeziner Jewish Gminy (Community) In the Geto-Tsaytn (Time of the Ghetto)	156
Rhoda Hendrik-Karpatkin	Upon Keyver-Oves (Visiting Parents’ Graves) in Brzezin in 1960	157
Jehuda Fuks	Brzeziner Years in the Wide World	160
	Jews in Brzezin Before and After the Hurbn (Destruction)	162

FOURTH PART BRZEZINERS IN AMERICA
Nathan Summer	Our Landsmanschaft (Landsman Society)	165
Nathan Summer and Fishel Maliniak	Relief Work and “Shikkun Brzezin” (housing project) in Israel	182
	Brzeziners and Lodzers in California	193
Leibush Lehrer	Jankiel Chaim-Icek's	195
Mordechai Dantsis	Nahum (Nathan) Summer the Brzeziner	196
Asher Grossman	A Letter From a Landsman	197

FIFTH PART BRZEZINERS IN ISRAEL
Moshe Har-Jaffe (Szajnberg)	The First Brzeziner Chalucim [Pioneers]	201
David Poliwoda	Our Landslayt in the Yidisher Medine (Jewish State)	203
	How the “Shikhun Brzeziner (Apartment Building)” was built	207
	Fallen in the Defense of Israel	213
G. Waldman	Dovid Lencicki (Leczycki) z”l (zal = may his memory be blessed)	216
	The Matseyve (Tombstone) in Har-Tsion (Mt. Zion)	217
	Our Leaders in Israel	219
	Photographs of Brzeziner Jews in Paris	222
Icek Fajgenbaum	Our Landsman Abraham Rosenberg	225
Icek Fajgenbaum	Harov Reb Chaim Szotland, z”l	225
The Brzeziner Book Committee	Heartfelt Thanks!	226
Jacob-David Berg	My Father Chaim-Icek Ajnbinder (Nisenberg)	227
Z[usman] Segalowicz	Don't Forget My Soul	229

SIXTH PART YISKER SECTION (COMMEMORATING THE DEAD)
	Necrology (Alphabetical List of Names)	231
	Pictures and Memorials	241

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