Memorial book of Galicia

Memorial book of Galicia
(Poland & Ukraine)

Translation of
Gedenkbukh Galitzie

Editor: N. Zucker

Published in Buenos Aires 1964

This is a translation of: Gedenkbukh Galitzie
(Memorial book of Galicia),
Editor: N. Zucker, Published: Buenos Aires 1964 (Y 335 pages)

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Translated by Yocheved Klausner

Be happy, yes: - but do not forget!...		9
A word from the publisher		11
Before the curtain	Harry Sekler	13
“Lamentations”	Yosef Koller	17
In memory of the martyrs	Rabbi Dr. Yakov Avigdor	19
Jews in the Krakov republic. Yiddish: Wolf Sales	Prof. Meir Balaban	23
Mourning poems:	Hersh Leib Young	27
1. In the killing field
2. Our neighbor the Ukrainian
3. Get up!
S. M. Gimpel theater in Lemberg	Israel Ashendorf	30
Chasidism in Reisha (Rzeszow)	Zvi S. Leder	33
Two stories: 1. The last one	I.I. Metzker	37
2. The watchmen of the Kloiz		44
Dr. Yehoshua Thon	A. L. Schussheim	49
A tale of an emperor and two Jews from Eretz Israel	A. L. Schussheim	51
Nine sonets	A. N. Schtenzel	54
Uncle Akiva and aunt Rozhe	Melech Ravitch	59
Two stories: 1. On Mount Carmel	Yechezkel Keitelman	63
2. A visit to a farmer		67
Religious and other books in the Jewish home	Moshe Vityes	72
Rabbis, great Torah scholars in Galicia	Moshe Koller	79
The Samborer Rebbe in Orile	Kalman Heisler	81
Quiet as in a cemetery	Kalman Heisler	83
Three miniatures: 1. A Jewish tavern-owner; Grandmother Chaia; The lodgers	Moshe Tzucker	86
Nachum Sternheim - the Jewish troubadour and poet	Yitzhak Koller	89
Relatives of Kaiser Franz Joseph are guests in a Jewish home	David Klinghoffer	97
My father the writer (excerpts)	Yosef-Hillel Levy	101
The prophet Eliyahu (Elijah) and Ivash the night-watchman	Hertz Bergner	109
In a friendly environment with Mordechai Gebirtig	Nechemia Tzuker	113
The scholar and the smart man (about Gershom Bader and Anshel Schorr)	Shalom Perlmutter	126
The old Kehila [community] in Tchortkov	A. A. Fischer	131
In one wagon, under Stalin's rule	Meir I. Tzucker	137
The rabbi and the dayan [judge in a religious court]	Yosef Koller	143
Longing (poem)	Rachel Ch. Korn	146
The bored man (humoresque)	Moshe Nadir	147
Leizer-Ekye from the old home	Moshe-Leib Halpern	149
The man gives instructions	Moshe-Leib Halpern	151
With the paintbrush and the pen (about the book “Higher than the clouds” by H. L. Yunges)		153
My young years in Galicia	Yakov Mestel	156
A special night	Martin Birnbaum	168
Poems (collected and annotated from memory by Yitzhak Koller)	Nachum Sternheim	169
The Rabbi R'Yosef son of Naftali-Herz Teomim z”l	Ben Menachem	175
Moshe Vityes (Dr. Sorgin, may he rest in peace)	Nun Tzadik	177
In memory of Moshe Vityes, may he rest in peace	Moshe Tzucker	178
Folk songs and poems, (collected and annotated from memory by Yitzhak Koller)	Anonymous authors	180
My young years in Krakow	Nathan Klinger	181
A monologue	Melech Ravitch	185

MEXICO SECTION
With Galicianer Jews in Mexico	N. Z.	187
Yakov Hans Rieger, may he rest in peace	Moshe W. Plaster	196

SECTION IN MEMORY OF SKOLE
In memory of Skole: Remember what [Amalek] did to you		201
The initiators		202
My introduction to the work	Ch. Young	203
My trembling word	Yosef Leib Lifshitz	205
Skole, my home of long ago	S. Mehler	206
The bloody saga of Skole		207
Humor in the ghetto and a ghetto-poem	Anonimous authors	212
Three poems:	Hersh-Leib Young	213
1. Setting fire: the tragic burning
2, From our shtetl
3. My home-town of old times
Skole, as I remember it	Shahme Goldfischer	217
An eternal light for Shalom Goldfischer z”l	Hersch Young	220
It happened	H. L. Young	222
A look back on Skole (retrospective)	Hersch-Leib Young	223
One of the Lamed-Vav (the 36 hidden scholars)	Nechemia Tzucker	228
Epigrams in verse for seven artistic paintings by anonimous Polish-Jewish artists. The characteristic paintings have been collected and hidden to this day by the Galician veteran Mr. Avraham Laks in Buenos Aires	N. Sacharinkus	229-235

MEMORIES AND LIFE-EXPERIENCES
Rodnik, the home of my childhood	Yosef Koller	237
Some family memories	Zvi Horowitz	241
My young years in Przemysl	Wolf Sales	247
My shtetl Rodnik	Esther Koller-Reich	253
My shtetele Skole	Fany Mentchel-Hammer	256
My shtetl Kortchin	Moshe Tzucker	261
The Rozwadover Rebbe's nigun [melody, song]		262
Moshe Mohr		265
Went through “seven divisions of Hell” and yet remained alive	Nyusha Shraga-Appelbaum	268
After hundreds of death menaces I survived	Rena Tzucker-Engel	273
With General Bar Komarowski's “Armia Krayova”	Avraham Engel	278
Has really no one of them survived?	Adela Hanfling-Tzucker	281
With Galician Jews over the world	N. Tzucker	285
Galician Jews in Buenos Aires	Ben Menachem	304

YIZKOR [remember]		311
Skole and surroundings		314

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