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Translation of
Korets (Wolyn); sefer zikaron le-kehilatenu she-ala aleha ha-koret
Edited by: E. Leoni
Published in Tel Aviv, 1959
Project Coordinators
Dr. Jeffrey Mark Paull, Stefani Elkort Twyford & Barbara Balaj
Our sincere appreciation to Mr. Israel Zawdi, of the Korets Landmanshaft in Israel,
This is a translation from: Korets (Wolyn); sefer zikaron le-kehilatenu she-ala aleha ha-koret,
The Korets book; in memory of our community that is no more,
ed. E. Leoni, Tel Aviv: Former Residents of Korets in Israel, 1959 (Pages 791 H,Y)
Note: The original book can be seen online at the NY Public Library site:
Korets
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| Title | Author | Page |
| Introduction | ||
| People of the Book | Noach Dagoni | 7-8 |
| A Monument for the Ages | The Editorial Board | 9-10 |
| The Early History of the Town | ||
| On the History of the Jews in Korets | Dr. N. M. Gelber | 15-31 |
| Rabbi Pinchas of Koretz | Eliezer Leoni | 32-47 |
| The Presses of Korets | Eliezer Leoni | 48-62 |
| Memories and Way of life | ||
| Winter | Y. Y. Segal z”l | 65-71 |
| The Kortchek River | Shoshana Rabinowitz (Shochen) | 72-74 |
| This was my home | Zahava Riess (Goldman) | 75-76 |
| What I Remembered … | Aizik Chimenes | 77-90 |
| In Days of Sadness | Louis Osher (Leibel Acher) | 91-95 |
| The Koretser Self Defense Organization | Eliezer Basyuk | 95-96 |
| The great fire in Korets | Hinda Kligerman | 97-98 |
| The Batei Midrash in Korets | Shraga Zawdi | 99-100 |
| “Kol Nidre” in Yaacov-Yossi Hornshtein's Shul | Eliezer Basyuk | 101-102 |
| The Poor People of Korets | Y. Y. Segal z”l | 103-106 |
| The “banquet” in Korets in honor of my Aliya to Eretz Yisrael | Judge Menachem Pinchas Avisar (Schwartzman) | 107-108 |
| Education and Art | ||
| The Hebrew Schools in Korets | Meir Panas | 111-113 |
| “Tarbut” School in Korets | Sara Rosenfeld (Bronstein) | 114-119 |
| The “Heder” and the “Yeshiva” in our city | Noach Barber | 120-123 |
| The “Heavenly Yeshiva” [The Yeshiva on the top floor] in Korets | MP Eliezer Shostak | 123-126 |
| The "Podstawowa" (elementary) Schools in Korets | Michael Glass | 127-132 |
| The B. Borochov Yiddish School | Aizik Chimenes | 133 |
| The “Tarbut” library in Korets | Judge Pinchas Avisar (Schwarzman) | 134-135 |
| The “Tarbut” library and the man Asher Blovstein | Moshe Smolier | 135-137 |
| The B. Borochov Library | Arie Zabodnik | 138-139 |
| The Art Life in Korets | Yosef Wachbroit | 140-143 |
| The Korets Yiddish Drama Lovers Circle | Simcha Baraz | 144-148 |
| How Did Korets Celebrate the Opening of the College in Jerusalem? | David Solomianik z”l | 149-150 |
| Economy, Institutions and Organizations | ||
| The Jewish Community | Elik Kligstein | 153-156 |
| The economic life of the Korets Jews | Dov Bernstein | 157-161 |
| Livelihoods in Korets | Eliezer Basyuk | 162-163 |
| The “Fair” in town | Yosef Kligerman | 164-166 |
| The “Interest-Free Loan Fund” | Dov Bernstein | 167-170 |
| The Orphanage | Dr. Yakov Wolach | 170-172 |
| “TOZ” in Korets | Dov Bernstein | 172-176 |
| The “TOZ” Children's Colony | Nechama Kranzberg | 177-179 |
| The Fire Brigade in Korets | Yosef Brode (Broder) | 180-182 |
| The Zionist Movement and the Youth Movements | ||
| The first buds of Zionism and its heralds in Korets | Moshe Dafna (Blovstein) | 185-190 |
| The Zionist fraction Tze'irei Zion in Korets | Meir Panas | 191-193 |
| The Po'alei-Zion party in Korets | Simcha Baraz | 194-197 |
| The Zionist Labor Party Hit'achdut | David Lidski | 198-200 |
| The first members of “HeHalutz” in Korets and the torments of their immigration to Israel | Meir Panas | 201-205 |
| “He-Halutz” in Korets | Y. D. | 206-210 |
| The First Korets Pioneers - in Immigration and in Labor | Shmuel Zuker | 211-213 |
| The Professional Union and the Ha'oved in Korets | Yontel Schneider | 214-216 |
| The “Ha-Shomer Ha-Tza'ir” Center in Korets, In Its Life and In Its Death | Moshe Smolier | 217-227 |
| The Gordonia Organization in Korets | Avraham Shilon (Gillman) | 228-232 |
| From Hovevei Sfat Ever [Lovers of the Hebrew Language] to the Hechalutz Hatza'ir [the young pioneer] | Noach Dagoni | 233-241 |
| The Z. S. Youth and the Freiheit [Liberty] | Avraham Gilgon | 242-244 |
| The Hapo'el Hamizrachi | Daniel Bernstein | 245 |
| The Revisionist Movement in Korets | Avraham Singerman | 246-250 |
| KKL [JNF=Jewish National Fund] and the Zionist movement in Korets | Avraham Shilon (Gillman) | 251-255 |
| The training company in Korets | Bat-Zion Shoshani (Turtcheniok) | 256-260 |
| The sports movement in Korets | Aizik Kesselman | 261-263 |
| Rabbis and Poets | ||
| The Korets rabbis | M. Tzinowitz | 267-269 |
| Nechemya Herschenhorn (the “Official Rabbi”) | Eliezer Rabed | 270-275 |
| R'Yoel Schorin (the “prodigy of Poltava”) | Avraham-Yitzhak Schorin | 276-279 |
| The Tzadik R'Mechele Halevi [the Levite] | Rav Shmuel Halevi Yosefov | 280-281 |
| The Great Scholar Rav Moshe-Mordechai Lidski z”l | Yakov Bar-Midot | 282-283 |
| Yakov-Yitzhak Segal | Eliezer Leoni | 284-296 |
| Meir Tchonder | Eliezer Leoni | 297-305 |
| Types and Personalities | ||
| Figures and personalities that I knew | Dov Bernstein | |
| a. Rav Yeshaya Zweig | 309-310 | |
| b. Dr. Yakov (Yany) Herschenhorn | 310-311 | |
| c. Dr. Yehuda Zeitlin | 311-312 | |
| d. Herzl Silberman | 313 | |
| e. Mordechai Silberman | 314-315 | |
| A Korets Talmid Chacham [Jewish scholar] | Shmuel Bar'am | 315-316 |
| R' Nisan Brezner | Avraham Reiz | 317-318 |
| Episodes from the life of Reb Yakov–Yosi Horenstein | Herzl Frenkel | 318-319 |
| Menachem (Mendel) Gorben | Eliezer Achi-Aharon | 320-325 |
| The Holocaust | ||
| Y i z k o r ! [Remember!] | Meir Gilman z”l | 331 |
| Six White Candles… | A. A. Shkolnikov | 332 |
| At the outbreak of the War | Meir Kahana | 333-335 |
| When the Soviets came | Aizik Chimenes | 336-337 |
| This is how the town was ruined… | Dov Bergel | 338-347 |
| The song of the Korets Ghetto | 348 | |
| ”Write this for a memorial in a book”… [Exodus 17:14] | Yehudit Kersch (Shapira) | 349-356 |
| The last road of our martyrs [Y] | Yitzhak Feiner | 357-360 |
| On the road to extinction | Dr. Yakov Wolach | 361-365 |
| The destruction of Korets | Moshe Gildenman z”l | 366-407 |
| The massacre in the “New City” | Avigdor Zayka | 408-412 |
| How I escaped from the claws of death | Zelig Charif | 413-414 |
| The shadow of death | Sheindl Chimenes (Yaffa Dembski) | 415-420 |
| The troubles and tribulations that I encountered | Moshe Gurewitz | 421-425 |
| From the big holocaust… | Chaia Serber | 426-428 |
| What my eyes have seen… | Miriam Vidro (Vilner) | 429-430 |
| A drop from the sea of blood and tears | Dora Rabinowitz (Strassberg) | 431-432 |
| How I escaped from the pit of death | Shmuel Vidro | 433-439 |
| What I missed… [poem] | A. S. Shkolnikov | 440 |
| In the Path of Suffering and Struggle | ||
| Fighting and Struggle in the Forest | Dyadya Misha (Moshe Gildenman) z”l | 443-450 |
| In the Korets Ghetto and in the woods | Batya Zaloska (Fuchs) | 451-469 |
| The road to the partisans and to liberation | Dov Bergel | 470-479 |
| This is how I took revenge on the murderers | Zvi Pe'er | 480-485 |
| Wandering | Yakov Pe'er | 486-489 |
| “To Me belongs vengeance and recompense”… [Deut. 32:35] | Simcha Gildenman | 490-493 |
| In the storm of battle | Chaim Bergel | 494-497 |
| As a female paratrooper in the Red Army | Zahava Me'iri (Serber) | 498-499 |
| From the nightmares of those days… | Yitzhak Kleiner | 500-502 |
| Dyadya Misha z”l | S. G. | 503-505 |
| Korets After Destruction | ||
| Over the ruins of Korets | Moshe Gildenman z”l | 509-526 |
| The old cemetery in Korets | Z. Rutenberg | 527-529 |
| Upon my return to the town | Simcha Gildenman | 530-532 |
| A leaf from the destruction | Azriel Beitchman | 533-535 |
| Memories | Nechama Nelson (Kranzberg) | 536-537 |
| The Korets people in Tchelyavinsk (1941-1946) | Moshe Neiterman | 538-544 |
| My activity in the Bricha movement [”flight” of survivors after WWII] | Avraham Vidro | 545-550 |
| Y I Z K O R [Remember] | ||
| Names of the Korets Jews who perished in the Holocaust | 553-720 | |
| The activity of the Former Korets Residents Association in Israel | Noach Dagoni | 723-733 |
| The “Ahavat Achim Anshei Korets Society of Boston” | Louis Osher (Leibl Acher) | 734-739 |
| Yizkor for the departed members of the Organization | ||
| The personality of Pinchas Yaniv (Yentes) | Chaim Melamed | 741-742 |
| Meir Gilman | Yafa Yoeli (Gilman) | 742-744 |
| Arye Broda'y (Broder) | Zahava Broda'it | 744-745 |
| Shraga Zawdi (Zavodnik) | Shmuel Bar'am | |
| Sara Idesis (Yentis) | E. H. | 746 |
| Fell while Performing Their Duty | ||
| Shabtay Drucker | Pesia and Chaim Drucker | 747 |
| David Weiner | Frieda Weiner | 748 |
| Eliyahu Wechsler | Yakov Bar-Midot | 749 |
| Shmuel Perlman | Varda Perlman | 750 |
| Asher Tzimelgisser | Penina Tzimelgisser | 751 |
| Yakov Kliefeld (Klik) | Arye (Leibush) Kliefeld | 752 |
| Fell in the War of Independence | ||
| From the book YIZKOR published by the Ministry of Defense | ||
| AltsteinYakov (Yanke'le) | 753 | |
| Ben-Israel Yoram | 754 | |
| Zuker Shmuel (Mulik) | 755 | |
| Schwarzman Israel | 756 | |
| List of Photos and Illustrations | 757-760 | |
| Index of Names | ||
| Persons mentioned in the book (by Hebrew alphabet) | 761-785 | |
| Table of Contents | ||
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