The Book on the Jewish Community of Nowy Sacz

The Book on the
Jewish Community of Nowy Sacz
(Nowy Sącz, Poland)
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Translation of Sefer Sandz

Edited by Dr. Raphael Mahler

Published by the Sandzer Society

Acknowledgments
Project Coordinator

Renee E. Miller z”l

This is a translation from “Sefer Sandz ”, (The Book on the Jewish Community of Nowy Sacz);
editor Raphael Mahler; Published by the Sandzer Society 25 W. 39 St., New York, N.Y.;
Copyright by the Sandzer Society in New York; Tel-Aviv, Israel, 1970

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Hebrew Translated by Chana Saadia
Yiddish Translated by Renee Miller

Note: All names of people are given in the Polish spelling, followed by the Yiddish spelling in parentheses.
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Rafal Mahler Forward 11

Introduction 13

GENERATIONS OF JEWS IN SANDZ

About the History of Jews in Sandz In the Era of Old Poland

        I. The City of Sandz Without Jews from the Beginning of the Thirteenth Century Until After the Gzires T”Kh [massacre of Jews by Cossacks, 1648] [Y] 21

        II. The Hundred-Year Kehile [Organized Jewish Community] in Former Poland (from 1673 to1770) [Y] 45

From the Partition of Poland Until the Austrian Constitution

        I. The First Period of Austrian Rule [Y] 135

        II. In the Era of Josephine's Reforms, Massacres and Tax Exploitation (From Kaiser Joseph II Until the People's Spring [1848 - 1867]) [Y] 168

        III. From the People's Spring to the Constitution (1848-1867) [Y] 195

Demographic and Economic Statistics: The Days of Puronyes [Affliction]

        I. Jewish Statistics 1866 [Y] 202

        II. The Development of the City: Statistics of Jews in Sandz and in the Sandzer District at the End of the Nineteenth and in the Twentieth Century [Y] 224

After the Sreyfe [Fire] (Poem) [Y] 231

        III. Jewish Melokhe [Trade] and Industry in Sandz in 1921 [Y] 233

        IV. The Plunder [Y] 237

SANDZER KHSIDES [THE MOVEMENT OF HASIDISM]

Rafal Mahler R' Chaim Halberstam and His Generation

        I. The “Divrei Chaim" [Rabbi Chaim of Sanz (1793-1876)] [Y] 247

        II. The Makhloykes[Feud] Sandz - Sadugora [Y] 291

Harov Shmuel Meir Hacohen Hollander Monuments to the author of the “Divrei Chaim” (Rabbi Chayim Halberstam) and his Family [H] 342

Fayvel Levinson Boti Tfile [Houses of Prayer] and Yeshivas in Sandz [Y] 346

List of Subscribers to a Sefer [Religious Book] [Y] 348

COMMUNAL DIRECTIONS (AIMS) AND INSTITUTIONS

Szmuel Mahler The (Lecture in 1896) Held in theSchool [Y] 351

R. M. About Szmuel Goldberg [Y] 353

Kalman Mahler How Kheyder-Yingl [Boys from Religious Grade Schools] Became Zionists [Y] 354

M. D. Berl (Dubi) The Zionist Movement in Sandz [H] 357

Alter Neiman The Development of the Hebrew Movement in Sandz [H] 362

Naftali Zigl I Became a Teacher in Sandz [H] 366

Yitzhok Frenkel The First Jewish Worker-Party Z.P.S. (Jewish Socialist Party) [Y] 371

Dr. Abraham Comet Poalei-Tsion in Sandz (1905-1918) 374

Jehuda Knebel Between Two World Wars [Y] 411

Rafal Mahler The Circles of the Student Youth [Y] 434

Baruch Stern The “Yugent” [Youth]-Organization in Neisands [Nowy Sacz] [Y] 448

Yitzhok Zaifert Zikhroynes [Memories] of Poalei-Tsion [Y] 463

Majer Landerer The Zionist Movement [H] 466

Liba Klapholtz A Beloved Corner - A Cell of the Hashomer Hatzair in Sandz [H] 476

Icchak Bitner The “Gordonia” Movement [H] 483

* * * The Zionist Youth Movement [H] 486

Blima Kampler Bnei Zion [The Sons of Zion] [H] 490

Benny Luks Youth and Hope - The “Dror” [Freedom] Movement in Sandz [H] 491

Rabbi P. Rozengarten From My Memories of the “Mizrachi” Movement - Torah and Labor [H] 496

* * * About the “Mizrachi” Movement - Torah and Labor [H] 500

* * * Development of Jewish Sports in Niesandz [Y] 513

THEATER, PURIM-SHPILN, AND FOLKLORE

Chaim Flaster The Beginning of Yiddish Theater in Niesandz [Y] 519

Moyshe Shlanger The Dramatic Circle [Y] 523

Leon Ablezer Amateur Troupe in The Sandzer Circle [Y] 524

Purim Shpiln [Y] 527

Kalman Mahler A Political Purim Poem [Y] 538

Leon Ablezer A Purim in The Sandzer Environs [Y] 539

Menachem Zilberstein-Torem From Sandzer Folklore [Y] 542

Rafal Mahler Yiddish in Sandz [Y] 545

Political Leaders and Klal-Tuer [Community Leaders]

M. D. Berl (Dubi) The Brothers Dr. Leon (Aryeh) and Bernard (Baruch) Nusboym [H] 567

M. D. Berl (Dubi) R' [Reb] Mojsze ben Aryeh Nusboym [Y] 569

Dr. Chaim Hilfstein Dr. Hersz Syrop[Y] 570

Kalman Lustbader Dr. Hersz Syrop and The General Zionists in Sandz [Y] 571

Blima Fishler-Kempler Recollections of Dr. Hersh Syrop [Y] 579

Rafal Mahler Szaul Amsterdam [Y] 581

Albin (Tobiash) k”ts [Cohen=of the priestly class] Bernard (Buzhiek) Rozenfeld [Y] 591

M. Khenukh Shprey [Y] 593

I. Shamir Y. Shamir - With Chanoch When The Tower Was Built [H] 594

Dr. Elihu Tish Shmuel Mashler and the Jewish Children's Home [Y] 595

Yehuda Knebel Meir Landerer [Y] 600

Writers and the Scholarly

R. M. R' Menachem Eliezer Mahler [Y] 601

M. D. Berl (Dubi) The Youth [Early Years] of Ben-Zion Rappaport [H] 607

M.A Kurtz The Letter [Last Testament] of One Jewish Martyr [H] 609

M. D. Berl (Dubi) Dr. Yermiahu Frenkel [H] 613

Dov Shtuk-Sadan Yermiahu Frenkel at Fifty [H] 614

Sh. Shpan Dr. Yirmiyahu Frankel in Our Land [H] 617

Rafal Mahler Heshek Shweid (Tsvi Israel) [Y] 621

Prof. Zofia Ameizen Memories of My Father [Y] 624

R. M. The Brothers Zsupnik [Y] 629

Sh. D. Zinger Mendl Neugreshel e”h [May He Rest in Peace] [Y] 632

Mendl Neugreshel From the Book “Collected Poems”: An Interview About the Shtetl [Y] 636

My Shtetl Sandz [Y] 637

Popular Figures

Rafal Mahler The Model Melamed - R' Chaiml Amkroyt [Y] 638

R. M. R' Chaiml Herbst [Y] 640

Yitzhok Frenkel Several Figures (R' Ber Szupnik, Tserele, the Family Safir) [Y] 641

Heroes

Rafal Mahler Dr. Emanuel Ringlblum, Historian of Polish Jews and of Their Umkum [Violent Death] and Gvure [Heroism] [Y] 644

Rafal Mahler Pethahiah Mahler, the Sandzer Hero from the Bialystoker Ghetto Uprising [Y] 670

RECOLLECTIONS

Menachem Mendl Zilberstein-Torem My Sandz Is No Longer There [Y] 677

Benjomin Landau A Stroll through the Streets of Niesandz [Y] 679

Zalka Firer Sandzer Traditions and Figures in the Nineteenth Century [Y] 699

Yitzhok Zeigert Two Shabosim [Sabbaths] [Y] 705

HURBN [TOTAL DESTRUCTION] SANDZ

Mendl Neugreshel Folk Song About Sandz and Podolya [Y] 711

Rafal Mahler THE TOTAL DESTRUCTION AND MASS MURDER

The First Months Under the Nazi Boot [Y] 723

From the Beginning of 1940 Until the Spring of 1941 [Y] 728

Statistics on Hardship and Hunger [Y] 748

The Last Year in Sandzer Ghetto (From the Summer of 1941 Until the Spring of 1942) [Y] 769

The Jewish Remnants in the Sandzer Ghetto [Y] 791

The Epilogue: The Toyt-Yesurim [Death-Agony] in the Workers' Camps; The Light of Gvure [Heroism] Still Flickers [Y] 793

Memories and Witness

Shloyme Wolf The Medical and Welfare Assistance in the Sandz Ghetto [H] 798

Dov Hirshtal About Sandzer Kines [Lamentations Upon the Destruction of Jerusalem; Used Here for Catastrophes] [Y] 802

Szmuel Laufer My Memories of the Destruction [Y] 823

Abraham Segulis The Tragedy of Paolei-Zion [“Workers of Zion”] {radical nationalist labor party}] in Niesandz [Y] 840

Dov Zilbiger The First Great Shkhite [Slaughter] [Y] 845

Rena Anisfeld Gevies Eydes [Bearing Witness] 850

Hersh Beldegrin Gevies Eydes [Y] 862

That is the Entire Punishment. (Haman's Punishment - From the Press) [Y] 876

SANDZER LANDSMANSHAFTN [Organizations of People Who Come From the Same Town] AND THE NEW YORK BOOK COMMITTEE

Shmuel Lustgarten The Sandzer Society in New York [Y] 879

Rafal Mahler Those Who Are No Longer With Us (Yidl Keil, Dr. Mendl Neugreshel, Efrim Shiper) [Y] 883

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Rafal Mahler	Forward		11
	Introduction		13

	GENERATIONS OF JEWS IN SANDZ

	About the History of Jews in Sandz In the Era of Old Poland
	I.	The City of Sandz Without Jews from the Beginning of the Thirteenth Century Until After the Gzires T”Kh [massacre of Jews by Cossacks, 1648] [Y]	21
	II.	The Hundred-Year Kehile [Organized Jewish Community] in Former Poland (from 1673 to1770) [Y]	45
	From the Partition of Poland Until the Austrian Constitution
	I.	The First Period of Austrian Rule [Y]	135
	II.	In the Era of Josephine's Reforms, Massacres and Tax Exploitation (From Kaiser Joseph II Until the People's Spring [1848 - 1867]) [Y]	168
	III.	From the People's Spring to the Constitution (1848-1867) [Y]	195
	Demographic and Economic Statistics: The Days of Puronyes [Affliction]
	I.	Jewish Statistics 1866 [Y]	202
	II.	The Development of the City: Statistics of Jews in Sandz and in the Sandzer District at the End of the Nineteenth and in the Twentieth Century [Y]	224
		After the Sreyfe [Fire] (Poem) [Y]	231
	III.	Jewish Melokhe [Trade] and Industry in Sandz in 1921 [Y]	233
	IV.	The Plunder [Y]	237

SANDZER KHSIDES [THE MOVEMENT OF HASIDISM]

Rafal Mahler	R' Chaim Halberstam and His Generation
	I.	The “Divrei Chaim" [Rabbi Chaim of Sanz (1793-1876)] [Y]	247
	II.	The Makhloykes[Feud] Sandz - Sadugora [Y]	291
Harov Shmuel Meir Hacohen Hollander	Monuments to the author of the “Divrei Chaim” (Rabbi Chayim Halberstam) and his Family [H]		342
Fayvel Levinson	Boti Tfile [Houses of Prayer] and Yeshivas in Sandz [Y]		346
	List of Subscribers to a Sefer [Religious Book] [Y]		348

COMMUNAL DIRECTIONS (AIMS) AND INSTITUTIONS

Szmuel Mahler	The (Lecture in 1896) Held in theSchool [Y]		351
R. M.	About Szmuel Goldberg [Y]		353
Kalman Mahler	How Kheyder-Yingl [Boys from Religious Grade Schools] Became Zionists [Y]		354
M. D. Berl (Dubi)	The Zionist Movement in Sandz [H]		357
Alter Neiman	The Development of the Hebrew Movement in Sandz [H]		362
Naftali Zigl	I Became a Teacher in Sandz [H]		366
Yitzhok Frenkel	The First Jewish Worker-Party Z.P.S. (Jewish Socialist Party) [Y]		371
Dr. Abraham Comet	Poalei-Tsion in Sandz (1905-1918)		374
Jehuda Knebel	Between Two World Wars [Y]		411
Rafal Mahler	The Circles of the Student Youth [Y]		434
Baruch Stern	The “Yugent” [Youth]-Organization in Neisands [Nowy Sacz] [Y]		448
Yitzhok Zaifert	Zikhroynes [Memories] of Poalei-Tsion [Y]		463
Majer Landerer	The Zionist Movement [H]		466
Liba Klapholtz	A Beloved Corner - A Cell of the Hashomer Hatzair in Sandz [H]		476
Icchak Bitner	The “Gordonia” Movement [H]		483
* * *	The Zionist Youth Movement [H]		486
Blima Kampler	Bnei Zion [The Sons of Zion] [H]		490
Benny Luks	Youth and Hope - The “Dror” [Freedom] Movement in Sandz [H]		491
Rabbi P. Rozengarten	From My Memories of the “Mizrachi” Movement - Torah and Labor [H]		496
* * *	About the “Mizrachi” Movement - Torah and Labor [H]		500
* * *	Development of Jewish Sports in Niesandz [Y]		513

THEATER, PURIM-SHPILN, AND FOLKLORE

Chaim Flaster	The Beginning of Yiddish Theater in Niesandz [Y]		519
Moyshe Shlanger	The Dramatic Circle [Y]		523
Leon Ablezer	Amateur Troupe in The Sandzer Circle [Y]		524
	Purim Shpiln [Y]		527
Kalman Mahler	A Political Purim Poem [Y]		538
Leon Ablezer	A Purim in The Sandzer Environs [Y]		539
Menachem Zilberstein-Torem	From Sandzer Folklore [Y]		542
Rafal Mahler	Yiddish in Sandz [Y]		545

*Political Leaders and Klal-Tuer* [Community Leaders]**

M. D. Berl (Dubi)	The Brothers Dr. Leon (Aryeh) and Bernard (Baruch) Nusboym [H]		567
M. D. Berl (Dubi)	R' [Reb] Mojsze ben Aryeh Nusboym [Y]		569
Dr. Chaim Hilfstein	Dr. Hersz Syrop[Y]		570
Kalman Lustbader	Dr. Hersz Syrop and The General Zionists in Sandz [Y]		571
Blima Fishler-Kempler	Recollections of Dr. Hersh Syrop [Y]		579
Rafal Mahler	Szaul Amsterdam [Y]		581
Albin (Tobiash) k”ts [Cohen=of the priestly class]	Bernard (Buzhiek) Rozenfeld [Y]		591
M.	Khenukh Shprey [Y]		593
I. Shamir	Y. Shamir - With Chanoch When The Tower Was Built [H]		594
Dr. Elihu Tish	Shmuel Mashler and the Jewish Children's Home [Y]		595
Yehuda Knebel	Meir Landerer [Y]		600

Writers and the Scholarly

R. M.	R' Menachem Eliezer Mahler [Y]		601
M. D. Berl (Dubi)	The Youth [Early Years] of Ben-Zion Rappaport [H]		607
M.A Kurtz	The Letter [Last Testament] of One Jewish Martyr [H]		609
M. D. Berl (Dubi)	Dr. Yermiahu Frenkel [H]		613
Dov Shtuk-Sadan	Yermiahu Frenkel at Fifty [H]		614
Sh. Shpan	Dr. Yirmiyahu Frankel in Our Land [H]		617
Rafal Mahler	Heshek Shweid (Tsvi Israel) [Y]		621
Prof. Zofia Ameizen	Memories of My Father [Y]		624
R. M.	The Brothers Zsupnik [Y]		629
Sh. D. Zinger	Mendl Neugreshel e”h [May He Rest in Peace] [Y]		632
Mendl Neugreshel	From the Book “Collected Poems”: An Interview About the Shtetl [Y]		636
	My Shtetl Sandz [Y]		637

Popular Figures

Rafal Mahler	The Model Melamed - R' Chaiml Amkroyt [Y]		638
R. M.	R' Chaiml Herbst [Y]		640
Yitzhok Frenkel	Several Figures (R' Ber Szupnik, Tserele, the Family Safir) [Y]		641

Heroes

Rafal Mahler	Dr. Emanuel Ringlblum, Historian of Polish Jews and of Their Umkum [Violent Death] and Gvure [Heroism] [Y]		644
Rafal Mahler	Pethahiah Mahler, the Sandzer Hero from the Bialystoker Ghetto Uprising [Y]		670

RECOLLECTIONS

Menachem Mendl Zilberstein-Torem	My Sandz Is No Longer There [Y]		677
Benjomin Landau	A Stroll through the Streets of Niesandz [Y]		679
Zalka Firer	Sandzer Traditions and Figures in the Nineteenth Century [Y]		699
Yitzhok Zeigert	Two Shabosim [Sabbaths] [Y]		705

HURBN [TOTAL DESTRUCTION] SANDZ

Mendl Neugreshel	Folk Song About Sandz and Podolya [Y]		711

Rafal Mahler	THE TOTAL DESTRUCTION AND MASS MURDER
	The First Months Under the Nazi Boot [Y]		723
	From the Beginning of 1940 Until the Spring of 1941 [Y]		728
	Statistics on Hardship and Hunger [Y]		748
	The Last Year in Sandzer Ghetto (From the Summer of 1941 Until the Spring of 1942) [Y]		769
	The Jewish Remnants in the Sandzer Ghetto [Y]		791
	The Epilogue: The Toyt-Yesurim [Death-Agony] in the Workers' Camps; The Light of Gvure [Heroism] Still Flickers [Y]		793

Memories and Witness

Shloyme Wolf	The Medical and Welfare Assistance in the Sandz Ghetto [H]		798
Dov Hirshtal	About Sandzer Kines [Lamentations Upon the Destruction of Jerusalem; Used Here for Catastrophes] [Y]		802
Szmuel Laufer	My Memories of the Destruction [Y]		823
Abraham Segulis	The Tragedy of Paolei-Zion [“Workers of Zion”] {radical nationalist labor party}] in Niesandz [Y]		840
Dov Zilbiger	The First Great Shkhite [Slaughter] [Y]		845
Rena Anisfeld	Gevies Eydes [Bearing Witness]		850
Hersh Beldegrin	Gevies Eydes [Y]		862
	That is the Entire Punishment. (Haman's Punishment - From the Press) [Y]		876

SANDZER LANDSMANSHAFTN [Organizations of People Who Come From the Same Town] AND THE NEW YORK BOOK COMMITTEE

Shmuel Lustgarten	The Sandzer Society in New York [Y]		879
Rafal Mahler	Those Who Are No Longer With Us (Yidl Keil, Dr. Mendl Neugreshel, Efrim Shiper) [Y]		883

Images and Documents

Hebrew Translated by Chana Saadia Yiddish Translated by Renee Miller

Hebrew Translated by Chana Saadia
Yiddish Translated by Renee Miller