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Translation of
Radomysl Rabati ve-ha-seviva
Edited by: H. Harshoshanim
Published in Tel Aviv, 1965
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This is a translation of: Radomysl Rabati ve-ha-seviva; sefer yizkor; Radomysl Wielki and Neighborhood,
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A brief note about this translation of pages from the Yizkorbook for Radomysl Wielki:The 50 or so pages of English from this Yizkor book were originally prepared by those who put out the book itself, which was in Hebrew, and were part of the published work. In presenting it here, there are some things that were left as they were because they reflected some phonetic spelling. There were also some made-up words that were wonderful and should be left alone. The meaning is perfectly clear in “despicable” or “punitory”. On the first line Orea was changed to Area because it made no sense but generally everything else works. The grammar reflects that the writer is using constructions from his or her first language but again it works, it's understandable and not offensive and doesn't happen that often. Though the addresses of persons listed at the end of the book are probably no longer valid, and some of these people are likely to be no longer living, it was felt that perhaps these addresses would give a starting point for someone still searching for lost members of their families, and perhaps lead in some way to finding descendants.
Olga Parker and Phyllis Goldberg
Note from Joyce Field:
I want to take this opportunity to thank Phyllis Goldberg for scanning and proofreading this material. Phyllis has no relatives from this town and no connection to it at all; however, when I asked her if she could help by scanning the long English section from this Yizkor book, she readily agreed, despite personal health and family problems. Phyllis has been a remarkable volunteer to the Yizkor Book Project who has never refused to help when asked. Her commitment to JewishGen and to the Yizkor Book Project is much appreciated, beyond what I can express in words. I wish her and her family good health and long years of happiness and fulfillment.
There is a further irony about this submission, as Olga Parker has no connection to Radomsyl Wielki either. She is interested in Radomsyl, Ukraine, and mistakenly got the material from the Radomsyl Wielki. Wanting the material to be used on the Yizkor Book Project if possible, she contacted me. As Olga could not scan the English section, I asked Phyllis Goldberg, who has become an accomplished scanner. Combining their efforts, sharing ideas on how to present the material and sharing the proofreading, the English section of this Yizkor book is now online. Thank you, Olga, for your unselfish contribution.
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TOC translated by Yocheved Klausner
| Introduction | 7 | |
| Introduction [Y] | 8 | |
| 1. Our Town | 9 | |
| The History of our Town | 11 | |
| A few chapters of the history of our town | B. Wind-Yechieli | 11 |
| The beginnings of our town (by word of mouth) | D. Peletz | 46 |
| A page of history [Y] | M. Eisland | 52 |
| The Religious, Political-Cultural and Social Life | 86 | |
| The personality of our Rabbi, the scholar R'Shmuel Engel z”l | M. Tzinowitz & A. Reichman | 86 |
| The greatest among the giants | Ben David | 96 |
| The Gaon from Radomysl | Shraga Feivish Halperin | 98 |
| “A plastered cistern, which does not lose a drop” [Sayings of the Fathers, 2:34] | Rabbi Y. Pflanzgraben | 99 |
| The scholar Rabbi Chaim Engel, may God revenge his blood | Rav S.Y. Frenkel-Teomim | 102 |
| Rabbis and other religious personnel | M. Ebenholz | 104 |
| My grandfather, our teacher Rav Moshe Cohen, may God revenge his blood | Rav A. Toren | 108 |
| Torah in Radomysl [Y] | Rabbi Y. Pflanzgraben | 110 |
| “The unknown general” of the American yeshiva-world [Y] | N. Gordon | 111 |
| My father, Rav David Hakohen Brand, may God revenge his blood | M. Brand | 115 |
| The large family of the Rav Israel Salomon | Rav Avraham ben Yeshayahu Goldfinger | 116 |
| Memories of an important man in our town | A. Forshner | 120 |
| R'Alter Sandzer | Y. Kaufman | 123 |
| Rabbis in our region - holy persons [Y] | M. Ungar | 126 |
| How the Hasidim went to the Flantcher Rebbe [Y] | Y. Wind | 135 |
| The Talmud Torah in town [Y] | M. A. | 136 |
| A letter from the Radomysl Talmud Torah to our Landsleit in America [Y] | 139 | |
| The destruction of my family and of the “Agudat Israel Girls” [Y] | B. Bernstein (Ebenholz) | 140 |
| The Agudat Israel | M. A. | 142 |
| The beginning of the Zionist movement [Y] | M. Eisland | 144 |
| The foundation of the Zionist Organization [Y] | S. Kartagener-Schroib z”l | 151 |
| Zionist activity [Y] | G. Eisland | 158 |
| The Zionist Movement in the twenties and late thirties | D. Peltz | 159 |
| The “Akiva Organization” [Y] | R. Eisland-Heisler | 168 |
| The beginning of youth organizations in our town | D. Gross | 171 |
| A fresh new wind blows in our town | P. Geldzahler-Gross | 176 |
| The Akiva movement on the eve of the Holocaust | Y. Wind | 179 |
| The Akiva movement in Radomysl | B. Wind-Yechieli | 181 |
| The activity of the Akiva organization (report in the Press) [Y] | M. A. | 194 |
| Beitar organization in our town | Ch. Eisland (Koch) | 196 |
| How I joined Beitar [Y] | Y. Eisland-Reichman | 198 |
| Beitar, as I remember it [Y] | I. Eisland | 199 |
| The history of Beitar in Radomysl | Y. Blas | 200 |
| The Beitar activity (from the press) [Y] | M. A. | 203 |
| The Poalei Zion [Y] | M. Eisland | 206 |
| How the Poalei Zion organization was founded [Y] | N. Keller | 210 |
| The “League for the Working Eretz-Israel” [Y] | M. A. | 215 |
| Hechalutz in our town | Y. Gold | 216 |
| The Hashomer Hatzair movement in Radomysl | B. Wind-Yechieli | 218 |
| The Mizrachi | M. A. | 221 |
| The elections to the Zionist Congresses [Y] | M. A. | 223 |
| Working for the Keren Kayemet (JNF) [Y] | M. A. | 223 |
| Learning Hebrew [Y] | M. A. | 225 |
| Our Bundists [Y] | M. A. | 232 |
| Purim-Spiel in town [Y] | A. Gross | 232 |
| The Yiddish Theater [Y] | Ch. Eisland (Koch) [Y] | 235 |
| Drama Circles [Y] | A. Gross | 236 |
| Sport [Y] | A. Gross | 241 |
| Aid and charity institutions [Y] | A. Gross | 244 |
| The Chevra Kadisha (burial society) | A. Y. Mahler | 247 |
| Visiting the sick in our town | Y. Mahler | 247 |
| The Economic Life | 250 | |
| Radomysl hatters [Y] | Yoel Mastboim | 250 |
| Our hatters [Y] | N. Keller | 254 |
| A constructive financial tool [Y] | Y. Eisland | 258 |
| Esther Surat's Fund [Y] | M. Eisland | 262 |
| The letters from Berish Eisland to his brother Reuven in America, concerning the Interest-free Loan Fund [Y] | 264 | |
| The scandal between Feigele the crazy and the local priest [Y] | D. Peltz | 275 |
| Market day in town [Y] | N. Keller | 277 |
| Jews in the liberal professions [Y] | A. Gross | 283 |
| Medical workers [Y] | 284 | |
| From chronicles [Y] | M. A. | 287 |
| Families | 290 | |
| R'Leibish Eisland z”l | A. Y. Mahler | 290 |
| My father R'Shimon Eisland z”l | Yona (nee Eisland) Reichman | 292 |
| My father R'Shmuel Altman | A. Altman | 294 |
| R'Asher R'Itche's | Z. Balsam, S. Balsam | 295 |
| In Memory of my dear father R'Shaul Betheim z”l | P. Cohen z”l | 298 |
| R'Shalom Brand z”l | Y. Brand | 299 |
| My father. R'Reuven Gross z”l | Y. Gross | 303 |
| My great-grandfather, R'Noah Green z”l [Y] | N. Keller | 305 |
| R'Mendel Honig z”l | A. Forschner | 308 |
| The family of R'Shmuel and Treine Weiss [Y] | Rachel & Zlate (Zahava) Weiss | 310 |
| R'Shmuel Leibowitz z”l [Y] | D. Peltz | 315 |
| R'Yirmyahu Leibowitz z”l [Y] | A. Gross | 315 |
| Chana (Moshe-Yosef's) Meller z”l | Ch. Y. Banker | 316 |
| Memories from my home and my father z”l | A. Y. Mahler | 317 |
| Two of the Radomysl people | Y. Maler | 323 |
| My husband Moshe Salomon [Y] | R. Kornreich | 325 |
| R'Pinchas Forschtenzer z”l [Y] | M. Forschtenzer-Leizer | 326 |
| Hersh Leib Forschtenzer z”l | A. Y. Mahler | 327 |
| Memories about my father, R'Yakov Peltz z”l | D. Peltz | 328 |
| My town and my relatives [Y] | M. S. Kartagener-Schraub | 335 |
| Love of the place and love of the people | Ofra (nee Strom) Harshoshanim | 339 |
| Various families in town [Y] | M. Eisland | 340 |
| A memorial to my friend Yechezkel Eisland z”l | B. Wind-Yechieli | 364 |
| Moshe Bucksboim z”l | M. Eisland | 366 |
| My friends: Naftali Weiss, Monyek Koifman, Shaul Wind [Y] | A. Gross | 367 |
| Chaim David Wind z”l | M. Eisland | 369 |
| Writers and their Works, Radomysl Personalities | 370 | |
| Eisland's path in literature | 370 | |
| Reuven Eisland | Melech Ravitch | 373 |
| Reuven Eisland, poet and journalist [Y] | Menashe Ungar | 374 |
| Radomysl and Reuven Eisland [Y] | Daniel Leibel | 378 |
| The last of the young | Nachman Meisel | 382 |
| My father [Y], Awakening of the Spring [Y], The Wild Grapevine [Y], A Cold Rain [Y], The Trees are Showing the Way [H], Still-Life [H], the Hardships of our Days [H] | From Reuven Eisland's poetry | 386 |
| From the book “A Selection of my Yiddish Poems” by Moshe Bassok | Reuven Eisland | 389 |
| A sensational literary book [Y] | Melech Ravitch | 389 |
| Prose and Memories [Y] | Reuven Eisland | 392 |
| In the shadow of a Torah Scroll [Y] | Reuven Eisland | 398 |
| Moshe Gold, may God avenge his blood | M. A. | 438 |
| The Tilim-Zoger [the Psalms Reader] [Y] | Moshe Gold | 439 |
| The Psalms Reader | M. Gold | 443 |
| Shmuel Saltz | 446 | |
| R'Yosef Margoshes | 446 | |
| Radom1ysl | Yosef Margoshes | 449 |
| I am engaged to be married (lit. I am becoming a bridegroom) [Y] | Yosef Margoshes | 457 |
| Dr. Shmuel Margoshes | Melech Ravitch | 464 |
| An extinguished star [Y] | Dr. S. Margoshes | 467 |
| My Radomysl [Y] | Dr. S. Margoshes | 468 |
| Arthur Miller, the great American writer, originates in Radomysl [Y] | Yitzhak Turkov | 472 |
| Exchange of letters between the writer arthur Miller and Mr. Aizik Reichman | 480 | |
| Binyamin Cohen | Y. A. Mahler | 482 |
| Chaim Hofstaedter | R. Kornreich | 485 |
| Melech Noy-Neustadt | 485 | |
| Melech Neustadt (Noy) | Shlomo Gal (Wellner) | 488 |
| Passages from the book “Kaltz” | Dr. Moshe Peltz | 490 |
| R'Yosef Pepper (Altman) | Israel Idelman | 492 |
| Memories and Ways of Life | 498 | |
| Memories from my town | M. Y. Eisland | 498 |
| Life in our town [Y] | G. Berl | 502 |
| The day the National Library was founded in our town | R. Bar-Am | 503 |
| Memories from my youth [Y] | W. Guttwirt z”l | 505 |
| My town and my home [Y] | Y. Drelich | 508 |
| What I remember from my home [Y] | A. Haarendorf | 510 |
| I love you, Radomysl | Y. Halevi (ben Binyamin Gross-Schroib) | 511 |
| Legends and tales from Radomysl [Y] | Menachem Porat (Mendel Fistrang) | 514 |
| A bundle of memories from my childhood | B. Wiener-Yechieli | 537 |
| Memories from my youth [Y] | M. Zarmi (Strom) | 548 |
| A memorial candle for the martyrs [Y] | B. Cohen-Asher z”l | 555 |
| Childhood days [Y] | Y. Lev z”l | 559 |
| Memories from my town [Y] | Y. Loifbahn | 561 |
| As I remember it | Ch. Liman | 563 |
| What I told my son | A. Y. Mahler | 564 |
| Radomysl people in Tarnow | A. Y. Mahler | 570 |
| Memories from the First World War | Y. Mahler | 572 |
| The life and the end [Y] | R. Ebenholz | 574 |
| Memories from my town [Y] | H. Fistrang | 582 |
| Alte'she | D. Peltz | 596 |
| Meir Kosht | D. Peltz | 602 |
| Events [Y] | R. Kornreich | 603 |
| The Story of my life | Shmuel Slafter-Koch | 605 |
| A general biography of Greater Radomysl until 1917-1918 | A. Reichman-Bisgeyer | 608 |
| How I remember my town [Y] | P. Reichman | 616 |
| Memories of a Radomysler in Argentina [Y] | M. Reindel | 618 |
| What shall I tell about my youth? | K. Shemaya | 632 |
| Builders and Defenders | 636 | |
| Shmuel Ganani (Gertner) | 636 | |
| In memory of Aharon Salomon (Shlomi) | 638 | |
| Menachem Wolf | 642 | |
| 646 | ||
| A Painting by A. Spangelt | 648 | |
| Shema Israel [Hear, O, Israel] (a poem) | H. Harshoshanim | 654 |
| At the Mirror (from a poem) [Y] | D. Eisland | 655 |
| This is how it Happened | 656 | |
| “The Poland Scroll” | 656 | |
| The history of the destruction [Y] | 657 | |
| The horrible experiences [Y] | Y. Eisland | 659 |
| Through fields and forests [Y] | W. Einspruch | 728 |
| The beginning of the end | R. Aloni (Aizig) | 739 |
| Memories from the days of the holocaust | Y. Blas | 749 |
| Memories | Ch. Garn Roseblatt (Levy) | 742 |
| Our town during the years 1939-1942 | A. Leibowitz | 778 |
| In the forest - the road to life | R. Klein | 788 |
| The war and the wandering | P. Reichman | 794 |
| The liquidation [Y] | M. Reiner | 804 |
| How my parents were murdered, may God avenge their blood | Ch. Spitz | |
| 810 | ||
| Towns and Villages | 812 | |
| Borova | S. Yam | 814 |
| Borova in the press [Y] | M. A. | 816 |
| Tchermin | 817 | |
| Zassow | Att. Y. Issler | 818 |
| Pshetzlew | Polish sources | 822 |
| The town's old market [Y] | N. Gastwirt | 823 |
| As a remembrance to my birthplace [Y] | Elazar Hakohen Grinboim (aka Dersowitz) z”l | 825 |
| A Tombstone [Y] | Ben Moshe | 827 |
| The town and its martyrs [Y] | A. Spielman | 830 |
| From the newspapers | M. A. | 834 |
| Jews in the villages | Ch. Wasserstrom | 836 |
| The number of Jews in our region | 838 | |
| How we were saved | Y. Amsterdam | 840 |
| Memories from the Holocaust | S. Gold-Feit | 858 |
| The terrible years [Y] | Y. Haver | 860 |
| Driven out of the village [Y] | A. Hirsch | 864 |
| My difficult experiences [Y] | Ch. Wasserstrom | 868 |
| Face to face with the enemy [Y] | 872 | |
| Moshe Goldfinger, may God avenge his blood | Yechezkel Ayalon (Eisland) | 872 |
| Mendel Grin, may God avenge his blood | 873 | |
| Rescued from the burning fire | 876 | |
| 878 | ||
| Necrology | 886 | |
| The Day of Revenge (Poem) [Y] | Mordechai Gebirtig | 979 |
| 982 | ||
| Israel | 984 | |
| The Organization of Former Residents of Greater Radomysl and surroundings | Y. Eisland Ayalon | 986 |
| The Interest-Free-Loan Fund in memory of the Radomysl martyrs | Y. Eisland Ayalon | 992 |
| List of Former Residents of our town in Israel | 994 | |
| Former Residents of our Town who Died or were Buried in Israel | 1002 | |
| Motl Ungar, Yankel Ungar, Avigdor Eisland, R'Chanina Bizgeyer, Rachel and Beile Bucksboim, R'Zev (Wolf) Blum | 1002-1003 | |
| Efraim-Yakov Har-Zahav, Sara Holzer-Blas, Shmuel Ganani, Refael Hand | 1004-1005 | |
| David Hirsch, Chaim-Wolf and Sheindl Wind | 1006-1007 | |
| Menachem Wolf, R'Shmuel Spielman (Silberman), Aresh Yakov, Binyamin Cohen, Pinchas Cohen (Betheil) | 1008-1009 | |
| Yakov Leib, R'Aizik Mahler, Devora Mahler, Chava Mahler | 1010-1011 | |
| Melech Noy (Neustadt), Aharon Shlomi (Salomon), Reuven Shlomi, Ester Salpeter | 1012-1013 | |
| Eli Perath | 1014-1015 | |
| Hersch-Leib Forshtentzer, Yehudit Feinstein (nee Mahler), R'Zvi Pinter, R'Yakov Fistrong, R'Chaim Peter | 1016-1017 | |
| R'Yosef Pepper, R'Mendel Klein, Zisl Kartagener, Shoshana (Reizl) Kartagener-Schroib, Golda-Reizl Karisher | 1018-1019 | |
| Henrietta-Yeti Reichman Lederberger, Reuven Spanier | ||
| North America | 1022 | |
| List of our Landsleit in the United States | 1026 | |
| List of former Pshetzlaw residents in the United States [Y] | 1027 | |
| Canada, Argentina, Brazil, Italy, Belgium, Germany, The Netherlands, Poland [Y] | 1028-1029 | |
| France, our martyrs: Binyamin Gross, Hershel Keller, Israel Bernknopf z”l, Spain [Y] | 1032 | |
| Y. Gold, Dr. A. Schlosser, Martha Gelber-Kartagener | 1032-1033 | |
| The first who returned | 1036 | |
| Index of Names | ||
| 1. Essay | Mendel Eisland | |
| 2. Essay | Baruch Jechiel Wind | |
| 3. Essay | David Pelz | |
| About the Gaon R' Shmuel Engel | H. Cynowicz and A. Reichman | |
| An Evaluation of Rabbi Shmuel Engel's Personality | Ben-David | |
| The Release of the Deserted | Shrage Fayvish Halperin | |
| The Rabbi R' Chaim Engel | Szymon Y. Fraenkel-Teumin | |
| Rabbi David Hacohen | Mendel Ebenholz | |
| Torah in Radomysl | Jakov Flanzgraben | |
| R. Alter Sanzer | Yechezkel Kaufman | |
| Hevra Kaddisha | A. I. Mahler | |
| Visiting the Sick in our Town | Jaakov Mahler | |
| General Zionist Organization | ||
| The Zionist Youth Organization “AKIVA” | ||
| The Revisionist Youth Party “BEYTAR” | ||
| Poaley Zion | ||
| The Poaley-Zion Drama Club | Naftali Kehler | |
| Learning Hebrew | ||
| Eretz Israel | ||
| The Hehalutz in our Town | ||
| The Hashomer Hatzair in Radomysl | ||
| Mizrachi | ||
| Aguda, Zeirey Agudat Israel | ||
| Library | ||
| The Theater Shows | ||
| Sport | Avraham Schraub | |
| The Hat-Makers of Radomysl | Joel Mastbaum | |
| The Craftsmanship Party | M. Eisland | |
| The Gmiluth Chasidim Fund | Berich Eisland | |
| Writers and their Works | Reuven Eisland | |
| From “Unzer Friling” - Memoirs and Portraits | Reuven Eisland | |
| A Sensational Literary Book | Melech Rawitsch | |
| Moshe Gold | ||
| Extract from the Psalm Sayers | Moshe Gold | |
| The reminiscences of Joseph Margoshes | ||
| Radomysl | Joseph Margoshes | |
| Dr. Shmuel Margoshes | Melech Rawitsch | |
| Prominent Citizen R' Moshe Salz | A. Forshner | |
| About the son Shmuel Salz | ||
| The Treasures of Sam Salz | ||
| Benjamin Cohen | J. A. Mahler | |
| Haim Hoffstadter | Rachel Kornreich | |
| Melech Neustadt (Noi) | Shlomo Gal Velner | |
| Dr. Moshe Peltz | ||
| R' Joseph Pfeffer (Altman) | Israel Eidelman | |
| Hannah (Moshe Joseph's) Mahler | Yohanan Banker | |
| R' Shalom Brand | Jechiel Brand | |
| The Communist Party | Rafael Ebenholtz | |
| Memories of my Youth | Wowek Gutwirth | |
| Hersh Leib Forstenitzer | A. I. Mahler | |
| Reminiscences from the townlet | Menachem Porath (Mendel Wolf) | |
| The Rov and Rabbi of our Town | Hershel Pistrong | |
| The Three Betei Midrash | ||
| Meir Kutsh | David Pelz | |
| Memories of Radomysl in Argentine | Moniek Reindel | |
| The Rabbi of Plancz megaresh Hadibbuk | Izik Reichman-Bizgayer | |
| Builders and Defenders | Shmuel Ganai (Gärtner) | |
| In Memory of Aharon Salomon (Shlomy) | ||
| Mendel Wolf | Menachem Bader | |
| The Neighborhood Borowa | Shalom Yam | |
| Czermin | ||
| The Townlet Zassow | Jaacov Issler | |
| My Townlet Przeclaw | Ben Moshe | |
| The Old Market of Przeclaw | Naphtali Gastwirth | |
| The Townlet Przeclaw | Avraham Spielman | |
| Jews in the Village | Hannah Wasserstrum | |
| Introduction to the History | ||
| The First Days with the Germans | Haja Garen-Rozenblat | |
| What the Jews did for a Living | Jechezkel Eisland | |
| Wandering in the Woods | Sara Gold (Feit) | |
| Life in Camp | Pinchas Reichman | |
| Mutual Help | Izik Leibowitz | |
| Life in the German Hell | Jehuda Laufbahn | |
| The Killings | Jacob Blas | |
| The Beginning of the End | Rafael Alony (Eisig) | |
| The German Take-over | ||
| The Liquidation of Radomysl | Moshe Reiner | |
| After the Liquidation | Israel Hauser | |
| We hide with friendly Peasants | Wolf Einspruch | |
| In the Woods | Israel Klein | |
| Life in the Forests | Jochanan Amsterdam | |
| Better without a Bunker | Hana Wasserstrum | |
| We escape from the Camp | Avrum Hirsh | |
| Plashow, Bergen-Belsen, Sweden | Haja Garen Rozenblat | |
| Addresses of the People of Radomysl Wielki after the Holocaust | ||
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