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Staszów synagogue
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Translation of
Sefer Staszów
Edited by: Elhanan Erlich
Published in Tel Aviv, 1962
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Permission by: Shimon Tuchman z”l, Chairman, Irgun Staszów in Israel.
This is a translation from: Sefer Staszów (The Staszów book), Editor: E. Erlich,
Tel Aviv, Former Residents of Staszów in Israel and in the Diaspora, 1962 (H,Y,E, 690 pages).
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Staszów synagogue |
Translated from the Hebrew and Yiddish by Jean-Pierre Stroweis and Ruth Rotenberg
(Y = Yiddish; H = Hebrew; E = English)
| Photo: The Synagogue in Staszów | 5 | |
| Table of Contents | 7 | |
| Map of the Town of Staszów | Shoshana Shabbat (Fuchs) | 13 |
| Ner Tamid - An Eternal Light (Editor's Words) (H, Y & E) | Elchanan Erlich | 13, 16 |
| What Willpower Can Achieve (H, Y & E) | Shlomo Heiman | 20, 21 |
| History of Staszów, Poland and its Jewish Community (H & Y) | Dr. N. M. Gelber | 25, 47 |
| Staszów, Interim Residence of the “Chacham Zvi” (H) | Meir Shimon Geshuri | 36 |
| The Maggid of Kozhnitz, Author of “Responsum on the Agunah” (H) | Meir Shimon Geshuri | 38 |
| The Kehilla (H) | Zvi Goldberg | 41 |
| Dates and Events (H) | Elchanan Erlich | 43 |
| Staszów of the Soul (Y) | Rabbi Dr. David Graubart | 61 |
| Dates and Events (Y) | Elchanan Erlich | 63 |
| How Staszów looked in the 19th century (Y) | Herszel Pomerancblum | 68 |
| The Cooperative Bank (H) | Zvi Goldberg | 71 |
| Social Action during World War II (H) | Tzvi Goldberg | 72 |
| The Shoe Industry (Y) | Menachem Lifshitz | 74 |
| The Jewish Craftsmen's Union (Y) | Meyer Weber | 78 |
| Purchasing Agents (Y) | Moshe Rotenberg | 80 |
| Watchmakers and Goldsmiths (Y) | Moshe Rotenberg | 83 |
| Hatmakers (Y) | Moshe Rotenberg | 85 |
| Statistical Data on Staszow (Y) | Elchanan Erlich | 87 |
| A Boycott Proclamation from 1935 (Y) | Elchanan Erlich | 89 |
| Rabbi Mordechaile Pardes (H) | Meir Shimon Geshuri | 93 |
| In the “Pardes” (Orchard) of the Tzaddikim (Righteous) (H) | Meir Shimon Geshuri | 96 |
| Reb Shmuel, Parnas and Leader and Rabbi Yehuda Leib (H) | Meir Shimon Geshuri | 102 |
| Rabbi Yitzhak David Szpiro (H) | Meir Shimon Geshuri | 103 |
| Rabbi Abraham'ele of Porisov (H) | Meir Shimon Geshuri | 104 |
| The Kosher Butchers of Staszów (H) | Meir Shimon Geshuri | 109 |
| The “Rav,” Rabbi Yehuda Leib Graubart (Y) | Nachman Shemen | 111 |
| Rabbi Moshe Shealtiel Gerszt, the Moreh Hora'ah (Y) | Dr. David Graubart | 130 |
| The Zionist Movement and Its Offshoots (H) | Elchanan Erlich | 135 |
| Hashomer Hatzair (The Young Guard) (H) | Ya'akov Shiloni | 153 |
| Hashomer Hatzair in the 1930s (Y) | Meir Blausztajn | 157 |
| Our Troop / Den – Esteemed in Poland (H) | Frida Ajzenberg | 160 |
| The Mizrachi and the “Torah Ve–Avoda” Movement (H) | Meir Shimon Geshuri | 162 |
| Hashomer Hadati–The Religious Scouting Movement (H) | Yosef Blusztajn | 168 |
| The Agudas Israel Organization (H) | Elchanan Erlich | 169 |
| The “Bund” in Staszów (H) | Ya'akov Shiloni | 175 |
| The “Peretz” Library (H) | M. Wajnbaum-Fiszof | 179 |
| Charity Institutions in Staszów (H) | Elchanan Erlich | 181 |
| Hashomer Hatzair (The Young Guard) (Y) | Chaim Bulwa | 185 |
| Hashomer Hatzair (The Young Guard) (Y) | Ruven Blank | 193 |
| The Beginnings of Mizrachi and Tseirei Mizrachi (Y) | Rabbi Benyomin Groybart | 196 |
| The Mizrachi [Religious Zionist] Organization in Staszów (Y) | Yosef Blusztajn | 198 |
| The Left Poalei Zion [Labor Zionists] (Y) | Khaye Solnik | 204 |
| The Poalei Zion [Labor Zionist Movement] in Staszów (Y) | Ya'akov Buchman | 207 |
| Staszów Workers in Independent Poland (Y) | Yeshayohu Lowczyk | 211 |
| The Sport Club “HaKoach” [“Strength”] (Y) | Yonatan Tochterman | 213 |
| Amateur theater and Drama Circles (Y) | Moshe Rotenberg | 216 |
| Childhood and Youth in Staszów (H) | Yechezkel Kirszenbaum | 221 |
| From My Childhood Days in Staszów (H) | Pinchas Szirman | 230 |
| Election Campaign in Staszów (H) | Yitzhak Grinbojm | 235 |
| From Staszów to Israel (H) | Ya'akov Shiloni | 237 |
| My Father's Home (H) | Bina Nusbojm | 242 |
| The 20th of Tammuz–Herzl's Memorial Day (H) | David Goldwasser | 244 |
| What Staszów Was Like (Y) | Hershl Pomerancblum | 245 |
| Herzl's Memorial Day in Staszów (Y) | I. Sztajnbojm | 260 |
| Memories (From 1905 to 1923) (Y) | Nusyn Ajdelsberg | 264 |
| The Bloody Yom Kippur (Y) | Avraham Josel Rotenberg | 271 |
| Memories and Observations (Y) | Pinchas Goldhar | 274 |
| Our Childhood Years (Y) | Moshe Rotenberg | 286 |
| Musicians, Cantors and Music Lovers (Y) | Moshe Rotenberg | 295 |
| Sabbath in the Dusk (Y) | Moshe Rotenberg | 299 |
| Memories (Y) | Ruven Blank | 300 |
| A Memorial to Our Home Town (Shtetl) (Y & E) | Shlomo Heiman | 309 |
| There once was a Town Called Staszów (Y) | Yehiel Wajnsztok | 311 |
| I take my leave of Staszów, my hometown (Y) | Khaye Solnik | 314 |
| The Golejów Woods (Y) | Itsik Kozuchowicz | 316 |
| Personalities and Events in the Town (Y) | Michael Czapnik | 318 |
| Staszów, My Town (Y) | Chaim Wagner | 321 |
| Intellectual Staszów (Y) | Reizel Bukszpan | 323 |
| The Hidden Boxes (Y) | Shprintse Varger | 325 |
| Superstitions and Folk Sayings (Y) | - | 327 |
| Cantor Pinchas Szirman–Child of Staszów (H) | Meir Shimen Geshuri | 331 |
| Cantor Abraham Isaac Szirman (H) | Meir Geshuri | 336 |
| Reb Benyamin Tochterman (H) | Meir Geshuri | 337 |
| Reb Shimen (Shimele) Melamed (H) | Elchanan Erlich | 338 |
| Reb Tzvi Goldberg (H) | Elchanan Erlich | 340 |
| Getzel Erlichman (H) | Aharon R. | 341 |
| David Sznifer (H) | Meir Blusztajn | 343 |
| Moshe Rawed (H) | Tzipora Szniper | 346 |
| The Kirszenbaum Exhibit in Paris (H) | Israel N. | 348 |
| Notable Staszówers: Men of Property, Enlightened Thinkers, and Pious Jews (Y) | Moshe Rotenberg | 349 |
| Chaim Berish Rosenmuter (Y) | Reuven Blank | 359 |
| Reb Hershel Wolman (may God avenge his blood) (Y) | Sara Zalcman | 361 |
| Reb Alter Buchwald (Y) | Michael Zalcman | 363 |
| Hershel [Tsvi] Lewowicz (Y) | Elchanan Erlich | 364 |
| Cantor Motel Goldfarb, 1881-1946 (Y) | Mrs. Tilly Gewirtz | 365 |
| In the Path of Anguish and Cessation (H & E) | Elchanan Erlich | 369 |
| A Small Child's Revenge, Even Satan Has Not Yet Devised (H) | Chana Bursztajn | 396 |
| As Beasts in the Woods (H & E) | Gabriel Singer | 398 |
| With Aryan Papers to Germany (H) | Zahava Lebowicz | 404 |
| A Memorial for Those Who Have No Memorial (H) | Elchanan Erlich | 406 |
| Diary from the Ghetto (Y & E) | Joseph Goldstein | 417 |
| The Last Struggle (Y & E) | Menahem Lifshitz | 449 |
| Memories and Facts (Y) | Szmuel Saniecki | 458 |
| Yizkor [Memorial Prayer] for a Polish Town (Y) | David Eydelsberg | 472 |
| Witness to Destruction (Y) | Ya'acov Buchman | 475 |
| A Seder Night in Auschwitz (Y) | Sabina Ajdelsberg–Wiszlitcka | 486 |
| Poems (Y) | Yizhak Kozuchowicz | 489 |
| Cursing (poem) (Y) | Chaim Wagner | 491 |
| Revenge! (poem) (Y) | Yakov Szternlicht | 491 |
| Survival in the Forest (Y) | Meyer Bydlowski | 492 |
| From Skarżysko, to Omler, and Into the Woods (Y) | Natanael Erlich | 494 |
| For Ten Kilograms of Sugar (Y) | Perl Goldflus | 499 |
| How We Wandered (Y) | Yehuda Felberg | 502 |
| Our Polish Neighbours (Y) | Avraham Zylbersztajn | 506 |
| A Memorial Candle for My Murdered Family (Y) | Menachem Lifshitz | 507 |
| Vision of the Dry Bones (Yechezkel) (Y) | 512 | |
| When a Community Vanished (H, Y, E) | Elchanan Erlich | 513 |
| When a Community Vanished (Y) | Elchanan Erlich | 519 |
| Victims' Pictures and Announcements Section (Y) | 526 | |
| Necrology List (H) | 612 | |
| Yizkor (Remembrance) (H) | 622 | |
| Alas, Children of Osiek! (H) | Shlomo Groshaus | 625 |
| Sons and Daughters of Osiek Victims of the Nazi Enemies (H) | 632 | |
| My Town, Plontch (Połaniec) (H) | Dovid Schnipper | 633 |
| Pictures of Polaniec and Necrology List (H) | 642 | |
| Kurozwęki (Y) | Zachariah Kozienicki | 644 |
| Rytwiany (Y) | Mordechai Sosevicz | 646 |
| Szydłów (H) | Issachar Wicznik | 648 |
| Associations of Former Staszowers in Israel and the World | ||
| Association of Former Stashovers in Israel (H) | Tuvia Nisengarten | 653 |
| In Memory of the Stashovers Who Fell in Israel's War of Liberation (H) | Tuvia Nisengarten | 657 |
| The Toronto Staszów Young Men's Society: The Social and National Mission of the “Society” (Y) | Nachman Shemen | 661 |
| Our Landsmanshaft in Los Angeles (Y) | Ya'akov Bekier | 672 |
| The Stashover–Rakover Landsmanshaft in Argentina (Y) | 674 | |
| Our Society in São Paulo (Y) | Pinye Ajzenberg and Haim Wagner | 677 |
| Stashovers around the World (Y) | M. Sosewicz | 681 |
| Publishing this Book (H & Y) | Yoel Fiszof | 687 |
| A “Shehecheyanu” (Thanksgiving) Blessing (H) | Elchanan Erlich | 688 |
| Ner Tamid - An Eternal Light (Editor's Words) (H, Y & E) | Elchanan Erlich | V |
| What Willpower Can Achieve (H, Y & E) | Shlomo Heiman | VI |
| The Destruction of a Congregation (Y & E) | Elchanan Erlich | VIII |
| A Memorial to Our Home Town (Shtetl) (Y & E) | Shlomo Heiman | XIII |
| As Beasts in the Woods (H & E) | Gabriel Singer | XV |
| The Final Struggle (Y & E) | Menahem Lipshitz | XXII |
| A Ghetto Diary (Y & E) | Joseph Goldstein | XXV |
| In the Path of Anguish and Cessation (H & E) | Elchanan Erlich | XXXVI |
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