Memorial Book- Kolomyya, Ukraine

Memorial book of Kolomey
and its surroundings
(Kolomyya, Ukraine)

48°32' / 25°02'

Translation of
Sefer zikaron le-kehilat Kolomey ve ha-sevivah

Edited by: D. Noy, M. Schutzman, former residents of Kolomey and surroundings in Israel

Published in Tel Aviv, 1972

Acknowledgments

Project Coordinator

Claire Hisler Shefftz z”l

Our sincere appreciation to Mark Schutzman for permission
to put this material on the JewishGen web site.

This is a translation from: Sefer zikaron le-kehilat Kolomey ve ha-sevivah,
Memorial book of Kolomey and its surroundings. Eds, D. Noy, M. Schutzman
Tel Aviv, former residents of Kolomey and surroundings in Israel, 1972 (H)

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Translated by Tova Gita Rosenheck Kraus

To Be Remembered for Eternity / The Book Committee	7
Kolomea the Capital of Pokucie / Dr. A. Y. Braver	11
History of the Jews of Kolomea / Dr. N. M. Gelber	22
Kolomea a Mother Town for Chasidim / Mordechai Schutzman	49
Chapter: At the Turn of the 20th Century
The Elections for the Austrian Parliament / Dr. A.Y. Braver	59
The First Strike at the Talesim Factory / D. Y. Zilberbush	63
Kolomea- A Zionist Center in Galicia
The Beginning of the Zionist Movemment / A. Scheuerman	70
The Momentum of Zionist Action / Michal Hazelkorn	73
The First Zionists in Kolomea / Menachem Meiran-Lazar	76
The First Zionist Materialization / Yehuda Khorin	78
The Zionist Camp Had a Majority / Dr. Marc Schwaber	82
The Orthodox Jews
Orthodox Jews in Kolomea / Moshe Rath	84
The Great Synagogue / Meir Feder	91
Very Old Synagogues / D. Davidowitz	94
The Rabbis of the Community / Moshe Rath	98
Schools ("Cheders") and Teachers / Y. A. Zeidman	103
My Schools ("Cheders") / Dr. A. Y. Braver	105
Hirsch Rath / Shlomo Bickel	106
Wowik Rosenkrantz the Teacher (Kugel) / S. Bickel (S. Meltzer)	108
Yekheskel Melamed / L.G.	109
Memories
Popular Vote On a Railroad Extension / L.G.	110
Population Census in 1910 / A. Scheuerman	111
Help for the Refugees from the Kishinev Pogroms	112
Revenge on Yedlee Ben Shabtai / S. Bickel	112
May 1st Falls on the Sabbath / G. Levi	113
List of Banks Up Until World War One	114
Marshall Pilsudski in Kolomea / G. Levi	115
The Jewish Delegation to Poland's Premier / G. Levi	115
The First Election for the Polish Parliament	116
The Pogrom in Zablotov / M. Heinisch	117
The Martyrs of Slobodka-Leshna	118
The Outbreak of the First World War / Y. Scheuerman	119
The Last Part of the First World War / Y. A. Zeidman	121
Chapter: Economy and Community
Jewish Livelihoods / Dr. A. Y. Braver	125
Doctors and Lawyers in Kolomea	135
The Horowitz Factory / Natan Meisler	136
Parties and Political Movements
Zionist Activity / Dr. Zvi Heller	138
The Jewish Workers Movement / David Landman	143
Zionist Youth Groups / Joseph Stern	146
The Way of Life in the "Zionist Youth" Movement / Dr. JosephWeiser	150
"Akiva" Youth Organization / Y. Brickner	152
Beitar Movement / Y. B.	152
"Hechalutz" Movement / Itzchak Teitelbaum	155
"Hashomer Hatsair" in Kolomea / Shmuel Maran (Pomerantz) Meir Amidan (Lederfeind)	160
"Gordonia" Movement / Moshe Singer	163
Zionist Workers Left / David Landman	165
"Hamizrachi" Organization / Hanoch Schechter	169
Mizrachi Youth / Meir Feder	171
"Agudath Yisrael" / M. Schein	173
Communist Jews in Kolomea / Natan Meisler	176
Organization Members in the Period Between the Two Wars	177
Chapter: Images, Personalities and Characters
Rabbi Hillel Lichtenstein / Dr. N. Gelber	183
Rabbi Gedalyahu Schmalkis / Moshe Rath	185
Rabbi Israel Joseph Lau / Zeev Fisher Shein	187
Dr. Shlomo Rosenheck / P. K.	190
Sixtieth Jubilee Party for Dr. Rosenheck / Michal Hazelkorn	191
The Preacher Rabbi Itzchak Weber / W. H.	193
Dr. Fishel Rottenshtreich / W. H.	194
Chaim Ringelblum / P.K.	195
Laibel Toibsh / Meir Henisch	197
Yosef Herer / W. H	198.
Dr. Meir Herm Gelbart / Y.H.	199
Jacob Bitter / Y. S.	200
Rabbi Efraim Kellerman / Dr. M. A. Nahir	201
Moshe Shmuel Grossbach / Jacob Scheuerman	202
Dr. S. L. Schorr / L. G.	203
Itzchak Shlomo Shmois / Y. M. Markscheid	204
Alexander Granach / S. B.	206
The Bachelor Rabbi / D. S.	207
Meir Leifer Redlich / S. Munio	209
Menachem Mendel Grunwerg / L. G.	210
Meir Zacher / W. H.	211
Moshe Dalfon / L. G.	212
Mottel Tropp / Y. Scheuerman	212
The Blind Chone / M. S.	213
Shebtil the Drunkard / W. H.	214
Shmuel Vancia Tutai / L. G.	214
Chapter: Life and Folklore
Water Carriers and Coachmen / L. G.	219
Games Jokes Puzzles / A. Y. Braver	220
My Streets / A. S. Yuris	223
The Man from "Glazier Street" / Dr. Shlomo Bickel	225
Sabbath in the City / Dr. Abraham Klein	227
How the Jewish Holidays Were Celebrated / M. Shein	228
Leisure and Entertainment / M. S.	231
Chapter: Culture and Education
"Halevi" Association / W. H.	239
In Manger's Company / Dr. Abraham Klein	243
At the Railroad Station (poem) / Itzik Manger [in original Yiddish and in Hebrew translation]	244
The Y. L. Peretz Library / Leib Weitz	245
Josef Toftsirer and Itzik Manger / Dr. A. Klein	247
Schools
Schpirovka / Donya Zeichner-Krinitz	248
Jews in State High Schools / Dr. Josef Weiser	252
Sports in Kolomea / Joseph Rares	257
Chapter: Destruction and Annihilation
Annihilation of the Jews of Kolomea and Its Surroundings / Dr. Joseph Karmish	267
Mordechai Shipraver the Daring Hero / Eliyahu Ben Shmuel	319
With Empty Hands Against the Angel of Death / Blanca Rosenberg	320
The Rabbi Who Uprooted the Gravestones / A. S. Rina	321
The Hospital in the Ghetto / Dr. Max Wollenstein	322
Echoes from the Valley of Death / Tzvi Schnitzer	325
The Labor of His Hands / Yaakov Heger	331
True to Their Faith to Their Last Days / Yehuda Arye Bretfeld	332
A Sole Survivor From the Action / Mendel Schauder	332
The Action Against the Intellectuals / Chana Weinhaber-Hacker	334
On the Threshhold of Death / Anzia Lederfeind	336
Between the Jaws of Destiny / Yeshayahu & Shoshana Feder	337
Children in the Kolomea Ghetto / Miriam P. Karsevski-Kaufman	346
In Memory of Those Who Perished in the Holocaust
List of Martyrs in Alef Bet order (names listed as written in Yiddish)	349
Kolomeyer Organizations / Yitzchak Teitelbaum	367
Kolomey in the Year 1970 / M. Schutzman	372
In Memory of the Departed (list of those from our city who died after the war; in alef bet order)	[376]
Dr. Shlomo Bickel / D. L.	378
Rabbi Michael Braver / A. Y. Ber	379
Milcha Zeidman (Syrkin) / K. Y.	380
"Shchor Sachar" - a Rare Person / Ori Kaysari	381
Itzchak Zacher-Sachar / A. Y. Bror	382
Moshe Rath / Yechezkel Korn	384
Moshe Felsenstein / Y. G.	384
Moshe Konig / Levi Grebler	385
Dr. Itzchak Braver / Y. R.	386
Jacob Mendel Markscheid / Dr. Ephraim Stern	386
Dr. Eliyahu Mroz Rosenbaum	389
Dr. Henrik Kramer / Dr. M Schauber	389
Shalom Lachs / M. L.	390
Dr. Abraham Shmuel Yuris	391
Meir Henisch	392
Levi Grebler (Schmucher)	392
Dr. Moshe Eliyhau Nahir	393
Yitzchak Menachem Bergman / L. B.	393
In Memory of the Fallen
Matityahu Birnbaum	394
Meir Mor	394
Arye Landwehr	395
Moshe Dabster	395
Eitan Meir Braver	395
Sgan Gazit z"l	395
End Notes	396-397
Table of Contents	398-400

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