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Translation of
Seyfer Lutsk
Editor: N. Sharon
Published in Tel Aviv, 1961
Emeritus Project Coordinator Leonard Prager zl
This is a translation from: Seyfer Lutsk, Memorial Book of Lutsk
Editor: N. Sharon, Published: Tel Aviv, 1961; Publisher: Former Residents of Lutsk in Israel.
Pages: 608. Languages: Hebrew, Yiddish
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Title | Author | Page |
From the Editorial Board [H] | 5 | |
From the Editorial Board [Y] | 8 | |
The History of the Jewish Community | ||
Remembrance | Aba Kliger | 15 |
The history of the Jews in Lutsk [H] | Dr. N. M Gelber | 18 |
The History of the Jews in Lutsk | Dr. N. M Gelber | 44 |
The craftsmen in Lutsk in the 16th-18th centuries [H] | Dr. T. Hendel | 75 |
Worker Record Books from Various Societies | A. Rechtman | 84 |
The history of the Karaite sect in Lutsk [H] | M. S. Geshuri | 86 |
The Lutsk Holocaust in the Decrees of 5408-5409 [H] | M. S. Geshuri | 91 |
The Big Synagogue in Lutsk | Engineer M. Petitz | 92 |
Reb Wolf's Beis-Medrash [House of Prayer] in Lutsk | A. Rechtman | 97 |
Memories of Lutsk | M. Gliklich | 99 |
The Era of the First World War | ||
Lutsk in the First World War | Yoal Charak | 105 |
Between 1915 and 1918 | Pinkhus Tshetshotko | 114 |
The Lutsk Jewish Mayor | Sh. Warkowicky | 119 |
A night of horrors [H] | Ben-Arye | 120 |
The Jewish Aid Committee during the years 1915-1917 | Lawyer Aleksander Kotliar | 121 |
The Jewish defense in Lutsk [H] | Y. Ben Amitay | 122 |
The Communal-Political Life - Organizations and Parties | ||
Lutsk after the First World War | Yehuda Papir | 129 |
The San Remo Act in Lutsk | N. Gartibel | 131 |
Zionists and Zionism in Lutsk | A. Wachsman | 133 |
The attempt of Lutsk Jews to acquire land in Eretz Israel [H] | Binyamin Groschewsky | 146 |
The Jewish Kehile in Lutsk | Sh. Szlajfsztajn | 146 |
Invalidated List | Ch. Bar Halafta | 154 |
Under Polish Rule | N. Sharon Strachman) | 155 |
Enough with the Past | A. Lutsky | 169 |
On a Shabat and Rosh Khodesh [beginning of the month] | B. Brik-Assis | 170 |
Jewish movements among the Lutsk youth | Y. Gindel | 171 |
The days I spent in Lutsk [H] | Y. Berginsky | 177 |
The Ukrainian Halutzim in Lutsk [H] | Y. Bankower | 179 |
The History of HeHalutz in Lutsk [H] | Moshe and Yosef Shofman | 181 |
Review of the Halutz Kibbutz [agricultural settlement] | Sh. Cwitman | 183 |
Halutzim [agricultural pioneers] from Hitler Germany in the Lutsk Kibbutz | Sh. Friedman | 184 |
Rejoice not against me, my enemy! [H] | Haim Chalaf | 185 |
The Election to the 18th Zionist Congress | Sh. F. | 185 |
The Ha'Oved [Worker] in Lutsk | Z. Nissenkorn | 186 |
Hashomer Hatzair in Lutsk [H] | A. Efrat (Fiks) | 187 |
The External-Party Youth Organization | Y. Perel | 192 |
The Hashomer [watchman] Plot in Lutsk | Y. Perel | 193 |
Brit Trumpeldor [BETAR] | A. Dik | 195 |
The National Military Organization in Lutsk [H] | Y. Fershtey | 199 |
Memories from the days of Hakhshara in Lutsk [H] | D. Blorey | 201 |
A short visit in Lutsk [H] | Yosef Weitz | 202 |
A bundle of letters [H] | Y. Ben-Arye (Ziniuk) | 204 |
I remember you, Lutsk [H] | Elazar A. Hermoni | 204 |
The Mizrakhi in Lutsk | M. S. Geshuri | 205 |
The Bund in Lutsk Between the Two World Wars | M. Ferdman | 207 |
The Youth Bund - Tsukunft [future] | M. Geyer | 211 |
A Day of Heartache | B. Brik | 214 |
Lutsk on the eve of Second World War | Dr. Y. Shampanier | 218 |
Tortchiner [Taczyn] Jews and their Connection with Lutsk | Dr. M. Giber | 220 |
Economic and Social Institutions | ||
The Second Lutsker Loan and Savings Fund | Alter Bardicz | 225 |
The Lutsk Interest-Free Loan Fund | Yoal Charak | 226 |
Jewish Credit Cooperative | Sh. Warkowicky | 229 |
The ORT Society | B-N | 231 |
The TOZ Society in Lutsk | Dr. A. Beylin | 231 |
The Jewish Hospital | Sh. Shleyfshteyn | 234 |
Seven Year of the Artisans Sickness Fund | W. P. | 236 |
The Women's Union Bikur Kholim [society to aid the sick] | B. Hochberg | 239 |
The Linas haTzedek [aid to the poor] Society | G. Kruk | 241 |
Ten Years of Beis Lechem [support for the needy] | - | 244 |
Fifteen Years of Tsentos [organization for aiding chidren and orphans] | W. Tshetshotka | 247 |
The Orphans' Home in Lutsk | Z. Zigman (Litman) | 250 |
Accomodation for guests and a cheap kitchen | Ch. | 252 |
Women's Union on Nowostrojenja | Y. Ts. | 253 |
The Jewish Butchers Guild | Y. Dimsik | 254 |
Jewish Sports in Lutsk | Sh. Chozan | 256 |
The Cultural Life | ||
S. Ansky in Lutsk | Yitzhak Szternfeld | 263 |
The Jewish Press in Lutsk | Sh. Chazan | 265 |
Yiddish Theater in the Past | Yitzhak Szternfeld | 267 |
The Yiddish Free Theater | L. Kotliar | 269 |
Around the Jewish Gymnazie [secondary school] in Lutsk | G. Fierer | 271 |
Lutsk Students in Prague | Dr. T. Leshner | 278 |
The elementary school Tarbut | W. P. | 281 |
My memories about Tarbut school in Lutsk [H] | Tuvia Berger | 283 |
The Sholem Aleichem School | Sh. Ferdman | 284 |
The Jewish Library | M. Ferdman | 288 |
The Lubart Castle | Y. Perel | 290 |
Y. Kornblit, the Artist | Sh.Ochsman | 292 |
The Religious Life | ||
Lutsk Rabbis [H] | HaRav Elhanan Sorotzkin | 295 |
The History of the Lutsk Rabbis and Rebbes | M. S. Geshuri | 298 |
Synagogues and Houses of Study in Lutsk | M. S. Geshuri | 300 |
The Fortress Synagogue in Lutsk [H] | M. S. Geshuri | 303 |
Beit HaMidrash named after Rabbi Wolf HaKadosh [H] | M. S. Geshuri | 305 |
The history of the Hasidic Movement in Lutsk [H] | M. S. Geshuri | 306 |
Reb Shlomo Lutsker | M. S. Geshuri | 309 |
Reb Yochanan Perlow, the Lutsker Rebbe | M. S. Geshuri | 312 |
The Nesvizher Rebbe and his Successors | M. S. Geshuri | 313 |
Rebbes from Lutsker Hasidic dynasty | M. S. Geshuri | 317 |
HaRav R' Yechiel Yitzhak Rapaport [H] | M. S. Geshuri | 320 |
The history of hazzanut and cantors in Lutsk [H] | M. S. Geshuri | 321 |
Lutsker Khazonim [cantors] | A. Weynszteyn | 325 |
The Old and New Lutsk Cemeteries | M. S. Geshuri | 329 |
Portraits and Way of Life | ||
The Lofty Soul of the City of Lutsk | Yosef Finklsztajn | 335 |
My Melamdim [religious school teachers] | Y. Ts. Galperin | 337 |
Lutsk | Gavriel Wajsman | 340 |
Itzik Peretzes, the melamed [teacher] of small children | S. Borditsh-Goldberg | 341 |
Erev Shabbat [the eve of Shabbat] | S. Borditsh-Goldberg | 342 |
My Krasner Purim | Aba Kliger | 344 |
Jewish Holidays | S. Borditsh-Goldberg | 345 |
He Who did not create me a woman | S. Borditsh-Goldberg | 349 |
Ruba Trubatsh in Lutsk | A. Lutsky | 350 |
Episodes and Types | S. Borditsh-Goldberg | 350 |
Memories | Prof. Y. Rosmarin | 354 |
Urtshik Trager [porter] | S. Borditsh-Goldberg | 355 |
How My Grandmother Beyla Fought with the Chapunes [kidnappers] | G. Fierer | 356 |
Characters and Personalities | ||
A. Lutsky | A. Karlin | 361 |
To Honor that which once existed | A. Lutsky | 363 |
Memories of the Old Home | M. Szternfeld | 364 |
The Generation of My Father | Aba Kliger | 366 |
Reb Zalman Sorotzkin - the Last Lutsk Rabbi | A. Ben-Avraham | 367 |
The Koshivker Rebbe | Ben-Arye | 370 |
R'Zelig SHOV [slaughterer and examiner] | Y. Sternfeld | 371 |
The First Heads of the Kehile | * | 372 |
Jewish Councilmen in the Lutsk City Council | * | 373 |
My Uncle [H] | Yosef Vits | 375 |
The Rabbi Reb Mendele | M. Borditsh-Goldberg | 377 |
Yakov Grobszteyn | M. Grobszteyn | 377 |
Yakov Sima | * | 377 |
Yonah Friedman | * | 378 |
Yehoshua Berger | * | 379 |
Chaya Ruchl Krojnszteyn | * | 379 |
Eliezer Petitz (AVRI) | * | 379 |
Yakov Kotlyar | * | 380 |
Dr. Friedman Pemaw | * | 380 |
Avraham Gliklich | * | 381 |
Dr. T. Rafalowsky | * | 381 |
Moshe Gliklich | * | 381 |
Moshe Kiperman | * | 382 |
Wolf Schneider | * | 382 |
Yakov Baksht | * | 382 |
Aharon Meiser | * | 382 |
Miriam Barzach | * | 382 |
In memory of two labor activists (Yakov Bornstein and Shlomo Zimmering) | * | 383 |
Zalman Kanisch | * | 384 |
Solomon Pinus | * | 384 |
In memory of Zalman Elbirt | Y. Perel | 385 |
Pinye Kartin - Andzhey Schmidt | M. H. | 385 |
Yochanan Kornblit | * | 386 |
Jewish doctors | Dr. T. Konitza-Goldstein | 387 |
Dr. Shabtay Avramski | Y. Sternfeld | 389 |
Dr. Ben-Zion Beilin | Dr. A. Beilin | 390 |
Simcha Lipin | * | 392 |
Itche Meir Besprianzik | * | 392 |
Rescuing Jews from the pogrom | S. Borditsh-Goldberg | 393 |
Naftali Gortibel | A. Wachsman | 394 |
The Years of the Holocaust | ||
Years of pain, resistance and destruction | N Sharon (Strachman) | 397 |
The Lutsker Book of Lamentations | Dr. M. Griffel | 399 |
As I close my eyes | David Sfard | 404 |
From Chelm to Lutsk | S. Shargel | 405 |
An Ukrainian's tale | 407 | |
The testimony of Leizer Tzirolnik | 409 | |
The testimony of Fania Pasht | 413 | |
The tree of bravery | Z. Eshrer | 414 |
Occupation, Ghetto, Annihilation | Dr. T. Konitza-Goldstein | 416 |
My battle for my life | Dr. R. Pinus | 423 |
From the ghetto to the partisan | A. Boidman-Ettinger | 427 |
Man and animal | A. Lutzki | 440 |
German workshops in Lutsk | M. Roitman | 441 |
Under the German occupation | B. Gatman-Pitlikova | 442 |
In the Lutsk ghetto | B. Fogel-Weidman | 444 |
My escape from Lutsk Ghetto [H] | S. Roiter | 448 |
The testimony of Yakov Polieshuk | 450 | |
Children in the ghetto | S. Shiloh | 454 |
Children in the ghetto [H] | S. Shiloh | 457 |
Children victims | Y. Obstein | 459 |
I jumped from the train | P. Gurolnik-Hertz | 459 |
Witold Fomyenka | A. Friedboim-Fomyenka | 461 |
Dziennik Witolda Fomienki | 465 | |
The diary of Witold Fomyenka | 467 | |
One of the Righteous Among the Nations [H] | Y. Nimtzowitz | 468 |
Witold Fomienko (My Rescuer) | S. Yakobowitz | 470 |
If only all were like them [H] | D. Prital | 471 |
The family Egermayer | M. Petitz | 478 |
Dr. W. Stroshinska - rescuer of five Jews | T. Konitza-Goldstein | 478 |
The testimony of Bereza Michael | 481 | |
The seven departments of Hell | Y. Gack | 482 |
A Jewish boy between life and death | S. Shiloh | 486 |
The Days of Awe in the Lutsk Ghetto [H] | S. Shiloh | 492 |
Letters from: an unknown woman, Shimon Bokowietzki, Chaim Prinzenthal | 496 | |
The history of two letters [H] | D. Prital | 498 |
The teacher Chaim Prinzenthal [H] | Y. Prital | 499 |
The testimony of Yakov Elbirt | 500 | |
Nine days in the attic | H. Gornstein-Piterman | 504 |
Eygn blut (One's Own Flesh and Blood) | Yoyl Perel | 506 |
The Jewish hospital at the time of the great liquidation [H] | David Prital | 509 |
Two young men organize a partisan group [H] | Asher Goldenberg | 511 |
On the ghetto uprising | A. Siegelblum-Sowitzki | 517 |
The uprising on the eve of the liquidation of the camp [H] | S. Shiloh | 518 |
The testimony of Dr. B. Rotnyevski | 520 | |
Jewish partisans in the Lutsk region | Y. Rosenfeld | 523 |
Revenge | Y. Teitelboim | 525 |
Among the partisans | P. Shemesh | 527 |
Lutsk Jews in the Soviet Army | M. Schuldiger | 528 |
Yoel Stcherbeto, may God avenge his blood | Gad Rosenblatt | 530 |
Avraham Buslik, may God avenge his blood | Gad Rosenblatt | 531 |
Lutsker around the World - the Landsmashaftn | ||
Yoel Finkel | 536 | |
Lutsker Landsmanshaft organization in the US | Yitzhak Finkel | 537 |
Lutsker Landsmanshaft in New York during the years 1948-1960 | N. Fierer | 550 |
A meeting at the Lutsker people | A. Lutski | 553 |
Lutsker Relief Society in Baltimore | A. Barditch | 554 |
Lutsker Jews in Portugal | S.Sternfeld | 557 |
Lutsker in the United States | Perl Marantz | 559 |
Lutsker in Sao Paolo | M. Geyer | 561 |
The Lutsk survivors | Dr. Y. Shampanyer | 564 |
The Organization of Lutsk former residents in Israel | Y. Friedman | 566 |
The Organizatin of former Lutsker in 1958-1961 | Edw. A. Kotlyar | 571 |
The Interest-Free Fund in the name of the Lutsk victims | S. Workowitzki. Y. Shampanyer | 573 |
Lutsker in Israel | ||
Avraham Landsberg | A. Wachsman | 579 |
R'Binyamin Grushevski | A. Avatihi | 580 |
The house of the Rabbi of Lutsk | Baruch Katzenelbogen | 581 |
Shlomo Ben-Yosef - a man from Lutsk [H] | Shalom Rosenfeld | 583 |
Yitzhak Nul | 586 | |
The Eng. Shaul Zhitin (Sonik) | 587 | |
Moshe (Mosik) Plosker | 587 | |
David Yaakovi | 588 | |
Asher Yisraeli (Becker) | 588 | |
Shlomo Kachova | 588 | |
Haim Applebaum | 588 | |
Yitzhak Fogen | 588 | |
Aharon-Leib Finkel | 589 | |
Dr. Shimshon Yunitzman zl | 590 | |
Israel | A. Lutski | 591 |
Remember | 592 | |
An Eternal Memory | 593 | |
Bibliography | 595 | |
Index | 599 |
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