TOC Translated by Tova Yarkoni

The first pages of the book:
To Pultusk members all over the world - Yaakov Nechushtan Kupfermintz
A word from the editor - Yitzhak Ivri Izkor
Chapters From the Past
The Pultusk city and its history - Menachem Rawicki	2
The beginning of the Pultusk Community (in Hebrew) - Jacob Maharshak	8
General Statistics (in Hebrew) - Yitzhak Marcusfeld	10
Pultusk through the generations (in Yiddish) - Menakhem Ravitski	11
Beginning of the Pultusk Jewish community (in Yiddish) - Yaakov Maharshak	16
Pultusk in the Press (Hebrew and Yiddish)	18
Rabbis of Pultusk
Rabbi gaon Jeshuah from Kotna	21
Rabbi gaon El'azar Hacohen	26
About the Rabbi of Pultusk Rabbi el'azar	31
Rabbi gaon Chanoch Zundel Grodzenski	31
Rabbi hasid Simcha Epshtein	32
Rabbi gaon Meshulam Kaufman Hacohen Unterman	33
Rabbi gaon Baruch Yitzhak Issachar Halevi Levental	39
Rabbis in Pultusk - Refael Moshe Sach	41
Rabbis of Pultusk of the last 103 years - Jeshuah Abramtchik	42
Important people
Hiersh Neta Daian - Moshe Srebro	44
Rabbi Vove Shochat and his son Shlomo Zalman	45
Rabbi Sinai Zeev - M. Zinovitz	45
Rabbi Chaim Leib Kliger - David Kliger	45
Rabbi Zalman “baal Tefila” from Pultusk - Moshe Zinovitz	46
Pinchas Shmuel Zainvil Cohen from Pultusk	47
The Chazan and writer A. B. Birenbaum - Moshe Zinovitz, Rabbi Itzhak Helfand,
Baruch Simcha Fruchtenbaum, Moshe Joseph Gelbard, Moshe Joseph Rabbi
Simchales, Rabbi Yechiel “Mocher sfarim” - Moshe Srebro	48
David Hirsch Grinshpan - Yerachmiel Grinshpan	57
Once was a city
Pultusk - the life in the city - Refael Moshe Sach	53
Five Highways - Mordechai Zilberman (Mietek)	73
Pultusk, Economy and Culture - Refoyl Moyshe Shakh	79
Cultural Conditions and Community Organization in 1905–1925 - Eliezer Zvi Shniodovski	84
Institutions and Organizations
The Jewish Culture Center in Pultusk - Zev Aharonovitch	88
Schools
The Jewish school - Sara Frost	92
The Jewish gymnasium - Mordechai Zilberman	99
Synagogues- Eliezer Zvi Shniodovski	109
The big Synagogue of Pultusk - Moshe Srebro	111
Our teachers - Refael Moshe Sach, Moshe Srebro, Jeshuah Abramtchik	115
Jewish bank - Josef Blumenshtein	121
The workers union - Yerachmiel Grinshpan	122
Little traders - Ira Bulman	123
The professional union - Yechiel Abazhanek	125
Shlomo Treblinski	127
Free Professions
Dr. Ber Nisaniewitch, Dr Proshaver, Dr. Yaacov Tambak
Dr. Gorni, Dr. Bart, Baruch Joskovitch, Shmuel Bjozovitch,
Moshe Mendel Noimam, Dr. Dent, Yeshaiahu Berzinski,
Dr. Mendl Deliktish, Refael Moshe Sach	128
About one in the city - Culture and Zionism in Pultusk -
Rafael Moshe Sach, Yerachmiel Grinshpan,
Aviezer Drori Kupermintz	134
Parties and Organizations
The first Beginning of Zionism in Pultusk - Dov Zilberman	139
The Zionist Organization In Years 1929-1939 - Joshuah Lichtenstein	140
In that time - Dov Berish Landau	147
Agudat Israel - Yerachmiel Grinshpan	149
Hashomer Hazaiir (Youth Organization) - Miriam Tal	158
The Hashomer Hazaiir - Moshe Eizov (Aizenkait)	162
A meeting with Moshe Nadir in the forest of Poplov - Zvi Goldstein	163
Hashomer Hazaiir in later time - Hana Veinstein-Kohen	164
Hachalutz Hazair (the young pioneer - youth organization) - Avraham Boim	165
Communism and Communists-Biographies of Abraham Blenkitny & Others	170
The activity of the Bund - Israel Ziskind	174
The Bund in my Time - Yechiel Abazhanek	178
The Activity Of the Party “Poalei Zion” (Zion Labor) in years 1923-1939 and the active members - Shlomo Blenkitny	184
Beitar Organization - Yaakov Nechushtan (Kupfermintz)	201
Pultusk from then
The city Pultusk - Moshe Srebro	205
Our street - Hana Veinstein – Kohen	207
A Shabat (Saturday) picture - Eliahu Bulman	209
The wooden bridge - Sara Frost, Shlomo Blenkitny	214
Memories
Memories of Pultusk - Florian Sokolov	221
Childhood - Chaim Aharonovitch	241
My memories - Meir Lipsker	259
Our Home - Dan Aharonovitch	261
My musical memories - Dan Aharonovitch	263
An animal - Noach Pesach	268
Memories from years 1905-1920 - Eliezer Zvi Shniodovski	269
The City of my childhood - Yeshuah Abramtchik	274
Hat-Maker families - Yechiel Abazhanek	281
Being a teenager in Pultusk - Zalman Rubin	284
A voyage to my childhood and youth - Zvi Goldberg	286
My youth days - Chana Goldstein (Granek)	291
My grandfather's home (Novominski) - Devora Fishman	293
A little bit of my memories - Yeshuah Dov Novominski	297
My Home - Idda Bulman (Tashimovitch)	300
Our House - Devora Kinnel, Eliahu Bulman	301
Home Memories - Moshe Srebro	303
A walk to the “Old Place” - Sara Frost	307
Types of persons of religion
Rabbi Mendl Mintz,Rabbi Simcha Zelnik, - Yerachmiel Grinshpan
Chaim Alevnik, Jeshuah Leib Goldmacher, Leib-Ber Shuster,
Shalom-Hersh Lindberg, Israel Moshe Drozad, Yochanan Koplovitch
The purse maker, Faivl Sochachevski, Moshe-Hersh Director,
Shmuel Ismach Shalom Brandshpigel, Itche MeirChune Michaelis Choinavitch,
Gershon Kiershenbaum, - Refael Moshe Sach	314
Mendl Ruzhaner- Yeshuah Lichtenstein, Refael Moshe Sach	317
R' Chaim Kozki - David Kozki	318
Abraham'che Melnik - Shlomo Blenkitny	318
R' Joseph Kronberg - Moshe Kamin	320
R' Meir Hillel Katz - Esther Kamin	320
R' Shmuel Kronzhek - Rose Kronzhek (Shtern)	320
Meir Lipsker - Itzchak Lipsker	321
The Old Sweets Maker - I. Abramchik	321
R' Volf Itche Revinson, R' Natan Sach, R' Motel-Leib -Yoshuah Lichtenstein	322
R' Israel Ivri - Eliezer-Zvi Shniadovski	322
Yehuda-Izl Melamed - Moshe Srebro	324
Alter Filiar - Eliahu Bulman	325
R' Itzchak -Meir Boimgartn, Chaim Velvel Vlosko - Shaul Boimgarten	326
Yitzhak Don - Eliahu Bulman	327
Rivka Kupfermentz - Chasia Drori, Zipora Kohen-Katz	328
Josef Barkai - from a booklet	329
Ida Bulman (Tashimovitz) - Her husband Eliahu	329
Dov Zilberman - Arie Ben-Gad	330
Mordechai Zilberman - Shlomo Blenkitny	331
My husband Mordechai Zilberman - Lena Kichler – Zilberman	332
Writers and Artists from Pultusk who were murdered in the Holocaust
Two poems - Simcha Don	334
Simcha Don - Shlomo Blenkitny	335
Simcha Don - J. Papiernikov	336
Two poems - Aharon Domb	337
Aharon Domb - Shlomo Tenenbaum	338
David Teomim - Yeshuah Abramtchik	340
Noach Fatalovski, Leibke Skazhipze - Refael Moshe Sach	340
Theater in Pultusk
Drama Classes - J. Ac	342
The Jewish Drama Group - Eliahu Bulman	343
Episodes and curiosities - Idda and Eliahu Bulman	346
The Pultusk Drama Group in my time - Friedl Klos-Koplovitch	350
On the stage - Motl (Max) Klos	353
Abraham Kunter - Eliahu Bulman	355
Episodes and Events
The visit of General Waigan in the School of Pultusk - Mordechai Zilberman	357
From the Gray Cow - Itzchak Eizenkait	359
Friday night in the party of “Poalei Zion” - Shlomo Blenkitny	359
Hating Jews and the Payment - Rachel Srebro-Dembinska	360
In the 30's - Shaul Boimgarten	363
Public Types
Velvel Antalek, R' Yosl Koval, R' David Holtz-Heker (the woodcutter), The Rabbi - Eliahu Bulman	366
Avremil Zhelinski - Told by People from Pultusk	367
Singing Shoemakers, Chaim Baruch, Froim (Efraim) Gritchak - Shlomo Blenkitny	371
Women as Helpers and Workers
Faige Rosa Rosenberg - Pnina Goldman	373
Chana Basha - Miriam Tal ( Grinberg)	373
Chana Basha the Baker - Moshe Srebro	373
Rochtche (Rachel) the Butcher - Moshe Srebro
Faige Roise The Glassmaker, Neche Boim - Rivka Holzman	377
Esther Mintz - The family	378
Stories from Everyday Life
Pultusk Speech and Style - Y.E.	379
Folklore from Pultusk - Yeshuah Abramczyk	379
Without a Head, The Poor Wealthy Woman, How an Evil Priest Became a Good Angel… - Shlomo Blenkitni	379
Performed in “Pultuskish” - M.S	380
He is Ashamed for his Tallis [prayer shawl] – Anonymous	381
Just to Have a Little Fun, A Son Is a Cholent [bean stew] and a Daughter Is a Broth, Shir Hamaalot [Song of Ascents, Psalm 21, placed where there is a newborn], by Newborn Girls, Rachtshe Pretends to Be Dead - Moshe Srebro	381
“A Mouse that Lays on Gold Coins” - Sh. Baumgarten	382
“Call Me a Fool and Give Me Opportunities” - Shlomo Blenkitny	382
The Children Are Not His – Anonymous	382
Make Me a Treasurer Again, I Do Not Spend Any Money for Your Sake, It's Good to Know That …. , This Is Certainly a Smart Child…, Pultusk Is Somehow Different, This is a Hole Chay'kel, Come Home!, And If a Wealthy Man from Pultusk Cannot Write, then He Is Not a Wealthy Man – Lichtenstein	383
Itche Shafran and Itche Chacham [the smart one], Shmuelke Don and Black Moshe – Anonymous	384
They Are “Guilty”, “If So, Then Let It Stay with the Old One” - Shlomo Baumgarten	385
Depressed Ones and Those out of Their Minds, Nicknames and Names Others Used that Circulated in Town, Pultusk Expressions	385
You Are No Longer Here, My Home Town! - Y.E.	387
1939
Chapters of the Holocaust and Non-existence, Fight and Heroism
The Exile of Pultusk - Moshe Srebro	391
People from Pultusk tell
As soon the city was occupied - Eliahu Bulman.	393
The Exile - Devora Veinstein (Landau)	395
Over the Bridge - Moshe Srebro	396
To the Castle Park, The first victims - Shlomo Blenkitny	398
The last walk - Rivka Holtzman	401
When we were exiled from city Yechiel Abazhanek	402
Eight days after the exile through a hole in the attic - Israel Ziskind	405
The departure from our father - Chana Veinstein-Kohen	406
A spark of light in the darkness - Yerachmiel Grinshpan	408
I wandering - Shamai Golan (Goldstein)	410
With aunt Zisl (a story) - I. Grinberg	422
In the wandering
September 7th. - Baruch Director	426
One morning - Gutche Fried-Melnik	433
My destiny...... - Shlomo Melnik	434
When the Germans entered Popove - Yaakov Veinkrantz	437
In Ghetto Vilna - Chana Taitl (Fruchtenbaum)	440
On the Arric side - Chava Kraviezka-Veinkrantz	441
As soon as the war started - Benjamin Fenner	447
Our Marsh – Yitzhak Alter	455
Our first and last meeting - Josef Niestenpower	462
Partisans and Ghetto Fighters
The Jewish Partisans -- I.A	468
A Jewish partisan tells - Menachem Schupack	468
Baruch Gafteck - Leah Magen	478
In the beginning of World War II - M.S	479
Chava Lantzer - from the book The fighters from the Ghettos	480
A song -M.S	481
Zhenia Eichenbaum - Moshe Kahanovitz	482
Zvi Rosenovitz - Moshe Kanterovitz	483
Izidor (Israel) Novominski - The family	483
My murdered brothers - Rachel Srebro- Dembinska	484
Itzchak Dembinski the Ghetto fighter	487
Pultusk after the destruction
In the country of my cradle - I. Grinberg.	489
A visit in our city after the war - Yehoshua Abramchik	490
From Pultusk 1939 to Israel 1950 - Gitl Ingnatovski-Ropf	494
My Power in those days - Malka Niestenpower-Blenkitny	495
ltusk 1947 - Gitl (Gutka) Shtockhammer-Novominski	498
The Chala Napkin of Shabat - Mordechai Gelblum	503
1939-1949 - Moshe Som	504
In the days of the Nazis - Esther Kamin	504
The miracle in the exile of Pultusk	505
A Ghetto in Pultusk - Joseph Shnegotzki	507
The death of Baruch Piasetzki - Jehoshua Dov Novominski	507
From the “valley of tears”	507
The fighters and the slain
Zeev Bugach	508
Israel Gutmorgen	508
Abraham (Itzchak) Gurman	508
Grob Haim	509
David Arie Vansover	509
Yaakov Kohen	509
Simcha Melnik	510
Jehoshua Frish	510
Daniel Zefoni	511
Joseph Kuplovitch	512
Abraham Kanterovitch	512
Eli Riboyad	513
Zelig Shinobloga	514
Ishajahu Shinobloga	514
Shchupak	514
Our home and my brother Mendl - Michal Shchupak- Arazi	515
Zeev Nechushtan - Chasia Drori (Kupfermintz)	516
Pultusk people all over the world
In America - Meir Brzoza	517
In Canada - Joel Abazhanek, Jehoshua Fridland	522
In Argentina - Joseph Karmel	526
In Israel - Refael Veinshtok	530
To Eternal Memory
Necrology	539
Yizkor	634
List of the slain	635
El Male Rachamim	662
Additives	663
Notes	675
Error corrections	677
Content of the book	678
List of pictures	682

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