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Translation of Kehilat Rohatyn v'hasviva
Editor and Publisher: M. Amihai
Yiddish editing: David Stockfish
English editing: Shmuel Bari
Published in Israel in 1962 by Rohatyn Association of Israel
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of the poem Es brennt, Fire.
This is a translation from: Kehilat Rohatyn ve-ha-seviva (Rohatyn; the history of a Jewish community),
Editors: M. Amihai, David Stockfish, Shmuel Bari, Tel Aviv, Former Residents of Rohatyn in Israel, 1962
(H, Y, E, 439 pages).
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Background on Rohatyn
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Acknowledgements and Notes to the English Translation of the Rohatyn Yizkor Book
Yehoshua Spiegel | Introduction | 5 |
Mordechai Gebirtig | Fire! (poem) | 7 |
Mordechai Amitai | From the Publisher | 8 |
Rabbi Dr. Mordechai Nurok | And Their Blood Will I Never Cleanse | 9 |
Dr. N. M. Gelber | A History of the Jews of Rohatyn | 10 |
A. Historical Background B. The Beginning of the Jewish Community C. Economic Conditions D. The Sabbatians and the Frankists in Rohatyn E. The Rabbis The Census of 1765 F. Under Austrian Domination G. 1848 1914 Surrounding Towns |
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Addenda: Charter of the Jews of Rohatyn (Latin) |
68 | |
Decision of the Sejmik of Sadowa Wisznia after the Dispute of the Jews with the Frankists in Lvov in 1759 |
70 | |
Yeshoshua Spiegel | Collected Sources on Rohatyn from the Time of the Sabbatean Dispute |
72 |
S. Y. Agnon | Rebbe Yudel's Daughter Gets Married In Rohatyn | 75 |
Yehoshua Spiegel | The Hasidut of Stretyn | 78 |
Yitzchak Weissblum | Rohatyn | 84 |
Dr. Yitzchak Lewenter | The Rohatyn Way | 86 |
Yehoshua Spiegel | Our City Rohatyn | 101 |
Chuna Jonas | Inside Rohatyn | 113 |
Marcus Tsin | A Bundle of Memories | 118 |
Dr. Nathan Spiegel | Sounds of Home | 121 |
Leibush Zuckerkandle | A City of Torah | 124 |
Uri Mishor | The City and its Images | 125 |
Dr. Nathan Melzer | Community Life in Rohatyn | 128 |
Joseph Green | In Memory of Moshe Lewenter | 129 |
Leah Zuch | Cherished Images | 130 |
Chaya Weissberg (Weinreich) | My Home That Is No More | 131 |
Yehoshua Spiegel | The Rohaytn Fair | 132 |
The Wagon Drivers | 133 | |
The Bathhouses | 137 | |
The Military | 138 | |
The Jewish Orchestra | 140 | |
The Butchers | 141 | |
The Slaughter House | 142 | |
The Melamdim of our City | 143 | |
Avraham Cohen | The Image that I Loved | 144 |
Anschel Milstein | Buisnesses and Craftsmen after World War I | 146 |
Yosef Jozef | The Printing Industry in Our Town | 152 |
David and Esther Blaustein | Jewish Merchants among the Gentiles | 153 |
Grina Shtertzer | The Professions | 158 |
Zeev Baraban | Dramatic Experiments | 159 |
Naftali Schein | Rabbi Yaakov Kavi Schein | 162 |
Rabbi Alter Meir | Rabbi Abraham David Spiegel | 164 |
Ben Avraham-David | The Young Dayan | 166 |
Two Letters of Rabbi Shpiegel | 170 | |
Y.B.A. | Rabbi Mordechai Lipa Teumim | 172 |
A Selection from the Letters of Rabbi Teumim | 176 | |
Y.P.S. | In Memory of Yosef Hakohen Laks | 177 |
Rabbi Yosef Yehuda Sofer | 178 | |
Yerachmiel Schwartz | 179 | |
Yaakov Leiter and his Wife Sarah | 180 | |
Tall Moshe | 182 | |
Some of the Town's Personalities | 183 | |
Mathilda Soferman | Raphael Soferman | 185 |
Leah Ring (Teichman) | Memories of Hashomer Hatsa'ir | 191 |
Yehoshua Spiegel | The Hashomer Hatsa'ir Club | 196 |
Dov Kirschen | Zionist Youth | 199 |
Yitzchak Bomze | The Hehalutz Organization | 202 |
Y.P.S. | Gordonia in Rohatyn | 203 |
David Kartin | The Betar Club | 204 |
Tzvi Skolnik | TheYouth of the Town | 207 |
Rachel and Moshe Nasshoffer | The Community of Rohatyn and its Destruction | 213 |
Anna Shweller Kornblei | Some Stories of Those Days | 216 |
Y. P. S. | Pepka Kleinwachs | 221 |
Aryeh and Cyla Blech | Rohatyn in the Occupation Years | 222 |
Rosa Halperin (Faust) | A Diary of the Rohatyn Ghetto (in English Section) | 229 |
Tzvi Wohl | The Destruction of Rohatyn | 234 |
S. L. | A Jewish Girl's Road to Hell | 239 |
Rivka Hader | From Hiding Place to Hiding Place | 250 |
Dr. Avraham Shtertzer | In the Rohatyn Ghetto | 277 |
Y.P.S. | A Story of a Bunker | 321 |
Yosef Milner | Jewish Centers Around Rohatyn | 325 |
Yehoshua Pinchas Klarent | Burstyn | 327 |
Chedva Weissman | Bukaczowce | 336 |
Leon Gewandter | Bukaczowce | 337 |
Leon Schreier | Zurow, Bukaczowce | 339 |
Aryeh Rebisch | Knihynicze | 342 |
Tzvi Fenster (Felker) | Life in the Village Podkamien | 347 |
Yaakov Palgi | The Jews of Czesniki | 351 |
Yisrael Chetzroni | Lipica-Gorna | 355 |
Yaakov Galili | Jews in Lipica-Gorna | 360 |
Tzvi Skolnik | About the Organization | 363 |
Dr. Jack Faust | Rohatyn: A World That is Gone with the Wind | 7 |
Dr. Golda Fischer | A World that Was | 18 |
Morris Grant (Granoviter) | In Memoriam | 25 |
Rosa Halperin (Faust) | A Diary of the Rohatyn Ghetto | 27 |
S.L. | The Death of Chaimke | 32 |
Dr. Abraham Shtertzer | How Rohatyn Died | 40 |
Yizkor List of Victims | 369 |
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