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Translation of
Sefer Sokal, Tartakow Ve-ha-Seviva
Edited by: A. Khomet
Published in Tel Aviv, Israel, 1968
Jacob Solomon Berger
Mahwah, New Jersey, USA 2023
Our sincere appreciation to Jacob Solomon Berger who has kindly donated
Translation Editors: Dr. Rafael Manory & Erica S. Goldman-Brodie
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Translator's Foreword | xiv | |
Editorial Committee Foreword | xiv | |
Map of the Area | xv | |
The History of the Jews in Sokal | 1 | |
The Sokal Community | 2 | |
Our Teacher, David HaLevi, Author of ‘Tur Zahav,’ Resident of Sokal | 2 | |
The Gaon-Teacher Aryeh Yehuda Leib, Rabbi and Bet-Din Senior of Sokal | 3 | |
The Gaon-teacher R' Aryeh Leib, son of the Gaon ‘Pnei Yehoshua,’ Rabbi and ABDK of Sokal | 4 | |
The Bet-Din of Sokal in the Years of The Gaon-Teacher Aryeh Leib's Rabbinate | 5 | |
Rebbe Baruch son of Zvi Hirsch Heilperin of Sokal, Author of the Book ‘Mitzvot HaShem.’ | 5 | |
Hasidism in Sokal | 6 | |
The Gaon-Teacher Issachar Ber, the ABDK, and the Gaon-Teacher R' Shlomo, the Maggid of that Location | 6 | |
Sokal Up To The Second World War | 7 | |
How to Write and Pronounce the Name of the City of Sokal | 9 | |
The Jewish Community in Sokal A Center of Torah & Yiddishkeit | 10 | |
Sokal My Birthplace | 11 | |
A Bit of Residue and Facts about the Oldest History of Sokal | 11 | |
The Oldest Headstones in the Sokal Cemetery | 12 | |
The Sokal Settlement Depended on the Jewish Community in Belz | 14 | |
The Social-Community Importance of the Sokal Jewish Settlement | 14 | |
The Lineage of Sokal Jewry | 15 | |
The Sokal Community Obtains Its Independence from Belz | 15 | |
Sokal - A Center of Prominent Torah Scholars | 15 | |
The Thousand Nights of the Young Gaon Sholom Rokeach זצל | 16 | |
The Sokal Settlement and the Belz Dynasty | 17 | |
The Great Torah Scholars in Sokal | 20 | |
Sages & Hasidic Persona in Sokal | 21 | |
Synagogues and Study Houses in Sokal | 26 | |
The Cruel Expulsion from Hrubieszow-Chelm & the Sokal Jews | 27 | |
The Jews in Sokal from Ancient Times to the Holocaust | Dr. Abraham Khomet | 30 |
The First Evidence of Jews in Sokal | 33 | |
Under Austrian Rule | 40 | |
In Independent Poland | 61 | |
Historical Graves in the Old Cemetery in Sokal | A. Birnbaum | 71 |
The Jewish Members of the Sokal Municipal Council | Dr. Zigmunt Gruber | 73 |
Hasidism in Sokal | 75 | |
The Czortkow-Husiatyn KloyzThe Great Sacred Place in Sokal | 76 | |
The Zionist Movement in Sokal | 82 | |
The Zionist Organization in Sokal | Dr. David Kindler | 83 |
From the History of the ‘Mizrahi’ in Sokal | Yitzhak Birnbaum | 97 |
From the Revisionist Movement in Sokal | Israel Shapiro | 99 |
Poalei Tzion and Hitakhdut in Sokal | A. Kh. | 101 |
A Story from a Youth Organization | Moshe Kubler, Lawyer | 106 |
The ‘HaShomer Ha'Tzair’ Movement in Sokal | Dr. Y. Efrat (Menkes) | 114 |
‘Tze'irei Mizrahi’ in Sokal | Yaakov ZaK | 123 |
The Youth Organization Gordonia in Sokal | Yitzhak Levin | 128 |
The Revival of the Hebrew Language in Sokal | Dr. David Kindler | 133 |
Non-Zionist Organizations in Sokal | 137 | |
Agudat Israel | A. Kh. | |
The Bund | 139 | |
From the Economic Life of the Jews of Sokal | 140 | |
Jewish Agricultural Work in the Sokal Vicinity | Aryeh Fass | 141 |
The Jewish Contribution to Sokal's Development | Dr. David Kindler | 143 |
Humanitarian and Charitable Institutions of the Jews in Sokal | 147 | |
Jewish Philanthropic Organizations & Institutions In Sokal | Dr. David Kindler | 148 |
The ‘Ladies Committee’ at Work | Clara Kindler | 152 |
Memories and Personalities | 155 | |
What I Remember of Sokal! | Zvi Klinger | 156 |
The Home of My Father | Dr. Y. Efrat (Menkes) | 165 |
And I Will Remember These!... | Y. HaLevi | 169 |
When I Remind Myself of Zhabuzhzha... | Zvi Klinger | 173 |
The Rebbe R' Shmuel Rokeach זצל | Menashe Unger | 183 |
The Gaon Rabbi R' Shimshon Sztokhammer זצל | Melech Neustadt | 184 |
Rabbi Shimshon Sztokhammer היד | Abraham Zemba | 186 |
Abraham Yaakov ZK זל | Y. F. | 187 |
Leoniah (Leib) Fyvel. | Y. F. | 188 |
Dr. Joseph Weniger זל | Michael Landau | 192 |
Regarding the Character of Naphtali Shimoni (Tauba) | Dr. Y. Efrat (Menkes) | 194 |
Aryeh Fass זל | Dr. Y. Efrat (Menkes) | 197 |
David Byk | Dr. David Kindler | 199 |
Engineer Schwartz | 202 | |
Zigmunt Leider | 202 | |
Yidd'l Grossman | A. Becker (Buenos Aires) | 203 |
The Holocaust | 206 | |
Pages About the Torture and Execution of the Jewish Settlement in Sokal | Moshe Maltz | 207 |
In the Nazi Gehenna | 210 | |
On the Ruins of Jewish Sokal | 233 | |
The Fate of Two Jewish Children: Miriam & Shlomit | 236 | |
Dov Zigman's Experiences in the Ukrainian Gehenna | A. Kh. | 247 |
The First Letter to Dov'cheh's Aunt, Szprinza in Haifa | 247 | |
Letter to Dov'cheh Zigman's Uncle Henryk Klinger | 249 | |
Frightening Details Regarding Ukrainian Cruelties | 251 | |
The Rescue of 15 Jews in an Attic Above of a Pig Sty | Y. Szmulewitz | 255 |
The Course of My Life During the German Occupation | Safa Rotenberg | 259 |
In the Forest | 262 | |
In A German Labor Camp | Aryeh Fass | 264 |
Memories from the Period of Suffering and Pain | Miriam Ruziner | 266 |
From the Sokal Ghetto | Leah Baumel | 271 |
Remember What Amalek Did To You | Baruch ben Zvi HaLevi Lewittes | 272 |
One of the Righteous Gentiles of the World | Gitt'l Linsker | 280 |
Jewish Doctors & Medical Professionals in the Sokal Ghetto | Dr. David Kindler | 283 |
Scions of Sokal & Vicinity In Israel and the Diaspora | 287 | |
The Organization of Émigrés of Sokal & Vicinity in Israel | Joseph Fyvel | 288 |
Jews from Sokal in the Diaspora | Joseph Fyvel | 298 |
Tartakov | 306 | |
Memories of My Birthplace, the Sacred Congregation of Tartakov | Aryeh Bak | 308 |
The Community of Tartakov | 308 | |
The Community Way of Life Within the Town and Congregation | 315 | |
Tartakov My Shtetl | Shaul Linsker | 325 |
Jewish Life in Tartakov | A. Becker | 330 |
About the Jewish Religious & Socio-Cultural Life in Tartakov | 332 | |
The Tale of One Family | Chana Cohen | 342 |
The Path of Pain and Suffering | Hersch Genauer | 349 |
A Diary from the Nazi Gehenna | Zvi Abers | 351 |
In Memory of My Friend Asher Rubinstein | Shaul Linsker | 355 |
Varenzh | 357 | |
My Town of Varenzh | Sarah Ben-Yaakov | 358 |
Joseph-Hersch the Itinerant Village Merchant | Shlomo Strauss-Marko | 371 |
Stoyanov | 375 | |
Regarding My Small Shtetl of Stoyanov | Aryeh Warband | 376 |
Memories of My Shtetl | Moshe Yekhiel HaLevi Segal | 383 |
R' Moshe Yekhiel Segal זל | Elimelech Rosenbaum | 390 |
A Little Bit of the Memories of My Shtetl | Leah Ben-Yehuda (nee Tzukerkandel) | 391 |
Our Brother A. D. Warbner | Szifra Rosenfeld, Malka Landi, Zvi Warbner | 394 |
Regarding Yaakov ben Joseph Grossman זל | Szifra Rosenfeld, Malka Landi & Zvi Warbner | 396 |
Stoyanov In the Years of Nazi Captivity | Y. Kremnitzer | 397 |
List of the Martyrs That Were Exterminated in the Holocaust | 409 | |
Necrology | 411 | |
Index of Illustrations | 437 |
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