Hebrew Section
The Community of Stryj Until WWI (1914)
The History of the Jews of Stryj	Dr. M. Gelber	17
At the End of the Nineteenth Century	Tamar Buchstab – Avi–Yona	51
Beginning of Zionism (Memoirs)	Eliyahu Katz	53
From the book “Voices in the Darkness”	Julian Strikovski	56
The First World War (1914-1918)
During the Russian Invasion (1914-1915)		65
The Russian Occupation in Stryj (1914-1915)	Naftali Siegel	65
The Jewish defense 1918	Shimon Rosenberg	67
The Jewish Militia in 1918	R. S.	68
The days of the Ukrainian rule	Naftali Siegel	69
Institutions and Associations
Stryj Jewish Community between the Two World Wars		75
Synagogues		77
The various minyanim or small prayer groups in our town		87
The Talmud Torah [Torah school for young children]		88
The “Safa Brura” Hebrew School		88
The ”Ivriya” Society	Dr. Nathan Kudish	89
A Town and its charm	Prof. Dov Sadan	91
The Students' Organizations in Stryj	Naftali Teller, atty.	96
The Academic Society “Emuna”	Arie Hobel	97
“Kadima”	Mark Wieseltier	98
The Academic Society “Hebronia”	Mgr. Meir Borer	99
The Socialist-Zionist Academic Association		100
Bet Ha'am		101
The Orphanage		101
The Jewish Hospital		101
TOZ organization		102
The Jewish Vocational School		102
”The Soup Kitchen”		103
”Ezrat Nashim” (Women's help organization)		103
”Kreuzer Verein Society”		104
The “Gemilut Hesed” (Benevolence) Fund		104
Yad Harutzim Society		104
The “Oseh Tov” Merchants Society		105
Committee for the Rescue of German Jews		105
WIZO		105
The Jewish Economic Society	Yakov Waldman	106
The Jewish “Civic Casino”	Yakov Waldman	106
The Jewish Sport in Stryj	Yakov Waldman	106
Personalities and Public Figures
Rabbi Arie Leib HaKohen Heller		111
Rabbi Asher Enzel Cuzmer		111
The Rabbi of Lissa, the Author of “Havat Da'at” (The Opinion)		111
Rabbi Eliyahu Meir Ben Yaakov HaKohen Rosenblum		114
Rabbi Arie Leibish Horowitz		114
Rabbi Shalom HaKohen Yolles (Der Mościsker)		115
Rabbi Shraga Feivel Hertz (Der Glogover)		116
Rabbi Eliezer Ben Shlomo Ladier		116
The Dayanim [judges in religious court]		116
Rav R'Asher Yeshayahu Frenkel		117
R'Mordechai (Motel) Druker		117
R'Yitzhak Hauptman Shub (slaughterer and examiner)		118
Dr. Isaac (Isidor) Aaron Bernfeld		118
Dr. Zvi Diesendruk		119
Dr. Naphtali (Tulo) Nussenblatt		119
Jonah Gelernter		121
Yehoshoa Tilleman		121
Dr. Max Bienenstock		121
Dr. Abraham Insler		123
Dr. Zeev Presser		124
Dr. Mordechai Kaufmann		124
Dr. Shlomo Goldberg		125
Dr. Benjamin Millbauer		125
Moshe Aaron Wohlmut	Zvi Wohlmut	125
Benjamin Klein	Dr. Ada Barlev Klein	126
Dov (Berl) Stern		126
Meir Frankel		127
Dr. Moshe Barlev (Reinhartz)		127
Abraham (Buczi) Apfelgruen		128
Rachel Katz	P. Avineri – Katz	128
Dr. Malka Leibowitz		129
Aryeh (Leib) Schwamer		130
Dr. Azriel Eisenstein		130
David Zeidman		130
Eliyahu Waldman		131
Aaron Meller		131
Joshua Oberlaender		131
Ben–Zion Garfunkel		132
Abraham Levin	Naphtali Siegel	132
Levi Opper	A. Reis	133
Michael (Mechel) Opper		133
Itta Becher		133
The Rossler Brothers		134
Yehoshua Rossler		134
Shlomo Rossler		134
Shlomo Rosenberg		134
Leib Tepper		134
David Seltzer		135
Eliyahu Katz	Fella Avineri–Katz	135
Dr. Joseph Schuster-Shilo		136
Organizations and Parties
General Zionism in Stryj		139
“Arbeitsgemeinschaft” (Working Group – Cooperation Committee)		141
The “Mizrahi” Organization		142
Agudat Israel		142
Poalei Zion	Shimon Rosenberg	142
Before the Frist World War		143
Poalei Zion Youth		143
The Awakening Behind the Front		144
The Polish Period		145
The Split		145
Elections		146
The Jewish Professional Movement	S. Stryjer	147
The “Hitahdut”	A. Rotfeld - Dr. N. Kudish	148
The Unification of “Hitahdut” and “Poalei Zion”	A. Rotfeld - Dr. N. Kudish	150
Ha'Oved [The Worker]	A. Rotfeld - Dr. N. Kudish	151
Z.A.S.S. (Zionist Socialist Academic Society)	A. Rotfeld - Dr. N. Kudish	151
HeHalutz [The Pioneer]	A. Rotfeld - Dr. N. Kudish	152
Hashomer Hatzair	Yosef Gilatt (Gotlieb), Kibbutz Gat	153
The Women of Stryj		155
The Revisionist Movement	Zvi Steiner	156
The “Betar” Movement	Berko Igra	157
“Masada” and the Revisionist HeHalutz	Meir Kez	158
Second World War
The Soviet Occupation (1939 – 1941)	Shimon Rosenberg	161
A Refugee Writes about Stryj's Jews		163
A Stryj Refugee in Russia		164
The Destruction of the Stryj Community
Holocaust episodes	Yona Friedler	169
The Destruction of the Stryj Community	Isaac Nussenblatt	187
List of Stryj Martyrs		198
Yiddish Section
Memories, Chronicles, Labor Movement
Memories of the old home	Sara Weiss-Hauptman	225
The Jewish Militia in Stryj		226
The First Self Defense in Stryj		227
Béla Kun in Stryj	S. Rosenberg	230
The Bloody Wednesday in Stryj	S. Rosenberg	231
The Jewish Labor–Movement in Stryj	S. Rosenberg	233
Po'alei–Zion in Stryj (1900–1914)	S. Rosenberg	234
Z.P.S. – BUND		241
The Jewish Professional Movement	S. Stryjer	244
The Borochov Library	Avraham Grossman	245
The Soviet Occupation in Stryj	S. Hirschorn	246
A Letter from a Refugee about the Jews of Stryj		250
Stryj Refugees in the Soviet Union		251
The Annihilation of the Jewish Community in Stryj		252
A p p e n d i x		257
Organization of Former Stryj Residents in Israel		259
Former Stryj Residents who died in Israel		261
I n d e x		263
Name Index		263
English Section
The Aftermath of Catastrophe		5
The United Stryjer Young Men's Benevolent Association		5
The History of the Old Independent Stryjer Society in New York		6
The Stryj Community after 1886		8
Between the Two World Wars		19
The Death of a Community
Chapter One: An Established City		35
Chapter Two: In the Throes		39
Chapter Three: Under Soviet Rule		39
Chapter Four: The Destruction of Jewish Stryj		41
Chapter Five: Through the Carpathian Mountains		50
Jews of the Stryjer Community Victims of the Nazi Holocaust as Commemorated by their Relatives in the United States (Necrology)		61

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