Boryslav, Ukraine

The Tyśmienica still flows
(Boryslav, Ukraine)

49°17' / 23°25'

Translation of A Tyśmienica Nadal Plynie

Written by Leopold Held (deceased)

Published in privately printed in Poland, sometime after 1978

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This is a translation from: A Tyśmienica Nadal Plynie;
The Tyśmienica still flows, unpublished yizkor book written by Leopold Held (deceased),
privately printed in Poland, sometime after 1978.

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	Pages
From the author	5-6

I. The Beginnings
A Difficult Birth (A Somewhat Fictionalized History)	8-34
From Rags to Riches	35-42

II. Boryslaw of Our Youth
The Tyśmienica still flows	44-48
Unforgettable Things from Tyśmienica	49-52
Boryslaw of Our Youth	54-61
From Schor's Field to Kadimah Stadium	62-80

III. We the Jews of Borylaw
They Rose above their Circumstances	82-88
In High School and Already an Inventor	89-92
The Schiff Family Saga	93-96
Books: The Love of Itzek Miller's Life	97-100
"A song went to the people and helped them in their travails."	100-105
Edmund Semil	106-107
Dolka	108-110
It's Terrible to Outlive One's Grandchildren	111-114

IV. Azkara
About Memories and an Unusual Book	116-118
The Eleventh Commandment: Thou Shalt Not Forget	119-124
At Night Come Long-Departed Shadows	125-126
Without Obituaries	127-130
All that Remains are Places and Graves	131-132
One More St John's Bread Tree	133-134
Epilogue	135-139
The First Day and … Later	140-143
Neither this Street nor this House	144-146
The Death of a Cemetery	147-150
Index of Names	151-160
Glossary	161-163
Illustrations	164-165

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