Burshtyn, Ukraine

Book of Bursztyn
(Burshtyn, Ukraine)

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Translation of
Sefer Bursztyn

Editor: S. Kanc

Published in Jerusalem 1960

Acknowledgments
Project Coordinator and Translator

Rivka Chaya Schiller

Translation Editor: Erica S. Goldman-Brodie

Our sincere appreciation to Yad Vashem
for the submission of the necrology for placement on the JewishGen web site.

Translations by Rivka Schiller unless otherwise noted.

This is a translation of: Sefer Bursztyn (Book of Bursztyn),
Editor: S. Kanc, Published by: The Encyclopaedia of the Jewish Diaspora, Jerusalem 1960 (H,Y 426 pages)

Note: The original book can be seen online at the NY Public Library site: Burshtyn

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At the Gates of Tears	Uri Zvi Grinberg	9-10
We will remember!		17-18
Memorial Gatherings		21-24
On the History of the Jews in Bursztyn	Dr. N. M. Gelber	25-52
My Town of Bursztyn	Dr. Mordechai Haber	53-62
There once was a town named Bursztyn	M. Nachwalger	63-66
Zionist Organizations in Bursztyn	Y. Fenster	67-70
Beitar and Its Activities	Munye Cohen	71-76
Memories of Days Past	Lusia Frifeld (Rosen)	77-78
R' Dov-Berish Gelernter Z”L	Menachem Gelernter	79-80
The “Hanoar Hatzioni” in Bursztyn	Mordechai Nachwalger	81-84
My Adventures during World War Two	Dr. Lipa Schumer	85-98
Memories and Adventures	Yakov Feldman	99-106

Bursztyn – History and Destruction
[Yiddish]

And You Shall Tell It to Your Children – Our Eternal Obligation		113-116
On the History of the Jews in Bursztyn	Dr. N. M. Gelber	117-140
My Town of Bursztyn	Dr. Mordechai Haber	141-154
Prince Jablonowski and the Jews of Bursztyn	Yisrael Fenster	155-160
The School Named for Baron Hirsch [or The Baron Hirsch School]	Yosef Schwartz	161-172
Our Teachers		173-178
Zionist Organizations in Bursztyn	Y. Fenster	179-182
Hebrew Schools	Yisrael Fenster	183-184
The Library in the Name of Y”L Peretz [or The I. L. Peretz Library]	Y. Fenster	185-196

Chasidism and Rabbis
Chasidism in Bursztyn	Rav R' Zeidele Eichenstein	199-208
Rabbis and Ritual Slaughterers	Rav R' Zeidele Eichenstein	209-210
Rav R' Yoel Ginzburg	Shmuel Schapira	211-214
R' Yankl the Ritual Slaughterer	Buntche Pomerantz	215-220
R' Sholom the Ritual Slaughterer	R' Z. Eichenstein	219-220
Cantors and Melameds	R' Z. Eichenstein	219-222
The Lysicer Melamed and His Cheder	Y. Schwartz	221-224
R' Hershele Strelisker	Shmuel Schapira	223-226

Way of Life
The Tailors' Little Synagogue	Y. Fenster	231-234
Jewish Livelihoods	Y. Fenster	235-238
The Jews in the Villages Surrounding Bursztyn	Yisrael Fenster	239-240
Fires and Epidemics	Yisrael Fenster	241-244
A Story That Happened in Demianow	Buntche Pomerantz	243-248
He Knew it in Advance…	Yisrael Fenster	247-262
Types and Figures	Yosef Schwartz	263-272

Jewish Intelligentsia
Jewish Intelligentsia	Yisrael Fenster	275-286
Types of Religious Scholars	S. Schapira	287-292
R' Koppel Henich	Yosef Schwartz	291-294
Dr. Zev (Wolf) Schmurek	Ilana Meschler-Schmurek	295-300

Destruction and Holocaust
In the Valley of Lamentation and Horror	(Yankl Feldman)	305-316
The Journey through All Hells	(Yankl Glotzer)	317-338
Through Rivers of Tears and Seas of Blood	(Pola Tichover)	339-350
Across Bloody Roads	Miriam Ginzburg-Allerhand	351-356
Inhuman Suffering and Pain	Dr. Lipa Schumer	357-378
Through Horrors and Fears	Hersh Weissmann	379-386
Deported and Murdered Bursztyn Jews in the Soviet Camps		387-394
Bursztyn 1957	Reported by an eyewitness	395-400
From the Few That Survived:	Y. F.
1. Maltche Feffer		401-402
2. Yocheved Rudy		403-404
The Rescued Torah Scroll		405-406
They Died En Route to Israel		407-410
List of the Holy Ones		413-426
Yizkor		433-452
Foreword in English		455-458

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