Translated by Sara Mages
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Translation of
Sefer Linshits
Editor: Yitshak Yedidyah Frenkel
Published in Tel Aviv 1953
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Translated by Sara Mages
| “El Male Rachamim” | 5 | ||
| Title Page | 7 | ||
| Misgivings and actions (in the hiding place) | Issar Frenkel | 11 | |
| Łęczyca 970-1939 | HaRav Yitzchak Yedidya Frenkel | ||
| Chapter 1 - Łęczyca in the old days - The legend of R' Shlomo Efraim author of the book “Kli Yakar” - The trial of the blood libel - The war with the Swedes - The MAHARAL from Prague in Łęczyca |
25 | ||
| Chapter 2 - The family of the Kara's rabbis and their family tree - The spirit and soul of Auerbach - Rabbi Abraham Tiktin, author of the book “Petach HaBait” and his era |
41 | ||
| Chapter 3 - Rabbi Shlomo Zalman Auerbach who Tikken Chatzot with Yirmiyahu HaNavi - Rabbi Chaim Auerbach and his era |
58 | ||
| Chapter 4 - Rabbi Yitzchak Auerbach author of the book “Divrei Chaim” - The family history of the Auerbach rabbis |
71 | ||
| Chapter 5 - Rabbi Meir Auerbach author of the book “Imrei Bina” | 79 | ||
| Chapter 6 - Rabbi Avraham Binyamin Korongold from Horodna [Grodno] | 87 | ||
| Chapter 7 - The “Sagi Nahor” Rabbi Shneur Zalman Morgenstern author of the book “Minchat Haboker” | 89 | ||
| Chapter 8 - Rabbi Meir Leibush, MALBIM - The great controversy | 92 | ||
| Chapter 9 - Rabbi Shlomo Auerbach | 113 | ||
| Chapter 10 - Rabbi Eliezer Auerbach the last rabbi of Łęczyca | 115 | ||
| Łęczyca Before the Destruction | |||
| (Synagogues, institutions, movements, personalities, figures and characters) | |||
| The Great Synagogue in Łęczyca | 121 | ||
| Beit HaMidrash | 125 | ||
| Places of worship and charitable organizations | 135 | ||
| A tour through the city | 138 | ||
| “Hibbat Zion” association in Łęczyca | B. Elizedek | 145 | |
| Memories from the city of my birth | S. Schori | 150 | |
| Memories from the National Movement in Łęczyca | A. Knopf | 154 | |
| “Shlomei Emunei Yisrael” | A. Roset | 156 | |
| R' Shmuel Schlabener | A. Knopf | 157 | |
| Zaionz | A. Knopf | 163 | |
| Moshe Mendel | A. Knopf | 168 | |
| Yanek and the “Kaze” [she-goat] | Y. Roshem | 172 | |
| Types of “Melamdim” [teachers] | Y. Roshem | 173 | |
| The destruction of Łęczyca (1939-1945) | |||
| The history of the last days of the community of Łęczyca | Issar | 179 | |
| List of Martyrs from Łęczyca, Poland | 195 | ||
| Pictures that were given by the relatives | 205 | ||
| Lamentation for Łęczyca's Holocaust | 209 | ||
| Supplements | |||
| The teachings of the MALBIM [Meïr Leibush ben Yehiel Michel] | HaRav Issar Frankel | 211 | |
| “Hakoah” association and the Jewish Orchestra | S. Broditzky | 215 | |
| Łęczyca during the First World War | Y. Roshem | 219 | |
| Notes in the margin | Y. Roshem | 222 | |
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