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Translation of
Sefer ha-zikaron le-kehilat Chelm; 40 shana le-hurbana
Editor: Sh. Kanc
Published in Tel Aviv, 1980/81
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Translated by Yocheved Klausner
I shall Remember | 5 | |
El Male Rahamim | 6 | |
Nizkor [We remember] | 7 | |
Akdamut Milin [Introduction] | Moshe Grinberg | 18 |
The Chelm Community | Shimon Kantz | 25 |
The Town and its History | ||
The history of the Jews in Chelm | Dr. Phillip Friedman | 37 |
Following the Hidden Light of the Chelm Jews | Avraham Brick | 57 |
Chelm - the splendor of a Jewish town | B. Bienstock | 91 |
How they were saved from the 1905 pogroms | S. Wiener | 95 |
Notes from the near and distant past | I. Millner | 97 |
Leaders through the Generations | ||
The first Rabbis | Avraham Brick | 113 |
Hassidic Movement and Religious Institutions | ||
The Hassidic movement in Chelm | K. Shimon | 137 |
The Shtiebel of the Belz Hassidim | Moshe Grinberg | 145 |
The religious Jewry in the last generation | Moshe Grinberg | 153 |
The rabbi R'Nathan | Moshe Ungar | 167 |
This I shall remember | P. Lehrer | 173 |
The Tomashov Hassidim | Ch. I. Sobol | 201 |
Two Tzadikim | B. M. Ehrlich | 203 |
Only the melody remained | Nathan Katz | 215 |
Jewish Education | ||
The days of my lifetime | Moshe Grinberg | 221 |
In the Cheder and in the Yeshiva | Ch.R. Sobol | 233 |
My teachers | Arie Tennenbaum | 239 |
The spring from which we drew knowledge | Israel Grinberg | 241 |
My teachers | Ben-Aharon | 247 |
The Hebrew High-School | Avraham Schwarzman | 249 |
The teachers | Chava Biederman | 251 |
The Tarbut School and its fate | Yehoshua Flaumenbaum | 255 |
The elementary school | Moshe Boim | 259 |
Sad lights | Moshe Dunitz | 265 |
Parties, Organizations and Institutions | ||
The Zionist Movement | K. Shimoni | 273 |
The Zionist Organization | Malka Goldman | 277 |
The Tze'irei Zion Party | S. Becker | 281 |
The Hebrew High-School | Yakov Oren | 283 |
Po'alei Zion Left | Shmuel Shregel | 285 |
The Revisionist Party | Yehoshua Silber | 297 |
The Hechalutz | Pinchas Goldman | 301 |
Hashomer Hatza'ir | P. Goldman | 304 |
The Communist Party | P. Goldman | 306 |
Mizrahi, Hashomer Hadati and Agudat Israel | Moshe Grinberg | 307 |
On my way to Eretz Israel | Moshe Grinberg | 311 |
The WIZO organization | Pearl Lehrer | 315 |
A honeycomb of activity | Chaim Wahrsager | 317 |
Bund | Nachum Vinik | 327 |
The Jewish Labor movement [Yiddish] | Z. Kratco | 337 |
A letter to the martyrs (poem) [Y] | Shneur Wasserman | 365 |
Societies and charity institutions | M. Vinik | 367 |
Righteous women | 375 | |
The Orphanage | H. Shishler | 379 |
The Jewish press | 381 | |
The way-of-life in the Jewish streets | 384 | |
The Drama Circle | 387 | |
The Music Group | 388 | |
Chelm in the Yiddish literature | 390 | |
Educators and those who showed us the way | Ch. Globen | 389 |
The Cultural life | David Goldreich | 391 |
The Peretz Library | Yitzhak Altman | 393 |
Dr. Yitzhak Schieffer, Chelm delegate in the Sejm | Akiva Vinik | 395 |
Life and Folklore | ||
Chelm (poem) | Shlomo Wahrsager | 405 |
Chelm, as preserved in my memory | P. Siegelbaum | 407 |
Roads in Life | Shneur Wasserman | 423 |
Sabbaths and Holidays | M. and P. Goldman | 437 |
Entertaining events | Yakov Becker | 461 |
Forgotten images | B. Elkvit-Blum | 463 |
A multi-colored Jewish life is gone [Y] | Pinchas Goldman | 467 |
Sights and figures 1897-1977 | B. Bienstock | 475 |
The uncle from Chelm | S. Tennenbaum | 483 |
There once was…. [Y] | Nesia Tzitron | 485 |
In years past [Y] | I. Klein | 489 |
Life chapters | Moshe Schoffel | 495 |
My old home [Y] | Yehoshua Orenstein | 499 |
The life of one family | Miriam Friedland | 501 |
The first years | B. M. Ehrlich | 505 |
A Jewish wedding | Moshe Lehrer | 511 |
Those who are happy with their lot | S. Ehrlich | 513 |
Neighbors | B. Ne'eman | 521 |
Generations of Yiddish Chelm | Motl Ehrlich | 525 |
Chelm and surroundings | Binyamin Orenstein | 555 |
Chelm in the Jewish Folklore | ||
Chelm tales | P. Friedman | 561 |
Chelm tales and Literature | I. Yansowitz | 563 |
Chelm and its sages | M. Sela | 567 |
Contents of a Chelm story [Y] | A. Roitman | 571 |
Mendele Moicher Sforim's interest in Chelm | M. Lehrer | 577 |
Famous People | ||
Portraits | I. Millner | 579 |
Writers and artists | S. Gavrieli | 585 |
R'Yehuda-Leib Milner | I. Millner | 597 |
My father R'Chaim Reifer | Malka Goldman | 599 |
R'Anshel Biderman - the last head of the community | Avi AHAM | 603 |
R'Abush Schneider | Wolf Brones | 603 |
My father, Mordechao Ivri | Rina Ivri | 605 |
My home | Zelig Schwarzman | 607 |
Moshe Becker | Ch. Diamand | 611 |
Matel Gross | A. Becker | 611 |
Life pages | Rivka Friedland | 613 |
Shiv'a [Mourning] (poem) | S. Wasserman | 615 |
Communal Workers, former Residents of Chelm in Israel | ||
Yosef Rolnik | 617 | |
R'Yehoshua Orenstein | Moshe Grinberg | 619 |
Refael Silber | Yitzhak Silber | 621 |
Yochanan Donitz | M. Grinberg | 625 |
Holocaust and Heroism | ||
The Binding of Arthur [after: The Binding of Yitzhak, Genesis 22] | B. Scheffner | 633 |
The power to die | S. Bikel | 636 |
The broken string | I. Fatt | 637 |
S. M. Siegelbaum | D. Hans | 638 |
My holy father | Yosef Siegelbaum | 642 |
The poetic unrest | Feivel Siegelbaum | 643 |
The Binding of Siegelbaum | H. Leivik | 646 |
Destruction, Annihilation and Strength | ||
The summer when evil struck | S. Michaeli | 649 |
The destruction of Chelm | A. Kaspi | 651 |
The Ultra-Orthodox [Haredi] Jewry during the Holocaust | S. I. Yechieli | 659 |
In the Hell of fear and death | I. Hertz | 663 |
Torture and Hell | Hella Abetman | 671 |
The cruel annihilation | Yoel Pontchek | 681 |
Massacre and destruction | Manis Tzitrin | 683 |
The death march | Ben-Zion Brucker | 687 |
From this terror | I. Grosskopf | 697 |
The destruction campaign | Lazer Cohen | 703 |
At the river (poem) [Y] | Moshe Ganz | 707 |
In the Nazi prison | Chaim Sobol | 709 |
At the mass-graves | S. Brostman | 711 |
When Chelm fell | Yakov Zvi Shargel | 713 |
The terrible summary | I. Feinstock | 717 |
Years of suffering and heroism [Y] | Peretz Burstein | 719 |
On the roads of battle [Y] | Yudel Klein | 745 |
Sprouts of underground | Yitzhak Feigenbaum | 753 |
The minutes of the last ordeal | Manis Tzitrin | 757 |
The spring from which they drew patience | Nachman Tennenbaum | 767 |
Back to Chelm | Moshe Ganz | 769 |
Heroes in the forest [Y] | Yankel Glaser | 773 |
In the Death Camp - Sobibor | ||
The destruction campaign and manifestations of heroism | Moshe Hochman | 779 |
Through fire and blood [Y] | Alexander Wahrsager | 785 |
Remembrance of he Holocaust - for the Youth in Israel | ||
A school adopts the Chelm Community | Moshe Grinberg | 791 |
The memory of the Holocaust | Moshe Grinberg | 795 |
In memory of our martyrs - the ceremony of unveiling the monument | M. Grinberg & S. Wahrsager | 799 |
How we started - Chelm Organization in Israel | Pearl Lehrer | 803 |
The sons we have lost | 811 | |
Remember, the nation of Israel, the martyrs of the Chelm community | 817 |
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