Foreword		9
The Book About the Dynów Community	Moshe Rinat	11
The Dynow Jews, their Life and Activity
The Shtetl of Dynów and its Jews in the Thirties	Abraham Mosinger	21
Our Town Dynow	Ovadia Schnek	29
A Crown of Torah and Wisdom
The Rebbe Reb Zvi Elimelech ztz”l of Dynow	Rabbi Nathan Ortner	47
The dynasty of the Dynow ADMORs (a drawing)		74
Rabbis and Judges in Dynow	Rav Meir Wunder	77
Rabbi Yakov Zvi Yalis z”l author of Melo Haro'im, AB”D of Dynow		90
Our Maskilim [enlightened]	Mendel Shiye Yaari	99
A poet, one hundred years old	Dov Sadan	102
Some renowned people of Dynow, who have become famous beyond its borders	Yitzhak Kassa	106
Zionism and Halutzim [Pioneers]
My meetings with Dynow people	Michael Ziv (Wisinger)	111
The history and development of the Hechalutz movement in Dynow	Yitzhak Kassa	117
Hechalutz and Gordonia movements	Lea Raf	126
The pioneer training	Yitzhak Kassa	128
A Bundle of Memories
Stories from old times	Rabbi Yaakov Shlomo Friedman	137
Shreds of memories from my birth town	Vita Chail, nee Bar	139
Dynow as I knew it	Yechezkel Ilan (Manek Baum)	147
My grandfather	Yehoshua Segal	151
Memories that began at age 5	Yaakov Berkowicz	156
Longing (poem)	Ovadia Schnek	157
Days of Ruin and Wandering
In the days of horror and distress	Yitzhak Haber	161
Days of tribulation	Lea Wachs–Raf	164
Fear and anxiety	Bella Patchek, nee Ringel	166
Flames in Dynow – leaving the town	Esther Mahler, nee Kasser	167
Days of the Nazi Rule	Sara Lifshitz, nee Krischer	168
Refugees from the surroundings sharing the fate of the Dynow Jews	Felicia Passal	169
Testimony of a woman, survivor of the Holocaust	Helena Trachtman	170
Testimonies from the days of horror and deportation	Sara Lifschitz, nee Krischer, Chanoch Hillman	173
Portraits
R'Alter Frenkel-Teomim z”l, head of the Jewish Community	Yitzhak Kassa	177
R'Menachem Naftali Zvi (Mendzi) Frenkel, leader of religious Zionism in town	Israel and Nathan Frenkel	181
Eng. Yakov Weinrauch, may God avenge his blood	A. Mosinger	184
A good and wise man (in memory of Nathan Lahav)	Rachel Adiv	187
Yosef Proper z”l	Yechezkel Ilan-Baum	188
R'Moshe Grinspan z”l	Lucia Grispan-Tarman	189
In memory of R'Moshe Laner	Zev Laner and Nechama Hirschberg	191
Vita-Varda Baum-Birman		193
David Strauss z”l	Israel Strauss	194
In memory of R'Chaim Yosef Teitelbaum z”l	Y. Kassa	197
In memory of the Dynow Community	Nathan Frenkel	199
Memorial Pages		207
Yiddish Section
To our Landsleit	The Book Committee	207
The book of the Dynow Community	Moshe Rinat	209
This is the way it was…
Memories from Dynow (excerpts from a poem)	Itzik Shiye Kassa	217
Dynow and its Jews in the thirties	A. Mossinger	235
Engineers	A. Mossinger	246
The Roads of Life and Suffering
The rabbi's blessing	Chaim Proper	251
The Shtetl Dynów	David Moritz	255
The road of suffering	Rivka Klein-Weinik (Equador)	259
On other roads	Rav Yakov Shlomo Friedman	264
Bound tightly to Dynow and Jerusalem	Frieda Klein-Deller	266
My life and experiences under Nazi rule	Yerachmiel Ortner	267
From the distant past	David Moritz	269
In various corners	Rav Yakov Shlomo Friedman	274
Leib Landau z”l	In Pinkas Galicia	276
An eternal candle to the holy memory of Yakov Ares z”l	Itzik Shiye Kassa	278
A Dynow Great Talent
Yakov Adler - humorist, writer and poet		281
Poems by Yakov Adler (B. Kovner)
My home		283
Longing		284
Yiddish		285
Songs		286
My father's “Kol Nidrei”		287
R'Yoshe melamed		288
In honor of Rosh Hashana [New-Year's day]		290
Kol Nidrei		291
A prayer after Yom Kippur		292
The gray hair		293
Prose by Yakov Adler
Days of fasting		290
My white head		294
The Organization of former Dynow residents in Israel [H]		297
In Memoriam		305

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