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Translation of
Sefer Kaluszyn; geheylikt der khorev gevorener kehile
Editors: A. Shamri, Sh. Soroka
Published in Tel Aviv, 1961, Former Residents of Kaluszyn in Israel
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Title | Author | Page |
From the publishers | 9 | |
From the publishers (*H) | 11 | |
History of the Kałuszyn Jewish population | Dr. N. M. Gelber | 15 |
Times and Regimes | ||
Kałuszyn - our town | Shalom Soroka | 28 |
The Old Jewish Kałuszyn | Yossef Zisholtz (Tel Aviv) | 37 |
Towards a new Era | Moshe Frucht | 42 |
Under three Systems of Government | Chayim Rayzman | 45 |
Dealing with Restrictions and Persecution | Moshe Tchernitski | 49 |
After the Liberation of Poland | Moshe Frak | 53 |
In the Minsk-Mazovyetsk Prison | Israel Raychenbach | 57 |
In 1920's turmoil | Yakov Palma | 60 |
8 days under the Soviet power | Shmueal Ayzearstayine | 68 |
The Killings at the Bug River | Yonna Elson | 70 |
Memories about (from) a bloody day | Yechieal Grantayvitsh (?) | 70 |
The hatred of Israel (Jewish people) | Zyesha Baravescki | 72 |
Struggle against Antisemitism | By David Felner (Ben-Avraham) | 73 |
The Butchers and the Slaughter-Gzayre | Yechezkel Shtutman | 75 |
Kałuszyn during the Days of the Pogrom in Minsk-Mazovyetsk | Chaim Rayzman | 76 |
My Shtetl Mrozy and the Kałuszyn Forest | Brurya Sharfman | 77 |
The Kałuszyn Community | ||
The Kehilla in Kałuszyn | Shalom Saraka | 82 |
Rabbis (*H), rabbis and financial supporters/leaders in the Kałuszyn community | S. Arye | 85 |
The Rov of Kałuszyn | Moyshe Berl Dechnevers | 102 |
The Rebbe Naftole | Yosef Zis'holts | 105 |
Yiddishkayt and Unity | Yakov Zis’holtz | 106 |
Two Societies | Avraham Potashnick | 107 |
Three Benevolent Societies Combined | Shlomo Kuperhand | 108 |
The Achiezer Society | David Felner (Ben Avraham) | 109 |
The ritual slaughterers | Yossef Zisholtz | 111 |
Occupations of the Jews of Kałuszyn | Yitzchok Minski | 113 |
The First Hebrew School | Simcha Sitin | 118 |
Jewish Youth in the Polish (State) Schools | Pola Kaplan | 119 |
The struggle of a Jewish student | Chaim Rayzman | 121 |
The Kindergarten | Rivka Bergman (Abramski) | 123 |
The Gan-Yiladim | Miriam Shamri | 124 |
Parties and Cultural Associations | ||
In memory of Kałuszyn | Y. Zerubavel | 128 |
Hallowed Names | Yaakov Zaydman | 131 |
Our youth | Miriam Piasecki | 131 |
From Chevres to Trade Unions | Moshe Frucht | 132 |
What I remember from the fifth year | Shlomo Kupperhand | 134 |
Alter Gorzesz in 1905 | Israel Reichenbac | 135 |
The righteousness of revolutionaries | Boruch Shtulman | 136 |
Maskilim in Kozhenits Shtibl | Elyahu Kaplan | 138 |
The first Zionists | Yaakow Mendel Gotthelf | 140 |
In the beginning | Yankev Palma | 141 |
The two emissaries | A. Ben Hanoch | 144 |
The first sprouts | Akiva Hendel | 145 |
The First Poppy Sale | Eliyahu Kaplan | 147 |
Bund in Kałuszyn | Avrum (Abraham) Goldberg | 149 |
The Sports Association Morgnshtern | Yisroel Demshtchak | 164 |
A Bundist Liame during a Marred Holiday | Yaakow Palma | 166 |
Social awakening following the first German occupation | Avrohom Mitlberg | 168 |
The Poalei Tzion in Kałuszyn | Yeshayahu Grodzicki | 172 |
The Poalei Tzion among the Kalusziner workers | Shulem Soroka | 185 |
On May 1st | S. Shulem | 190 |
The Z.S.- Fareynigte | Hersh Yosl Sokol | 193 |
The communist movement in Kałuszyn | Welvele Sapirstein | 194 |
MOPR in Kałuszyn | Pesach Finklshtayn | 204 |
The Promień | Moshe Frak | 205 |
The Trade Unions | Pesach Finklshtayn | 207 |
The strike of the transport union | Shmuel Eizerstein | 209 |
The pot factory | Yossed Mendel Zisholtz | 210 |
A Strike and a Din-Torah | Chaim Rayzman | 212 |
Zionist movements | Yossed Mendel Zisholtz | 213 |
The Halutz and other Zionist socialist movement | Awraham Mashela | 216 |
Poalei Tsiyon Right (PoaleiTsiyon Z.S.) | Y. Tsigler | 218 |
The youth organization freiheit | Yona Papowski | 220 |
The Halutz Shomrim youth movement | Dawid Flener (B. A.) | 221 |
Pioneers build the kaleika of Kałuszyn | Yossef Neiman | 224 |
Friends from my Youth | David Felner | 227 |
Thus lived a shtetl | Gitel Rok-Rosenfeld | 229 |
Behavior and Types | ||
The average Jew | Yehiel Granatowitch | 232 |
From the spark of repentance | Arieh Shimri | 234 |
Individuals and Characters | Israel Raychenbach | 239 |
The kleizmers of Kałuszyn | Shmuel Eizerstein | 253 |
These were my People | Moyshe Pasklinski | 255 |
As I saw Kałuszyn | Awraham Rosenker | 264 |
Market day in the sthtetl | Shoshana Windicki (Hausman) | 272 |
Reb Itche Meir Perkal | Awraham Potashnik | 274 |
Reb Moshe Mashlanke | Golda Foxman (Mashlanken) | 275 |
Two types | Dawid Flener (B.A.) | 277 |
The love of Palestine by Reb Arieh Chaikes | Arieh Kaplan | 279 |
Reb Yehezkel Hendel the founder of the village Kfar Hassidim in Palestine | Akiva Hendel | 281 |
The sufferings and pains of Welvel Grushka | Melech Yelen | 283 |
Alter, the Village Peddler | Yosl Sukenik | 284 |
The big wedding at the home of Reb. Naphtali | Shlomo Kupperhand | 286 |
My first trip to the rabbi | Yehezkel Kamiel | 287 |
Amongst Hassidim | Chaim Kalushiner | 288 |
Fires and miracles | Chaim Reisenman | 292 |
The two Wilner | Moshe Gline | 293 |
From Jewish life style | Yossef Zisholtz | 294 |
Chanukah in Shtetl | Yechiel Granatovitch | 301 |
Purim in town | Sh. Ben Moshe Aaron | 303 |
Recruits | Moshe Frak | 306 |
Reb Yaakow Tovia and the Amen | Yossef Neiman | 307 |
The Carlsbad box | Itzhak Atzap | 308 |
How much hair does a shtreimel contain | Ben Hanoch | 308 |
It was told | Yaakow Zusman | 309 |
Berl Graptche the treasure | Dawid Flener (B. A.) | 311 |
Their fine manner | Sarah Feige Senalik | 312 |
Destruction and Struggle | ||
The tears are choking | 314 | |
Martyrdom, resistance and destruction | Dr. Yosef Kermish | 315 |
From the Ringelblum material | 350 | |
This is how it started | Yaakow Nozalke | 352 |
The Destruction of Kałuszyn | Mendel Berman | 356 |
Germans and Poles in the destruction work | Chaim Reisman | 361 |
Amid Ruins | Nechemia Obfal | 365 |
Children amongst the ruins | Alter Zaydman | 367 |
The Resistance and the Burial | David Felner (Ben Avraham) | 370 |
Refugees in Kałuszyn | Yaakow Kenner | 372 |
A Guest Performance in Kałuszyn | Zygmunt Turkow | 374 |
Notices of a refugee | Moshe Zoyere | 376 |
Refugees (a poem) | Nahum Bomze | 378 |
Letter, protocol, and lists | 379 | |
The lights reminisces | Moshe Kurtzboim | 391 |
Across the Bug and back | Nathan Borowski | 392 |
Partisans in the Kałuszyn area | The Brothers Shinolentzky | 393 |
Between ruins and forests | Yehiel Granatowitch | 395 |
In Hiding | Laybl and Efraim Shtchapovitch | 397 |
Poems | Arieh Shimri | 401 |
In bunkers and forests | Shlomo Kupperhand | 406 |
With Kałuszyn Landlayt in the Warsaw Ghetto | Sholem Kamienny | 411 |
The Kalusziner commune in Bialystok | Dawid Flener (B. A.) | 417 |
From Kałuszyn to Landshut | Chaim Popowski | 418 |
Auschwitz, (poem) | Charles Dobzinski | 428 |
In the struggle against Nazi-fascism | Yankel Rei | 432 |
The last promenade | Chaim Kapune | 433 |
Songs | Binem Heller | 435 |
With Kuniak in Hiding | Layb Rochman | 437 |
Such was the end of my Shtetl Mrozy | Bruria Sharfman-Kaplan | 452 |
Poems | Moshe Sarah La's | 454 |
Kalusziner residents in France during the Nazi occupation | Israel Engel | 456 |
During the war years in France | Motel Sukne | 458 |
Letter from the camps | &nsbp; | 460 |
German cruelties | Eliyahu Skowrnek | 462 |
Only with Kalusziner | Israel Milgrom | 462 |
From France to Argentina | Awaham Itzhak Nissenbaum | 463 |
The last greetings from the ruins of Kałuszyn | Yehezkel Jossefson | 466 |
Yizkor | ||
Awraham Gamzu | Dawid Felner (B. A.) | 466 |
Moyshe Kishelnitzky | Sholem Soroka | 467 |
Shmuel Lew | Wewl Sapirtein | 469 |
Moshe Goldberg | I. Granatowich | 470 |
Yeshayahu Grodzshicky | I. Grodzshicky | 471 |
Homesickness | Mordechau Grodzshitzki | 473 |
Light | Shmuel Wolman | 474 |
Our Gandi (Baruch Shebicki) | Rachel Auerbach | 475 |
Shmuel Liss | Shulem Soroka | 478 |
Shmul Layzer Sadovski | Avrum Goldberg | 479 |
Leibish Sapirstein | Sulem S. | 479 |
Simche Finkelstein | 480 | |
Aaron Kotzki | Shulem Soroka | 481 |
Leibel Rosenfeld | Dawid Plener (Ch. A.) | 482 |
Henoch Rus | M. Kligsberg | 483 |
Yochewed Reisman | Pessah Finkelstein | 484 |
Leiser Borenstein | Itzhak Atzap | 486 |
David Gelibter | Yosef Zis’holts | 487 |
Zisman Zitelni | A. Shem | 488 |
Chaim Torbiner | Paula Kaplan | 490 |
Avraham Felner | David Felner (Ben Avraham) | 490 |
Reb Israel Asher (Felner) the Magid | Yosef Zis’holts | 491 |
Moshe Popowski | Chaim Kalusziner | 492 |
Dawid Rozhe | Yossef Zisholtz | 493 |
Baruch Wieworke | Shulem S. | 495 |
Nute Tenenbaum | Chaim Reisman | 496 |
Hersh Liss | Welwel ben Yossef | 497 |
Moshe Liss | Dawid Plener (Ch. A.) | 499 |
Benyamin Miodownik | A. Bach | 500 |
Israel Milgrom | Moshe Klinberg | 501 |
Yaakow Palma | Arieh Sh. | 503 |
Shlomo Popowski | Meir Treiber | 504 |
Chaim Rayzman | Y. Grodzhitsky | 506 |
Alter Berman | A. Ben Riwka | 507 |
Itche Rosenberg | A. Shem | 507 |
Martyrs of Kałuszyn | 509 | |
Kalusziner Landsmanschaften | ||
Kalusziner in Israel | Shulem Soroka | 524 |
The mutual revolving fund named Kałuszyn | Dawid Plener (Ch. A.) | 534 |
The Kaluszyiner society in Paris | Welwel Sapirstein | 536 |
The Kalusziner society in the USA | Shmuel Hershman | 540 |
The Association of Kałuszyn-Minsk in Buenos Aires | Yehezkel Kamiel, Mayer Bayer | 543 |
Necrology | 547 |
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