Ciechanow, Poland

Memorial Book for the Community of Ciechanow
(Poland)

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Translation of Yisker-bukh fun der Tshekhanover yidisher kehile

This translation is dedicated to the blessed memory of Mordko (Marcos) Hersz Myssior and Lonya (Lea) Szrenskier

Edited by: A.W. Yassini, Former residents of Ciechanow in Israel and in the Diaspora

Published in Tel Aviv, 1962

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Acknowledgments

Project Coordinator

Stan Zeidenberg

Translated by

Miriam Dashkin Beckerman

This is a translation from:
Yisker-bukh fun der Tshekhanover yidisher kehile; Memorial book for the community of Ciechanow,
ed. A.W. Yassini. Tel Aviv, former residents of Ciechanow in Israel and in the Diaspora, 1962 (H,Y)

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An earlier translation by Hyman Kirsh and Harriet Brown now incorporated into this work.

Page	Title	Author

5	Introduction	Moshe Fuchs

9	Overall History Of The Jews Of Ciechanow

24	Rosa Robota -- The Holy Heroine from Ciechanow

27	Ciechanow and its Jewish Kehillah Historical Notes

	The Rabbonim and Religious Leaders
35	The Gaon and Tzadik Rabbi Avraham Landau	Sh. Rotstein
38	Harav Reb Yaacov Landau of Yezev
38	Harav Zeidenfeld
39	The Rav Yitzhak Yehuda Trunk
40	Harav Shmuel Yitzhak Landau
50	Rabbi Mordechai Bronrot and his leadership	Avraham Dov

	Religious Functionaries, Religious Institutions and Tzedakah Societies
52	Hasidim, Misnagdim and Religious Chevras/Societies	Isaac Kessler
54	Reb Yosele Dayan and his Son the Kadosh, Reb Ephraim	Moshe Fuchs
57	The Ciechanow Hazzanim (Cantors)	M. Fuchs
58	Shoichtim, Shamesim and Religious Institutions	Simcha Fuchs

	Community Activities in the Years Before World War I
61	From Bais Hamedresh Religiosity to Secular Enlightenment Judaism	Isaac Kessler
66	The Start of the Jewish Socialist Movement	Yisrael Bernstein
68	The Ideological Struggle Between Children and Parents	Rivka Kahane
70	Maccabee Organization and Dramatic Group	Mayer Gottlieber
74	The Beginning of a Yiddish School Presence in Ciechanow	B. Poulos

	World War I and its Effect on Ciechanow Jews
76	Memories of the Years 1914 - 1918	Tanchum Maccaver
90	The Tragic Events on Yom Kippur of the Year 1914	Yakov Kahane

	The Zionist Movement and the First Hebrew Schools
93	Thirst for Learning Amongst the Jewish Youth	Eliyahu Kinitz
95	The First Hebrew Schools in Ciechanow	Rivka Kahane
98	Activities of the Zionist organization	Moshe Frach

	Cultural Revival in the Epoch Between the Two World Wars
107	Hebrew Courses and Renewed Zionist Activities	Braina Botska
112	Activities of the Right Poele Tzion	Zisha Barka
116	The Hashomer Hatzair organization	Z. Apel
121	Beitar, Hatzhar - Hatzakh, Beit Hakhayal	Yakov Varshavsky

	Organizations of Religious Institutions of Orthodox Jews in Ciechanow
125	Community of Cultural Activities of Religious Jews
128	Reb Laibish Borenstein - the Rebbe, Teacher and Spiritual Leader
133	Reb Shimon Srebnik
134	Activities of the “Agudah” and its Institutions
134	The Free Loan Society
135	The Leaders and Activists of the Agudah Movement
143	The Activities of Reb Yoel Dovid Weingarten
143	Poelei Agudat Yisroel in Ciechanow
147	The Ciechanow Kehillah and its Activities	Yakov Bronrot
149	The Rebbe Rov Hagaon Rebbe Chaim Mordecai Bronrot and the Kehillah Activities
150	The Kehillah President, Chaver Kirshenzweig
151	Kehillah Disputes in Ciechanow

	Jewish Financial Institutions
152	Folk Bank and Co-Op Bank	Yakov Bronrot
153	The Free Loan Society	Wolf Henoch, Zylberstrom, Tel-Aviv
156	The Elections to the First Polish Siyum	Rivka Kahane
157	Accused of Spying	Moshe Frach

	The Jewish Workers Party in Ciechanow
158	Home and Surroundings in My Formative Years	Yehoshua Grossbard
175	Political and Cultural Activities	L. Noshelskar
183	The Split in the Jewish Workers Movement	Vigdor Kessler
187	The 'Club' and its Welfare Work for Ciechanow's Jews	Yosel Mundzak, Paris

	Memories and Descriptions of the Jewish Way of Life in Ciechanow
191	My Childhood-Years and Youth-Years in the Shtetl	Nachman Grossbard, Haifa
204	Jewish Ciechanow, As I Saw It	Z. Apel
209	The Shtetl in Light of My Memories	Yosel Melazker, Paris
217	The Daily Life of the Ciechanow Jews	Moshe Fuchs
220	The Idealists of the Jewish Organizations in Ciechanow	Yakov Rubenstein
222	The Ciechanower Polish State School	Nachman Grossbard
232	How I Remember the Shtetl Ciechanow
236	The Shomer Hatzair Movement	Dvora Newman
236	Zionist Activity in Ciechanow
243	The Workmens Club of Bund and Poele Tzion

	Types and Personalities
244	Reb Laizer Borokhovich, Shtetl Chazzan and Shoichet
244	Reb Yoel Dovid Weingarten
247	Reb Dovid Vise
248	Reb Yantshe
249	Reb Binyamin Malina
251	Reb Yaacov (Yenkl) Misher
253	Reb Yisroel Yaacov Student
254	Reb Natan Skurnik
254	Adla Pafa
256	Reb Avraham Friedman
257	Urku-Aaron Kostsheva
258	Reb Avraham Aaron Kelman
259	A Few Lines About My Teacher Reb Avraham-Aaron Kelman
261	Reb Berish Kleinetz
261	Reb Moishe Yaacov Rakovsky
261	Reb Shloime Rubinstein
	Jewish Women Personalities
263	The Woman Rokhl Malka Tik
264	The Bobe (Grandmother) Faige Lifshitz	Moshe Fuchs
268	My Grandmother Khana Raizl
269	My Father's Suffering for the Education of his Children	Dovid Makaver
272	Poor People	Z. Appel
275	The Shtetl Ciechanow and Yiddish Literature
279	To the Ciechanower	Zishe Landau
280	The Ciechanower niggunim	Y. Apatasho
284	My Brother, the Poet, Yosl Grosbard	Yehoshua Grossbard
289	Songs of Yosl Grosbard
292	Tears	Shimon Stern
295	The Son and the Grandchild of the Ciechanower Rebbe, Reb Avremele	Avraham Pinkus Unger
297	Yehoshua Podruznik – the Ciechanower Writer

299	Ciechanow in the Years of the German Extermination of the Jews
322	My Experiences in World War II	Noach Zabludowicz
340	Ciechanow Jews in Auschwitz	L. Silver, Montreal
372	Ciechanow Jews in the Uprising in Auschwitz	Moshe Kolka
400	Rosa Robota
407	The Partisan Gavriel Avshanka
409	Shlomo Zalman Kahane
410	Menakhem Kalenberg
414	A speech by Yitzhak-Leib Kleinitz, in Paris
420	Two Processes Against German Mass-Murderers Who Carried Out the Torture and Extermination of Ciechanow Jews	Yitzhak-Leib Kleinetz
423	Families and Individuals of Ciechanow Tortured by the Germans
457	Necrology

473	In Ciechanow After the Destruction
481	Ciechanow in 1956	Riva Gonska

485	Ciechanow Jews Throughout the World
487	Landmanschafts and Aid Activities
501	The Ciechanow Landsmanschaft in Detroit
508	Ciechanowers in Paris and Surroundings
520	Ciechanow Landsleit in Montreal
523	Epilogue

	Pictures and Illustrations
	Paid announcements memorializing families

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An earlier translation by Hyman Kirsh and Harriet Brown now incorporated into this work.