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Translated by Gloria Berkenstat Freund (Yiddish)
and Yocheved Klausner (Hebrew)

Introduction		9
Foreword		11
Chapters of the History of Nowy-Dwor
Nowy-Dwor and its Jewish Settlement	Dov Berish First	19
The Neihofer Printer of Hebrew Books	Dr. Emanuel Ringelblum / Johan Anton Krieger	45
Printers and Books in the Printing House in Nowy Dwor	Chaim Dov Friedberg	57
At the Beginning of the Twentieth Century
This Is How I Remember My Shtetl [town]	Sam Bernstein	63
From the Bet Hamidrash [House of Prayer and Study] to the Revolutionary Movement	Avraham Goldberg	70
In 1905	Shimkha Waga	79
My Father's Workshop	Meir Blajk (Blacharak)	83
We, the Stitchers in the Tailor's Shop	Ester Malka Knaster	85
The First Jewish Socialists in Nowy-Dwor	Hershl Himmellfarb	90
Singing Tailor	Eta Finker-Szimonowicz	98
Between Two World Wars
Nowy Dwor - One of the Nicest towns	Yitzhak Grinbaum	101
Jewish Means of Income	Shmuel Kobalski	103
The Anti-Semitic Falange	Meir Blajk (Blacharek)	107
Heroism at Nowy-Dworer Market	Dovid Top	108
Between the Two World Wars	Feiwish Kronenberg	109
Until 1939	Ahron Pinker	117
The Rabbi, Ruwin Yehuda Neufeld	Dov Berish First	119
The Nowy-Dworer Rabbi	Menashe Unger	130
About the Nowy-Dworer Jewish community	Dov. P.	133
Nowy-Dworer Khederim [religious primary schools]	Josef Lichtenstein	137
From the “Progressive Kheder” to a Modern School	D. Ben-Sara	142
The “Tarbut” School	Tzwi Pelser	146
The Jewish Secular School TSYSHO [Central Yiddish School Organization]	Shlomo Wronski	154
Parties and Organizations
The Bundist Movement in Nowy-Dwor	Chaim Babitz	159
About the Elections in the Jewish community	Moshe Babitz	172
The Bundist Faction in the City Council	B. Chaim	174
The Fight in the City Council	Chaim Rodavski	179
Embroiders' Union	Sura Rozenman-Treger	182
The Communist Organization	Ben-Avraham	185
A Bloody First of May	Leizer Kirsztajn	187
The Right-Wing Poalei-Tzion	Sholem Kartzowicz	189
Our Party and Freiheit [freedom]	Shmuel Kobalski	195
Our Zionist Activity	Yitzhak Gryner	199
The Zionist Youth Movement	Josef Szimkowicz	201
About the Zionist Activity	Dov First	209
The Visit of Deputy Grinbaum	A. Klarman	211
The Kibbutz “Torah and Work”	Yehuda Perlmuter	212
The First Nowy-Dworer Immigrants to Palestine	Dov Berish First	215
The Poalei Agudat Israel	Y. Finkel	217
Dramatic Circles	Malka Top-Karcowicz	220
The Visits of Writers and Speakers	P. Dov	226
Jewish Sportsmen and Sports Organizations	Kalman Pitulski	229
A Shtetl [town] Between Rivers
There on the Highway	Dov Berish First	237
Stars on the Ash	Shmuel Top	244
On the Narew	Shimkha Pinker	247
Around the Market	Yakov Wronski	248
My Town, My Little Streets	Josef Top	251
The Balcony on “Piasek”	Anshel Fryd	253
Nowy-Dwor, My Shtetl [town]	Boaz Jung-Jungevitz	255
In the Czarist Times	Meir Blajk	265
Around the Nowo-Georgiewsker Fortress	H. Szoszkes	272
Where I Remained Devoted	Helen Yerozalimska-Szafir	281
Images/Figures from the Gerer Shtibl [one room prayer house]	David Segal	283
Henekh's Melodies	Sholem Kartzowicz	287
My Aunt Chana	L. Lewkowicz	288
Doctors, Feldshers [barber-surgeons] and Healers	D. Ben-Sara	289
With My Grandfather in Nowy-Dwor	Yakov Litman	294
The Melodies of the Jewish Family	Dov Ben-Chaim	300
Three Generations of the Jures Family	D. Ben-Israel	305
The House Near the Narew	Shmuel Kobalski	307
“Aristocratic” Lineage Names	Noakh Prilucki	310
My Father's Witticisms	David Top	310
The “Nicknames” in Our Shtetl [town]	A. Bach	311
My Mother's Tears	Shlomo Wronski	312
Death and Resistance
Extract from the “Song of the Murdered Jewish People”	Yitzhak Katzenelson	315
The First Testimony	From Ringelblum's Archive	316
The Torment and Destruction of the Jewish Population	A. Goldbroch and W. Shliamowicz	320
The Nowy-Dworer Jews Under the Nazi Rule	Sender Blank	326
The Members of Judenrat [Jewish council] and the Jewish Police	Leibl Kochalski	337
The Nowy Dwor Jews in the Shoah	Mordekhai Landsman	340
In the Pomichowa Camp	Ringelblum Archive, Mariam Arpa, Tzwi Arpa	343
And You, Young Boy	Yakov Glatstein	345
A Child on the Roads	Yehudit Przenica	346
Wandering and Camps	Chaya Litman-Perlowicz	349
In the Warsaw Ghetto and in the Camps	Chava Szklanka-Wolanska	352
From the Warsaw Ghetto through Majdanek and Auschwitz	Glike Szajnbaum	358
IN the Warsaw Ghetto and in the Wiszkower Forests	Penina Papier	367
Nowy-Dworer in the Fight of the Warsaw Ghetto	Melech Neustadt	381
The Nowy Dwor Rabbi in the Warsaw Ghetto	L. Feingold	383
From Nowy-Dwor to to the Revolt in Treblinka	Yakov Domb	385
Nowy-Dworer in the Treblinka Revolt		389
Back from the Death Pits	Itshe Tap	390
An Encounter in the “Buna” Concentration Camp	Leibl Kochalski	391
From Drancy to Auschwitz	L. Majlekhowicz	394
In the Fight Near Nowy-Dwor	Feywl Karcowicz	398
Among Partisans	Moshe Szulman	401
Nowy-Dworer in Russian and Polish Armies in the Fight Against the Nazis		403
At the Eichman Trial		403
My Arrest in Baranowke	Chaim Babitz	404
At the Beginning and the End	Hershl Weiss	408
My Acquaintance With Nowy-Dwor after the War	Yakov Ewenson	411
My Father's Tears	Anshel Fried	415
At the Memorial in Honor of the party people from Modlin	A. Kiwajko	416
The Righteous among the Gentile	Dov Berish F.	417
A Memorial Prayer in Waldstadt	Ahron Pinker	420
The list of the Martyrs of Nowy Dwor		424
In Memory
Jews of the Former Nowy Dwor: Reb Meir Lichtensztajn, Reb Moshe Nowordworski, Reb Hershl Jerozolimski, Reb Itshe Meir Tundlak, Reb Benaimin Pinker, Reb Avrahamle Kancholski, Reb Zacheria Korcowicz,Yakov Hildenbrand, Mordekhai Rozensztajn, the Rabbi Elimalekh Naufeld, Reb Berish Zilberman	Dov Berish First	437
Reb Shimshon Nute Srebernik	Yitzhak Griner	447
Shmuel Grabman	Shlomo Korcowicz	448
Reb Yakov Meir Salomon and His Children	Y. Jerochemzon	449
Reb Tovya Fried	Anshel Fried	451
Reb Nute Nathan Kaufman	Avraham Kaufman	452
Reb Berele Wengow	Sura Rozenman-Treger	453
Lipe Mundlak	M.A.Brajnhandler	454
Nakhum Nojfeld	Shmuel Kochalski	456
Menashe Kochalski	Kalman Pitulski, Chaya Litman	457
Hersh Ber Pinker	Shimkha Pinker	459
Personalities from Nowy-Dworer Bund: Leon Grobman, Chaim Yitzhak Rudowski, Mendl Rozenfeld-“Trotsky,” Hercl Dubnikow, Diker Zilbertal, Nisen and Laya Sztejnberg, Tankhum Kronenberg, Matis Papier, Borukh Kelerwajs, Shamay Kaliksztein	Chaim Babitz	460
Chaim Rudowski	Emanual Nowogrodski	465
Hershl Himelfarb	Y. Sh. Hertz	467
Genya Ferczikow-Dubnikow	R. Klepfisz, Dov First	470
Dovid (Dadek) Kaufman	Avraham Kaufman	472
Avrahamle Guterman	Dov First	473
Avraham Guterman, the Artist	Josef Sandel	474
There Was a Shtetl [town]	Eta Szimonowicz-Finker	477
Nowy-Dworer in Israel and in Other Countries
The Preparatory Work for the Pinkas [book of records or memorial book]	Pinkas Committee	481
The Beginning of Irgun Yotzei Nowy Dwor [organization of people from Nowy Dwor]	Chaim Cohen	484
Our Work in Israel	Eliezer Lichtenstein	485
Our Housing in Holon	Sholem Karcowicz	489
The Holiday for the Mowy Dwor Housing in Israel		491
Helen Grynblat (Cheike Gersht)	F. Dov	494
The Nowy Dworer Union in Chicago	B. Rapaport	497
The Nowy Dworer Landsleit [people from the same town] in America	Avraham Goldberg	503
The Nowy Dworer Committee in Los Angeles	Rachel Kleinbart-Maroko	509
Among Nowy Dworer in America	Sam Bernsztajn	511
Nowy Dworer in Canada		515
Nowy Dworer in Argentina	Nakhman Nowodworski	516
“Friends of Nowy Dwor” in Paris	L. Majlekhowicz	519
Necrology		523-556
English Abstract of Nowy Dwor Pinkas		I-XIX

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