Memorial Book of the Community of Olyka
(Olyka, Ukraine)

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Translation of Pinkas ha-kehilah Olyka; sefer yizkor

Edited by: Natan Livneh

Published in Tel Aviv, 1972, Olyka Society (H,Y)




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Project Coordinator

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Translations

 
David Goldman (Chapters)
Michael Stein (Table of Contents)
 
 

 

 

Contributed by

 
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Ron Honig
Milt Shapiro
 

 

 

This is a translation from: Pinkas ha-kehilah Olyka; sefer yizkor (Memorial book of the community of Olyka),
Editors: Natan Livneh, Tel Aviv, Olyka Society, 1972 (H. Y, 397 pages).


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PAGE  TITLE  AUTHOR 
Monument  Nathan Livneh 
With Great Awe  Authors 
The Area of Volyn and Its Inhabitants, Jews of Volyn  Prof. Y. Nataneli-Rothman 
 
 

THE LIFE OF THE GENERATIONS

19  A Section of a Jewish Town Simcha Glickman 
45  A Look Back At My Town Olyka Meir Ben Yishai (Greenspan) 
64  The TAZ in Olyka  Mordechai Boneh 
69  Reb Noach Joyfully Tells Ansky  H. Kramer 
73  Links in the Chain of Generations  Natan Rosenfeld 
84  A Poem: Far Away in the Shtetl  Zalman Chaim Bernstein 
89  Sleepiness and Awakening in Olyka  Yosef Krupnick 
93  Oh, My Town Sender Dekel (Dekelboim) 
98  Strings of Memories  Nehemiah Trest 
101  Childhood in Olyka  Elka Vynd (Breyer) 
103  Shabbat in Town Natan Rosenfeld 
110  A Poem: Many Hundreds of Years Ago  Yisrael son of R. Yitzchak Halevi Cutler 
115  The Wedding in the Cemetery  Natan Rosenfeld 
117  Little Lowly Houses Meir Ben Yishai (Greenspan) 
121  In the Tailor's Synagogue  Joshua Erga 
 
 

OLYKA AND THE VILLAGES SURROUNDING IT

125  Among the Gentiles Shmuel Gal 
137  Village Memories Beryl Gal 
141  Rabbi Itzah Bahtincher  Beryl Gal 
 
 

HASSIDISM AND HASSIDIM

145  Rebbes and Their Hassidim  Natan Rosenfeld 
155  Velvel  Natan Rosenfeld 
156  The Rabbinical Dynasty of Olyka  Menasha Unger 
 
 

EDUCATION AND PIONEERING

163  The Tarbut School in Olyka  Kalman Burstein 
167  Youth in Olyka  Henia Beroza-Lokov 
173  In the Merit of Going to an Unknown Land  Yosef Karmal (Kemelman) 
175  The Library “Ivriyah”  Malka Erga-Tzuk 
176  School and Youth Movements  Elka Vynd (Breyer) 
179  We Are Going to Israel  Sara Erga-Deckel 
182  The Poor People of My City  Malka Arkadir-Golvytz 
184  A Foundry for Zionism  Sara Kafri-Kolner 
189  The Jews of Olyka Join the Polish Air Force  Shimon Katz 
 
 

PEOPLE AND IMAGES

195  People and Images  Simcha Glickman 
198  Reizel and Shlomo Teitel  
211  My Uncle and My Aunt Frank  Tzipporah (Feyge) Greenberg 
213  The Chain Has Not Been Broken  Yitzchak Zeilengold 
217  Images in the Town Sara Dekel-Erga 
219  Jews in the Shtetl  Shimon Katz 
219  Moshe Spotshook   
219  Leml the Vassertreger (water peddler)   
219  Yechizel Vassertreger   
220  Shiyeh Stepener   
220  Yosi Bazigon   
221  Aryeh Nakonetshnik   
221  Benjamin Aryeh   
221  Shimon der Schreiber (the writer)   
222  Motel der Schreiber   
222  Moshe Chalamoresh   
222  Chaim-Leib der Shadkan (marriage broker)   
222  R. Itzer Melamed   
223  Nisi Kolton   
223  R. Beryl Yochevdas   
 
 

MOTHER AND FATHERS HOUSE

227  An Ideal Life in Ashes  Yosef Krupnick 
233  My Father's House  Simcha Glickman 
238  Reflections On My Father's House  Shlomo Tzam 
240  In Remembrance of Ishi Boiman  Shlomo Tzam 
242  And These Are The Names Henia Gingberg-Kanievsky 
247  A Bitter Eulogy Zisel Gorbaty-Burstein 
251  A Lament for My Father's House  Manya Glickman 
254  My Father Simon Tzipehss: Of Blessed Memory  Meir Greenspan (Ben Yishai) 
256  Abraham Chaim Goldberg Meir Greenspan (Ben Yishai) 
257  My Parent's House  Eliezer Stepener 
260  My Mother  Leah Bakuvitzki-Melamed 
262  Images In The Night  Rachel Schaefer 
267  My Village and My House Papa Finklestein-Cohn 
269  Poem  Levyot M. Ben Yosi Greenstein 
 
 

ON THE EVE OF THE HOLOCAUST, THE HOLOCAUST

271  Two Fateful Years in Olyka Dr. Elisheva Cohen 
279  The Philanthropist Shlomo Nudler  Shlomo Tzam 
286  Wanderings  Tuvia Zeckster 
287  I Saw Them Alive and Dead  Ruven Kalpach 
288  And It Was In The Time of the Russians Yitzchak Lapid (Lopata) 
297  The Death March of the Oliker Jews Beryl Gal 
311  The German Conquest  Michol Greenstein 
323  A Boy in the Holocaust  Chaim Chayat 
331  The Last Date: 15 Av 5702 (1942) Shlomo Tzam 
335  A Hiding Place In Hell, The Story of Mr. Fishel Berger   
341  A Girl From Under the Earth  Dvorah Nakanetschnik 
349  The Martyrs of Olyka: May God Avenge Their Blood   
 
 

MEMORIAL TO THE CHILDREN

367  On The Life of Uri Keidar-Krupnick  Lt. Colonel Yacov Agasi-mother-brother
Tsvika-Uncle Josef- Officers and Friends 
374  About the Sergeant Eliezer Shapiro  Lt. Colonel Amnon Resher - His Friends in
Reconnaissance- Mother-Father-David-Moshe Dayan 
383  Asa Yaguri-First in the Minefield  Heroism Book, 1967 
 
 

MISSING FRIENDS

386  Beryl Gal: Of Blessed Memory  Simcha Glickman 
388  Shlomo Telesnick: Of Blessed Memory  Sender Dekel 
390  Shlomo Telesnich: Of Blessed Memory  Mendel Honig 
391  Abraham Hucherman: Of Blessed Memory  Shimon Katz 
393  Mendel Glickberg: Of Blessed Memory  Y.D. 
395  For Long Years: Shlomoke Kvittel  Shimon Katz 

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