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Translation of
Sefer Telz (Lita); matsevet zikaron le-kehila kedosha
Editors: Yitzhak Alperovitz, Tel Aviv, Telz Society
Published in Israel, 1984
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| Introduction | Dr. Dov Levine | 8 |
| From the Organization and the Editorial Board | 10 | |
| A memorial to the Community of Telsiai (Telz) | Yitzhak Alperowitz | 12 |
| A map of Telsiai (Telz) | ||
| Chapter One | ||
| The History of Jewish Telz | ||
| Telz | 17 | |
| Telz | 19 | |
| Telz | 20 | |
| The history of the Jewish settlement in Telz | Shmuel Natanowitz | 21 |
| From old bygone times [Y] | Berl Cohen | 24 |
| Telz | Rav Efraim Oshri | 51 |
| Telz | 54 | |
| Chapter Two | ||
| The Telz Yeshiva - its Rabbis and its Institutions | ||
| The Telz Yeshiva | Shmuel Natanowitz | 57 |
| The development of the Yeshiva | Rav Avraham Shoshana | 66 |
| The Telz activities | 90 | |
| My years of study at the Telz Yeshiva | Rav Prof. S Asaf | 94 |
| Shreds of memories from Telsiai | Shimon Kushnier | 104 |
| The Rav R'Avraham Yitzhak Bloch | 112 | |
| The Telz Yeshiva [Y] | Rav Eliyahu Meir Bloch | 124 |
| The 5th year in the Telz Yeshiva [Y] | N. M. Averbuch | 130 |
| The great scholar R'Eli Meir Bloch | 133 | |
| The great scholar of education [Y] | Moshe Yehuda Gleicher | 135 |
| The Aguda man [Y] | Rav Meir Fantel | 138 |
| Hundreds of years in the Telz Yeshiva [Y] | 143 | |
| Chapter Three | ||
| Personalities and Figures | ||
| An exemplary figure of a teacher | Avraham Ron | 159 |
| Dr. Refael Halevi Etzion, a man of faith and science | Rivka Nave | 163 |
| A. Harzfeld - a look toward bygone days | Eliezer Gordon | 164 |
| The Blechman family | Dr. Malka Israeli (nee Blechman) | 172 |
| Yosl Ba'al Shem (miracle worker) | Chasia Gering-Goldberg | 178 |
| The Rav R'Yehuda Liber Hershowitz | A. Z. Hirshowitz | 179 |
| They were four brothers | Levi Shalit | 181 |
| The RAVED family | R'Israel-Yakov b'R' Yerachmiel RAVED | 183 |
| “Korczak” from the Telz ghetto | Chasia Gering-Goldberg | 185 |
| My family - Singer from Telz | Rachel Singer-Teitz | 188 |
| R'Zelig and Eliyahu Katz-Ackerman in Telz | Lea Ariel (Katz) | 191 |
| My family in Telz | Yosef Eliaz (Levin) | 193 |
| Itche the blacksmith | Chasia Gering-Goldberg | 194 |
| My family in Telz [Y] | Tuvia Ba'al Shem | 195 |
| “The Rovner” | Chasia Gering-Goldberg | 198 |
| Chapter Four | ||
| Memories | ||
| Ways, memories and public life | Dr. Malka Israeli (nee Blechman) | 203 |
| A monument to Telz, my town | Shoshana Holzberg (Jaffe) | 206 |
| Memories of a high-school student from a small town | Rivka Nave (nee Katz, from Gorod) | 213 |
| In my dream | Ada Goldreich-Blechman | 217 |
| My little town Telz [Y] | Avraham Barkay (Brakman) | 218 |
| Sabbath nights in our home | Shoshana Holzberg (Jaffe) | 221 |
| The first martyrs of the town (1914-1918) | Zeev Noy (Noyik) | 224 |
| My family | Esther Gvorin-Ritov | 226 |
| Memories from my childhood in Telz | Tzila Weinstein | 228 |
| Sketches of Telz, which does not exist any more | Malka Klein Sirot | 231 |
| Youth memories are delicate like spring butterflies | Walpert Gershon | 232 |
| Shabat at dusk | Eliyahu Rodnizki | 233 |
| First impressions from my visit in Telz in 1927 | Helen Kaplan-Hiller | 235 |
| Telz Rosh Chodesh Shevat 5682 (1922) | Yerachmiel RAVED | 237 |
| My visit in Telz after the Holocaust | Shmuel Elyashiv | 239 |
| In the days of the Soviets | Lea Silberman-Varias | 240 |
| At the outbreak of the War | Eliyahu Rodnizki | 241 |
| The first Aliya from Telz | Shmuel Auerbuch | 243 |
| My home in the village | Shmuel Natanowitz | 246 |
| My teachers and my friends in Telz | Tuvia Ba'al Shem | 253 |
| Telz our town | Bat-Sheva Sasson (Ben-Gouri) | 259 |
| A wedding in Telz | Tuvia Ba'al Shem | 261 |
| My home in Telz | Bat-Sheva Schwartz | 263 |
| The image of Telz | Shifra Tatz (Abramowitz) | 266 |
| Telz | Bat-Sheva Sasson (Ben-Gouri) | 268 |
| The fight against the Nazis | Klotz Hilel Ben-Moshe | 269 |
| The training kibbutz of Hechalutz in Telz | Yechezkl Fleischer | 272 |
| Hashomer Hatza'ir in Telz | Chana Leibowitz-Brodman | 275 |
| The parties in our town | Zeev Noy (Noyik) | 277 |
| The Beitar movement in Telz | Meir Yoselewitz | 278 |
| Telz that is no more | Tuvia Ba'al Shem | 280 |
| Telz, we remember you forever! | Zvi Brik | 283 |
| The Schieff family | Reizl Schochat | 286 |
| Yizkor for the Telz community | Ba'al Shem Tuvia | 289 |
| Memories from Belz [Y] | Sara Feier Shlomowitz | 291 |
| In Telz we sent the girls to high-school, the boys to the Yeshiva [Y] | 293 | |
| Episodes from bygone times [Y] | Fera Levinsohn-Sofer | 294 |
| The deportation to Siberia [Y] | Grisha Wolpert z”l | 296 |
| A chapter of memories [Y] | Zalman Levi | 298 |
| Telz that once was [Y] | Yakov Zlotnik | 301 |
| Telz | Zvi Brik | 302 |
| Yizkor | Zvi Brik | 303 |
| In the Bet Hachinuch School in Telz [Y] | Nechemia Endlin z”l | 303 |
| Figures in Telz that are kept in our memory [Y] | Reizl Schochat (Schieff) | 307 |
| An eternal monument | Zvi Brik | 314 |
| Chapter Five | ||
| The Holocaust | ||
| Our town is burning | Mordechai Gebirtig | 320 |
| Telz | 321 | |
| The last journey of the Telz martyrs | Chaia Bloch-Osband | 326 |
| From Holocaust to revival | Mina Girsh | 330 |
| The days of the Holocaust | Yocheved Holler (Varias) | 338 |
| From the diary of Sara Elitzur-Ritov | 346 | |
| A diary from a Lithuania Ghetto | Hanny nee Bloch | 350 |
| The ghetto that saved me | Sara Klass-Abelski | 353 |
| A poem | Sara Elitzur-Ritov | 354 |
| “It is good that I have been afflicted, that I might learn Your Laws” - (Psalms 119:71) | Bat Ami | 355 |
| Contempt to you, Nations! | Sara Elitzur-Ritov | 362 |
| Telz during the Holocaust | Rachel (Rashela) Singer Teitz | 363 |
| Wanderings and struggle against the Nazis | Moshe Rosenbaum | 367 |
| Years of suffering in the face of death | Bat-Sheva Schwartz | 369 |
| Memories from the days of the Holocaust | Mina Kirsht (Yudelewitz) z”l | 379 |
| Stories from the Holocaust | Shraga (Feibush) Kushnir | 385 |
| Dear God [Y] | Zvi Brik | 388 |
| Remember [Y] | Zvi Brik | 388 |
| The ruin of Telz | 389 | |
| In hiding [Y] | Chaia Klein | 390 |
| Memories from fateful times [Y] | Sara Zeyenz (Shogam) | 392 |
| Pain, suffering and rescue [Y] | Sara Shevel | 393 |
| Echo (a poem) | Zvi Brik | 398 |
| Poems [Y] | Sara Elitzur-Ritov | 399 |
| The destruction of Telz | Miriam Kleiner (Bloch) | 400 |
| The tragic fate of the Telz Jews [Y] | 408 | |
| Memories from the ghetto and the forest [Y] | Masha Endlin | 414 |
| The fate of the Telz Jews [Y] | S. Kagan | 420 |
| Years of pain and suffering [Y] | Rachel Fulda, Chana Jack | 423 |
| Tragic reminiscences from the era of ruin [Y] | Chaim-Leib (Arie) Shavel | 440 |
| Yitzhak (Iza) Bloch's last words [Y] | 447 | |
| Telz and the Holocaust [Y] | Yakov Rabinowitz | 448 |
| A bundle of memories from Telz [Y] | Lipman Schieff | 461 |
| Years of suffering before the Holocaust [Y] | Zvi Brik | 464 |
| Telz Jews who fell in the wars for the liberty of the nation and homeland | 471 | |
| Yizkor | 474 | |
| Telz Jews who passed away after World War Two | 480 | |
| List of Telz Jews who fought in the Lithuanian Division of the Red Army | 481 | |
| List of Telz Jews who fell in battle in the war against the Nazis | 481 | |
| Memorials | 482 | |
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