Edited by: Former Residents of Warsaw and surroundings
in Argentina

Published in Buenos Aires, 1955 (Y)

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Acknowledgments

Project Coordinator

Hadassah Lipsius

Translated by Yocheved Klausner

Memory and Testimony		9
First Section: From the Earliest Days to 1795
Jews In Warsaw until the Third Partition of Poland	Pinye Katz	21
The History of the Jews in Warsaw by the End of the Middle Ages	Dr. E. Ringelblum	39
The Attempt to Establish the First Hebrew Printing House in Warsaw	Dr. Meir Balaban	61
Old Warsaw	Nachum Sokolov	65
Jewish Antiques in Warsaw	Chana Kobiak	73
Jews in Warsaw in the 18th Century and their Legal Status	Dr. E. Ringelblum	77
The Kościuszko Uprising and the Jewish Part in the Struggle Against the Partition of Poland	M. Sachs	97
Jews in the History of Poland	B. Mark	121
Second Section: From 1795 to 1939
A Glimpse Upon Warsaw	M.Zakin & S. Kaminski	145
The Fight Against “Anarchism” in the Warsaw of Old	E.N. Frenk	163
Chasidism in Warsaw	Avraham Bik	179
Warsaw as the Center of the Haskalah [Enlightment] Movement	P. Katz	187
The History of the Jewish Theater in Warsaw	Noah Prilocki	195
The Activity of Ber Meisels in Warsaw	Efraim Kuppfer	199
Alexander Lesser	Yosef Sandel	227
Two Documents:		241
Autobiography	Bronislav Grosser	247
The Year 1905 in Warsaw	Prof. Shmuel Eisenstadt	259
The Bloody Wednesday	K. Moskowitch	267
The Beginning of the Poalei Zion Movement in Warsaw	Nir	293
The Attempt on the Life of the Governor, General Skalon	N. Slonymski	319
Maurici Trembasch	Yosef Sandel	345
The Great Arrest of the Jewish Printing Workers in Warsaw	Moshe Tirman	357
Warsaw, the Biggest Jewish Community in Europe	Prof. Meir Balaban	363
The History of the Jewish Book in Warsaw	Batia Temkin Berman	375
The Jewish Leather Workers in Warsaw	Ben Chaim	387
The Young Trade Unions Activists	Shlomo Yedlina	397
The Chemistry Workers' Union on Nizke St. 59 in Warsaw	L. Farber	403
The Jewish Porters (Merchandise Carriers) in Warsaw	Ben Chaim	409
The Young Proletary People	Mates Nabel	417
The Jewish Textile Workers' Union in Warsaw	Nathan Rodzanowski	427
The History of the Jewish Printers' Union in Warsaw	Yehiel Notowizne	435
The Jewish Metal Workers' Union in Warsaw	Berish Domb	439
The First Craftsmen's Gathering in Warsaw after WWI	Y. Lederman	443
My Memories About the Warsaw Youth	Yonathan Grinboim	449
Martyrdom and Bravery of Warsaw Jews in Spain and France	David Diamant	455
Third Section: Literature, Theater, Music, Painting, Folklore
50 Years in the Life of Jewish Literature	Tzalel Blitz	493
Warsaw, the Cradle of the Jewish Theater	Yitzhak Turkow-Grodberg	545
Music and Musical Life in Warsaw	Y. Stutchewski	571
Jewish Artists in Warsaw	Yosef Sandel	589
Jewish Warsaw and Y.L. Peretz	Efraim Kaganowski	617
Jewish Actors in Warsaw and Surroundings	Yakov Mestel	627
The Mother Ester-Rachel	Yitzhak Turkow-Grodberg	635
Warsaw in Jewish Literature
A Storm over the Town	Shalom Asch	643
The Strong and the Weak (A Fragment)	Alkter Katzizne	651
The Old Warsaw (A Fragment)	Moshe David Gisser	653
The Courtyard on Niske Street (A Fragment)	Yakov Milch	655
Hunger (A Fragment)	Yosef Kirman	659
The Woluwke (A Fragment)	Avraham Teitelboim	661
The Young Boy from Pawia	Bunem Heller	663
It was only Yesterday (A Fragment)	B. Schlewin	665
The Nigun [song] of my Father's Sewing Machine (A Fragment)	Moshe Scholstein	683
Through Death Toward Life (A Fragment)	L. Olitzki	687
Three Poems	Nute Nuterman	691
The Triumph March	Shalom Asch	697
The April Sun....	Moshe Scholstein	707
Folklore: Folk Songs and Sayings		713
Personalities: Authors and Community Workers who Influenced Jewish Life in Warsaw		769
Actors and Playwrights who were Active in Warsaw		831
The Year 1905 in Warsaw	Moshe Flodman	875
The “Woluwke” [used merchandise market] in Warsaw	N. Kupper	885
The Ochote Road	Yosef Skornik	891
The Last Exhibition of Jewish Plastic Arts in Poland	Yehoshua Grossbard	897
Fourth Section: The Ghetto
The Uprising in the Warsaw Ghetto	Ber Mark	913
Expulsions and Destruction of Jewish Settlements in the Warsaw District	T. Burstein-Berenstein	1055
The Destruction of Warsaw	Y. Perle	1069
The Hate of the Police	Dr. E. Ringelblum	1105
“Aktzia” No. 2	Yehiel Gorni	1109
A Polish Patriot, a Witness to the Ghetto Uprising, Tells his Story		1113
Those Who Have Rescued Jews	A. Berman	1117
How Yona Suchatcewski Fell in the Heroic Battle	Srulke [Israel] Kott	1123
Mordechai Anielewicz	Nachman Meisel	1129
Jewish Artists in Warsaw under the Hitlerist Occupation	Yosef Sandel	1145
Dr. Emanuel Ringelblum	Nacman Meisel	1173
The Role Warsaw Jews Played in the Bialistok Ghetto Uprising	Srulke [Israel] Kott	1189
The Trial of Jurgen Stroop and Franz Konrad	Ber Mark	1201
The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising and our Yishuv [Jewish settlements]	Y. Freidkes	1251
Who was Andzej Schmidt?		1259
Fifth Section: In the New Warsaw
When the Dream Came True....	A. Kwaterko	1265
In Warsaw, February 1945	N. Koenig	1277
At the Revealing Ceremony of the Warsaw Monument	Manes Scheinboim	1281
What I have Seen in the People's Republic of Poland	Yosef Sandacz	1283
The Jewish National-Theater in the People's Republic of Poland	Y. Lazebnik	1295
The Polish Jews in America	Bunim Heller	1299
Excerpts from the Polish Liberation-Manifest on 22 July 1944		1321
High National Decorations for Jewish Cultural Activists in the People's Republic of Poland		1325
Our Co-Workers
Biographies of Our Co-Workers		1333
Sixth Section: Warsaw Landsmanshaften in Argentina, the United States and Brazil
The Landsleit Organization of Warsaw and Surroundings in Argentina		III
The American Council of Warsaw Jews		XVI
The Association of Polish Jews in Rio De Janeiro		XXVI
Seventh Section: Necrology
The Long List of Warsaw Jews who Perished during the Horrible Years of the Nazi Rule		XXXIII

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