Gostynin, Poland

Book of Gostynin
(Gostynin, Poland)

52°26' / 19°29'

Translation of Pinkas Gostynin

Edited by: J. M. Biderman

Published in New York, 1960

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Acknowledgments

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Jessie Weistrop Klein

This is a translation from: Pinkas Gostynin, (Book of Gostynin), ed. J.M.Biderman,
New York: Gostynin Memorial Book Committe, 1960 (358 pages, Y)

Note: The original book can be seen online at the NY Public Library site: Gostynin

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Translated by Gloria Berkenstat Freund

Maps
A Word from the Gostyniner Yizkor Book Committee		5
Comments from the Editor		9

Pages of History
From the Geographical Dictionary of the Kingdom of Poland		13
From the Jewish Encyclopedia		16
From the Judaistic Encyclopedia		17
From the "Books of Horrors"		17
From Bulletins of the Historical Institute		19

The Gostyniner Rebbe
The Good Jew from Gostynin	Y. M. Biderman	23
The Gostyniner Tzadek [righteous man]	The Rabbi Y. M. Aronson	31
The Rabbi's Word		35
A Pamphlet About Behavior		39
Bibliography About the Gostyniner Rebbe		41

Memories
Our Former Gostynin	Josef Keller	45
Jewish Community Life and Jewish Subsistence	Meir Dovid Termski	76
Sprouts of Jewish Cultural Life	The Rabbi Yona Borukh Kohan Tzadek	87
Rabbis and Melamdim	Hershel Leib Leizerowitz	92
Simkhakh Bunim Danciger	Moshe Danciger	94
Yakir Warszawski	Y. Morbid	95
The Gostyniner Khazn [Cantor]	Yoal Miller	98
My Fiddle (Song with Notes)		103
Yisroel Glatsztajn	Mikhal Gelbart	104
The Sun Goes Down in Flames	Yitzhak Ketsenelson	107
Yom-Kippur in Gostynin	Shmuel Keller	108
Gostynin in the Years 1914-1918	Yishokhar Matil	120
The Joint [Distribution Committee] Action	Shlomo Gostynski	141
Our Youth Leaders	Gershon Yudkowski	152
The Poalei-Zion Youth in Gostynin	Shlomo Cwajghaft	156
Freiheit [Freedom] and “Red Scouts”	Sh. W. Finczewski	162
Communistic Youth	Sh. Makowski	163
The Princess, Gostynin	Rouz Szuszna	165
Gostyniner Jews	Yitzhak Zajdman	170
Cultural and Theater Activities	Yakov Gostynski	177
The history of the Jewish theater in Gostynin	Chaim-Sender Zandman	186
How and what we used to read	Tuvia Yakobowitz	189
Gostynin, My City	Chana Bagno-Keller	192
Pictures and Types from Gostynin	Meir and Yakov Gostynski	207
From My Childhood	Florence Keller-Malmeth	225
Remembrances	Rywka Danciger-Fundak	230
Two World Wars	Sh. B. Bagno	231
The Matil Family	Rywka Matil-Margolis	239

In the Years of Destruction
Years of Suffering and Danger	Moshe Szajewicz	249
Gostyniner Jewis in the Shadow of the Gallows	Shimeon Rumer	279
In Fear and In Pain	Yitzhak Krajcer	289
Those Frightful Days	Avraham Danziger	297
From the Gostynin Ghetto - with the Transport to a Labor-Camp	M. Brustovski	298
The Resistance in Koniner Camp	Sh. B. Matil	303
A Tragic Document from the Konin Camp	Avraham Seiff	308
Chelmno	The Rabbi Y. M. Aronson	311

There Once Was…
Gostynin	Meir Gostynski	317
A Meeting at the Old Cemetery	Josef Keller	320
These Candles are Holy…	H. Sztern	326
A Letter from my Friend Hans	Ezri Zajf-Etsmun	331

Gostyniner Across the World
The Gostyniner Society in New Yokr	Y. K.	337
The Gostyniner Social Club in New York	Y.K. - R	343
The Gostyniner Society in Chicago		347
Organization of Gostyniner in Israel	R. M.	349
A Letter from the Other Side of the Sea	Adela Epsztajn-Leszinski	354
One of the Gostyniner Murderers Sentenced to Death	A. Papierczik	357

Remember
Discourses, Necrologies and Lists of Gostyniner, Who Perished in the Years 5700 [1940] - 5705 [1945] Necrology		361