Memorial Book of Sanok and Vicinity
(Poland)

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Translation of
Sefer Zikaron le-Kehilat Sanok ve-ha-Siviva

Edited by: Eliezer Sharbit

Published in Jerusalem, 1970




 

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This is a translation from: Sefer Zikaron le-Kehilat Sanok ve-ha-Siviva
(Memorial Book of Sanok and Vicinity), E. Sharbit, ed., Jerusalem,
Former Residents of Sanok and Vicinity in Israel, 1970. (686 pages, Hebrew, Yiddish)
 


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Sanok



Translated by Leslie Reich


NOTE: This translation is from the Table of Contents on page Yud Aleph (11) in the original. Translations are from Hebrew unless marked Y (for Yiddish).


Chapter Author Page
With the Book The Committee of the organisation of leavers from Sanok and surroundings Vav (6)
A note to the reader The Editor Zayin (7)
(Y) A note to the reader The Editor Tet (9)
Contents   Yud Aleph (11)
Table of photos   9
Day by day before daybreak Ron Adi 12
Thou art the town Eliezer Sharbit 13
El Mole Rachamin (from the “Parchment Scroll”) 14
 
History & Happenings
Towards the history of the town & its surroundings Ozer Pipe 17-30
A snatched look at the town Yisrael Lembach 31-32
The Weiner building (“Veinrovkah”) Zev Wachtel 33-34
On the outside sweetness & beauty – inside hatred & muck Chayah Reiser-Fenig 35-37
(Y) Differentiation of Yiddish dialects & a point Dr. Shlomo Nobel 38-42
 
Culture, education and Haskalah Synagogues, Bes Medrashes and houses of worship
The Great Synagogue Rabbi Alter Meier 46
The Great Bes Hamedrash   47
Synagogues in the Pusada & Bliachkovka quarters   48
The Klaus (chapel) in the Pashdemaishtche quarter; Sandz Klaus   49
The “Yad-Charutsim” (diligent hands) Synagogue   50
The Sadiagor Klaus; the Bes Medrash of the Admor of Dinev   51
The prayer house of the Admor of Bukowsk, that of the Mizrachi  
The Minyan (regular prayer quorum) of Rav Shalom Katz   52
The Minyan of Rabbi Dym   53
Prayer houses of the Chassidim of Belz and Bobov   54
Sanok with its assembly halls Shalom Kramer 55
Jewish educational institutions in Sanok – The Talmud Torah E. Sharbit 58
The Yeshivah of Rabbi Dym   64
The Hebrew school “Sofoh Brura” (clear language orspeech)   65
The beginning of modern religious education in Sanok Eliyahu Berger 68
The improved Cheder  
The “Yavneh” school of the Mizrachi in Sanok  
The advanced Yeshivah “Bne Torah” in Sanok founded by Rabbi Meier Schapira E. Sharbit 69
The “Bes Yacov” girls school   73
Sitting in the chair of the gymnasium in Sanok Gershon Givoni-Pipe 74
Jewish graduates of the government gymnasium in Sanok Ozer & Gershon Pipe 78
The “Kumerciam” school for trade and book-keeping Chayah Reiser-Fenig 82
 
Pastors, Parnessim and Public Servants
Rabbis & Dayanim in the last century in Sanok   85
Rabbi Yechiel Kiehl   85
Rabbi Arye-Leibusch Frankel Rabbi Alter Meier 87
Dayan Schimshon-Michel Feller Rabbi Alter Meier 87
Rabbi Yehuda Katz Ascher Bit (or Vit) 90
Rabbi Natan Nota Yacov Dym Rabbi A. Meier

91

Rabbi Eliezer Bremer E. Sharbit 92
Rabbi Yossele Horowitz H. Katz 96
Rabbi Yossele Horowitz Rabbi A. Meier 96
Rabbi Meier Schapira Avraham Dank 97
The period of the rabbinate of Rabbi Meier Schapira in Sanok E. Sharbit 103
The brothers – the Rabbis Avraham Abisch and Pinchas Schickler   109
Rabbi Mordechai Spalter Rabbi A. Meier 109
Rav Eliezer Sprung S.S. 110
Rabbi Chaim Raab   110
Rabbi Yacov Geldzahler   110
Rabbi Tuvia Horowitz   112
The Rabbi, the leader, the writer (To the memory of Rabbi Tuvia Horowitz) Yacov Katz 113
Rabbi Arye Leibusch Weill   115
Rabbi David Avigdor   115
The Rebbe of Dinov   116
The Rebbe of Bukowsk Rav David Schapira   121
The Rebbe of Bukowsk Rav Alter Reuven Schapira E. Sharbit 125
 
Shochetim (Ritual slaughterers) in Sanok
R' Shlomo Grossman   128
R' Chaim Schwerd   129
R' Shalom Rosenfeld   130
R' Pinchas Yosef Miller   131
R' Yossele Sh”ub   131
R' David Zuckerman, the town Chazan A. Lerner 132
R' Mordechai Ascher   133
R' Ascher Anshel Wachtel Zev Tal (Wachtel) 133
R' Benzion Feller   133
Mr. Alexander Kimmel   134
R' Mordechai Sternberg   134
R' Menachem Shmarlobiski   135
R' Yacov Toder   135
Dr. Shlomo Roemer Yisrael Lembach 136
Dr. Yitzchok Nehmer and his wife Fanny  
Dr. Nehmer – the man and the public worker Yaffa Lerner 138
To his image Zashe Kamfler-Leif 139
Dr. Shmuel Ohrenstein and his wife Zahava (Oren) Dr. Y. Oren 140
R' Tzvi (Hirschele) Abat Yosef Abt 143
 
Organisations & Federations
Early days of national activity amongst Sanok youth Dr. Yisrael Sobel 147
The Keren Kayemet Leyisrael in Sanok  
Towards the history of K.K.L. in our town E. Sharbit 149
Activity of K.K.L. in our town G. Givoni-Pipe 151
The Mizrachi and Torah V'Avodah movement    
The Mizrachi in Sanok, foundation and development Eliyahu Berger 154
The Organisation of the Mizrachi in Sanok in its work Uri Katz 159
The “Hitachdut” (Federation) & its organisation Arye Wilk 163
Regarding “Gordoniah” (??) in Sanok Moshe Rabbach 171
The Hashomer Hatzair Chapter in Sanok during the Years 1927–1937 G. Givoni-Pipe 175
The Movement of Hatzhar (revisionist) & Betar in Sanok Y. Alter, Y. Hal-Or, B. Lazar, A. Leschner 181
“Agudat Yisrael” Yiroel Trum 188
From Jewish sporting life in Sanok M. Rabbach 189
Jewish sport activity in Sanok Yosef Markus-Birndorf 192
 
We are going to Our Land
Existence and realisation of Aliyah in Sanok A. S. 193
 
Organisations of culture and Haskalah in Sanok
“Folksfriend”, the Sanok weekly & its editor-founder Avraham Scheinbach E. Sharbit 198
The Federation “Ivriyah” Chedvah Blumenfeld 202
The “Yom-Tov-Blat”   204
The drama circles in Sanok   207
Pioneers of Ivrit language E. Sharbit 212
Writers, artists and craftsmen in Sanok   217
The painter Avraham Messer E. Regenbogen 218
Elimelech Zuckerman   219
Lending and other libraries   220
The Jewish economic life in Sanok Ascher Bit 223
 
Mutual Help & Social Work
The Federation of “Yad Charutzim” (diligent hands) in Sanok Ozer Pipe 235
The Charity Fund “Tomchay Aniyim” (poor relief) Chaya Reiser-Fenig 239
 
On the spot charity activity
R' Zushe Hasandlar (the cobbler) Arye Lerner 241
R' Reuven Lieber & his wife Ascher Bit 242
Sarah Kuehl Ozer Pipe 243
 
Existence and Events
The plague in Sanok Eliyahu Berger 247
Happenings & adventures, parts from a novel Rivke Gurfein 249
The Minyan in our house, the house of R'Eliezer Rosner Chedva Blumenfeld 254
The Kosher hands of Zeide Shalom Kramer 255
From the legends of Sanok Shimon Toder 263
Jewish life in our town in a new novel in Polish G. Givoni-Pipe 265
Fragments of Memories Eliyahu Berger 268
Common cures and charms amongst Sanok Jewry Shimon Toder 271
 
Those who were but no longer are
Names, details & eulogies on Jews of our town (alphabetic order)   275
S. Z. Pipe G. Givoni-Pipe 292
The Kanner family in Sanok   296
The woman Mrs Sosche Kanner Rabbi A. Meier 300
R' Shlomo Kramer Ascher Bit 302
R' Eliezer Regenbogen & his family Azriel Regenbogen 304
The brothers Shlome and Yitzchok Schiff Ascher Schiff 307
The engineer (or architect) Stanislau Scheinkauf Y.Lembach 311
Names of the departed and martyrs   313
My teachers and mentors Shimon Toder 322
 
The Holocaust and Destruction
The Jews of Sanok during the Nazi conquest  Hadassah Herzig-Lazar 327
The Shoah of Sanok Jewry Avraham Werner 331
Mother with children Batia Ohren 333
The Jews of Sanok in the first days of destruction Ch. Katz 334
(Y) With patches on the skin A. Sotzkover 337
Sanok in the first days of the Nazi conquest Yehudit Rosenblum-Trasner 338
The great Bes Hamedrash goes up in flames H. Katz 341
What I saw with my eyes & felt with my flesh (Chapters of the Shoah of Bukowsk and Sanok Jewry) Yitzchok Zuckerkandel 342
“I look at you” Zev Schick 355
In the Sanok Ghetto – In the Zaslaw camp-on the train to Belzec Yaacov Gurfein 356
Twenty years on, it is after the flood Rivke Gurfein 362
A trip to a gray town of childhood Ron Adi 370
With their memory Tzvi Shamari 375
In the wheels of memory & remembrance Yacov Gurfein 376
On the catastrophe and awareness of the Shoah Rabbi Yitzchok Glickman 377
With our anguish and our memories Rivke Gurfein 380
The inheritors are melancholy Azriel Ochmani 383
On the way from a meeting of the Remembrance Z. Leif-Kamfler 385
Moments of thought & doubt on the eve of theRemembrance Gathering Rivke Gurfein 387
 
Expulsion and Exile
In the exile of Russia and Siberia   393
On the way K. A. Bartini 394
The plight of expulsion, the way of exile & the pangs of Galut Menachem Ben-Moshe 395
From the memoirs of a refugee in Russia Azriel Regenbogen 398
With the mark of cold and frost Berel Rabbach 405
From the life of Jews exiled to Siberia David Shmarlobiski 406
 
In the bonds of life
Aharon Kramer   411
With Yacov Rosenfeld Professor Dov Sadan 413
Scenery & man (in the company of Yacov Rosenfeld) Azriel Ochmani 416
R' Yisrael-Toshi Meier and his wife Wolkhele Rabbi Alter Meier 418
R' Shalom Shachna Meier Z. L. Ascher Bit 420
R' Alter Meier Z. L. E. Sharbit 421
Rabbi Alter Meier at seventy E. Sharbit 422
To the memory of Rabbi Alter Meier Y. Ben-Moshe 425
Rabbi Alter Meier Rabbi Professor Binyamin De Fries 426
R' David-Yoel Weinfeld   427
Rabbi Yitzchok Feller Binyamin Feller 428
R'Eliezer Schneebaum, Liba Schneebaum, Yisrael Arye Schneebaum Yekotiel Schneebaum 430
R'Yisrael Trattner-Brochi A. Lerner 432
Helena Tamari (Trattner) Yehudit Rosenblum 434
Arye Wilk Chaim Karpel 435
Freida Birndorf-Tropf Z. L. Chaya Reiser-Fenig 436
Menachem Aldobi Avraham and Tzvi Aldobi 437

To Menachem Aldobi (a poem)

Natan Mark 439
R' Moshe Strenger Z. L   440
R' Naftali Sternberg Menachem Langsam 441
Dr. Yisrael Sobel Z. L. Eliezer Yisrael 442
On Yitzchok-Meier Gelender Rabbi A. Meier & E. Sharbit 443
 
On Professor Ben Zion Katz    
The town prodigy Rivke Gurfein 446
Professor Benzion Katz (Benshalom) Yisrael Cohen 448
Benzion Benshalom Z. L. S. Shalom 449
Professor Benzion Katz (Benshalom) Z. L. Chaim Thoren 450
The publications of Benzion Katz Ascher Bit 451
Yisrael Lerner S. Kempler 452
R' Yisrael Wilk G. Givoni-Pipe 457
 
In the heights of valour
Moshe-Yisrael Horn, Yosef Propper, Tzvi Kituri-Rauch, Mordechi Rauch,
Kalman Shmuel-Rauch, Rina Schwartz, Shmuel Micah Tamari
  463-466

 
(Y) The one time Jewish Sanok
Towards the history of Sanok and surroundings Ozer Pipe 469

The town seen with a bird's eye view

Yisrael Lembach 482
The offices and open buildings (shops?) on the Mitzkevitch St. Chaya Reiser-Fenig 484
In the Sanok government court Y. Lembach 487
The “Yad Charutzim” (see above) Ozer Pipe 489
Our Rebbes and their Chasidishe “Courts” E. Sharbit 493
 
(Y) Dr. Yitzchok Nehmer and his wife Fanny
The man and the doer Yaffe Lerner 504
His image Zashe Kamfler-Leif 504
Isaac Wenig Yisrael Lembach 505
Dr. Shmuel Ohrenstein and his wife Zahava Dr. Julius Ohren 506
Sara Kuehl Ozer Pipe 509
Some Sanok characters Berel Rabbach 510
The Sanok weekly “Folksfreind” E. Sharbit 512
The typhus epidemic in our town Eliyahu Berger 514
Twelve folk tales from Sanok Dr. S. Bickel 515
Jewish life in Sanok during the Nazi occupation Hadassah Herzig-Lazar 519
Every hour, every day A. Sotzkover 523
 
(Y) With the Nazis
A) Before arrival in Zaslaw B) In Zaslaw Mordechai Zilberman 524
The destruction of the Kehilla in Sanok Hanoch Katz 536
A lament Aharon Zeitlin 539
Immortalising our heroes and their heroism Yaacov Gurfein 540
My children D. Sfard 541
The awareness of the Shoah Rabbi Yitzchok Glickman 542
To you, Sanok, after the liberation Yaffa Wallach 544
 
(Y) In Russian Galut and on expulsion
Exiles, wander-paths and pangs of Galut Menachem Ben-Moshe 547
The Sanoker compatriot-circle in America Pesach Springer 551
Memories of my shtetl Bukowsk Yehuda Knebil 554
 
Zagorz
Zagorz and its Jews Freida Birendorf-Tropf 559
Zagorz as I knew her Ascher Adamti (Rubenfeld) 564
I was a pupil in all of Zagors's schools F. Birendorf 565
 
Zarshin
Jewish Zarshin Moshe Strenger 569
Avraham Bart Eliyahu Leshner 572
A list of deaths and martyrs of the Shoah in Zarshin   575
 
Bukowsk
Bukowsk & its Jews E. Sharbit 579
When did Jewish life start in Bukowsk?  
Economic life and sources of income of Bukowsk Jewry  
Cultural life of Bukowsk Jews  
Rabbi Shlomo Leib of Lantshia   582
The Tzadik R'Eliezer Weissblum (Reb Eliezer der Reisher)  

583

The Admor and Tzadik R' Meier-Yehuda Schapira  

584

The Admor and Tzadik R' David Schapira  

585

The Dayan Isser Eisenberg  

586

Rabbi Chaim Pinter  

586

Rabbi Avraham Pinter  

586

Rabbi Moshe Teitelbaum   586
Shochetim in Bukowsk   587
Memories of my town Bukowsk Yehuda Knebel 588
Shabbat in Bukowsk Yitzchok Zuckerkandel 590
Grandmother, possessor of a great soul Yehuda Shakadi 592
Rav Isaac Schwerd Yitzchok Zuckerkandel 594
The family of R' Pesach Dobres David Dobres 595
Commemoration of the martyrs of Bukowsk   597-598
Organisations of Landsmanshaft of those who come from Sanok Pesach Springer 599
The Organisation of exiles of Sanok & surroundings Tzvi Shmari 603
Resemblances and images   605
 
Additions & Omissions
Sanok (An encylopaedic entry) Dr. Meier Balaban 613
List of the Jewish members of the Town Council of Sanok   614
To the history of Chasidus and the Sanz-Sadiagore feud in Sanok   621
The hymn of the Yeshivah Rabbi Meier Schapira 623
On Rabbonus and Rabbonim in Sanok E. Sharbit 625
The will of R' Eliezer Bremer   627
On the perpetuation of the works of R' David Zuckerman   631
On Dr. Mattisyahu Weinryb   634
To these anonymous Rabbi Moshe Kamelhar 635
Lectures & initiatives, speeches and speakers A.S. 636
On the public activity of A. Scheinbach   640
(Y) A few memories of the Jewish theatre in Sanok M. Rabbach 642
Crumbs of existence and being   645
An extract from the words of Yitzchok Messer   647
On R' Moishele Kanner   648
Those who were and no longer are (Continuation)   649
R' Yitzchok (Itsha) Kahn Arye Lerner 652
R' Yisrael Meier E. Sharbit 654
Rabbi Alter Meier A. Roter; E. Sharbit 654
On the activities of R' Yitzchok Feller Menachem Talmi; Yitzchok Feller 658
Arye Wilk T. Fenster 662
In the bonds of life (Continuation)   663
Zionist activities of Sanokers in America   666
Writings of Sanokers round the world   667
Table of names   673
Candles in their memory   686
 
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