Sanok, Poland

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

Index of Names

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