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Translation of
Sefer Staszów
Edited by: Elhanan Erlich
Published in Tel Aviv, 1962
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Permission by: Shimon Tuchman z”, Chairman, Irgun Staszów in Israel.
This is a translation from: Sefer Staszów (The Staszów book), Editor: E. Erlich,
Tel Aviv, Former Residents of Staszów in Israel and in the Diaspora, 1962 (H,Y,E, 690 pages).
Note: The original book can be seen online at the NY Public Library site: Staszow
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Staszów synagogue |
Translated from the Hebrew and Yiddish by Jean-Pierre Stroweis and Ruth Rotenberg
(Y = Yiddish; H = Hebrew; E = English)
| Photo: The Synagogue in Staszów | 5 | |
| Table of Contents | 7 | |
| Map of the Town of Staszów | Shoshana Shabbat (Fuchs) | 13 |
| Ner Tamid - An Eternal Light (Editor's Words) (H, Y & E) | Elchanan Erlich | 13, 16 |
| What Willpower Can Achieve (H, Y & E) | Shlomo Heiman | 20, 21 |
| History of Staszów, Poland and its Jewish Community (H & Y) | Dr. N. M. Gelber | 25, 47 |
| Staszów, Home of the “Chacham Zvi” (H) | Meir Shimon Geshuri | 36 |
| The Maggid of Kozienice and “the Answer of the Aguna” from Staszów (H) | Meir Shimon Geshuri | 38 |
| The Jewish Community (H) | Zvi Goldberg | 41 |
| Dates and Events (H) | Elchanan Erlich | 43 |
| Staszów of Virtue (Y) | Rabbi Dr. David Graubart | 61 |
| Dates and Events (Y) | Elchanan Erlich | 63 |
| How Staszów looked in the 19th century (Y) | Herszel Pomerancblum | 68 |
| The Cooperative Bank (H) | Zvi Goldberg | 71 |
| The Social Action during the Second World War (H) | Zvi Goldberg | 72 |
| The Shoe Manufacture (Y) | Menahem Lifshitz | 74 |
| Jewish Craftsmen Organization (Y) | Meir Weber | 78 |
| Purchasers (Merchants) (Y) | Moshe Rotenberg | 80 |
| Watchmakers and Goldsmiths (Y) | Moshe Rotenberg | 83 |
| Hat Makers (Y) | Moshe Rotenberg | 85 |
| Statistical Data (Y) | Elchanan Erlich | 87 |
| A Boycott Proclamation (Y) | Elchanan Erlich | 89 |
| R' Mordechay'le Pardes (H) | Meir Shimon Geshuri | 93 |
| In the “Pardes” (Orchard) of the Tzadikim (Righteous) (H) | Meir Shimon Geshuri | 96 |
| R' Shemuel Po”M and Rabbi Yehuda Leib (H) | Meir Shimon Geshuri | 102 |
| Rabbi Yitzhak David Shapira (H) | Meir Shimon Geshuri | 103 |
| Rabbi Avrema'le of Porisow (H) | Meir Shimon Geshuri | 104 |
| The Ritual Slaughterers in Staszów (H) | Meir Shimon Geshuri | 109 |
| Rabbi Graubart (May the Memory of the Righteous be for Blessing) (Y) | N. Shemen | 111 |
| Rabbi R' Moshe Shealtiel Gert (Y) | Rabbi Dr. David Graubart | 130 |
| The Zionist Organization and its Branches (H) | Elchanan Erlich | 135 |
| Hashomer Hatzair (The Young Guard) (H) | Ya'akov Shiloni | 153 |
| Hashomer Hatzair in the 1930s (Y) | Meir Blusztajn | 157 |
| Our “Nest” (Chamber) - Reputed in Poland (H) | Frida Ajzenberg | 160 |
| The 'Mizrachi” and the “Torah VeAvoda” movement (H) | M. S. Geshuri | 162 |
| Hashomer Hadati (The Religious Guard) (H) | Yosef Blusztajn | 168 |
| The “Agudat Israel” Organization (H) | Elchanan Erlich | 169 |
| The “Bund” in Staszów (H) | Ya'akov Shiloni | 175 |
| The “Peretz” Library (H) | M. Wajnbaum-Fiszof | 179 |
| Charity Organizations in Staszów (H) | Elchanan Erlich | 181 |
| Hashomer Hatzair (The Young Guard) (Y) | Chaim Bulwa | 185 |
| Hashomer Hatzair (The Young Guard) (Y) | Ruven Blank | 193 |
| The Beginnings of Mizrachi and Tseirei Mizrachi (Y) | Rabbi Benyomin Groybart | 196 |
| The Mizrachi [Religious Zionist] Organization in Staszów (Y) | Yosef Blusztajn | 198 |
| The Left Poalei Zion [Labor Zionists] (Y) | Khaye Solnik | 204 |
| The Poalei Zion [Labor Zionist Movement] in Staszów (Y) | Ya'akov Buchman | 207 |
| Staszów Workers in Independent Poland (Y) | Yeshayohu Lowczyk | 211 |
| The Sport Club “HaKoach” [“Strength”] (Y) | Yonatan Tochterman | 213 |
| Amateur Theater and Drama Circles (Y) | Moshe Rotenberg | 216 |
| Childhood and Youth in Staszów (H) | Yechezkel Kirszenbaum | 221 |
| From the Days of my Youth in Staszów (H) | Pinchas Szirman | 230 |
| Election Campaign in Staszów (H) | Yitzhak Grinbojm | 235 |
| From Staszów to Israel (H) | Ya'akov Shiloni | 237 |
| My Father's Home (H) | Bina Nusbojm | 242 |
| The 20th of Tamuz (Herzl's Memorial Day) (H) | David Goldwasser | 244 |
| This is how Staszów looked like (Y) | Herszel Pomerancblum | 245 |
| Herzl's Memorial Day in Staszów (Y) | I. Sztajnbojm | 260 |
| Memories (From 1905 to 1923) (Y) | Nusyn Ajdelsberg | 264 |
| The Bloody Yom Kippur (Y) | Avraham Josel Rotenberg | 271 |
| Memories and Observations (Y) | Pinchas Goldhar | 274 |
| Our Childhood Years (Y) | Moshe Rotenberg | 286 |
| Musicians, Cantors and Music Lovers (Y) | Moshe Rotenberg | 295 |
| Sabbath in the Dusk (Y) | Moshe Rotenberg | 299 |
| Memories (Y) | Reuven Blank | 300 |
| A Memorial to Our Home Town (Shtetl) (Y & E) | Shlomo Heiman | 309 |
| There was a Shtetl named Staszów (Y) | Yehiel Wajnsztok | 311 |
| I Leave You, Staszów (Y) | Haja Solnik | 314 |
| The Golejów Forest (Y) | Yitzhak Kozuchowicz | 316 |
| Formations and Events (Y) | Michael Czapnik | 318 |
| Staszów, my Shtetl (Y) | Haim Wagner | 321 |
| The Intellectual Staszów (Y) | Reizel Bukszpan | 323 |
| The stranded Boxes (Y) | Szprinca Warger | 325 |
| Superstitions and Popular Expressions (Y) | - | 327 |
| Cantor Pinchas Szirman (H) | Meir Shimon Geshuri | 331 |
| Cantor Abraham Yitzhak Szirman (H) | Meir Shimon Geshuri | 336 |
| R' Benyamin Tochterman (H) | Meir Shimon Geshuri | 337 |
| R' Shimon (Shimale) Melamed, (G.d revenge his Blood) (H) | Elchanan Erlich | 338 |
| R' Zvi Goldbart (Bless his Memory) (H) | Elchanan Erlich | 340 |
| Getzel Erlichman (H) | Aaron R. | 341 |
| David Shnaifer (H) | Meir Blusztajn | 343 |
| Moshe Rawe”d (H) | Cipora Sznifer | 346 |
| The Kirszenboim Exhibition in Paris (H) | Israel G. | 348 |
| Well established, Decent Intellectual Jews (Y) | Moshe Rotenberg | 349 |
| Haim Berish Rozenmuter (Y) | Reuven Blank | 359 |
| R' Hershel Wolman (G.d revenge his Blood) (Y) | Sara Zalcman | 361 |
| R' Alter Buchwald (G.d revenge his Blood) (Y) | Michael Zalcman | 363 |
| Hershel Lewowitz (Y) | Elchanan Erlich | 364 |
| Cantor Motel Goldfarb (Y) | Mrs. Tilly Gewirtz | 365 |
| In the Path of Anguish and Cessation (H & E) | Elchanan Erlich | 369 |
| “A Little Child's Revenge has not yet been Created by the Devil” (H) | Chana Bursztajn | 396 |
| As Beasts in the Woods (H & E) | Gabriel Singer | 398 |
| With “Aryan” Papers to Germany (H) | Zahava Lebowicz | 404 |
| A Memorial for those who have no Memorial (H) | Elchanan Erlich | 406 |
| Diary from the Ghetto (Y & E) | Joseph Goldstein | 417 |
| The Last Struggle (Y & E) | Menahem Lifshitz | 449 |
| Memories and Facts (Y) | Szmuel Saniecki | 458 |
| Yizkor Remembrance for a Polish Shtetl (Y) | David Ajdelsberg | 472 |
| The Polish Traitor (Y) | Ya'acov Buchman | 475 |
| A Seder Night in Auschwitz (Y) | Sabina Ajdelsberg-Wiszlitcka | 486 |
| Songs (Y) | Yitzhak Kozuchowicz | 489 |
| Cursing (song) (Y) | Haim Wagner | 491 |
| Revenge! (song) (Y) | Ya'acov Szternlicht | 491 |
| Survival in the Forest (Y) | Meyer Bidlawsky | 492 |
| From Skarzysko through “Amler” to Deep in the Forest (Y) | Natanael Erlich | 494 |
| For Ten Kilograms of Sugar (Y) | Perl Goldflus | 499 |
| This is how we wandered (Y) | Yehuda Felberg | 502 |
| Our Polish Neighbours (Y) | Avraham Zylbersztajn | 506 |
| A Memory Candle for my perished Family (Y) | Menahem Lifshitz | 507 |
| Vision of the Dry Bones (Yechezkel) (Y) | 512 | |
| The Destruction of a Congregation (Y & E) | Elchanan Erlich | 513 |
| When a Community Vanished (Y) | Elchanan Erlich | 519 |
| Victims' Pictures and Announcements Section (Y) | 526 | |
| Necrology List (H) | 612 | |
| Yizkor (Remembrance) (H) | 622 | |
| Sons and daughters of Osiek victims of the Nazi enemies (H) | Shlomo Groshauz | 625 |
| Pictures of Osiek and Necrology List (H) | 628 | |
| My Town, Plontch (Polaniec) (H) | Dovid Schnipper | 633 |
| Pictures of Polaniec and Necrology List (H) | 642 | |
| Kurozwecki (Y) | Zaccaria Koszenicki | 644 |
| Rytwiany (Y) | Mordechai Sosewicz | 646 |
| Szydłów (H) | Yissachar Wicnik | 648 |
| Associations of Former Staszowers in Israel and the World | ||
| Association of former Staszowers in Israel (H) | Tuvia Nissengarten | 653 |
| In Memory of the Staszowers who Died during Israel's War of Independence (H) | Tuvia Nissengarten | 657 |
| Social and National Mission of “Society” (Y) | N. Shemen | 661 |
| Our Landsmanschaft in Los Angeles (Y) | Ya'akov Beker | 672 |
| Staszów-Raków Landsmanschaft in Argentina (Y) | 674 | |
| Our Organization in São Paulo (Y) | Pinie Ajzenberg & Haim Wagner | 677 |
| Staszowers around the World (Y) | Mordechai Sosewicz | 681 |
| Publishing this Book (H & Y) | Yoel Fiszof | 687 |
| A “Shehecheyanu” (Thanksgiving) Blessing (H) | Elchanan Erlich | 688 |
| Ner Tamid - An Eternal Light (Editor's Words) (H, Y & E) | Elchanan Erlich | V |
| What Willpower Can Achieve (H, Y & E) | Shlomo Heiman | VI |
| The Destruction of a Congregation (Y & E) | Elchanan Erlich | VIII |
| A Memorial to Our Home Town (Shtetl) (Y & E) | Shlomo Heiman | XIII |
| As Beasts in the Woods (H & E) | Gabriel Singer | XV |
| The Last Struggle (Y & E) | Menahem Lifshitz | XXII |
| Diary from the Ghetto (Y & E) | Joseph Goldstein | XXXV |
| In the Path of Anguish and Cessation (H & E) | Elchanan Erlich | XXXVI |
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