Brest Lit(owsk) Volume II

Brest Lit(owsk) Volume II
The Encyclopaedia of the Jewish Diaspora
(Belarus)
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Translation of Brisk de-Lita: Encycolpedia Shel Galuyot

Edited by: E. Steinman

Published in Jerusalem, 1958

Family of Helen Schary Motro

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This is a translation from: Brisk de-Lita: Encycolpedia Shel Galuyot Brest Lit(owsk) Volume II
The Encyclopedia of the Jewish Diaspora , Editors: E. Steinman, Jerusalem, 1958 (Y)

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Translated by Dr. Samuel Chani

Page #		Author

	THE OLD CITY OF BRISK D'LITA
21	History of the Jews of Brisk D'Lita	S. Edelberg
45	Map of Council of 4 Lands 1667-1764
45	Description of this map
47	Brisk D'Lita in the Council of 4 Lands	Ch. Barlas
71	List of Rabbis of Brisk D'Lita
73	Jews of Brisk in the 16th and 17th Centuries	K. Lichtenstein
89	The Destroyed City	A. L. Feinstein
93	The Jews of Brest in the 19th Century	M. Kaplan
105	The Self Government of the Kehilla	A. Ludski
121	Division and Song	M.S. Gershuri
143	The Great Fire of 1901	Nachum Sokolov
157	Brisk D'Lita - A Mirror of the Press	N. Chinich
169	The Last Rabbis of Brest	Menachem Berisha
	Rabbi Joshua Leib Diskin
	Rabbi Joseph Dov Ber Soloveitchik
	Rabbi Chaim Soloveitchik
199	Books By the Greats of Brisk D'Lita
203	Brisk D'Lita -A Poem	Menachem Berisha

	MEMORIES AND DESCRIPTIONS
207	What My Memory Reveals	By Rabbi Unterman

	CHAPTERS OF LOCAL LIFE
211	In My Parents Home	By Michal Pochachevski
227	Brest In Bygone Years	As told by Doba - Yafe
231	My Parents' Home	By Mordechai Yaffe
237	Notes and Memories	By A. Tzemach
247	The Blood Libel	Ben-Zion Neumark
251	A Meeting with My Hometown	I. Finkelstein
253	Between the Two World Wars	S. Orchov

	TYPES AND CHARACTERS
257	Brest Jews	By M. Weisman
261	Two Figures	Y. Govkin.
267	Brest Personalities	M.Z. Ilin
271	Bygone Years	Dr. A. Eisen
273	Four Personalities	By Dr. M. Wolfson
275	Stolin Karliner Chassidim	B. Kastrinski
279	Brisk - A Poem	Anna Margolin
281	A City Surrounded By Shtetls	By Moshe Satoy (Stavski)
285	In The Suburb	By Y. Heftman
291	Three Things	By Menachem Begin

	PERSONALITIES	M. Weisman
299	Writers and Academics
299	Dr. Yakov Gromer - An Amazing Figure	By Zalman Schor
305	A Genuine Talent	By Y. Klotzkin
309	Professor Y. N. Halevi -Epstein	By Professor Simcha Assaf
315	Figures I Remember - Noah Finkelstein and Avraham Goldberg	By Yitzchak Greenboim
325	Michal and Nechama Pochachevski	By Moshe Smilanski
331	Yitzchak Tzvi Lipovski	By Asher Barash
333	The Story of My Life	By Arieh Leib Feinstein
339	Dr. Benjamin Shereshevski
341	Dr. Yakov Grynberg
341	Tzvi Har Zahav (Goldberg)
343	Writers Who Originated From Brest

	COMMUNITY LEADERS
353	Reb Chaim Cohen	By Dr. M. A. Eisenstadt, (Chief Rabbi of Petrograd)
355	Israel Asher Shereshevski and His Comrades	By B. Koloditsky
359	Ben Zion Neumark	M. Leizorovitch
361	Rabbi Mordechai Sheinerman
361	Dr. Shmarye Shteinberg (Kassavary Grigorevitch)
363	Reb Levi -Yitzchak Winnikoff
365	Zerach Zaretski
365	Zev Dov Begin
367	Yakov Feinstein
367	Shmuel Pomerantz
369	Moshe Lubetkin
371	Moshe Eliezer Ben-Anat (Breinhendler)

371	PERSONALITIES AND OFFICIALS - List of community activists and personalities

407	JUDGES AND TORAH SAGES
407	Rabbi Scholem Menashe	S.Pitlik
409	Rabbi Itzeleh Dayan	Tzvi Ginat (Grynberg)
413	Rabbi Elyakum Getzel	Tzvi Ginat (Grynberg)
415	Rabbi Tzvi Hirsh Barlas
417	Rabbi Benjamin Korman	Leah Dagnit
419	Rabbi Simcha-Zelig the Dayan	Rabbi Dr. M.A. Riger
421	Rabbi Avraham Yitzchak Halevi Bleiweiss
423	Rabbi Eliezer Lipa Klepfish

	INSTITUTIONS AND ORGANIZATIONS
427	The Administrations (Boards) of the Communal Institutions in Brisk D'Lita

429	INSTITUTIONS
429	Hebrew Education in Brest	Tzvi Har-Zahav
433	Culture and Education Center	A. Tour-Shalom
441	Educational and Cultural Institutions	Nachum Chinich
443	The Tarbut Hebrew Gymnasium (High School)	M. Arazi
447	12 Topolowa Street	T.Govkin
449	Jewish Sport	S.Rubin

453	MOVEMENTS
453	The Zionist Organization	B. Kastrinski
461	The Underground Zionist Work	L.Goroditche
465	The 'Mizrachi'	N. Rabinovitch
467	Mizrachi Youth and Mirachi Pioneers	S. Shamir (Petrushka)
467	Young Zionists	A.Ludski
477	Leftist Poale Zion	M. Menachvetsky
481	Hashomer Hatzair	Briski
483	The Zionist Revisionist Movement	D. Meiri
489	The Bund	Berl Kotlinsky
493	In the Underground	Leizer Kling
497	The First Group of Brest Halutzim	D. Ophir
505	The Yiddish Press In Brisk D'Lita	M. Ginsberg

	ECONOMIC ORGANIZATION
511	The Jewish Population in the 19th Century
513	The Jewish Kehilla in the Brisk D'Lita	S.Shwartz
515	The Census of Jewish Industry and Trade in Brest in 1921	I. K. Lichtenstein
523	The Tradesmen Union	A. Chani (Australia)
535	Technical Training and Education	A. Shtrickman
539	Banking and Industry

	DESTRUCTION AND HOLOCAUST
547	I Stride over the Ruins of my City	Dora Teitelbaum
549	Memories of an Escapee from Brest	L. Glozman
572	My Father	Wolf (Zev) Kachel
573	The Partisan Hannah Ginzberg	S. Alitzki
574	The Partisan Activity in and Around Brest
575	On the day of Destruction	S.Winograd
583	The Entrance of the German Army into Brest
585	The First Fateful Day	Bertha Karlesh - Brandstein
593	Pages from a Diary	Asher Zisman (Antwerp)
601	The Last Children of Brest	Yitzchak Perlov
607	Synagogues and Prayer Houses that were destroyed in Brisk D'Lita

	BREST JEWS IN THE WORLD
611	The Landsmanschafts and the Story of the United Brisker Relief	Y. Finkelstein
657	The Activity of the Joint in Brest	A.Wertheim
661	Brisker Landsmanshaft in Australia	A.Chani
665	“Amicale De Brest Litovsk” - Paris	B. Wolsky
671	The Brisker Landsmanshaft In Argentina
673	Surviving Brest Jews in Poland	M.Neumark
675	Organization of Brest Descendants in Israel (Irgun Yotzei Brisk)	A.Shtrickman
681	Briskers Who Fell in the War of Independence

691	SMALL NOTES
691	The Keren Kayemet Tax	Benjamin Grushevski
695	Folk Stories	Meir Ashkenazi
699	Brest in World Events
703	Brest 1954
705	The Story of this Book	N. Chinich
707	Three Periods of Brisk D'Lita	Avraham Levinson

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