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Translation of
Le-sekher kehilat Bobrka u-benoteha
Edited by Dr Sharaga Feivel Kallay
Published in Jerusalem: Sivan Press, 1964
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Samuel Bergwerk
Julius Haber
Abraham Fischer
Sam Marcus
Uri Kruwi
Zeev Shilo
Zippora Perlstein
Haim Zohari
Michael Zohari
Moshe Wind
Page | ||
You Should Know It | Sam Marcus | 7 |
History of Boiberke (excerpts) translated by Julius Haber | Dr. N. M. Gelber | 11 |
Boiberker Lansleit on the American Scene | Julius Haber | 17 |
Commemorations of Jewish Victims of the Nazi Holocaust | 34 | |
Hebrew | ||
Page | ||
Committee's Preface | 5 | |
Foreword | 7 | |
Table of Contents - Hebrew | 8 | |
To the Mountain of Corpses in the Snow - Poem | Uri Zvi Greenberg | 9 |
Part I - The City and its Inhabitants | ||
The History of the Jews of Bobrka | Dr. N. M. Gelber | 11 |
Where Were You on the Day of Rage? - Poem | M. Z. | 24 |
A World that Was and Is No More | Dr. S. P. Kallay | 25 |
The Black Saturday of 1914 | Dr. S. P. Kallay | 31 |
Part II - People and Personalities | ||
The Rabbis of Bobrka and Szwirsz | Rabbi Y. C. Weisblum | 33 |
Shmuel Karten | Malka Stein | 37 |
Memories from There | Mordechai Galer | 38 |
Feivel the Heder Teacher (Memories from the days in the Heder) | Avraham Fisher | 41 |
Zionist Organizations in Bobrka | Arieh Zukerkandel | 43 |
Petri the Policeman | Dov Beker | 44 |
The Founder of HaShomer Hatzair in the City | Mordechai Galer | 45 |
Part III - Memories | ||
Autobiographic Notes | Arieh Allweil | 46 |
Memories of the Pioneer Movement in Town | Hella Hamenachem | 49 |
The Incident with the Rabbi from Stratin on Shavuot | Dov Beker | 51 |
The Baking of Matzos | S. P. Kallay | 53 |
On Sabbath Eves - Poem | M. Z. | 54 |
Slichot Night | Alexander Karten | 55 |
The Privileges of the Babes from the Rabbi's House | Dov Beker | 57 |
Childhood Memories from There | Zippora Perlstein | 59 |
My Father's House in the Village | Naomi Berger | 60 |
The Story of One Family | Pnina Mantel | 60 |
Part IV - Happenings | ||
City Residents as Prisoners in Russian Captivity | Dov Beker | 61 |
Part V - Folklore | ||
A Study of Names | Dr. S. P. Kallay | 63 |
The Shattered Folklore From There | Avraham Fischer | 66 |
The Words of the People of Bobrka | Dr. S. P. Kallay | 69 |
Religious Personnel in Bobrka | Avraham Fischer | 70 |
Part VI - Preparation and Aliya | ||
Preparation and Aliya | Uri Kruvi | 71 |
The Youth in the 1930s | Zeev Shilo | 73 |
Beginnings of the Pioneer Movement in Bobrka | Dr. S. P. Kallay | 75 |
Aliya to Eretz Yisrael | Chaim Kimchi | 77 |
The Pioneers of Bobrka | Shmuel Schrier | 79 |
Part VII - Those Who Fell Along the Way | ||
Yosef Apner - For the Good of All | Dov Sadan | 82 |
Bobrka - Poem | M.Z. | 84 |
The First Ones | Dr. S. P. Kallay | 86 |
Memories of the Fallen | Dr. S. P. Kallay | 87 |
Part VIII - The Valley of the Shadow of Death | ||
Memories of the End | Emanuel Kruvi | 91 |
In Memory of My Brother and Sister-in-Law, Michael & Mania | Zippora Perlstein Lotringer | 94 |
Memories | Yona Nemt Lotringer | 95 |
Twenty Years Since the Destruction of the Jewish Population of Bobrka | Yitschak Fuchs | 96 |
Jewish Burial - Poem | M. Z. | 98 |
El Maleh Rachamim (God is full of Mercy) - Prayer | 99 | |
In Memoriam - List of Victims | 100 | |
In Memoriam - Memorial to Family Members | 106 | |
Lights in the Darkness - Righteous Gentiles | 110 | |
Yiddish | ||
Page | ||
A Memorial | 111 | |
Forward | The Editors | 112 |
The Shtetl Is Burning | Mordechai Gvirtig | 115 |
Guardians of Israel (Picture) | A. Allweil | 116 |
Part I - City and People | ||
Boiberik | Dov Sadan | 117 |
History of the Jews in Boiberke | Dr. N. M. Gelber | 121 |
The First Boiberiker Support Society in New York | Israel Gimpel | 135 |
The Village of Strilke near Boiberke | Motl Ehrlich | 136 |
The Spirit of All Life… (Poem) | M.Z. | 137 |
Part II - Departure | ||
The Flight to Vienna at the Outbreak of World War I | Avraham Fisher | 138 |
What Brought Me to America? | Shamai Bergwerk | 140 |
Boiberkers on the American Scene | Julius Haber | 141 |
A Yiddish Song from the Past | 156 | |
Part III - Characters | ||
R. Lippa Fenster | Hirsh Safron | 157 |
Chaim Klinetor | Yisroel Gimpel | 159 |
Ancestor's Grave | Meir Shtiker | 160 |
Rabbi Feivel Melamed | H. Z. | 161 |
Israelik | Israel Gimpel | 162 |
The Bankrupt Man | Meir Shtiker | 162 |
The Teachers of our Town in 1900-1920 | Avraham Fisher | 163 |
Part IV - A Way of Life and Memories from the Old Home | ||
With Us at Home | Shamai Bergwerk | 164 |
A Sermon | Mordechai Geller | 165 |
Preparing the Bride | Rabbanit Zippora Perl Twersky | 166 |
Sabbaths and Holidays in Boiberke | Israel Gimpel | 167 |
Tormentors (Memories from the Past, from our Old Home) | Avraham Fisher | 169 |
Feivel the Tall One | Meir Shtiker | 170 |
Baking Matzos at Avraham Breitfeld's | Dvorah Breitfeld | 171 |
Belz Chasidim Fight the Szwirszer, the Stretiners in Boiberke | Hershl Gross, zl | 172 |
The Teacher | Meir Shtiker | 174 |
Childhood Years in Buberika | H. Z. | 175 |
When Strelisk Burned [Poem] | Meir Shtiker | 178 |
The Thirteen-Year-Old Boy [Poem] | Meir Shtiker | 178 |
My Shtetl, Boiberke | Kinke Asher Kreiger | 179 |
Part V - Holocaust and Destruction | ||
The Ghetto in our Shtetl | Avraham Fisher | 183 |
The Szwirsz Forest | Avraham Fisher | 184 |
Gone | Yehudit Altman | 186 |
The Experiences of our Shtetl from the First of July, 1941, until the Thirteenth of April, 1943 |
Mordechai Ehrlich | 187 |
GONE! | Yehudit AltmanYenta Meller | 190 |
The Beggar Woman [Poem] | Meir Shtiker | 191 |
The Rejected [Poem] | Meir Shtiker | 192 |
The High-Class Woman [Poem] | Meir Shtiker | 192 |
Two Drunks on the City Asphalt [Poem] | Meir Shtiker | 192 |
The Bankrupt Man [Poem] | Meir Shtiker | 192 |
The Bitter End | Itche Karten | 193 |
The Holocaust | Chaim Karten | 195 |
The Last Fight | Yosef (Yosl) Fogel | 199 |
My Experiences | Selig Fluss | 201 |
The First Forest People | Yisroel Karton | 204 |
Escape From the Death Camp | Moshe Ehrlich | 204 |
How a Shtetl Was Erased | Moyshe Nass | 206 |
Names in Photograph Captions |
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