Memorial book of Drohobycz, Boryslaw
and Surroundings

(Drogobych, Ukraine)
49°21' / 23°30'
(Boryslav, Ukraine)
49°17' / 23°25'

Translation of
Sefer zikaron le-Drohobycz, Boryslaw ve-ha-seviva

Edited by N. M. Gelber

Published in Tel-Aviv, 1959

 

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This is a translation from: Sefer zikaron le-Drohobycz, Boryslaw ve-ha-seviva
(Memorial book of Drohobycz, Boryslaw and Surroundings), ed. N.M. Gelber. Tel Aviv,
Association of Former Residents of Drohobycz, Boryslaw and Surroundings, 1959 (H,Y)

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I. Drohobycz
 
Shin Shalom: Foreword 10
Dr. N. M. Gelber: The History of the Jews of Drohobycz 11-60
Dr. Benjamin Zvi Gil (Freilichmann): The Demographic and Socio-Economic Aspects of Jewish Life in Drohobycz and Surroundings 61-83
Selig HaCohen Lauterbach: Autobiography 84-88
Shimon Segal: This I Remember 89-94
Yehuda ben Abraham: The Religious Life of the Jews of Drohobycz 95
Shmuel Rothenberg z”l: Drohobycz between the Two World Wars 96-99
Anonymous: Drohobycz under Ukrainian Authority 100-102
Dr Tzvi Heller: Drohobycz: the Zionist City 103-104
Rivka Shapira: My Memories of Drohobycz 105
Yehuda Cohen: Pleasant Memories 106-107
Dr. Chaim Deutschmeister: The Lives of the Workers and the Masses in Drohobycz and Borysław 108-114
Dr Shimon Lustig: The Zionist Movement in Drohobycz 115-131
S. Segal: Dr. Leon Tannenbaum z”l 132
Shimek Fritz Eidelsheim: Youth Working for Eretz Israel 133-135
S. Shalom: Memories from Drohobycz 136-148
Abraham Jakob Shapira: My Memories of Drohobycz 148-149
Yosef Kitai: The Rabbi of Drohobycz– Rabbi Chaim Meyer-Yehiel Shapira zt"l 150-154
Dr Simcha Margalit and Dr M. Dornstrauch: The Destruction of the Jewish Community in Drohobycz 155-167
 
II. Boryslaw, Medenice, Schodnica
 
Dr. N. M. Gelber: A History of the Jews in Boryslaw 171-176
Engineer Yitzhak Stiefel: Boryslaw as an Industrial Oil Centre and the Role of the Jews of Boryslaw in the Industry 177-184
Josef Kitai: Boryslaw, the Oil Town 184
Yitzhak Heller: My Little Hamlet, Medenice 185-187
Yosef Kitai: Schodnica    The Destruction of Schodnica and the Surroundings 188-192
In Memory of the Martyrs of Schodnica 193
 
III. Yiddish Section
 
Moishe Gross-Zimmermann: On the Eve of Destruction 194-197
Dr. Chaim Deutschmeister: Torn Memories 198-207
Dr Simcha Margalit and Dr M. Dornstrauch: The Destruction of the Jewish Community in Drohobycz 207-224
 
List of illustrations

 

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