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Sefer Mir
Edited by: N. Blumenthal
Published by the "Encyclopedia of the Diaspora" in Jerusalem, 1962
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| 13 | Introduction |
| 17 | Mir - the City of the Torah by M. Tiktinski |
| 27 | Personalities in Israel and Overseas originating from Mir by Natan Gardi |
| 33 | Mir - before the destruction by Simha Reznik |
| 41 | The German Occupation and Liquidation of Mir by Miriam Swirnowski-Lieder |
Hebrew Section |
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| 29 | History of the Jews of Mir / Dr. N. M. Gelber |
| 45 | Rabbis of the Mir Congregation / M. Sinovitz |
| 1 - Moshe | |
| 2 - Tzvi Hirsch HaCohen Rappaport | |
| 3 - Shlomo Zalman Mirkes | |
| 4 - Rabbi Tzvi Hirsch Eizenstadt | |
| 5 - The “Gaon” Yosef David Eizenstadt | |
| 6 - Rabbi Moshe Avraham Eizenstadt | |
| 7 - Rabbi Chaim Zalman Bressler | |
| 8 - The “Gaon” Yom Tov Lipman (R. Lipa) | |
| 9 - The “Gaon” Ba'al Hadar | |
| 75 | The “Gaon” Elihu Baruch Kamai / HaRov Ruben Gollick |
| 77 | Avraham Tzvi Kamai / HaRov Elchanan Soritzkin |
| 83 | The community of Mir during the “Council of Lands” period/ H. Berlis |
| 99 | History of the Mir Yeshiva / M. Sinowitz |
| 115 | The “Gaon” Chaim Yehuda Leib Tiktinski / Moshe Tiktinski |
| 119 | Memories of the Mir Yeshiva / L. Mendelstam, HaRov Tzvi Hirsch Masliyonski, & A. R. Mashvitzki |
| 123 | Yerucham Livovitz, HaMasgiah of the Yeshiva / M. Sinovitz |
| 127 | Yerucham Livovitz / N. Gordai |
| 131 | Scholars in Mir / Tiktinski |
Memories From The Past |
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| 137 | Yeshua Zuchovitzer / Yitzhak Zuchovitzky |
| 143 | When the Grandfather Left / Zalman Rubashov (Shazar) |
| 151 | The Defense of Mir / Y. Shmulevitz |
| 155 | The Geniuses & Honor of Mir / Chanoch Rakovitz |
| 163 | Bread for the Poor / M. Tiktinski |
Between The Two Wars |
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| 169 | My city Mir / Simcha Resnick |
| 185 | In my city of Mir / Tzvi Packer |
| 197 | A walk in Mir's streets / Bruria Rettner Rosenblum |
| 203 | Material merchants / Bruria Rettner Rosenblum |
| 209 | Sofer / S. Resnick |
| 213 | The Jewish Elementary School / S. Resnick |
| 227 | The Library / Moshe Ravni (Postvoski) |
| 233 | The Library Comes Back to Town / Nisan Gardi (Garvadzitski) |
| 235 | Pioneers / S. Resnick |
| 253 | The Chevra Kadisha (Burial Society) / S. Resnick |
Persons And Periods |
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| 265 | Mir Chapters / Zalman Shazar |
| 283 | People of Note in Mir / Y. Yoselevitz |
| Elihu Baruch Kamai | |
| Akiva Goldberg | |
| Zeev Yoselevitz | |
| 289 | From the days I lived in Mir / Aryeh Leib Schwartz |
| 291 | Characters / S. Margolin |
| 1- The Talmud Torah | |
| 2 - The genius from Minsk | |
| 3 - “G'milot Chesed” [loan society] | |
| 4 - Yaacov Abaranok | |
| 297 | The Youth / S. Resnick |
| Chaim Shmukler | |
| Nachum Elihu Kogon | |
| Eliezer Gorodner | |
| Pinkus Resnick | |
| Avraham Kastrovitzki | |
| Avraham Piezitzner | |
| 305 | Establishments With People & Tzedekah / M Tiktinski |
The Holocaust |
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| 313 | Osvald Rufeisen / S. Resnick, M. R'uveiny |
| 329 | Resistance of the Jews of Mir / Dov Resnick |
| Osvald Ruteisen | |
| Partisans | |
| 347 | Children of the Partisans / S. Resnick |
| 355 | The Destruction of Mir / Zalman Leib Hoffman |
| 359 | Trees on the Edge of the Pits / S. Resnick |
People Of Mir In Israel And Other Countries |
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| 365 | People of Mir in the Building of Israel / N. Avir |
| 379 | Alexander Manor / Zalman Shazar |
Men of Mir |
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| 385 | Moshe R'uveiny |
| 389 | ”Hashomer Hatzair”/ Moshe Kraynowitz |
| 393 | Rabbi Isser Zalman Meltzer / R Tzvi Yehuda Meltzer |
| 401 | Three generations / Alexander Manor |
| 415 | The Shachor home / Zalman Shachor |
| 419 | Yishaya Tiktinski / M. Tiktinski |
| 421 | Yishaya Tiktinski / Sonia Shvirif |
| 423 | Men of Mir in the Hagannah |
| 425 | Men of Mir amongst the Partisans |
| 429 | Shlomo Meiman / M. Sinovitz |
| 433 | Rabbis of Mir / M. Sinovitz |
| Avraham Yaakov Lesser | |
| Yaakov Meir son of Avraham Dov Ber HaCohen | |
| Baruch Zandel Margolin | |
| Yaakov Eskolsky | |
| Israel Isaacson | |
| Aryeh Leib Zeev from Vilna | |
| Israel Yaakov of Rabbi Chaim Tzvi Hirsch | |
| Gershon Tanchum | |
| Shemai Yelyad Mir | |
| Ephraim Zalman Halevi Slutzky | |
| Ezra Altshuler | |
| Yaakov Yoselevski | |
| Yosef David Shahar | |
| Meir Shahar | |
| Herschel Eliasberg | |
Yiddish SectionTranslated by Yocheved Klausner |
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Mir of Old Times |
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| 449 | History of the Jews of Mir / Dr. N. M. Gelber |
| 465 | My town Mir / Noach Mishkowski |
| 475 | The Yeshiva / Yosef Rolnik |
| 483 | Three Libraries / Yosef Rolnik |
| 487 | In our town / Yosef Rolnik |
| The “right” | |
| A plundered house | |
| Beating up the “Pristav” | |
| Beating up a teacher | |
| The Shilhoyf [“Synagogue courtyard”] | |
| 497 | A town of birth / M. I. Chaimowitz |
| 503 | The burned up synagogue / G. Tcharni |
| 507 | Mir - at the end of the 19th century / Mania Rubashov-Iskalski |
| 509 | The “gang” |
| 513 | The first fire / Menashe Tzinkin |
| 515 | Long ago in Mir / Alte Slotzki-Famertchik |
| 521 | The first secular Jewish school / Noach Mishkowski |
| 525 | A Shavuot-Holiday night at the Yeshiva / Chaim Semiatitzki |
| 529 | From American Universities in the Polish Yeshivas |
| 533 | The Mir Jewish Elementary School 1917-1939 / Mendel Tabatchnik |
| 541 | Unzer Kinder Velt [Our Children's World] / The story of our Journal |
| How I caught a dove / M. Kaminer | |
| Spring / A. Shmiklen | |
| Spring / Chaia Yoselewitz | |
| Free as a bird / Rachel Kaminer | |
| Motele and Kotele | |
| 545 | The Mir Drama Club / Mendel Tabatchnik |
| 555 | Mendel Tabatchnik / Simcha Reznik |
| 559 | Memories from long ago / Mania Schwarz (Miriam Slutzki) |
| 563 | Types and personalities / Mendel Tabatchnik |
| Reizl Yakov Meyers (Yoselewitz) | |
| Djame Yoselewitz | |
| Yosef Mazurewitz (Leib Bers) | |
| Chaim Djuck and Moshe'l Ginsburg | |
| 573 | Yashe the Melamed [teacher] / M. Tzinkin |
Destruction and Bravery |
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| 581 | The years 1939-1941 / Miriam Swirnovski (Mariasha Lieder) |
| 587 | Memories from the German Occupation / Ester Krinitzki-Gorodieski-Bercowitz |
| 601 | We got off with fright / M. Lieder-Swirnovski |
| A new commander | |
| Coffee beans | |
| Swastikas on the doors | |
| 607 | The Jewish quarter / M. Lieder-Swirnovski |
| 611 | The first great massacre 9 Sept. 1941 / M. Lieder-Swirnovski |
| 617 | The miracle of the seventh Chanuka-light / M. Lieder-Swirnovski |
| 619 | A pancake for a hungry person / M. Lieder-Swirnovski |
| 621 | After the first destruction / Alte Salutzki |
| 627 | The last day in the Ghetto / Devora Rakowitz-Ressel |
| 631 | The battle against the Germans / Beretchke Reznik |
| 645 | From the life of the partisans / Shimon Kagan |
| 647 | We say farewell to the graves / Devora Rakowitz-Ressel |
| 651 | The Yahrzeit [memorial day] of Mir |
| 653 | A poem by an unknown poet in the camp / H. Leivik |
| 655 | Al Chet [For these sins] / Yudel Peker |
| 657 | The Yizkor [memorial] box / Beruria Rosenblum Ratner |
| 659 | In memory of our beloved who perished / Feigel Shmushkewitz |
| 661 | In memory of the pure souls / Yehuda Shkliar |
The War in our Country |
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| 669 | Rivka Liess / I. Baratz; I. Neter; Chayuta; Yehoshua Manoach |
| 675 | David Liess; Michael Liess / Rivka Liess |
| 677 | Moshe Shmukler / Binyamin Gurewitz |
| 679 | Menachem Shany |
| 679 | Zvi Schuster / Ida; Avraham Z.; Arie Bauer |
In Memory of the Missing |
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| 685 | Moshe Kaminer / S. Reznik |
| 685 | Herschl Pernokov / Beretchke Reznik |
| 687 | Yosef Kaplan / Zviya Peker |
| 689 | Yosef Kaplan / Shoshana Ben Yehuda |
| 689 | Shlomo Itzkowitz / M. Reuveni (Postovski) |
Mir Landsleit Organizations |
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| 697 | Association of Mir Olim [immigrants] in Israel / S. Margolin |
| 699 | Our American friend / M. Swirnovski-Lieder |
| 701 | Z. L. Hoffman / Nissan Gardi |
| 705 | The Mir Aid Association in Buenos Aires / M. Levandovski |
| 725 | List of martyrs |
M. Tiktinski, S. Reznik, Natan Gardi, M Reuweni, Nissan Gardi, Sh.
Margolin, Bruria Rosenblum,
Elieser Breslin, Dov Resnik (Berechke),
M Kreinowitz, Moshe Yorshan.
Yizkor Book Project
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