Dedication - Majer (Mark) Swiatlo |
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Supporters Honor Roll |
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The Central Committee For Pinkas Zamość |
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Translator's Foreword |
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Foreword |
Wolf Kornmass |
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The Genesis of Zamość |
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Regarding the History of the Jews in Zamość |
Israel Levin (Jerusalem) |
9 |
The Sephardim in Zamość |
Dr. Yaakov Shatzky |
35 |
1. The Creation of Zamość |
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2. Sephardic Jews in Poland |
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3. The Sephardic Settlement in Zamość
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The Schul in Altstadt |
David Davidovich |
49 |
The Pinkas of the Hevra Kadisha & Gemilut Hasadim of Zamość |
Ephraim Kupfer |
52 |
The Maggid of Dubno |
Y. Y. Trunk (New York) |
93 |
Historical Data & Facts |
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A. The Decrees of 1648 in Zamość |
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B. A Jewish Lady Cook from Zamość for the Jewish Trade Guests in Breslau in the Year 1697 |
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C. A Terrible Incident in Zamość in the Year 1727 |
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D. From the Pinkas, The Hevra Tzedaka-Gedolah In Zamość |
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E. The Libel Against the Zamość Jews in 1870 and Illuminations from the Memoirs of [I. L.] Peretz |
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The Haskala in Zamość |
Dr. Yaakov Shatzky |
116 |
1. Historical Development |
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2. The Writers and The Readers |
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123 |
Addenda |
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128 |
Zalman Sobel, An Unknown Fabulist from Zamość |
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The Books of the Rabbis & Sages of Zamość (Bibliography) |
Yaakov Dov Mandelbaum |
137 |
Shlomo Ettinger, His Life and Personality |
Dr. Max Weinreich |
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2. Joseph-Yoskeh Ettinger and His Descendants |
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3. Dr. Shlomo Ettinger's Warsaw Friend, Y. Korngold |
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Zamość Nearly a Century Ago (Two Documents) |
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1. The Jewish Community in Zamość |
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2. The Jewish Colony of Zdanów Near Zamość |
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The Jewish Agricultural Colonization in the Zamość Province |
Y. Bartys |
171 |
Alexander Zederbaum and Kol Mevaser |
Sh. L. Citron |
181 |
The Birth Pangs of the First Jewish Newspaper |
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181 |
Kol Mevaser |
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182 |
Alexander Zederbaum's Bibliography |
Yefim Jeshurun |
192 |
Yaakov Eichenbaum |
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192 |
Yaakov Reifman |
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194 |
Yaakov Reifman's Autobiography |
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194 |
A Letter of Recommendation from Yaakov Reifman |
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199 |
Zamość, the City of I. L. Peretz |
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Zamość and Peretz |
Dr. Yaakov Shatzky |
202 |
Childhood and Teachers |
I. L. Peretz |
206 |
After Hazy Years |
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212 |
Order in Zamość |
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220 |
The Life and Works of I. L. Peretz |
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Peretz Has Died! |
M. Olgin |
229 |
The National Significance of I. L. Peretz |
Dr. Ch. Zhitlovsky |
231 |
Our Peretz |
B. Mikhalevich |
239 |
The Peretz-Year |
Joseph Opotashu |
241 |
The Yitzhak Leibusz Peretz Bibliography |
Yefim Jeshurun |
242 |
Yitzhak Leibusz Peretz and Berish Beckerman |
Louis Gross |
243 |
Who Was the Baker? |
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He Writes Dramatic Works and Operettas |
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244 |
Who is the Originator of this Story? |
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245 |
Beckerman's Journals and Brochures |
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246 |
Beckerman's Troubles in America |
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247 |
Beckerman Replies |
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249 |
Beckerman Doesn't Give in Easily |
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250 |
Beckerman Seeks a Partner |
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Berish Beckerman |
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The She-Eagle that Flew Out of Zamość |
Y. Zudiker |
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A. Childhood and Young Years |
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B. In the World-at-Large |
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C. Rosa Luxembourg's Jewish Moments |
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D. In Prisons and Out Free |
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Rosa Luxembourg's Husband, Leo Jogiches Tiszka |
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The Zionist Movement in Zamość |
Yekhiel Goldwag, Moshe Schliam |
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A. Basic Overview |
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B. The Movement for Hebrew in Zamość |
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The Religious Life of Our Zamość |
Rabbi Abraham Goldschmid |
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The Gaon, Rabbi Mordechai HaLevi Sternfeld (The Last Rabbi of Zamość-Neustadt) |
Sender Rothstein |
277 |
Religious Periodical Output in Zamość |
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281 |
‘HaBe'er’ |
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281 |
Zamośćher Vort |
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282 |
Fragmentary Memories (Zamość 1914-1923) |
Yaakov Ne'eman (Neimark) |
289 |
Homeless |
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The First World War (1914-1917) |
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291 |
The Red Revolution |
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293 |
The Bolshevist Invasion |
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In Prison |
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296 |
Regarding the Destruction of the I. L. Peretz Library in Zamość |
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The Library Named for Dr. Shlomo Ettinger in the Neustadt |
Simcha Zworyn |
300 |
Yiddish Theater-Lovers and Drama Circles in Zamość |
'Sheva Fekher-Garfinkel & Moshe Garfinkel |
302 |
Community Life in Zamość |
Chaim Shpizeisen |
305 |
The Jewish Socialist Movement in Zamość Up To World War I |
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The First Great Demonstration in Zamość in the Year 1905 |
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Bund and Trade Union Movement in Zamość between the Two World Wars (1914 - 1939) |
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I. L. Peretz in Zamość |
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The I. L. Peretz Library in Zamość |
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The Creation of the Yiddish-Secular School named for I. L. Peretz, in Zamość |
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The Martyred Teachers of Zamość |
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A Community Chronology of Zamość |
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Regarding I. L. Peretz Gasse in Zamość |
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Zamośćher Stimme |
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Neustadt |
Wolf Kornmass |
350 |
Why a Neustadt? |
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Markets of the Neustadt |
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353 |
Their Own Community Life |
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354 |
Community Activities |
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The First Occupation of 1914 |
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Support-Work |
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The Battle for the Youth |
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The ‘Little Room’ |
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Our Artistic Debut |
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In the Surrounding Towns |
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Means of Livelihood in the Neustadt |
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New-Zamość Types and Stories |
A. Schwartzberg |
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Shlomo'leh Beikhel |
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‘The Young Flower’ |
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The Great Fire in the Neustadt |
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In Those Days |
Mark Jakubowicz |
376 |
The Zamość Pogrom of 1914 |
Akiva Schwartzberg |
378 |
Jewish Life in Zamość in the Last Century |
Zvi Gebet |
380 |
The ‘Fifth’ Year in Zamość |
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The First Jewish Community Library in the City |
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The First HeHalutz Group |
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The Musicians in Zamość |
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Thousands of Memorial Lights |
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The Zamość Kaleidoscope |
Shlomo Schwartzberg |
391 |
The Physicians Feldschers In the Neustadt |
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A Bit of Topography, Buildings and Places |
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‘White Mekhl’ |
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Rabbi Gaon R' Moshe'leh Epstein עצל |
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The Bent Little Jew |
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Rabbi Mordechai HaLevi זל |
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Moshe Koval |
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Moshe Dichter |
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Yohanan Morgenstern |
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Institutions and Public Servants in Zamość |
Moshe Kezman |
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The ‘Linat HaTzedek’ |
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The Yiddish-Polish Gymnasium |
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The Merchant's Society and Small Business Society |
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Shlomo David Fershtendig and His Wine Cellar |
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The Jewish Gentleman from Ploskia Ignacy Margolies |
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Documents Concerning Hunger and Need |
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Document One |
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Document Two |
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Zamość on the Eve of the Holocaust |
Helena Schaffner |
422 |
The ‘Kadima’ Hebrew School |
Kalman Engelstein |
424 |
A Dispute for Reasons of Faith in Zamość |
Baruch Sobol |
426 |
The Dispute between Hasidim and Mitnagdim |
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White-Blue Charity Boxes and Rabbi Meir Baal-HaNess Boxes |
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Ten Years of the Labor Movement in Zamość (1913 - 1923) |
Lejzor Finkman |
430 |
A Wedding at the Cemetery |
Mottel Steiner |
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The Zionist-Revisionist Movement in Zamość |
David Kornblit |
438 |
The Linat-HaTzedek of Zamość |
Akiva Eierweiss |
440 |
Institutions of Good Work |
Chaim Shpizeisen |
442 |
Memories of Youth |
Yekhezkiel Szlak |
444 |
A Thirst for Knowledge |
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Choir and Culture-Undertakings |
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Theater-Performances |
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A Literary-Artistic Evening |
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A Theater-Troupe Gets Out of Town |
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The Bourgeoisie Youth Comes to Us |
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Shlomo'leh Gerzon |
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Providing Food and a Kitchen for the Unemployed |
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Peretz'l Gonif Does Good Deeds Secretly |
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The Sensational Trial of Two Jews in Zamość for ‘Belittling the Crucifix’ |
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From Life in Zamość in Times Gone By |
Moshe Freilich |
460 |
How the Zamość Water Carriers Came to Declare a Strike |
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The Wife of the Orchestra Leader |
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They Were Three |
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Guests in Zamość between the First and Second World Wars |
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Memories of Former Times |
Itcheh Leib Herring |
468 |
There Was a Life, and It Was Cut Down |
Nekha Rok-Schwartz |
471 |
The Trade Union Movement |
Wolf Kornmass |
475 |
In the Neustadt |
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The ‘Council’ of the Professional Class-Unions |
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The Union of the House Servants |
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Libraries |
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May 1, 1926 |
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Municipal Council Elections and Self-‘Parceling’ |
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We Secretly Put Up a Fence |
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Enlightenment and Cultural Activity |
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Our Landlord Cannot Rest… |
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Artistic-Dramatic Initiatives |
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The Youth Council |
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Inter-Community Relations |
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The Arrest of Ephraim Cooperstein |
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The Petlura Pogrom in Zamość |
Gita Ackerman-Grosser |
486 |
Individual Personalities from Our Zamość |
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Profiles of Activists |
Chaim Shpizeisen |
490 |
R'Moshe'leh Strekher-Zilber, נע |
Yaakov Rothenstein |
497 |
The Margolis Family |
Yaakov Rothenstein |
497 |
Leah'keh Brokh |
Sarah Shlafrok (Yankeh) |
501 |
Sholom Shmucklar |
Zvi Gebet (Tel-Aviv) |
501 |
R' Shmuel Yitzhak Kornblit |
David Kornblit |
503 |
R' Shmuel Reisen |
David Kornblit |
504 |
Israel Sheck |
Jekuthiel Zwillich |
505 |
Dr. Philip Lubelski |
EREZ |
505 |
Feivel HaKohen Geliebter |
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Bronish Huberman |
David Shifman |
508 |
R' Moshe Yehoshua Heschel Wohl |
Yaakov Reifman |
508 |
Mordechai-Joseph Kornfeld |
Simcha Harrari-Kornfeld (Kiryat Amal, Israel) |
508 |
Shabtai Hollesch |
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David Shifman |
Zvi ben Ramalyahu (Chelm) (‘HaMelitz’ No. 49, 1903) |
510 |
Dr. Yitzhak Geliebter |
Dr. Yitzhak Szyfer |
510 |
Aryeh-Leib Naimanovich |
Naphtali Naimanovich |
513 |
Issachar Ber Falkensohn |
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Oytzer Hirsch |
Jekuthiel Zwillich |
514 |
Abraham Gerson |
Shoshana Herman-Rikhman |
514 |
Shlomo (Lomeh) Luxenbourg |
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516 |
Rachel Kornfeld |
Jekuthiel Zwillich |
516 |
Emanuel Zoberman |
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516 |
Fishl Geliebter |
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Philip Geliebter Bibliography |
Yefim Jeshurun |
518 |
The Zwillich Family |
Jekuthiel Zwillich |
518 |
Mordechai Zwillich |
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518 |
Chaim Zwillich |
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519 |
Other Portraits |
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Shlomo Wohl |
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519 |
Ben-Zion Lubliner |
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519 |
Aharon Geliebter |
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519 |
Yossel Finkman |
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519 |
Rabbi Joseph Shlomo Shabtai Hurwitz |
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519 |
Jonah Szper |
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520 |
Activists in the Professional Movement |
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520 |
This is the Way Zamość Was Cut Down…. |
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522 |
The Destruction of Zamość |
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525 |
The Beginning of the Destruction |
Mendel Sznur |
527 |
And This Is How It Happened… |
Mordechai Shtrigler |
530 |
The Last Day in the Neustadt |
Leib Gewirtz |
535 |
Neustadt is Bombed |
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In the Village |
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536 |
Back in the Neustadt |
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538 |
The Red Army Arrives |
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539 |
How a Sabbath-Observing congregation traipsed off to God |
Mordechai Shtrigler |
541 |
The Extermination of the Jews of Zamość |
Jekuthiel Zwillich |
549 |
The First Signs of a Ghetto |
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The Zamość Jews that belonged to the Judenrat |
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The Zamość Judenrat Policemen |
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560 |
On the Day of the Unjust Sentence |
Mordechai Shtrigler |
571 |
Residents of Zamość in a Fight for Life During the Hitlerist Occupation |
Beryl Eisenkopf |
582 |
Zamość During the First Two Weeks of the War |
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The Germans and Soviets in Zamość |
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582 |
The Evacuation |
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The Suffering and Killing of the Zamość [Jews] in Ludomir |
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585 |
The Last Jew in the Ghetto |
Mordechai Shtrigler |
593 |
On Aryan Papers |
Rosa Rosett |
599 |
The Men of Zamość in the Barracks |
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A Chronology of the Nazi Occupation |
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Children |
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Greetings of Death from Zamość |
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A Surviving Jew from Zamość Relates: |
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Zamość People in the Ludomir Ghetto |
Shlomo Stern |
606 |
Through Forests and with the Partisan Movement |
Itkeh Herring |
610 |
Ghetto, Slaughter, Forest, Majdanek |
David Meckler |
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1. In the Zamość Ghetto
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2. The Slaughter of April 11, 1942 |
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3. The Last Jews in Zamość |
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4. A Partisan |
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5. In Majdanek |
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Through Seven Hells |
Henoch Nobel |
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Ghetto, Majdanek, Skarzysko, Buchenwald, Schlieben, Theresienstadt |
Abba Friedling |
625 |
Expulsions and Extermination of the Jews in the Zamość Vicinity |
T. Brustyn-Bernstein |
631 |
Expulsion and Extermination of the Settlements in the Lublin District In the Form of Numbers and Data |
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635 |
The Nazi Death Machine at Belzec |
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642 |
Accusation Speech in Dachau |
Yaakov Schwartz |
657 |
Yizkor |
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660 |
Our Sanctified Ones and Martyrs |
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Our List of Martyrs |
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Our Day of Sorrow 24 Nissan |
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Documents and Materials |
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The Leader of the ‘Judenrat Tells’ |
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The Jewish Region and its Administration |
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696 |
The Jewish Police |
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700 |
The Financial Problems of the ‘Judenrat’ |
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701 |
Jewish Labor in the Camps |
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The Help-Committee |
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The ‘Judenrat’ Creates a ‘Labor-Company’ |
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The ‘Judenrat’ Demands Taxes |
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Warning to Observe the Police Hours |
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725 |
Krasnobrod Asks for Help |
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726 |
Evacuated German Jews in Zamość |
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Evacuees from Theresienstadt Demand Their Luggage |
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729 |
Zamość Survivors |
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730 |
The Committees of the Zamość Survivors In Poland, in the Years 1945-1950 |
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Zamość After The Holocaust |
Jekuthiel Zwillich |
734 |
Zamość Without Jews |
Moshe Schliam |
738 |
Yitzhak Leib Peretz on the Streets of Zamość |
Sholom Stern |
741 |
Zamość 1945 |
Helena Schaffner |
746 |
The Zamość ‘Rotunda’ |
Akiva Eierweiss |
749 |
Zamość, the City of I. L. Peretz |
M. Tzanin |
751 |
Pages from a Tour of Poland |
Sholom Stern |
753 |
Zamość Survivors in Germany |
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759 |
Chaim Shpizeisen |
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763 |
The People of Zamość Around the World |
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The Landsleit of Zamość |
Israel Zilber |
765 |
The Establishment of Zamośćher Progressive Branch |
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Workman's Circle |
Jack Fox |
768 |
The Union of Friends from Zamość, Philadelphia |
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771 |
The Zamość Landsmanschaft in Montreal (Canada) |
A. Schwartzberg & B. Eisenkopf |
772 |
General Report of Our Activity |
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773 |
The Zamość Society in Israel |
Yaakov Ne'eman (Neimark) |
775 |
Foreword |
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775 |
Society |
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776 |
Our Activity |
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776 |
Zamość People in Argentina |
Wolf Kornmass |
781 |
Our Deceased Leadership Members |
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785 |
The Central Committee of Pinkas Zamość |
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785 |
Sub-Committee United States New York |
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785 |
United States: Other Cities |
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785 |
Sub-Committee Canada: Montreal |
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785 |
Sub-Commission Brazil |
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786 |
Australia |
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786 |
Sub-Commission Bolivia |
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786 |
Shlomo-Leib Schwartzberg זל |
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789 |
Pinkas Zamość |
Mordechai V. Bernstein |
791 |
Glossary |
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795 |
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List of Martyrs |