Title |
Author |
Page |
Foreword [H] |
The editors |
3 |
Foreword |
The editors |
5 |
The Jews in Biala: Tracing their History to the Middle of Nineteenth Century [H] |
Dr. M. Handel |
9 |
Jewish Biala During the Last Generation [H] |
M. Y. Fiegenboim |
30 |
Total Destruction [H] |
M. Y. Fiegenboim |
47 |
The Zionist Organization [H] |
M. Bruhel |
77 |
The book |
M. Y. Feigenbaum |
87 |
Biala |
M.Y. Feignbaum |
89 |
Jews in Biale |
Dr M. Hendl |
95 |
Jewish Biale in Recent Generations |
M.Y. Feigenbaum |
125 |
|
The Economic Life |
A. Trade until World War 1;
B. Forerunner Of The Banks |
M. R. |
149 |
Jewish Income |
M. Y. Feigenbaum |
151 |
Trade |
Gedalyahu Braverman |
157 |
A. Factories;
B. Printing |
M. Y. Feigenboim |
159 |
The Biale Estate |
Alter Vineberg |
162 |
The Professional [Workers] Movement |
Yisroel Hochman |
168 |
The Artisans Union |
B. Winograd |
170 |
The Retailers Union |
Shmuel Kahan |
171 |
Credit Cooperation
a. a. Until the First World War |
A. Wajs |
172 |
b. In Liberated Poland |
M. Y. Feigenbaum |
174 |
Workers Consumer Cooperative Einikeit |
W. Szuster |
177 |
Cooperative Mechanical Bakery |
M. Y. FM |
178 |
The Interest-Free Loan Fund at the Small Businessmen's Union |
|
178 |
|
Parties |
The Zionist Organization |
M. Bruchl |
179 |
Hashomer Hatza'ir |
|
192 |
The Revisionist Organization |
Jacob Bernstein |
198 |
The Mizrachi |
M. Bravermann, A. Brandweinman, Y. Beitl |
199 |
Poalei Zion Left |
Avraham Lavi |
202 |
The National Funds |
|
204 |
The Bund
a. From the start to 1918 |
Gedaliahu Braverman |
206 |
b. Between Both World Wars |
V. Schuster |
215 |
The Rise of Agudat Yisrael |
Moshe Braverman |
219 |
The Communist Movement |
Gottl Biederman |
220 |
An Anarchistic Group in Biale |
Gedalyahu Braverman |
222 |
|
The Cultural Life |
General Overview |
M. Y. Feigenboim |
224 |
The Yavne School |
M. Raboun |
230 |
Nachman Schiwak's Private Elementary School |
|
233 |
Evening Courses to learn Polish |
Gedalyahu Braverman |
234 |
An Attempt at Culture |
M. Rabon |
234 |
The Tarbut Library |
M.Y. Feigenboim |
235 |
The Bundist Library |
Gedalyahu Braverman |
236 |
The Library of the Left Leaning Po'alei Tzion |
A. Labi |
237 |
Maccabi |
Nachman Vineberg |
238 |
The Press |
Chaim Rozmarin |
241 |
Dramatic Circles |
Gedalyahu Braverman |
243 |
The Dramatic Circle of BetAm |
M. Y. Feigenboim |
245 |
Purim Plays at the end of the 19th Century |
Gedalyahu Braverman |
247 |
|
The Religious Life |
General Overview |
M. Y. Feigenbaum |
248 |
The Talmud Torah |
|
253 |
Houses of Prayer
The synagogue, The Beith Hamidrash, The Additional Beith Hamidrash, The Beith Hamidrash Of Volia |
M. Y. Feignbaum |
254 |
Prayer Houses of Chassidim and the opponents of Chassidism |
Fyvl Gold |
258 |
Cantors |
Feivel Gold |
261 |
The Rabiner's [Rabbi] court |
Asher Hoffer |
264 |
Rabbis and Hasidic Rebbes in Biala |
Meir Edelbaum |
266 |
A Portrait of Rabbi Shmuel Aryeh Leib, a Holy Person,
of Blessed Memory, the Rabbi of Biale |
Shmuel T. Halevi Rubinshtein |
274 |
The Rav R'Zvi Hirschhorn |
|
279 |
Rabbi Berish Landoy (Landau) |
|
280 |
Rabbi Aharon Landoy (Landau) |
|
282 |
The ADMOR rabbi Yitzhak Yakov Rabinowitz |
|
283 |
The Chevra Kadisha [burial society] |
|
284 |
The cemeteries |
|
284 |
|
Hassidic Biala in Literature |
Between Two Mountains |
Y. L. Peretz |
286 |
The Silent Man From Wurk |
Y. Opatoshu |
292 |
Poland |
Y. Y. Trunk |
294 |
Biala's Yard |
A. Litwin |
299 |
|
Social Institutions |
The Hospital |
M. Y. F M |
301 |
In the Health Service for the Welfare of the Population |
Alter Wajnberg and Asher Hoper |
304 |
Achiezer |
Moshe Braverman |
305 |
The Children's Home |
|
308 |
TOZ |
Baruch Vinograd |
310 |
The MoyshevSkeynim |
M. Y. F M |
313 |
Women's Aid Committee |
|
314 |
Other Voluntary Institutions in the City |
M. Y. F M |
315 |
|
Personalities, Figures and Types |
Political activists |
|
317 |
Apollinaire Heartglass |
Yitzhak Grinboim |
|
Apollinaire Heartglass, Moshe Rubinstein, Joshua Fisher |
M. Y. Feigenboim |
|
Moshe Smolyor |
Jacob Aaron Rosenboim |
|
Baruch Weinberg |
|
|
Yeshayahu Weinberg |
|
|
Elie Shimsheles (Elijahu Yustman), David Kruses (Goldfarb) |
Gdaliahu Braverman |
|
Elie Bobkes (Elijahu Hoffman), Tankhum Freind |
P. Gold |
|
Hirsh Richter (Lazar the Carpenter) |
|
|
Rabbi David Pizich |
Elijahu Mazor |
|
|
Religious Persons and Figures |
|
334 |
Rabbi Dovid'l Karliner |
Dr. Shmuel Elyashiv |
|
Bialer Yichus (pedigree, O.A.), The Hoseh (The Prophet), Rabbi Noah (The Giant of Biala), Rabbi Moshe Cohen, Rabbi Moshe Moses (The Great), Rabbi Moshe Shahor (the Little), Rabbi Shimele Kreidshtein (the Skoreyi) |
Pavel Gold |
|
Rabbi Velvel Moses |
|
|
The Rabbi Shmuel Tanhum Levi Rubinstein |
|
|
Rabbi Shmuel Jacob Rubinstein |
Shmuel Tanhum HaLevi Rubinstein |
|
|
Portraits |
|
342 |
Yakov Steinman, Menachem Mendel Gelenberg, Moshe Kave, Idel Schwartz, Alter Zukerman, Hershel Zak, Haim Mustovitch (The Kobryner), Benjamin Konolstein, Yakov Virnik, Hershel Nuchovitz, Dr. David Cohen, Dr. Butche Finkelstein, Dr. Nathan Tsigelnick, Shimon Goldsmith |
M. Y. Feigenbaum |
|
|
Social Workers, Writers and Personalities |
|
|
Ya'akov Kahan |
Yosef Zide |
358 |
Aharon Beckerman |
Y. Papiernikov |
359 |
Yossel Birshtein, Yitzhak Perlov |
Melech Ravitch |
359 |
Ya'akov Cohen |
|
361 |
Ya'akov Falatitzky |
|
362 |
Yosef Zide |
Yakov Kahan |
363 |
Advocate Avraham Yitzchak Gottlieb |
Zalman Gottlieb |
364 |
Fyvel Friedman |
F. Gold |
364 |
Bernard Lieberman |
Arthur Lederman |
365 |
Dr. Yehuda Leib Davidson |
Yosef Babitsh Prozshani |
365 |
Fritz Kornberg |
Moshe Ravon |
366 |
|
Women Characters |
|
369 |
Tille Berlin |
Yitzchak Shein |
369 |
Rivkah Akivaches, Pesl the Deaf, Esther the Lizard |
B. Wineberg |
370 |
Godya Shteinman |
Dina Arbitman |
373 |
Chavale Rodzinek |
M. Y. Feigenboim |
374 |
|
Types |
|
375 |
Moshe Tuvia the carpenter |
B. Vineberg |
|
Shmerele Becker (Hochman) |
Gedalyahu Braverman |
|
Leibe Mednik (Reb Yehuda Leib Bornshtein) |
Ya'akov ben Yechezkel |
|
Abik Ogrodnik (Abush Rozenblum), Mordche'le Weintraub |
Berel Fakman |
|
Boruch Sholem the Teacher (Krideshtein), Motl Domatshever, Shualke Cohen, Yossel Vetshik (Gotfried), Pesach Skos, Moshe Bass, Alter Nemirover, Yitzchak Urtsheles, Meir Tallitmacher [lit. prayer shawls maker], Idl Tzinnes (Kanalshtein), Chaim Chaveles, Moshe Bukkes (Puterman), Yos Drozshkarzsh (Gerrman) |
F. Gold |
|
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F o l k l o r e |
Words, Aphorisms, and Jokes by Biale's Sharp Minds and Fun Lovers; Surnames according to towns of origin, Grandmothers and Grandfathers and occupations; Mocking Surnames and Nicknames; Customs and Charms; Clothes and Fashions of 80 years ago |
M. Y.Feigenboim |
384 |
|
Tales and Legends |
Stoyontse The Upright Burial |
|
388 |
Without Success |
|
388 |
The Dead Man |
M.Y. Feigenboim |
389 |
The Muddy Neighbourhood |
F. Gold |
390 |
Stories |
M.Y. Feigenboim |
390 |
In the town they used to narrate the following legends |
F. Gold & G. Braverman |
392 |
The Hero from Biale |
A. Litvin |
392 |
A Blood Libel |
M.Y. Feigenboim |
394 |
Destruction and obliteration |
M.Y. Feigenboim |
399 |
|
Survivors Tales |
The Beginning of the End |
Berish Asenhaltz |
445 |
A. In the Miedzyrzec Ghetto;
B. In a Bunker in the Center of Miedzyrzec |
R. Bachrach |
446 |
Leaving Home |
A Bialer |
460 |
Some Memories |
Leon Fokman |
461 |
In Liberated Biala |
M. Y. Fiegenboim |
464 |
|
Bialer in the World |
In Israel |
M.Y. Feigenboim |
470 |
In North America |
|
|
A. New York |
|
472 |
B. Los Angeles |
David Gordon |
477 |
In Argentina |
Yakov Aranovitch |
478 |
In France |
|
481 |
In Canada |
Noakh Bresker |
481 |
In Australia |
Hershel Orlanski |
483 |
Our Compatriot, Yakov Wirnik a Witness at the Eichmann Trial in Jerusalem |
|
484 |
|
Index of names and places |
|
485 |