Chapters From the Past
(Bielsko Biała, Poland)

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Translation of
Bielitz-Biala pirkei avar

Editor: Elijahu Miron

Published in Israel 1973

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This is a translation of: Bielitz-Biala pirkei avar (Chapters from the past),
Editor: Elijahu Miron, Published: Israel 1973 (H,G 182 pages)

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Translated by Yocheved Klausner

Title Page
 
Foreword 5
 
The city of Bielsko 6
 
The Bielsko Community Along the Generations
 
The history of the Jews in Bielsko 9
The Jewish community 15
Jewish education, its various branches 22
 
Associations and Organizations
The Chevruta Association 27
The Hashachar Association 29
The Emuna Association 36
The Hatchiya Association 38
The Sport Association Hakoach 42
The Sport Association Maccabi 43
The Hagana Organization 44
 
The Jewish Economy
The status of the Jews in the general economy 47
The Jewish craftsmen 50
 
Movements
The orthodox Jewry 52
The Zionist movement and the Parties 54
The Hit'achdut (Union) 55
The Mizrachi 56
The Revisionist Party 57
The Bielsko Zionists 57
WIZO 59
The Youth Movements 60
Training for Aliya and Aliya 63
The “training camp” in Leshtchin 67
 
The Press
Seven hundred issues of the Yiddishes Folksblatt 69
 
Personalities and Figures
Prof. Dr. Michael Berkowitz 73
Shlomo Zalman Chaim Halberstat 77
A. D. Rosenberg, a pioneer of the Hebrew Language 78
The Rabbi Rav Zvi Shmuel Hirschfeld z”l 79
The Rapaport Dynasty 80
The Rabbinic family Stern 83
 
Bielsko-Biala and Surroundings
Biala 85
The Biala Jews 88
The Jewish community in Biala 91
Skotchau 94
Dzidzitza 96
 
The Community in Bliona
On the eve of the German invasion 98
The expulsion before the Holocaust 100
On the eve of war 101
The days of the Nazi occupation 104
The story of a survivor 110
The last rabbi in Bielsko, Rav Yehuda Stern 113
Among the ruins 115
 
Memorial Pages - We shall remember 118-134
 
German Section by Elijahu Miron
 
In Memoriam (List) 135-141
Dr. Josef Traubner 142
Jacob Glasner 144
Prof. Dr. Michael Berkowicz 147
The Jewish craftsmen 148
A review of the Jewish Gymnastics Association Makkabi 151
The Chevwrussa 154
The story of Emuna 1896-1906 157
The early days of Haschachar 159
The Jewish community in Bielsko 1865-1905 167
On the history of the Jews in Bielsko 172
On the history of the Jews in Bielsko 177
The early history of the Jews in Bielsko 180
Foreword 181

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