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Translation of Khurban Bilgoraj
Edited by: A. Kronenberg
Published in Tel Aviv, 1956
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Khurban Bilgoraj;
Destruction of Bilgoraj, ed. A. Kronenberg, Tel Aviv, 1956.
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| Introduction | I. D. Mittlepunkt | III |
| Where There's a Will, There's a Way | Abraham Kronenberg | IV |
| Modest Words for Great Deeds | Book Committee | VI |
| My Shteteleh | A. Kronenberg | 1 |
| A Monument to My Shtetele | I. Ch. Kronenberg | 3 |
| Rabbis of Bilgoraj | I. Ch. Kronenberg | 5 |
| HaRav HaGaon, R' Yakov Mordechai zt”l | HaRav R' Yitzchak HaCohen Hoberman | 8 |
| The Last Bilgoraj Rabbi | Shmuel Feller | 9 |
| Bilgoraj | I. Ch. Kronenberg | 12 |
| The Synagogue Courtyard | A. Kronenberg | 18 |
| Trade and Industry | ||
| The Lumber Business | Sh. Y. Shper | 29 |
| The Netting Business | M. Tayer | 35 |
| The Jewish Printing Shop | A. Kronenberg | 39 |
| A Market Day | A. Kronenberg | 47 |
| Artisans | A. Karmi | 56 |
| Bilgoraj in World War I | Y. Ch. Kronenberg | 60 |
| Institutions and Parties | ||
| The Kitchen and the Orphanage | Shoshana Lerman | 81 |
| The Zionist Movement in Bilgoraj | M. Oberhant, M. Groisman, A. Kronenberg | 84 |
| Agudat Israel in Bilgoraj | Sh. Feller | 97 |
| The Workers Movement in Bilgoraj | A. Greener, B. Eichenblat | 101 |
| Cooperative Banks in Bilgoraj | Sh. Feller | 105 |
| Charitable Institutions in Bilgoraj | Ch. Anger | 108 |
| Drama Clubs in Bilgoraj | Sh. Atzmon (Wirtzer) | 111 |
| Religious Zionism and its activities in Bilgoraj | Tuvia Korenvurcel | 115 |
| Memories | ||
| The Knocker | Shloime Weinberg | 120 |
| The Horrible Murder in Bilgoraj | Yehudeh Leifman | 122 |
| The Wedding in the Bilgoraj Cemetery | A. Katari | 125 |
| Dream | Sh. Ben Artzi (Han) | 127 |
| At the Markets | Rechl Kronenberg | 128 |
| A Visit to my Shtetl, Bilgoraj | M. Rapaport (Australia) | 130 |
| Bilgoraj Ruin | I. D. Mittlepunkt | 133 |
| A Jewish Teacher in Bilgoraj (H) | Y. Hodess | 136 |
| The Bilgoraj Feldsher | A. Kronenberg (Katari) | 139 |
| If You Ever Want to Know (H) | I. Ch. Kronenberg | 142 |
| The Passion for Eretz Israel | I. Rapaport | 143 |
| I Loved you, Bilgoraj (H) | I. Ch. Kronenberg | 148 |
| The Nest of Need | Shmuel Baron | 149 |
| The First Days With the Germans | David Brik | 167 |
| Melamdim and Cheders | ||
| Leibish | A. Karmi | 171 |
| Yekl | A. Kronenberg | 173 |
| Itzele Melamed | A. Karmi | 174 |
| Itzi Mayer | Katari | 175 |
| Tudieh | H. Wallach | 177 |
| People | ||
| R' Shmuel Eliahu Shwerdsharf | Sh. Honigboim | 181 |
| Itzik R' Motl's | Yakov Harman | 183 |
| R' Yakov Shleicher, zt”l | HaRav R' Yitzchak HaCohen Hoberman | 184 |
| R' Shneur Zalman Goldberg | HaRav R' Yitzchak HaCohen Hoberman | 186 |
| R' Mordechai Yosef Schatz | HaRav R' Yitzchak HaCohen Hoberman | 187 |
| HaRav Pinchas Mendel Singer zt”l | HaRav R' Yitzchak HaCohen Hoberman | 188 |
| Figures | Itzchak Bashevis | 190 |
| Aunt Gnendele | M. Honigboim | 196 |
| Blimele | Shoshana Lerman | 198 |
| Gitl Moishe Itzi's | Rivke Goldstein | 199 |
| Chinkele | 201 | |
| The Man of Faith | 202 | |
| Bilgoraj Community Activists | ||
| R' Levi Stern, R' Israel Moishe–Itzi's, R' Nataniel Shier, R. Abraham Harman, R' Eliezer Buchbiner, Yoneh Akerman, Tevl Stempel, Yikutiel Fest, Moishe Model, Alezar Shochet, Velvl Shochet, Yantshe Shochet, Sh. F. | 205 | |
| Everything Vanished Like a Dream | Simche Shatz | 209 |
| Personalities | ||
| Chaim Bruder | 211 | |
| Yechezkele Viotch | 213 | |
| Godl | H. Feigenboim | 214 |
| Shimenele | 215 | |
| Avremele | 216 | |
| The Destruction | ||
| War Breaks out | Shmuel Bron | 219 |
| The Fire | Sh. Atzmon (Wirtzer) | 228 |
| Bilgoraj After the Fire | A. Kronenberg | 233 |
| Survivors Testify | ||
| Bilgoraj Jews Under Occupation | Israel Geist | 248 |
| If You Will One Day Want to Know | I.Ch. Kronenberg | 280 |
| I Survived in Order to Take Revenge | B. Wermuth | 281 |
| Shabbes in Bilgoraj | I. Ch. Kronenberg | 289 |
| Bilgoraj on the Eve of Destruction | A. Yanower | 292 |
| My Surviving the War | Sh. Sussman | 302 |
| I Hid in a Bunker | B. Tz. Rosenboim | 309 |
| Exhumation | Y. Sharf, B. Rosenboim, Y. Langburd, Ch. Stern | 315 |
| Necrology | 319 | |
| List of the Fallen | 351 | |
| Bilgoraj Jews Who Fell in Other Cities | 365 | |
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