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Translation of
Lancut; hayeha ve-hurbana shel kehila yehudit
Editors: M. Waltzer, N. Kudish
Published in Tel Aviv, 1963, Associations of Former Residents of Lancut in Israel and the USA
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Translated by the Yocheved Klausner
Part One - Hebrew | |||
Preface | |||
Foreword | |||
Map of the town of Lancut | |||
Table of Contents | |||
Photographs | |||
I | The History of Lancut | ||
History of the Jews of Lancut | Dr. Nathan Mechl GERBER | 13 | |
The Synagogue in Lancut | Eng. David DAVIDOVITZ | 28 | |
The Synagogue, Reality and Legend | Michael WALZER | 31 | |
The Big Bet-Hamidrash | Pinchas GOLDMAN | 34 | |
The Proselyte [Convert] of Lancut | Binyamin EINHORN | 36 | |
Echoes in the Haskala [Enlightment] Press | Yosef Meir ROSMARIN, Yitzhak WEISSMAN | 38 | |
II | Tora and Hasidism | ||
The Lancut Tzadik | The Rav Y.L. Hacohen MAIMON | 40 | |
The Gaon [scholar] Rabbi Arie Leibush | M.S. GESHURI | 43 | |
R'Yakov Yitzhak HOROWITZ of Lancut | Based on Shimon DUBNOV | 44 | |
Hasidism in Lancut - Growth and Development | M.S. GESHURI | 45 | |
Two Generations in Hasidism: 1. Lancut in the frame of Lezajsk; 2. From Hasid Pupil to Tzadik in Lancut; 3. Lancut at the heart of the dispute between the Rabbi and his pupil; 4. The Campaign on the Subject of Leaving Lancut |
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The Great Men of Lancut | The Rav Zvi DOMB | 49 | |
Lancut, the Town of the Memorial Feast in Honor of Rabbi Naftali Zvi of Ropczyce [Rupshitz] | M.S. GESHURI | 50 | |
The Tzadikim of the House of Lezajsk in Lancut: Rabbi Elimelech WEISSBLUM, the Tzadik of Rudnik | 52 | ||
Rabbi Eliezer WEISSBLUM, his son | 54 | ||
Rabbi Elazar SHAPIRA, ABD in Lancut | 55 | ||
The Sons and Offspring of the Rav R'Elazar SHAPIRA of Lancut | 57 | ||
Rabbi Elazar SHAPIRA (the Second) the Rav in Lancut | 58 | ||
The Last Rabbis and Judges of the House of SHAPIRA | 61 | ||
The Last ADMORs of the House of SHAPIRA | 62 | ||
The Rav R'Israel Leib RABIN | Rav Zvi Elimelech SHAPIRA | 64 | |
The Rav R'Avraham David RABIN | Rav Zvi Elimelech SHAPIRA | 64 | |
Rabbi Aharon Moshe LAUFER the Tzadik of Zielun - Lancut | 65 | ||
The Rav R'David FUERER, may God avenge his blood | Rav Benzion FUERER | 66 | |
In The Court of Justice | Prof. Martin BUBER | 67 | |
An Assembly of Tzadikim in Lancut | Eliezer STEINMAN | 67 | |
From the Mouth of the People | 68 | ||
Stories and Anecdotes from Lancut | 68 | ||
On the Hasidim and the Kloizim [Synagogue and Bet Midrash] in Lancut | M.S. GESHURI | 69 | |
Cantors in Lancut | 75 | ||
III | Zionism and the Rebuilding of Eretz Yisrael | ||
Parties and Organizations | |||
The Zionist Movement in Lancut | Nachman KESTENBAUM | 78 | |
Po'alei Zion in Lancut | David HAR | 87 | |
Mizrahi and The Young Mizrahi | Moshe KNELLER | 91 | |
Agudat Yisrael | Binyamin EINHORN | 93 | |
Sparks (Istitutions, Organizations, Movements, Personalities, Local Customs) | 94 | ||
The Hashomer Hatza'ir Movement | Aharon KERNER | 100 | |
The Youth Association | Michael WALZER | 101 | |
The Youth Movement of Po'alei Zion | Moshe HAR | 102 | |
Freiheit - Dror [Freedom] | Zeinwil LEVADI ? (Yosem) ? | 108 | |
Youth and Aliya | Michael WALZER | 110 | |
Culture and Education | |||
The Revival of the Hebrew Language in Lancut | Dr. Natan KUDISH | 113 | |
Education in Lancut | Michael WALZER | 115 | |
Bet Yaakov | Binyamin EINHORN | 118 | |
The Scientific Library WIEDZA | Eliezer DISHA | 119 | |
This is the History of the Nightingale | Michael WALZER | 120 | |
The Association of Theater Fans | Nachman KESTENBAUM | 123 | |
Bet Ha'am [The House of the People] | Michael WALZER | 124 | |
IV | Fighters and Defenders | ||
Michael STERNHEIM | Moshe CARMEL | 127 | |
Shraga HAR | 138 | ||
Asher SCHLEIFSTEIN | 132 | ||
David KESTCHER | 132 | ||
Zvi GOLDBLATT | 133 | ||
Yitzhak SHELLY | Antchel KATZ | 135 | |
Israel HAR | Uri URIELI | 140 | |
V | Memories and the Way of Life | ||
Self Defense | Nachman KESTENBAUM | 141 | |
Lancut my Town [Shtetl] (a. Deeds and Doers; b. A Memory of the First Day; c. No Outcry...) | Antchel KATZ | 145 | |
A visit in Lancut | Zalman DEMBITZER | 147 | |
A visit in Lancut in 1937 | Michael WALZER | 148 | |
Memories of a Visitor in Lancut | Dr. Zvi HELLER | 151 | |
The Blood Libel on R'Yakov the Blind Man from Baden | Michael WALZER | 152 | |
Chapters From A Diary | Moshe ROSENBLIT | 154 | |
Graf Alfred Pototzki [the Count Pototzki] and the Lancut Jews | Michael WALZER | 159 | |
On the Eve of Destruction | Shimon WALZER | 162 | |
VI | Figures and Types | ||
Getzl DRUKER, Avraham SCHPATZ, Zvi RAMER | Nachman KESTENBAUM | 165 | |
Friends: Shlomo GRINBOIM, David JUST, Yechiel NUSSBAUM, Moshe FLASCHEN (REICHER) | Antchel KATZ | 167 | |
The WOLKENFELD Family | Zvi BAUER | 170 | |
We Were Eight Friends | Nachman KESTENBAUM | 170 | |
Shmuel GREIZMAN | Dr. Natan KUDISH | 172 | |
Elka FORDBEITEL | Yitzhak NEVENTZAL | 173 | |
R'Walwish LANTZUTER | 174 | ||
R'Yehuda Yakov BELZ | Aharon Moshel | 174 | |
The home of R'Hilel SHUB [the slaughterer] | Nachman KESTENBAUM | 175 | |
R'Zisele Sofer | M.S. GESHURI | 175 | |
R'Simcha Melamed (BUCH) | 176 | ||
R'Berele Melamed GOLDBLATT | 177 | ||
Types: a. R'Moshe Chaia-Eidels BUNINN; b. R'Shalom ESTLEIN; c. R'Eliezer WEISSBLUM; d. R'Hirsh MILRAD; e. Four Tavern-Keepers |
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Binyamin BRAND | Pinchas GOLDMAN | 179 | |
My Melamed [Teacher in Heder] | Shmuel GREIZMAN | 179 | |
Zelig KRENER | Antchel KATZ | 180 | |
Zelig KRENER | Aharon KRENER | 181 | |
Avraham My Son | Antchel KATZ | 181 | |
Michael SCHIEFFER | Zvi LANDOI | 182 | |
David HAR | Michael Walzer | 183 | |
VII | The Destruction | ||
From a Letter | Uri Zvi GRINBERG | ||
A Tear For My Shtetl (a poem) | Menachem STEMPEL | ||
Yizkor | |||
The Years of the Nazi Occupation | T. BRUSTIN-BERNSTEIN | 186 | |
To my Fellow Sufferers... | Pesach GOTTLIEB | 193 | |
My Flight to Russia | Moshe ROSENBLIT | 193 | |
The Job Story of Eliezer PAS | Michael WALZER | 194 | |
Additional Stories From The Holocaust Period | 196 | ||
The Trial of the Murderer | Michael WALZER | 202 | |
Once Upon a Time There Was a Community in Lancut | Dr. Natan KUDISH | 206 | |
VIII | The Lancut People in Israel and Abroad | ||
The Association of Former Lancut Residents in the United States | Moshe FRIDAR | 207 | |
The Association of Former Lancut Residents in Israel | Michael WATZER | 211 | |
The Lancut People in Argentina | 214 | ||
Appendix (Photograph of a Manuscript Page) | 215 | ||
Communal Workers and Active Members of the Lancut People in Israel (photographs) | 216 | ||
Map of Lancut District | 220 | ||
Part Two - Yiddish | |||
I | The History of the Jews of Lancut | ||
A Voice from the Past | Dr. Yitzhak SCHWARTZBARD | 223 | |
The History of Lancut | Dr. Avraham CHOMET | 224 | |
The Jews in Lancut | Dr. Avraham CHOMET | 233 | |
Under Austrian Rule | Dr. Avraham CHOMET | 245 | |
Under the Russian Occupation During World War I | Dr. Avraham CHOMET | 259 | |
In Independent Poland | Dr. Avraham CHOMET | 261 | |
II | Torah and Hasidism | ||
My Stetl Lancut | Moshe KNELLER | 271 | |
The Rebbe of Lancut (R'Yakov Yitzhak HOROWITZ) | Zvi Simcha LEDER | 275 | |
The Big Synagogue [Di Groise Shul] in Lancut | Michael WALZER | 280 | |
The Big Bet Hamidrash [Der Groiser Bes Hamedresh] | Pinchas GOLDMAN | 283 | |
The Society for Buying and Repairing Books | Binyamin EINHORN | 284 | |
III | Before and Between the Two World Wars | ||
About the Zionist Movement in Lancut | Nachman KESTENBAUM | 286 | |
Po'alei Zion in Lancut | David HAR | 299 | |
Mizrahi and Young Mizrahi" | Moshe KNELLER | 304 | |
Agudat Israel | Binyamin EINHORN | 306 | |
Hashomer Hatza'ir | Aharon KERNER | 307 | |
Agudat Ne'urim | Michael WALZER | 309 | |
Youth and Aliya | Michael WALZER | 312 | |
The Freiheit [Freedom] Youth Movement | Moshe HAR | 315 | |
The Hebrew Youth Association Akiva | Chaia KATZ-STEINMAN | 323 | |
The Revival of the Hebrew Language | Dr. Nathan KUDISH | 327 | |
Education in Lancut | Michael WALZER | 329 | |
The Amateur Society | Nachman KESTENBAUM | 332 | |
a. The Tale of The Nightingale [Hazamir] | Michael WALZER | 335 | |
b. The House of the People [Bet Ha'am] | Michael WALZER | 338 | |
The Trumpeldor Sports Club (Pictures) | 342 | ||
How I Became a Zionist | Eliezer STEMPEL | 344 | |
a. The Jewish Self Defense | Nachman KESTENBAUM | 345 | |
b. Figures: Getzl DRUKER, Eng. Avraham SPATZ, Hersh Zvi RASSER, We Were Eight Friends | 347 | ||
600 Years in Lancut | Marian BRANDEIS | 352 | |
On the Eve of Destruction | 354 | ||
Photocopy of a Letter from the Poet H. LEIWIK | 356 | ||
IV | The Destruction | ||
The Days of Judgment | Melech RAVITCH | 357 | |
YIZKOR [Memorial] | 359 | ||
A Memorial Service in Lancut | Melech RAVITCH | 360 | |
Once upon a Time There Was a Community in Lancut | Dr. Nathan KUDISH | 360 | |
The Destruction of Lancut | Naftali REICH | 362 | |
Graf [Count] Potocki an eyewitness of the annihilation of the Lancut Jews by the Nazis | 365 | ||
Regards from Russia | Moshe ROSENBLIT | 366 | |
Wounds That Cannot Heal | Sheindl FRIEDER (KESTECHER | 367 | |
In the Gettos and Camps | Ada FENIK (KORNBLAU) | 370 | |
A Road of Torment | Shoshana ATLASOWITZ | 377 | |
The Obliteration of My Family in Lancut | Moshe SCHLEIFFSTEIN | 385 | |
Their Last Road | Moshe FRIEDER | 387 | |
Two Small Jewish Martyrs | Rivka MONDSCHEIN | 389 | |
After the expulsion from Lancut | Yoel PUDERBEITEL | 397 | |
R'Naftali STERNHEISS, May God Avenge his Blood | Rav Dr. Yitzhak LEVIN | 398 | |
The trial of a Murderer | Michael WALZER | 400 | |
V | Lancut Jews Around the World | ||
The Lancut Landsmashaft in New-York | Moshe FRIEDER | 404 | |
The Organization of Lancut people in Israel | Michael WALZER | 408 | |
The Organization of former Lancut Residents in Israel | 414 | ||
Parting Forever - Year After Year .... | Dvora TUCHFELD (LIFSHITZ) | 415 | |
A Memorial Candle | Tuvia WEIDEN | 418 | |
In Memoriam | 419 | ||
Index of Names | 452 | ||
Errata | 461 | ||
Addresses of Lancut People in Israel | 462 | ||
English | |||
Foreword | Editors | X | |
Photographs | XI | ||
There Once was a Lanzut Community | Dr. Nathan KUDISH | XV | |
On the Lanzut Community | Editors | XVII | |
Yizkor | Editors | XXXIII | |
Lanzut under the Nazi | T. Brustin-Bernstein | XVII | |
The Society of Ex-Lanzut people in New York | Morris Frieder | XV | |
Association of Lanzut Jews and its branches in Eretz Israel | Michael Walzer | L | |
Farewell Forever Year after Year | Devorah Tuchfeld (Lipshitz) | LII | |
Restoration of the Synagogue | Noah Zevuloni | LV | |
Lancut Addresses | LV |
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