TOC translated by Rita Ratson
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Translation of
Sefer yizkor le-kehilat Shedlets
Editor: A.Wolf Yassni (Jasny)
Published in Buenos Aires 1956
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TOC translated by Rita Ratson
| Title | Author | Page |
| A Word from those Responsible for the Siedlce Yizkor Book in Argentina | XI | |
| Introduction | the Editors | XIII |
| A History of the Jews in Siedlce | Yitzkhak Kaspi | 3 |
| The Destruction of Siedlce | Rabbi Kalmin and Eliezer Frankel | 295 |
| Parties and Social Institutions | ||
| Siedlce – The Zionist City | F. Drumy (Popowsky) | 317 |
| In the shadow of a tree named “Kalina” | Dr. M. Temkin | 340 |
| Pioneering Youth–Movement in Siedlce | David ben Yosef (Pasowski) | 346 |
| Memories and Reflections | Eliezer Bar Chaim (Berenholtz) | 354 |
| Organization of Chasidic Youth and “Youth of the East” | Avraham Friedman | 360 |
| The Jewish National Fund Bazaar in Siedlce | Avraham Friedman | 366 |
| The Ger Prayer House | A. Friedman | 369 |
| The Activities of “Workers Of Zion” [Po'alei Tzion] in Siedlce | Yisrael Tabakman (Netanya) | 371 |
| The Leftist Workers Movement in Siedlce | M. Yudengloibn, Buenos Aires | 393 |
| Activity of the “Bund” in the Period Between the Two World Wars | Getzel Lustgartn | 404 |
| Jewish Workers of Siedlce after the First World War | David ben-Yosef (Pasovsky) | 408 |
| The Community | P. Drumy (Popowsky) | 413 |
| Development of the Jewish Credit System in Siedlce | B. Mintz | 425 |
| Activities Of “Toz” [Jewish Healthcare] And “Women's Circle” For Child Welfare | Dr. M. Shlaycher, Haifa | 449 |
| Synagogue and Culture Activity | ||
| The Yiddish school system in Siedlce | Mosheh Mendelman (NewYork) | 458 |
| The Hebrew School System in Siedlce | P. Dromyk–Popowsky | 483 |
| From my memories of the past in Siedlce (from an undelivered speech.) | Yosef Okon | 502 |
| “Group of Lovers of the Language of the Past” | David ben Yosef (Pasovsky) | 504 |
| The Library and the Society “Jewish Art” | Moshe Mandelman | 506 |
| The Orthodox Newspaper “Our Road” | Rabbi Mayer Schwartzman (Winnipeg, Canada) | 516 |
| VII | ||
| Memories of Writers, Types and Images | ||
| A Polish poem | Mordechai Temkin | 523 |
| Peretz in a Pogrom City | Yoyl Mastbaum (Tel Aviv) | 524 |
| “Where I grew up” | Mordechai Eubdi | 532 |
| Memories of my days in gymnasium | Dr. Chaim Lifshitz | 535 |
| Types and Figures from Siedlce of the Past | Y.N. Weintraub | 537 |
| Avrahamele Rosenberg | Hersh Abarbanel (Buenos Aires) | 556 |
| Yisroel Rosenblum–The Head of the “Beis Lechem” Synagogue | Dovid ben Yosif | 564 |
| Reb Yitzchok “Eisner” | Yisroel Winograd | 566 |
| The Cantor Yosef Pasubsky, of blessed memory | M. Sh. Gashuri | 570 |
| R. Yisroel Gutgelt | M. Dromi | 573 |
| To the memory of Louie Gutgeld, God should take revenge on his blood | Borukh Yfeh | 576 |
| Mordechai Meir Landau | Levi Gutgeld | 579 |
| Kalman Galitzky | Y. Goldberg | 581 |
| Yitzchok Moykher-Sforimnik | Y. Goldberg | 582 |
| Yosef Rosenvasser | Y. Goldberg | 584 |
| The Feldsher A. Gron | Yakov Tenenbaum | 586 |
| Hershel Tenenbaum, of Blessed Memory | F. Drumy (Popovsky) | 588 |
| My teachers | Y. Goldberg | 590 |
| Folk Stories of Siedlce | ||
| A Siedlce Conversion Story | Yitzkhok-Nakhum Weintraub | 604 |
| “Devils” | Yehoshua Goldberg | 610 |
| Destruction of Siedlce | ||
| Destruction | Shloimeh Rosen | 617 |
| I Survived the German Extermination of Jews | Herztel Kaveh | 626 |
| My Survival During the German Occupation | Rokhl Shmukliasz-Vainshtain | 674 |
| About the Final 2000 Jews of Siedlce | Dov–Ber Blechstein (Jerusalem) | 676 |
| Number of Jews in Siedlce at the time of the War's Outbreak and in Different Periods of the German Occupation |
705 | |
| Dates of Jewish Martyrdom in Siedlce | 705 | |
| Inhabitants of Siedlce in the entire world | ||
| Inhabitants of Siedlce in Israel | David ben Yosef (Popovsky) | 713 |
| Organization of Siedlce Townsmen in Israel | Y. Kaspi | 721 |
| Jews of Siedlce in the Diaspora | Y. Kaspi | 725 |
| Jews From Siedlce in Belgium | Yisrael Tabakman | 737 |
| The Siedlce Landsmanshaft of Buenos Aires | Moshe Yudengloibn | 747 |
| Obituary | 755 | |
| Necrology | 757 | |
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