Busk, Ukraine

Busk, In Memory of Our Community
(Ukraine)

49058' / 24038'

Translation of
Sefer Busk; Le-zekher Ha-kehila She-harva

Edited by: Abraham Shayari

Published in Haifa, 1965: Busker Organization in Israel

Acknowledgments

Our sincere appreciation to Genia Hollander
for typing up the English text to facilitate its addition to this project

This is a translation from:
Sefer Busk; Le-zekher Ha-kehila She-harva:
Busk, In Memory of Our Community; ed. Abraham Shayari, Haifa, 1965; Busker Organization in Israel.

Note: The original book can be seen online at the NY Public Library site: Busk

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Translated by Yocheved Klausner

A word from the Committee		7-8
A word from the Committee [Y]		9-10
Greetings from “Benei-Brit” in New-York		11-12
Foreword [H]		13-14
Foreword [Y]		15-16
From the Editors [Y]		16

History of Busk		17-80
History of Busk	Avraham Shayari
Zionist Busk
History of Jewish Busk [Y]	Nachman Blumenthal
Two letters	A. Shayari; Prof. Dov Sadan
In Busk and surroundings [Y]	Dov Sadan
An exchange of letters
Ma'ase Kdeira	S.I. Agnon
Two Pictures

Rabbis and Writers		83-130
History of Busk rabbis in recent generations	Rav Yakov Yitzhak Weissblum
The poet of Busk (Koenigsberg)	Avraham Shayari
Voices from the Province [Y]	Avraham Karavan
David Koenigsberg (a wonderful poet) [Y]	Mendel Singer
Elazar Shmuel Barkon	Avraham Shayari
Two Pictures
Elazar Barkon my friend	Shimshon meltzer
Avraham Zvi Vitlin	A. Shayari
From the pen of Vitlin

Educational Institutions		133-148
The buds of revival	Israel Baruch
The Hebrew Public School	A. Shayari
With the youth and the Hebrew School in the twenties	Israel Igra
Halutzim (pioneering) movements in town	A. Shayari
Two Pictures

Miscellaneous		151-183
Select leader of the Busk Community Dr. S. Koten	A. Shayari
Mourning the chosen few	Avraham Brother-of-Yakov
Nachum Holin, may God avenge his blood	Avraham Shayari
A true story [Y]	Manes Padwa
From a meeting with my uncle Aharon Samet	Shimon Samet
How I made Aliya to Eretz Israel in 1939	Meir Dror
Six Pictures
The Tarnopoler rabbi R'Yosele in Busk	Zvi Horowitz
Organization of former Busk residents in Israel	Yeshayahu Karavan
Two Pictures
A public call	Committee of former Busk residents
Four Pictures
Announcement on the establishment of the Association	The Committee
A Call from the Ladies Auxiliary
Six Pictures
Memories from my Father's town Busk [Y]	Moshe Siegler

Former Residents of Busk in New York		187-209
Introduction	A. Shayari
Establishment of Busker Benei Brit in New Yorh	A. Friedman
A Monument to the Holocaust victims
Busk former residents in America [Y]	Asher Padwa
My activity in America [Y]	Shamay Tziffer
Shamay Tziffer, the man of action	A. S.
Selected Chapters
Shamay Tziffer, as I know him [Y]	Asher Padwa
To my friends and Landsleit [Y]	Shamay Tziffer
Jubilee of Benei Brit of former residents of Busk	A. Shayari
Documents

The Holocaust		213-271
Episodes of the Holocaust - Introduction	A. S.
Beginning and End	Avraham Shayari
The Judenrat in the town Busk	Maria Steinberg
Binyamin Shapira	Eyal's grandfather
My experienes during the Nazi period [Y]	Michal Babad
Our children's last laugh [H and Y]	Helen Keiman
Moshe Zeiden's family	Avraham Ben Menachem
In memory of Shraga Feivish and Pesia Chari	Ronen's grandfather
A memorial to the Holyn Family	Naftali Holyn
The Schwadran Family [Y]	Chana Richman-Schwadran
How could that have been possible? [Y]	Nachman Blumenthal
Until the age of 22 a Christian, now he studies in a Yeshiva [Y]	Menashe Ungar
Busk during the years 1939-1941	Shmuel Tziffer
My town Busk - poems	Zvi Horowitz

Y I Z K O R		275-284
An Eternal Candle
Ah Eternal Candle - Elegy
A memorial monument in New York
Our beloved martyrs
Yizkor
Figures
Names of the Martyrs (Necrology)		285-293

Articles in English and Polish		297-346
Preface	A. Shayari	V-VI
A History of the town of Busk	A. Shayari	VII-XIV
A Short Introduction to the Chapter	A.Shayari	XV
At the Foot of Sinai, Busk	O. Clemenceau	XV-XXVI
Dear Sisters, Brothers and American Natives of Busker Parents		XXVII-XXVIII
Two letters		XXIX-XXXII
Dr. Benjamin Fridman. N.Y.		XXXIII-XXXIV
How I Survived	Jacob Goldberg	XXXIV-XXXVIII
Likwidacja ghetto w Busku	Naftali Goldberg	XLI-LIV

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