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Translation of
Sefer Radom
Editors: Y. Perlow; [English section]: Alfred Lipson
Tel Aviv 1961
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Yiddish Section
Contents translated by Yocheved Klausner |
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Foreword | 6 | |
Our Lineage Book | The Organization of Radom Natives in Israel | 7 |
Editor's Foreword | Yitzchak Perlow | 12 |
The History of the Jews in Radom | ||
Chapters from the Past | Dr. N. M. Gelber, Jerusalem | 17 |
Three Personalities | 24 | |
Pages of history | Shmuel Benet | 26 |
Jews in Radom | Leizer Fischmsn | 28 |
Equal Rights | Judge Joseph Bekkerman | 36 |
Frankfurt is Asking to Return a Debt | M. Stashevski | 37 |
The Religious Life | ||
Torah and Hassidism | M. S. Geshuri | 41 |
The Modzhisher Rabbi, R'Israel Taub | M. S. Geshuri | 41 |
The Rabbi R'Yakov Yerachmiel Taub | M. S. Geshuri | 42 |
The Bialovshener Rabbi R'Shraga Yair Rabinowitz and his son R'NathanDavid | M. S. Geshuri | 42 |
The Rabbi R'Yosef Eliezer Rabinowitz | M. S. Geshuri | 42 |
Tha Rabbi R'Moshe Elyakum Briya Frimer | M. S. Geshuri | 43 |
The Rabbi R'Eliezer Elimelekh Rokach | M. S. Geshuri | 43 |
The Hassidim Shtiblech [Shtibel = Hassidic prayer house] | M. S. Geshuri | 44 |
The Community and its Rabbis a general overview | Leizer Fishman | 47 |
Rabbi Yehoshua Landau | M. S. Geshuri | 49 |
Rabbi Gavriel Dantziger | M. S. Geshuri | 50 |
Rabbi Shmuel Mohliver | M. S. Geshuri | 50 |
Rabbi Eliezer Leib Treistman | Leizer Fishman | 51 |
Rabbi Yechiel Kestenberg and his personal tragedy | Leizer Fishman | 52 |
From the Press | 55 | |
Judges in the Religious Court [Dayanim] | ||
Rabbi Eliezer Weinsaft | M. S. Geshuri | 57 |
Rabbi Aharon Hakohen Mildman | M. S. Geshuri | 57 |
R'Shraga Feivel Mildman | M. S. Geshuri | 58 |
Rabbi MenachemMendel Halevy Kestenberg | M. S. Geshuri | 58 |
Rabbi MenachemMendel Weingart | M. S. Geshuri | 58 |
Rabbi Shmuel Teitelbaum | Leizer Fishman | 58 |
Ritual Slaughterers | 59 | |
Cantors | M. S. Geshuri, Leibel Richtman | 62 |
Yeshivas | Leibel Richtman | 65 |
Hevra Kadisha [Burial Society] | Leibel Richtman | 66 |
Finally, the TalmudTora | Melech Guthertz | 67 |
Municipal Activity | ||
The Community | Moshe Rotenberg | 71 |
The Judge | Moshe Rotenberg | 77 |
Community Activists | 86 | |
The Three who were Hanged | M. R. | 90 |
Our Equal Rights | 90 | |
A Victim of the Riots | Bunem Zucker | 91 |
The Pshitik Events | Yehoshua R. | 93 |
Nothing (poem) | Alter Wolf Wertheim | 98 |
The Enlightenment Period; Culture and Education | ||
Reflections of the Jewish Enlightenment | Pinkhas Gal (Fogelman) | 101 |
The First National Educators | Sh. Stravchinsky | 103 |
Pioneers of the Jewish Enlightenment | 104 | |
Pshiatshul Viedzi Gymnasia | 108 | |
The Director H. Hurvitz | 109 | |
Yishayahu Goldshteyn; Esther Melkhior | 110 | |
School Cult | 111 | |
Religious Tutors and Teachers | Leibel Richtman | 112 |
The Student Battalion Hashomer (The Guard) | A. Rozenfeld | 116 |
The Jewish Academic Club | 117 | |
The Hazamir Club (The Nightingale Club) | Dr. Henia Rakotch | 117 |
P. Giser's Music School; Theatre and Art | 118 | |
The Dramatic Club | 119 | |
Memories of the Drama Club | Khaim Elboym | 120 |
Libraries | 121 | |
The Fruits of the Jewish Enlightenment | Kh. L. Huberman | 122 |
My Hometown (poem) | Malka Royzntzveyg Plotzky | 123 |
Ways and Activities of a National Leader | ||
A Portrait of a Civic and National Leader, Yekhiel Ben Yisroel Frenkel | Collected and adapted by Leibel Richtman | 127 |
My Father's House | Miriam Frenkel Szwarc | 130 |
Commerce, Craft, Industry | ||
An Industrial Center | Eng. Tzimmerman | 133 |
Jews in the LeatherIndustry | Moshe Rotenberg | 134 |
Jewish Workers | S. Wachs | 137 |
The Merchants' Union | Aharon Merin | 137 |
Banks, CreditCooperations | 138 | |
Cooperations and Craftsmen | Shalom Strovthinski | 141 |
Vocational School | 143 | |
ORT | 143 | |
Figures in the Economic Life | 144 | |
Philanthropic Activities | ||
The Jewish Hospital | Yehoshua Helfant | 151 |
The Home for the Aged | 154 | |
The Silver Key (to the opening of the Home for the Aged) | I. L. Zucker | 155 |
The Orphanage | 155 | |
AidSociety for Women in Childbirth | 157 | |
Linat Tzedek [free accomodation for guests] | 157 | |
T O Z | 158 | |
Great Charity: Nurses' Help | 159 | |
Ezra | Leizer Fischman | 160 |
Ahi'ezer | 160 | |
Hachnasat Kala [help for poor brides] | 160 | |
Hachnasat Orhim [Welcoming Guests] | 160 | |
Help for the imprisoned | 160 | |
Jewish Support Committee | 161 | |
Refugees Committee | 162 | |
Activists in Various Societies | 162 | |
Gemilut Hasadim [FreeofInterest Loan Fund] | 163 | |
Society for Mutual Help | 163 | |
Philanthropists and GoodDoers | 164 | |
Movements | ||
Hibat Zion and the Zionist Movement | Pinhas Gal | 173 |
Baron Rothschild and the Radom people (a Letter) | 174 | |
The Zionist Movement is Getting Organized | Pinhas Gal | 175 |
The Jewish PrintingShop in Drilosh | Moshe Shadmi | 177 |
The General Zionist Organization | Moshe Rothenberg | 178 |
A letter from the Austrian Occupation | 179 | |
1911 1918 | Moshe Shoshani | 181 |
The Aliya from Radom | 183 | |
The Lithuanian Commune | 183 | |
The beginning of the Third Aliya | Moshe Pomrok | 183 |
Episodes from the 105 Group | A. Rosenfeld | 185 |
The Third Aliya | Yechiel Golembyovski | 186 |
The Fourth Aliya | 187 | |
The Hechalutz Farm | Chaim Teichman | 188 |
Memories from the Farm | 189 | |
The League for Working Eretz Israel | Moshe Stashevski | 190 |
Hashomer Hatza'ir | Sala Blumstein | 191 |
The Po'alei Zion Movement | S. BenChaim | 192 |
The Pioneer [Halutz] Movement | Yona BenYaakov | 195 |
Benot Zion [The Daughters of Zion] | Devora BankerGrushkewitz | 195 |
The Hechalutz Fund | 196 | |
The Kibbutz Drei Voven [Three Vav Letters Varsaw, Volhyn, Vilna] | 196 | |
The Training Kibbutz named after R'Shmuel Mohliver | Israel Grintz | 197 |
The Bereshit Kibbutz of the Torah Va'avoda Movement | 197 | |
Massada | Fela Burstein | 198 |
Mizrahi and the Torah Va'avoda Movement | Dr. I. M. Grinitz | 198 |
The Revisionist Movement | Att. Israel Gertner | 200 |
Menorah | Moshe Reichnadel | 203 |
Agudat Israel | Yitzhak Reichman | 203 |
Activists and Movements | 205 | |
The Strikes in 1905 (correspondence) | 209 | |
The Bund and the Professional Unions | 210 | |
The Bells Began to Ring | Samuel Grossfeld | 210 |
Radom Sons fallen in the Spanish Civil War | Alfred Grant | 212 |
Radom Professions (poem) | Yehoshua Lender | 214 |
Writers and their Works | ||
The Radom Writers Pleiad | 217 | |
Yehoshua Perle (biobibliography) | 218 | |
Perle, the Painter of the Polish Landscape | I. Lender | 218 |
The AllYear Jews | Yehoshua Perle | 219 |
Leib Mal'ach (biobibliography) | 223 | |
The Road Back (a tale) | Leib Mal'ach | 224 |
Moshe David Gisser (biobibliography) | 226 | |
Poems | Moshe David Gisser | 227 |
Moshe David, continued | 229 | |
A Safe Harbor | Uri Gisser. From Spanish: Yona Obadovski | 229 |
The Mirror and I (poem) | Tamar Gisser. From Hebrew: I. Perlov | 230 |
Lea Finkelstein (biobibliography) | 231 | |
Avira DePolania [Polish Air] | Lea Finkelstein | 231 |
Chaim Mordechai Fliegelman (biobibliography) | I. L. Zucker | 234 |
Yehuda and Tamar | Ch. M. Fliegelman | 234 |
Yehuda Leib Wollman | I. L. Zucker | 236 |
Dr. Yitzhak Weinberg | 237 | |
A. Lehrman | 237 | |
Tuvia Rothman | 238 | |
Not by Might, nor by Power (poem) [from Zekharya 4:6] | Tuvia Rothman | 238 |
Authors Torah Commentators | ||
Naftali ben PinchasZev HaLevy | M. S. Geshuri | 239 |
Meir HaLevi Borstein | M. S. Geshuri | 239 |
Rabbi Yehuda Rosenberg | M. S. Geshuri | 239 |
Eliezer Lipman Perl | M. S. Geshuri | 240 |
Rabbi Yeshaya Zlotnik | Israel Grinitz | 240 |
Newspapers and Editors | 241 | |
The Artist A. Rosenbaum | Yechiel Aronsohn | 243 |
Artists, Musicians, Writers | 244 | |
A Town with Jews | ||
The Beautiful PolishJewish Town | Lea Radomska | 247 |
The Old Garden (poem) | Alter Wolf Wertheim | 248 |
(Fragments from A Goldene Pave = a Golden Peacock) | Yehoshua Perle | 249 |
People tell…. | Moshe Stashevski | 252 |
Curiosities | Ch. Teichman | 254 |
The Synagogues Street | Melech Gutherz | 255 |
Memories | I. L. Zucker | 256 |
Mordechai Beinish the Firefighter | I. L. Zucker | 259 |
The Life of a Proletarian | Avraham Storch | 260 |
Two poems | H. L. Huberman | 263 |
Jewish Women on Shabat (poem) | N. D. Korman | 264 |
Shabat Days and Holidays | Feige Rachel Benett | 264 |
Yose'le the son of the Midwife | Yechiel Popyelnik | 265 |
Yakov Hershe'le the informer | Yechiel Popyelnik | 266 |
Tales | S. Margalit | 267 |
The Cripple | Gitel RosenzweigFarber | 272 |
A Dibbuk | Mordechai Zucker | 273 |
About Three Rabbis | 274 | |
The Destruction of Radom | ||
September Days1939 | 277 | |
The German Army Arrives | 278 | |
The Judenrat | 279 | |
KiddushHashem | 279 | |
Lack of Living Conditions, Forced Labour and Jewish Offices | 281 | |
Living To the Death | 282 | |
In Lublin and at the Russian Border | 283 | |
The First Expulsion | 284 | |
Ghetto; The Jewish Police, the Office for Living Conditions | 285 | |
Ghetto Administration | 286 | |
It Becomes More and More Difficult | 287 | |
An Ordinary Day in the Ghetto | 288 | |
Health Conditions in the Ghetto | 290 | |
Political Life in the Ghetto | 292 | |
Cultural Life in the Ghetto | 296 | |
Religious Life in the Ghetto | 298 | |
Robbery, Murder, Actions in the Ghetto | 299 | |
WorkPlaces | 300 | |
Liquidation of the Glinitz Ghetto | 301 | |
After the Liquidation of the Glinitz Ghetto | 303 | |
Liquidation of the Big Ghetto | 306 | |
Evacuation of the Jewish Hospital, Orphanage and Home for the Aged | 311 | |
After the Evacuation | 312 | |
The number of Jews in the Radom District | 314 | |
In the Little Ghetto | 316 | |
The Jewish Property | 317 | |
Daily Life in the Little Ghetto | 317 | |
The Ghetto Administration | 318 | |
Work Places and Labor Camps | 319 | |
The Little Beit Midrash in the Little Ghetto | 319 | |
Several Families Travel to EretzIsrael | 320 | |
The Registration for Eretz Israel | 320 | |
The Resettlement to Szydlowiec | 321 | |
The Murder on New Year's Eve | 321 | |
The Action of January 13 | 321 | |
Massacre of Intellectuals, Purim March 21, 1943 | 323 | |
The Murder in Wolanow | 325 | |
The Liquidation of the Little Ghetto | 326 | |
The Concentration Camp on Szkolna Street | 327 | |
The Bloody March RadomTomashovAuschwitz | 329 | |
The Women in Auschwitz | 332 | |
In Majdanek, Plashov, and Vielichki | 333 | |
The Fate of the Radomer Women in Majdanek | 335 | |
On the Cursed German Soil: The concentration Camps | ||
Feihingen, Hessenthal, Unterriksingen, Dautmergen, Schoenberg, Bietingen | 336 | |
Pianki, Auschwitz, Hindenburg, Bergen, Baumlitz, Elsingen | 339 | |
The Evacuation from Feihingen to Dachau | 340 | |
Radom People in Maidanek, PleshovVielitchki, Mathausen, Giessen | 343 | |
Radomer Jews executed in the Feihingen concentration camp, who were brought to be buried in the Radom cemetery |
344 | |
List of Radomer Jews in Dachau, who were buried in Leitinberg | 345 | |
List of Jews from various towns who were killed along with those from Radom in the Feihingen concentration camp |
345 | |
Radom Martyrs and Rebels in Auschwitz | I. Eiger | 346 |
Kol Nidrei in Auschwitz and the Revenge on a Kapo | Yona Borenstein | 350 |
A Seder Pesach in Feihingen | Moshe Perl (from Hebrew: L. Richtman) | 351 |
The Liberation of a Radom Group | Moshe Kirschenblatt | 352 |
Partisans, Heroes and Martyrs | L. Richtman | 354 |
The Death of a Hero Partisan | Shmuel Guttman | 362 |
Two Figures in the Ghetto | ||
Rabbi Israel Shapira | Leibel Richtman | 365 |
Felicia Horowitch | Lea Pines | 365 |
A Child in Hell | Sarah NeidikWallach | 366 |
Wanderers (Radom Refugees in The Soviet Union) | M. Stashefski | 366 |
Jewish Life in Radom after Liberation | Yakov Weingort | 372 |
The Death of my Sister Reizl | Chana Grodzinski | 374 |
People in Hiding | Binyamin Ellis | 375 |
The Wedding (poem) | M. D. Giesser | 378 |
The German Exile | ||
The Radom Center in Stuttgart | Leibel Richtman | 381 |
The Stuttgart Events | Leibel Richtman | 392 |
Shmuel Danziger zl | Leibel Richtman | 393 |
The Illegal Aliya and the Deportation to Cyprus | Sarah NeidikWallach | 393 |
The New Generation (poem) | M. D. Giesser | 394 |
In Our Own Country | ||
Our Town People from the Second Aliya | 397 | |
Over Borders | M. Stashefski | 398 |
Meetings with A. D. Gordon and Yosef Trumpeldor | David Tzidkuni | 398 |
Malka'le Neidik's Hut | Miriam Shir | 399 |
The Virgin Family | Yechiel Frenkel | 401 |
Working Places in the Country | I. L. Zucker | 402 |
A Letter from Radom | Moshe Seifman | 402 |
Three who have not survived | Yehuda G. | 403 |
Radom Hero Sons, who have Sacrificed their Young Lives for the State of Israel, in the War of Independence and the Sinai Campaign |
Collected and Prepared by Leibel Richtman | |
Bakman Nechemia | 407 | |
BenDor Chaim | 407 | |
Ze'ira ZviZev | 407 | |
Minkovski Motl | 408 | |
Salbe Shlomo | 408 | |
Smotritch Yitzhak | 408 | |
Friedman Menachem | 409 | |
Fichtenbaum Hillel | 409 | |
Kaufman Menachem | 409 | |
Kleinman Immanuel | 409 | |
Rosenbaum Yosef | 410 | |
Rothman YitzkhakMeir | 410 | |
Schwartzman Israel | 410 | |
Fighters and Defenders | ||
Zelker Dov Berl | P. Gal | 411 |
Birenbaum Chaim | Shmuel Zucker | 412 |
Shmuel NoamZucker | I. L. Zucker | 412 |
A Soldier Fell in Battle (sonnet) | Moshe Knapheiss | 413 |
Social Leaders, Died in our Country | 414 | |
My Mother | Yehuda G. | 421 |
Kadish (poem) | M. D. Giesser | 421 |
The Organization of Former Radom Residents in Israel | Leibel Richtman | 422 |
Eretz Israel (poem) | M. D. Giesser | 426 |
Radom Jews Throughout the World | ||
1. In America | ||
The First Radom Congregation | 429 | |
The Radom Culture Center | 430 | |
40 Years to the United Radomer Relief | A. Lipson | 432 |
The History of the Relief | Shlomo Lifshitz | 433 |
Employees, Committee Members and Avtivists in New York | 435 | |
50 years to the Radom Workers Circle, Branch 369 | Samuel Grossfeld | 435 |
Radomer Mutual Society in NewYork | Israel Glatt | 436 |
2. In Canada | ||
Radomer Mutual Benefit Society in Toronto | 439 | |
The History of the Radom Aid Society in Montreal | Yechiel PopperPopielnik | 440 |
Benei Radom [Radom People, lit. Radom Sons] in Toronto | 441 | |
In Australia | ||
The Radom Center in Melbourne | Shmuel Benett | 441 |
In France | ||
The Society Friends of Radom in Paris | Ch. L. Huberman | 442 |
The Patronate | 443 | |
After the Destruction | Moshe Epstein | 444 |
Two Trips | S. Fischman | 446 |
The Founders of the Society Friends of Radom | 446 | |
English Section | ||
Foreword | III | |
Introduction | VII | |
Part I: Creative Years | ||
Pages from the Past | 3 | |
Pioneers in Industry and Fighters for Freedom | 5 | |
Religious Life in Radom | 7 | |
Modern Currents | 12 | |
Center of Industry | 15 | |
Pioneers in Industry | 20 | |
Jewish Education in Radom | 22 | |
Radom's Contribution to Literature and Art | 27 | |
Yechiel Frenkel A Portrait of a Civic and National Leader | 29 | |
Municipal Affairs | 31 | |
Pogrom in Przytyk | 33 | |
Part II: The Years of Disaster | ||
Under Nazi Rule | 39 | |
The Ghettos in Radom | 42 | |
Health Conditions in the Ghetto | 47 | |
Cultural Activities in the Ghetto | 49 | |
Robbery and Murder | 51 | |
Labor Camps | 58 | |
K.L. on Szkolna | 63 | |
Death Camps | 66 | |
A Modern Odyssey | 68 | |
Vaihingen and Dachau | 70 | |
Journey to Life | 72 | |
Part III: Rebellion | ||
Active and Passive Resistance | 77 | |
Part IV: Recovery | ||
In the Displaced Persons Center of Stuttgart | 85 | |
UNRRA and its Role | 90 | |
Part V: Building Anew | ||
Radomers Pioneers in Israel | 95 | |
In Australia | 96 | |
In France | 98 | |
In Canada | 99 | |
In the United States | 100 | |
History of the United Radomer Relief | 106 | |
In the Service of Their People | 113 | |
Who's Who in Literature and the Arts | 115 | |
Radom Name Index | 116 |
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