Yiddish Section Contents translated by Yocheved Klausner
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'Nathan–David	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 Menachem–Mendel Halevy Kestenberg	M. S. Geshuri	58
Rabbi Menachem–Mendel 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 Talmud–Tora	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
Radom – An Industrial Centre	Engineer Tzimerman	133
Jews in the Leather Industry	Moishe Rotenberg	134
Jewish Tannery Workers	Sh. Vaks	137
The Merchant's Association	Aron Merin	137
The Founding of the Merchant's Bank		138
The Zionist Bank		139
Cooperation and Artisanry	Sholem Stravchinsky	141
The Artisan – School Named After Yisroel Frenkel		143
ORT		143
Figures in Economic Life	Sh. S.	144
Philanthropic Activities
The Jewish Hospital	Yehoshua Helfant	151
The Old People's Home		154
The Silver Key…	Yehuda Tzuker	155
The Orphanage		155
The Society to Help New Mothers		157
The Society to Spend the Night with the Sick		157
“TOZ”		158
“The Great Charity”		159
“Ezra” (“Aid”)	Leizer Fischman	160
“Akhiezer”		160
“Communal Help for Young Girls Without Resources to Marry”		160
“Communal Hospitality to Guests”		160
Aid for Jews Who Were Arrested		160
Excerpts from a Presentation		161
The Refugee Committee		162
Active Leaders (In various societies)		162
“Interest Free Loan Society”		163
The Mutual Aid Society		163
Philanthropists and Benefactors		164
Movements
Lovers of Zion and the Zionist Movement	Pinhas Gal (Fogelman)	173
Baron Rothschild and the Sons of Radom		174
The Zionist Organization Organizes		175
The Zionist Printing House in Drilzh	Moshe Shadmi (Grosfeld)	177
The General Zionist Organization	Moishe Rotenberg	178
Letters from the Austrian Occupation		179
1911 - 1918	Moshe Shoshani	181
The Aliyot (Immigrations) From Radom	David Tzadkani (Rekhtman)	183
The “Lithuanian Commune”		183
The Beginning of the First Aliyah	Moishe Pomrok	183
Episodes from the Group “105”	Arnold Rozenfeld	185
The Third Aliyah	Yekhiel Ben Yakov (Golembyovsky)	186
The Fourth Aliyah		187
The “Hechalutz” (Pioneer) Farm	Khaim Taykhman	188
Memories of the Farm		189
The “League” for Workers in the Land of Israel”	Moishe Stashevsky	190
The Clubhouse of “Hashomer Hatzair”	Sala Blushteyn (Kimchi)	191
The Labour Zionist Movement (Po'alei Zion), As I Remember It	Sh. Ben – Chaim	192
The Pioneer Movement	Yonah Ben – Yakov	195
“Daughters of Zion”	Dvorah Banker – Grushkvevitch	195
The “Pioneer Fund”		196
Kibbutz Three Vs		196
The Training Kibbutz Named for Reb Shmuel Mohliver	Yisroel Grintz	197
Kibbutz “Breishit” (Genesis)		197
“Masada”	Fela Burshteyn – Kimchi	198
“Mizrachi”	Dr. Y. Grinitz	198
The Revisionist Movement	Yisroel Gertner	200
”Menorah”	Moshe Reichnadel	203
The “Agudas Yisroel”	Yitzkhak Raykhman	203
Active Leaders in the Movements		205
The Strikes in 1905		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 (bio–bibliography)		218
Perle, the Painter of the Polish Landscape	I. Lender	218
The “All–Year” Jews	Yehoshua Perle	219
Leib Mal'ach (bio–bibliography)		223
The Road Back (a tale)	Leib Mal'ach	224
Moshe David Gisser (bio–bibliography)		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 (bio–bibliography)		231
Avira DePolania [Polish Air]	Lea Finkelstein	231
Chaim Mordechai Fliegelman (bio–bibliography)	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 Pinchas–Zev 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 Polish–Jewish 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
Yosele the Haybam's	Yekhiel Popielnik - Popper	265
Yakov Hershele the Informer	Yekhiel Popielnik - Popper	266
Tales	S. Margalit	267
The Cripple	Gitel Rosenzweig–Farber	272
A Dibbuk	Mordechai Zucker	273
About Three Rabbis		274
The Destruction of Radom
September Days–1939		277
The German Army Arrives		278
The Judenrat		279
Kiddush–Hashem		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
Work-Places		300
Liquidation of the Glinice Ghetto		301
After the Liquidation of the Glinice Ghetto		303
The Liquidation of the Large Ghetto		306
The Evacuation of the Jewish Hospital, Orphanage and Old-Peoples' Home		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 Eretz–Israel		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 Radom–Tomashov–Auschwitz		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		336
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 Nidre” in Auschwitz and the Revenge on a Kapo	Yona Borenstein	350
A Pesach Seder in Vaihingen	Moshe Perl (Hebrew: L. Richtman-Yiddish)	351
The Liberation of a Group of Radomers	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 Neidik–Wallach	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 z”l	Leibel Richtman	393
The Illegal Aliya and the Deportation to Cyprus	Sarah Neidik–Wallach	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
Ben–Dor Chaim		407
Ze'ira Zvi–Zev		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 Yitzkhak–Meir		410
Schwartzman Israel		410
Fighters and Defenders
Zelker Dov Berl	P. Gal	411
Birenbaum Chaim	Shmuel Zucker	412
Shmuel Noam–Zucker	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 New–York	Israel Glatt	436
2. In Canada
“Radomer Mutual Benefit Society” in Toronto		439
The History of the Radom Aid Society in Montreal	Yechiel Popper – Popielnik	440
“Benei Radom” [Radom People, lit. Radom Sons] in Toronto		441
In Australia
The Radomer Centre in Melbourne	Shmuel [Samuel] 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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