Rzeszow, Poland

Rzeszow, Poland Rzeszow Community Memorial Book
(Poland)
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Translation of
Kehilat Raysha sefer zikaron

Edited by: M. Yari-Wold

Published in Tel Aviv, by Former residents of Rzeszow in Israel and the USA, 1967 (H,Y,E)

Acknowledgments
Project Coordinator

Marian Rubin (emerita)

With appreciation to Mrs. Klara Ma'ayan, Tel Aviv, president of the Rzeszow (Reisha) Landsmanschaft, for granting permission to translate the Reisha Yizkor Book and put it on the JewishGen website, and with thanks also for his consent to Mr. Stanley Low, New Jersey, whose father, Irving Low, played a major role in publishing the original book.
With appreciation and thanks to Aliya Middleton (nee Senensieb) and Eda (Ester) Senensieb (nee Kraut) for their generosity with their skill and care in proof-reading, beginning in late 2000.

This translation is funded by contributions from the following people: Jonathan Ansell, Robert Atlas, Eleanor Bien, Ilan Blech, Michael Franzblau, David Geller, Gary Goffin, Sally Goodman, Eden Joachim, Nancy Koretz, Joerg-Rein.Kropp, Robert Lebowitz, Harry Low, Stanley Low, Ryan Luft, Charles Reich, Robin C. Rodney, Marian Rubin, George Salton, Joel Shield, Pearl Shottenfeld, Robert Silverstein, Carol Skydell, Renee Steinig and Claude Trink, Alfred Amkraut, Susana Leistner Bloch, Louis A. Fine, Steven Hellinger, Molly and Roman Nadel, Gedalia Sharon, Perl Wohlfeld.

This is a translation from: Rzeszow, Poland: Kehilat Raysha; sefer zikaron (Rzeszow community; memorial book),
Editors: M. Yari-Wold, Tel Aviv, Former Residents of Rzeszow in Israel and the USA, 1967 (H,Y,E, 762 pages)

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Introductory remarks

from the coordinator of the Rzeszow Yizkor book Translation Project, Marian Rubin:
Mrs. Klara Munzberg Ma'ayan, Tel Aviv, president of the Reisha Landsmanschaft, has dedicated her life to the remembrance of the Reisha community. Mrs. Ma'ayan arranges the annual yahrzeit (memorial) service for the Reisha community in Israel each year. She initiated a project resulting in a beautiful memorial site in the woods of Glogow where approximately 5,000 Jews from Reisha and nearby towns were murdered by the Nazis. Mrs. Ma'ayan spoke eloquently at the ceremony to dedicate the memorial site on June 26, 1995. In June 1998, Mrs. Ma'ayan and some members of the Landsmanschaft attended a ceremony in Rzeszow to dedicate a plaque placed in the synagogue in memory of their lost community.
Mrs. Ma'ayan and her husband Artek Ma'ayan, who died in Israel in 1994, and whom Mrs. Ma'ayan speaks of in her story, have three children, and several grandchildren.

Hebrew Section

Contents 5

Photographs 8

A Note by the Publication Committee 10

Editors' Foreword 11

Lament Shlomo Tal 13

Reisha Berish Weinstein 14

Map of Rzeszow & Vicinity 16

The History of the Jews of Rzeszow Dr. N. M. Gelber

Note from translator

Chapter 1: The Development of the Town 17 - 24

Chapter 2: The Beginning of Jewish Settlement in Rzeszow Until 1772 25 - 31

Chapter 3: Occupations and Livelihood of the Jews 31 - 36

Chapter 4: The Community 36 - 42

Charper 5: The Rabbis of the City 42 - 45

Chapter 6: The Cemetery 45 - 47

Chapter 7: The Period of Austrian Rule, 1772-1848 47 - 54

Chapter 8: Rzeszow from 1849-1919 55 - 63

Chapter 9: Rzeszow from 1919-1939 63 - 64

The Goldsmiths of Reisha Dr. Moshe Yaari Wald 65

Pages of History Dr. Henry Y. Wachtel of New York 66 - 67

Jewish Reisha Zvi Simha Leder 68

Faith & Tradition in Rzeszow

Rabbis of Rzeszów 71

Rzeszów Abba Appelbaum

The City and its Rabbis Rabbi Moshe Kamelhar 72

A. The Early Kehilla

B. The Rabbis of the Community of Rzeszów

C. The Rabbi and Gaon Rabbi Shmuel HaLevi and his sons

D. The Gaon Rabbi Aryeh Leib the son–in–law of the “Chacham Tzvi” and his Sons 80

My Grandfather Rabbi Nathan Lewin Rabbi Dr. Isaac Levin 82

Traits of Rabbi Nathan Levin Shlomo Tal 85

The Rabbi, Reb Aaron Levin Rabbi Dr. Isaac Levin 86

My Father, Rabbi Dr. Ezekiel Levin Isaac (Kurt) Levin 91

Rabbi Nathan Levin and his Bet Din Rabbi Moshe Kamelhar 93

My Father, Rabbi Yekutiel Arieh Kamelhar Rabbi Moshe Kamelhar 95

Rabbi Nahum Reuben Felsker Rabbi Issachar Berish Halperin 100

Rabbi Berish Steinberg Rabbi Moshe Halevi 100

Reb Joseph Reich Shlomo Tal 101

Hassidism in Rzeszow

Rzeszow in Hassidic Circles M. Sh. Geshuri 103 - 107

Hassidic Courts Rabbi Moshe Kamelhar 107 - 115

The Rabbi of Blazowa and His Dynasty Shlomo Tal 115 - 118

Religious Education in Rzeszow

Yeshivot in Reisha M. S. Geshuri 118

Shamashim (Synagogue Attendants) Rabbi Moshe Kamelhar 119

Cantors and Synagogue Music in Reisha M. S. Geshuri 120

Meir Diener Pessah Diener 123

Cantor Dov Menachem Konwiser (1887–1936) Herzl Konvisser 123

Prayer-Leaders for the Days of Awe 124

Synagogues in Reisha Eng. David Davidovitch 125

In the Haskala Press 128

Before and Between the World Wars

Rzeszow in the Past Leon Weisenfeld 132

During the Interregnum Dr. Moshe Yaari Wald 134 - 136

The Chaos of 1918 Rabbi Moshe Kamelhar 137

The Pogrom of Rzeszow Naftali Hakhel 137

The Sejm (Parliament) Committee, and the Ministers from Rzeszow Dr. Yechezkel Lewin 138

The Morgenthau commission in Central Galicia Yosef Storch 140

Organizations and Factions

“Hashachar” in Rzeszow Dr. N. M. Gelber 141

“Shulamit” Dvora Abramowitz 142

A. General Zionists in Rzeszow Dr. Moshe Yaari-Wald 143

Untitled Shlomo Alweis 144

B. The First of Poalei Zion 145

History of Poalei Zion in Rzeszow Michael Walzer-Fass of Hod Hasharon (Hadar Ramataim) 146

“Hashachar” “Haivria” and “Hechalutz” Alter Tishbi (Sitz) 151 - 153

Organizations and Societies in Rzeszow David the son of Avraham Tuchfeld 153 - 157

Religious Parties Naftali Hakhel of Tel Aviv 157

The Founding of the Mizrachi Rabbi Moshe Kamelhar 158

The History of “Mizrachi” in Rzeszow M. S. Geshuri 160 - 171

“Agudas Yisrael” Shlomo Tal 164

Revisionist Movement (its beginning and development) Avraham Mussinger 165

Organization of Jewish Academics in Rzeszow Yehoshua Alexander Rosner (Keller) 169

Youth in Rzeszow during the 1930s Pepa Wachspress-Lisak Tuchfeld 170

The Birth of Hashomer Hatzair Meir Yaari 172

“Hashomer Hatzair” in Rzeszow from 1924 Abraham Mussinger 173

The “Hashomer Hatzair” Chapter in Rzeszow That Shaped Me Sara Altman (Batist) 175 - 177

Hashomer Hatzair Members Make Aliya Eva Kirsch 177

Rzeszow Emigres in Hashomer Hatzair Kibbutzim Tuvia Yaari 177

In Memory of the “Hechalutz” Chapter Lotka Kleid (Schlisselberg) 178

Years of Setback Marcus Dornfest 179

Jewish Members of the Communist Party in Rzeszow Dr. Moshe Yaari 180

The “Noar Tzioni” Yehoshua Strassberg 181 - 183

Between the Years 1924-1939 Klara Ma'ayan (Munzberg) 183

The Hebrew School Professor Yitzhak Weiss 186

Once Upon a Time There Was a School Sabina Schneeweiss 187

The Nucleus of the Hebrew School Dr. Mauricy Ungar 188

Sport In Rzeszow Lawyer Alexander Joshua Rosner-Keller 189

The “Bar Kochba” Sport Association Avraham Ungar 191

The Society for the Preservation of Health Dr. Mauricy Ungar 192

Workers' Children's House in Rzeszow Louis Estherman 193

Beit Haam and the Hospital in Rzeszow Michael Walzer-Fass 195

The Publishing House of M. Goldberg Lotka Goldberg 198

Demographics of Rzeszow Jewry in the Year 1939 Manes Fromer 199

Memories and Experiences

A Portrait of Rzeszow at the Beginning of the 20th Century Dr. Moshe Yaari Wald 201

Some Memories Dr. Shlomo Horowitz 225

A Heritage from a Reisha Home Meir Yaari 228

Childhood in Reisha Anda Amir Pinkerfeld 228

Rzeszow Jews and Censuses Ben Zion Fett 229

Reisha at the End of the 1^st World War 1914 - 1918 M. Ungerfeld 232

Early Years in Reisha Irving Low 234

One in a Thousand Uzzi ben Moshe and Ronni Wechsler 235

Reisha in the First World War S. An-ski 238

Reisha Professor S. I. Penueli 239

Maskilim and Writers

From “the Sages of the City” Gershon Bader 243

1. Moshe David Geschwind 243

2. Abba Apfelbaum 244

3. Isaac Holzer 244

4. Oswald Henigsmann 244

5. Leon Wiesenfeld 244

6. Moshe Wiesenfeld 244

7. Asher Simha Weissmann 245

8. Wilhelm Turteltaub 245

On Abba Apfelbaum: 245

1. Writer and Communal Worker Raphael Rosenzweig 245

2. Founder of the Teudat Israel School Dr. Ovadiah Barshal 246

3. Historian and Scholar Dr. Moshe Alter 248

Dr. Moshe Alter 248

Naphtali Ashriel-Glicksman Hanina Mizrahi 249

My Father Hayyim Wald Dr. Moshe Yaari Wald 249

My Brother Moshe Leon Wiesenfeld 252

Leon and Esther Wiesenfeld Michael Walzer Fass 253

Berish Weinstein Professor Dov Sedan 256

Berish Weinstein Moshe Starkmann 257

Berish Weinstein and his Reisha Nathan Yonathan 258

Dr. Henry Isaac Wachtel E.P. 259

Dr. Benjamin Schlager Simha Seiden 259

Zwi Simha Leder Leon Wiesenfeld 260

On Professor S. I. Penueli G. Kressel 260

Simha Seiden Zvi Simha Leder 261

Ben-Zion Fett Isaac Estreicher 261

The Violin of Nahum Sternheim Manes Fromer 262

Personalities And Characters

Reisha Personalities Dr. Moshe Yaari 264

1. Jacob Alter

2. Meshullam Davidson

3. Dr. Felix Hopfen

4. Dr. Aaron Arthur Wang

5. Asher Juda Silber

6. Levi-Leon Hayyim

7. Dr. Zvi Henryk Kanerek

Meshullam Davidson Tuviah Yaari 271

Naphtali Tuckfeld

Anna Kahana Leon Wiesenfeld 272

Elimelech Katz M. S. Geshuri 272

Irving Low David Ben Joseph 273

My Father Shlomo Minzberg Klara Maayan 274

Rabbi Dr. Zvi Koretz Simha Seiden 275

Jacob Elimelech Knecht and his Wife Isaac Estreicher 276

Joseph Sheinblum Zeev Zohar 277

Moshe Wang Abraham Wang 277

Isaac Estreicher Leon Wiesenfeld 278

1. Motish Eckstein's Family 280

2. The Mintz Family Shlomo Tal

Jewish Judges Moshe Reich 281

Personalities Naphtali Hakhel 282

The Uniqueness of Moshe David Ashriel Zvi Livneh 283

Eliahu Ashriel (Gluksman) E. P. 284

Yehoshua Ashriel (Gliksman) E. P. 284

Personalities and Occasions Rabbi Moshe Kamelhar 285

Reb Menachem Mendel Reich Rabbi Moshe Reich 289

My Brother Yisrael Rabbi Moshe Kamelhar 289

The dear ones of Rzeszow Yitzhak Isaac Nebenzahl 290

The Holocaust

Pour Out Thy Wrath (Drawing) Menahem Ronn 291

In the Face of the Holocaust Meir Yaari 292

Remember Klara Ma'ayan 293

The Martyrdom of the Reisha Community Dr. Asher Alexander Heller 294

The End of the Reisha Community Mala Krischer Munzberg 307

Majdanek G-d! Berish Weinstein 311

I Shall Not Die, But Shall Live Lotka Goldberg 312

During the Nazi Occupation Klara Ma'ayan Munzberg - Tel Aviv 322 - 325

I Escaped Death Dr. Michael Schneiweiss 326

Attempts at Resistance in Reisha Dov Zucker 331

The Last Jews of Reisha M. Hoffstetter 332 - 333

Memories of the Occupation Lola Weiss Immerglick 334

Reisha Women in Auschwitz Dinah Strassberg Einhorn 335

Hava Wuszka Jolles, A Girl Who Fought Menachem Levenstein 336

Reisha in 1946 Marcus Dornfest 338

Reisha's rebellious daughter M. Weinstein Lazer 339

Gola (Golda) Mire, an Anti-Nazi Fighter Dr. Moshe Yaari Wald 340

The Fate of Reisha Jewry, 1939 - 1944 Franciszek Kotula 342

Synagogues and Cemeteries 342

Some Memories 346

The Catacombs of Reisha (How Jews Vanished a Day Before the Liquidation of the Ghetto) 348

Polish Evidence on the Extermination of Reisha Jews Jan Forczek 350

Memories Professor Juliusz Kyas 352

Map of the City Abraham Mussinger 352

A Walk Through Reisha Abraham Mussinger 361

Small Towns and Villages in the Reisha District Dr. Moshe Yaari Wald 365

The Liberation Moshe Reich 367

Reisha Revisted in 1962 Haya Shlisselberg Tamari 367

Five Hundred Years; A Summing Up Manes Fromer 368

Obituaries

Abraham Altman Sarah Altman Batist 369

Abraham Teitelbaum 370

Mordechai Ben Elhanan Lipschitz 371

Simha Ben Mordechai Lipschitz 371

Eighteen Years of the Organization of Rzeszow and the District in Israel Isaac Estreicher 372

Yiddish Section

After a Thousand Years Berish Weinstein 376

I. On The History of the Jews in Rzeszow

Pages on the History of the Jews in Rzeszow Dr. Abraham Chomet 377

The History of the Rzeszow Cemetery Dr. Moshe Alter 423

II. Before and Between the Two World Wars

From Beginning to End Simha Seiden 426

Jewish Rzeszow Zvi Simha Leder 428

Bygone Rzeszow Leon Wiesenfeld 449

Poalei Zion in Rzeszow Michael Walzer Fass 466

The Jewish Workers' Children's Home in Rzeszow Louis Estherman 472

The Bar Kochba Sports Society Abraham Unger 475

Hassidim of the Rebbe of Dzikow Mordechai Sacher Sternberg 476

The Tailors' Synagogue Dr. Aharon Rosenbaum 476

A Meeting with the Hebrew Teacher of my Old Home Town Berish Weinstein 477

Memories of the Past Dr. Aharon Rosenbaum 478 - 480

My Home Ticzin 481

Memories of the Past Joseph Falk 483

Rzeszow Jews Jacob Beller 484

Ballad of Radiant Grandsires Berish Weinstein 486

III. Figures

Some of our Figures Zvi Simha Leder 488

Naphtali Tuchfeld David Tuchfeld 492

The Seventieth Jubilee of Abba Apfelbaum Simha Seiden 493

The Philosopher and Poet Dr. Benjamin Schlager 494

Mrs. Anna Kahana Leon Wiesenfeld 495

My Brother Moshe 496

Zvi Simha Leder 497

Irving Low Joseph Ben David 502

Berish Weinstein Moshe Starkman 505

Berish Weinstein's Birthday A. Tabatchnik 506

Nachum Sternheim Jonas Turkow 508

IV. The Destruction

Meidanek, God Berish Weinstein 512

The First Days of the War Joseph Laufban 513

The History of the Destruction of the Rzeszow Jewish Community Dr. Asher Alexander Heller 515

From Rzeszow by way of Wroclaw to America Israel Beck 537

What I saw in the Old Jewish City of Rzeszow Dr. Haim Shoshkes 538

Rzeszower & Province Landsmanschaft of Montreal 543

In Memoriam - Memorial Tributes to Families 545-620

Index of Names ( Names from pages translated. More will be added as translation proceeds.)
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Contents		5
Photographs		8
A Note by the Publication Committee		10
Editors' Foreword		11
Lament	Shlomo Tal	13
Reisha	Berish Weinstein	14
Map of Rzeszow & Vicinity		16

The History of the Jews of Rzeszow	Dr. N. M. Gelber
Note from translator
Chapter 1: The Development of the Town		17 - 24
Chapter 2: The Beginning of Jewish Settlement in Rzeszow Until 1772		25 - 31
Chapter 3: Occupations and Livelihood of the Jews		31 - 36
Chapter 4: The Community		36 - 42
Charper 5: The Rabbis of the City		42 - 45
Chapter 6: The Cemetery		45 - 47
Chapter 7: The Period of Austrian Rule, 1772-1848		47 - 54
Chapter 8: Rzeszow from 1849-1919		55 - 63
Chapter 9: Rzeszow from 1919-1939		63 - 64
The Goldsmiths of Reisha	Dr. Moshe Yaari Wald	65
Pages of History	Dr. Henry Y. Wachtel of New York	66 - 67
Jewish Reisha	Zvi Simha Leder	68

Faith & Tradition in Rzeszow
Rabbis of Rzeszów		71
Rzeszów	Abba Appelbaum
The City and its Rabbis	Rabbi Moshe Kamelhar	72
A. The Early Kehilla
B. The Rabbis of the Community of Rzeszów
C. The Rabbi and Gaon Rabbi Shmuel HaLevi and his sons
D. The Gaon Rabbi Aryeh Leib the son–in–law of the “Chacham Tzvi” and his Sons		80
My Grandfather Rabbi Nathan Lewin	Rabbi Dr. Isaac Levin	82
Traits of Rabbi Nathan Levin	Shlomo Tal	85
The Rabbi, Reb Aaron Levin	Rabbi Dr. Isaac Levin	86
My Father, Rabbi Dr. Ezekiel Levin	Isaac (Kurt) Levin	91
Rabbi Nathan Levin and his Bet Din	Rabbi Moshe Kamelhar	93
My Father, Rabbi Yekutiel Arieh Kamelhar	Rabbi Moshe Kamelhar	95
Rabbi Nahum Reuben Felsker	Rabbi Issachar Berish Halperin	100
Rabbi Berish Steinberg	Rabbi Moshe Halevi	100
Reb Joseph Reich	Shlomo Tal	101

Hassidism in Rzeszow
Rzeszow in Hassidic Circles	M. Sh. Geshuri	103 - 107
Hassidic Courts	Rabbi Moshe Kamelhar	107 - 115
The Rabbi of Blazowa and His Dynasty	Shlomo Tal	115 - 118

Religious Education in Rzeszow
Yeshivot in Reisha	M. S. Geshuri	118
Shamashim (Synagogue Attendants)	Rabbi Moshe Kamelhar	119
Cantors and Synagogue Music in Reisha	M. S. Geshuri	120
Meir Diener	Pessah Diener	123
Cantor Dov Menachem Konwiser (1887–1936)	Herzl Konvisser	123
Prayer-Leaders for the Days of Awe		124
Synagogues in Reisha	Eng. David Davidovitch	125

In the Haskala Press		128

Before and Between the World Wars
Rzeszow in the Past	Leon Weisenfeld	132
During the Interregnum	Dr. Moshe Yaari Wald	134 - 136
The Chaos of 1918	Rabbi Moshe Kamelhar	137
The Pogrom of Rzeszow	Naftali Hakhel	137
The Sejm (Parliament) Committee, and the Ministers from Rzeszow	Dr. Yechezkel Lewin	138
The Morgenthau commission in Central Galicia	Yosef Storch	140

Organizations and Factions
“Hashachar” in Rzeszow	Dr. N. M. Gelber	141
“Shulamit”	Dvora Abramowitz	142
A. General Zionists in Rzeszow	Dr. Moshe Yaari-Wald	143
Untitled	Shlomo Alweis	144
B. The First of Poalei Zion		145
History of Poalei Zion in Rzeszow	Michael Walzer-Fass of Hod Hasharon (Hadar Ramataim)	146
“Hashachar” “Haivria” and “Hechalutz”	Alter Tishbi (Sitz)	151 - 153
Organizations and Societies in Rzeszow	David the son of Avraham Tuchfeld	153 - 157
Religious Parties	Naftali Hakhel of Tel Aviv	157
The Founding of the Mizrachi	Rabbi Moshe Kamelhar	158
The History of “Mizrachi” in Rzeszow	M. S. Geshuri	160 - 171
“Agudas Yisrael”	Shlomo Tal	164
Revisionist Movement (its beginning and development)	Avraham Mussinger	165
Organization of Jewish Academics in Rzeszow	Yehoshua Alexander Rosner (Keller)	169
Youth in Rzeszow during the 1930s	Pepa Wachspress-Lisak Tuchfeld	170
The Birth of Hashomer Hatzair	Meir Yaari	172
“Hashomer Hatzair” in Rzeszow from 1924	Abraham Mussinger	173
The “Hashomer Hatzair” Chapter in Rzeszow That Shaped Me	Sara Altman (Batist)	175 - 177
Hashomer Hatzair Members Make Aliya	Eva Kirsch	177
Rzeszow Emigres in Hashomer Hatzair Kibbutzim	Tuvia Yaari	177
In Memory of the “Hechalutz” Chapter	Lotka Kleid (Schlisselberg)	178
Years of Setback	Marcus Dornfest	179
Jewish Members of the Communist Party in Rzeszow	Dr. Moshe Yaari	180
The “Noar Tzioni”	Yehoshua Strassberg	181 - 183
Between the Years 1924-1939	Klara Ma'ayan (Munzberg)	183
The Hebrew School	Professor Yitzhak Weiss	186
Once Upon a Time There Was a School	Sabina Schneeweiss	187
The Nucleus of the Hebrew School	Dr. Mauricy Ungar	188
Sport In Rzeszow	Lawyer Alexander Joshua Rosner-Keller	189
The “Bar Kochba” Sport Association	Avraham Ungar	191
The Society for the Preservation of Health	Dr. Mauricy Ungar	192
Workers' Children's House in Rzeszow	Louis Estherman	193
Beit Haam and the Hospital in Rzeszow	Michael Walzer-Fass	195
The Publishing House of M. Goldberg	Lotka Goldberg	198
Demographics of Rzeszow Jewry in the Year 1939	Manes Fromer	199

Memories and Experiences
A Portrait of Rzeszow at the Beginning of the 20th Century	Dr. Moshe Yaari Wald	201
Some Memories	Dr. Shlomo Horowitz	225
A Heritage from a Reisha Home	Meir Yaari	228
Childhood in Reisha	Anda Amir Pinkerfeld	228
Rzeszow Jews and Censuses	Ben Zion Fett	229
Reisha at the End of the 1^st World War 1914 - 1918	M. Ungerfeld	232
Early Years in Reisha	Irving Low	234
One in a Thousand	Uzzi ben Moshe and Ronni Wechsler	235
Reisha in the First World War	S. An-ski	238
Reisha	Professor S. I. Penueli	239

Maskilim and Writers
From “the Sages of the City”	Gershon Bader	243
1. Moshe David Geschwind		243
2. Abba Apfelbaum		244
3. Isaac Holzer		244
4. Oswald Henigsmann		244
5. Leon Wiesenfeld		244
6. Moshe Wiesenfeld		244
7. Asher Simha Weissmann		245
8. Wilhelm Turteltaub		245
On Abba Apfelbaum:		245
1. Writer and Communal Worker	Raphael Rosenzweig	245
2. Founder of the Teudat Israel School	Dr. Ovadiah Barshal	246
3. Historian and Scholar	Dr. Moshe Alter	248
Dr. Moshe Alter		248
Naphtali Ashriel-Glicksman	Hanina Mizrahi	249
My Father Hayyim Wald	Dr. Moshe Yaari Wald	249
My Brother Moshe	Leon Wiesenfeld	252
Leon and Esther Wiesenfeld	Michael Walzer Fass	253
Berish Weinstein	Professor Dov Sedan	256
Berish Weinstein	Moshe Starkmann	257
Berish Weinstein and his Reisha	Nathan Yonathan	258
Dr. Henry Isaac Wachtel	E.P.	259
Dr. Benjamin Schlager	Simha Seiden	259
Zwi Simha Leder	Leon Wiesenfeld	260
On Professor S. I. Penueli	G. Kressel	260
Simha Seiden	Zvi Simha Leder	261
Ben-Zion Fett	Isaac Estreicher	261
The Violin of Nahum Sternheim	Manes Fromer	262

Personalities And Characters
Reisha Personalities	Dr. Moshe Yaari	264
1. Jacob Alter
2. Meshullam Davidson
3. Dr. Felix Hopfen
4. Dr. Aaron Arthur Wang
5. Asher Juda Silber
6. Levi-Leon Hayyim
7. Dr. Zvi Henryk Kanerek
Meshullam Davidson	Tuviah Yaari	271
Naphtali Tuckfeld
Anna Kahana	Leon Wiesenfeld	272
Elimelech Katz	M. S. Geshuri	272
Irving Low	David Ben Joseph	273
My Father Shlomo Minzberg	Klara Maayan	274
Rabbi Dr. Zvi Koretz	Simha Seiden	275
Jacob Elimelech Knecht and his Wife	Isaac Estreicher	276
Joseph Sheinblum	Zeev Zohar	277
Moshe Wang	Abraham Wang	277
Isaac Estreicher	Leon Wiesenfeld	278
1. Motish Eckstein's Family		280
2. The Mintz Family	Shlomo Tal
Jewish Judges	Moshe Reich	281
Personalities	Naphtali Hakhel	282
The Uniqueness of Moshe David Ashriel	Zvi Livneh	283
Eliahu Ashriel (Gluksman)	E. P.	284
Yehoshua Ashriel (Gliksman)	E. P.	284
Personalities and Occasions	Rabbi Moshe Kamelhar	285
Reb Menachem Mendel Reich	Rabbi Moshe Reich	289
My Brother Yisrael	Rabbi Moshe Kamelhar	289
The dear ones of Rzeszow	Yitzhak Isaac Nebenzahl	290

The Holocaust
Pour Out Thy Wrath (Drawing)	Menahem Ronn	291
In the Face of the Holocaust	Meir Yaari	292
Remember	Klara Ma'ayan	293
The Martyrdom of the Reisha Community	Dr. Asher Alexander Heller	294
The End of the Reisha Community	Mala Krischer Munzberg	307
Majdanek G-d!	Berish Weinstein	311
I Shall Not Die, But Shall Live	Lotka Goldberg	312
During the Nazi Occupation	Klara Ma'ayan Munzberg - Tel Aviv	322 - 325
I Escaped Death	Dr. Michael Schneiweiss	326
Attempts at Resistance in Reisha	Dov Zucker	331
The Last Jews of Reisha	M. Hoffstetter	332 - 333
Memories of the Occupation	Lola Weiss Immerglick	334
Reisha Women in Auschwitz	Dinah Strassberg Einhorn	335
Hava Wuszka Jolles, A Girl Who Fought	Menachem Levenstein	336
Reisha in 1946	Marcus Dornfest	338
Reisha's rebellious daughter	M. Weinstein Lazer	339
Gola (Golda) Mire, an Anti-Nazi Fighter	Dr. Moshe Yaari Wald	340
The Fate of Reisha Jewry, 1939 - 1944	Franciszek Kotula	342
Synagogues and Cemeteries		342
Some Memories		346
The Catacombs of Reisha (How Jews Vanished a Day Before the Liquidation of the Ghetto)		348
Polish Evidence on the Extermination of Reisha Jews	Jan Forczek	350
Memories	Professor Juliusz Kyas	352
Map of the City	Abraham Mussinger	352
A Walk Through Reisha	Abraham Mussinger	361
Small Towns and Villages in the Reisha District	Dr. Moshe Yaari Wald	365
The Liberation	Moshe Reich	367
Reisha Revisted in 1962	Haya Shlisselberg Tamari	367
Five Hundred Years; A Summing Up	Manes Fromer	368

Obituaries
Abraham Altman	Sarah Altman Batist	369
Abraham Teitelbaum		370
Mordechai Ben Elhanan Lipschitz		371
Simha Ben Mordechai Lipschitz		371

Eighteen Years of the Organization of Rzeszow and the District in Israel	Isaac Estreicher	372

Yiddish Section
After a Thousand Years	Berish Weinstein	376

I. On The History of the Jews in Rzeszow
Pages on the History of the Jews in Rzeszow	Dr. Abraham Chomet	377
The History of the Rzeszow Cemetery	Dr. Moshe Alter	423

II. Before and Between the Two World Wars
From Beginning to End	Simha Seiden	426
Jewish Rzeszow	Zvi Simha Leder	428
Bygone Rzeszow	Leon Wiesenfeld	449
Poalei Zion in Rzeszow	Michael Walzer Fass	466
The Jewish Workers' Children's Home in Rzeszow	Louis Estherman	472
The Bar Kochba Sports Society	Abraham Unger	475
Hassidim of the Rebbe of Dzikow	Mordechai Sacher Sternberg	476
The Tailors' Synagogue	Dr. Aharon Rosenbaum	476
A Meeting with the Hebrew Teacher of my Old Home Town	Berish Weinstein	477
Memories of the Past	Dr. Aharon Rosenbaum	478 - 480
My Home Ticzin		481
Memories of the Past	Joseph Falk	483
Rzeszow Jews	Jacob Beller	484
Ballad of Radiant Grandsires	Berish Weinstein	486

III. Figures
Some of our Figures	Zvi Simha Leder	488
Naphtali Tuchfeld	David Tuchfeld	492
The Seventieth Jubilee of Abba Apfelbaum	Simha Seiden	493
The Philosopher and Poet Dr. Benjamin Schlager		494
Mrs. Anna Kahana	Leon Wiesenfeld	495
My Brother Moshe		496
Zvi Simha Leder		497
Irving Low	Joseph Ben David	502
Berish Weinstein	Moshe Starkman	505
Berish Weinstein's Birthday	A. Tabatchnik	506
Nachum Sternheim	Jonas Turkow	508

IV. The Destruction
Meidanek, God	Berish Weinstein	512
The First Days of the War	Joseph Laufban	513
The History of the Destruction of the Rzeszow Jewish Community	Dr. Asher Alexander Heller	515
From Rzeszow by way of Wroclaw to America	Israel Beck	537
What I saw in the Old Jewish City of Rzeszow	Dr. Haim Shoshkes	538
Rzeszower & Province Landsmanschaft of Montreal		543

In Memoriam - Memorial Tributes to Families		545-620
Index of Names ( Names from pages translated. More will be added as translation proceeds.) There is also an English section of the book.
Rzeszow Yizkor Book Overview
Notes from the translator
Overview of Hebrew section of Rzeszow Yizkor Book