Translated by Yocheved Klausner

Volume I

Introduction		XI
Foreword from the Editor		XVIII
The History of Jewish Tarnow	Dr. Avraham Chomet	3
The Religious Jewry
Tarnow, a center of Torah, Hasidism and Culture	Avraham Kahana-Avrech	189
From the begining of the Jewish community in Tarnow, its rabbis, communal workers, Torah scholars and writers	Chaim Dov Friedberg	201
The Jewish religious Tarnow	The Rav Yehuda Geffen (Auseibel)	205
A review of the Religious Jewry in Tarnov	Yitzhak Blaser	215
The Tarnow Kloiz [synagogue]	Yosef Margosches	225
The Jewish Economic Life in Tarnow
The clothing industry in Tarnow	David Seiden	235
Jewish economic organizations	Dr. Avraham Chomet	240
The Part of the Tarnow Jews in Science, Art, Literature and the Press
R'Mordechai David	Daniel Leibel	264
Dr. Leon Kelner	Dr. Shmuel Spann	270
Yitzhak Schieffer	Dr. Refael Mahler	282
Ben-Zion Rapaport and his book “Nature and Spirit”	S. H. Bergman	296
Ben-Zion Rapaport	Ben-Zion Zangen	298
A biography of one of the first Zionists	Dr Shmuel Spann	300
Dr. Max Bienenstock	Dr. M. Rosenbush z”l	302
Dr. Zeev Berkelhammer	Dr. Yeshayahu Feig	307
A bundle of memories about the linguist Moshe Aharon Wiesen z”l	Ben-Zion Zangen	313
Daniel Leibel	B. Weingrieb	315
The writer Yehuda Yaari (Yudke Wald)	W. Berechia	316
The young Karol Radek	Dr. S.B. Schoenfeld z”l	318
Jewish scientists, writers, artists and journalists in Tarnow	Dr. Avraham Chomet	320
Zionism in Tarnow
Tarnow in the framework of the Geography of Zionism	Dr. W. Berkelhammer z”l	348
The Zionist Movement in Tarnow	Dr. Avraham Chomet	351
The “Po'alei Zion-Left” in Tarnow	Yitzhak Bietner (Mader)	596
“Po'alei Zion” (united with Z. S.)	Yosef Streim	608
From “Bar-Giora” to “Gordonia”	Dr. Yeshayahu Shapira	612
In those days…	Avraham Kahana	615
Toward tomorrow	Koba Fleischer	618
With the ship “Tiger Hill” to Eretz Israel	Chaim Herzberg	622
From Tarnow to Tel Aviv on the illegal Aliya	Y. Spieler	626
The JPS (Jewish Socialist Party) and the Bund
The Jewish Socialist Party	Yehoshua Landoy	632
The General Jewish Labor Union, the “Bund”	Oren Sporn	641
From the Jewish Labor Camp in Tarnow	Eliezer Wurzel	667
The Jewish cultural world in Tarnow	Dr. Avraham Chomet	671
Jewish gymnastics and sport in Tarnow	Dr. Avraham Chomet	715
Jewish social aid organizations in Tarnow	Dr. Avraham Chomet	733
Memories, Personalities and Types
Memories	Dr. Yeshayahu Feig	764
From my memories	Yosef Heiman z”l	769
Memories of a graduate of the “Safa Berura” high-school in Tarnow	Gershon Argov (Reev)	774
Jewish Life in Tarnow	B. Weinreb	778
Wolf Getzler	Dr. Shmuel Spann	782
Maurici Hutter	Dr. Avraham Chomet	785
To the memory of Milek Schieff	Zev Kimel	789
R'Leibish Yanowitzer	Avraham Kahana-Avrech	792
Tarnow types	Dr. Yeshayahu Feig	794
Wolf Wachskertz	Dr. A. Ch.	798
The last ones	Dr. Avraham Chomet	801
The Suffering and the Destruction of the Tarnow Jewry
The Annihilation of the Jews of Tarnow	Dr. Abraham Komet	808
The World Saw and Did Nothing (pages from the Tarnow ghetto)	Dvoyre Abramovitz–Horwitz	871
The Last Days of Dr. Yitzhak Shifer	I. Likhterman	876
The Jewish Hospital During the Nazi Occupation	Dr. Bernard Tesse	879
Reflections	Rokhl Postrang	884
My Town – A Cemetery	Dr. David Aykhenholts	887
Y I Z K O R [REMEMBER]		889
Tarnow Jews around the world	Dr. Avraham Chomet	890
Alphabetical list of names		919
Volume II Yiddish translated by Gloria Berkenstat Freund Hebrew translated by Yocheved Klausner
Introduction		7
A. Past Eras
There Was Once a Jewish City Tarnow	Ahron Szporn	15
Tarnow in the old days [H]	Dr. Z. Kassif	18
Tarnow - My Old Home	Avraham Zinger	25
To my beloved town - which exists no more [H]	Yakov Fleischer	31
Contribution to the History of Jews in Tarnow	Dr. Avraham Chomet	37
Adolf Ridnicki, a Tarnow Jew	Manashe Unger	53
The Way of Life of the Village Jews in Tarnow County	Dr. Yeshayahu Fajg (Fagi)	59
What I Remember About Jewish Tarnow	Yitzhak Blazer	62
Information About the Jewish Cemetery in Tarnow	Dr. Avraham Chomet	76
Our First Steps	Dr. Naftali Szwarc	87
The Hashomer Hatza'ir movement in Tarnow [H]	Mink	95
From My Memories	Josef Hayman	98
A Polish Poet Tells of Jewish Tarnow	A. Kh.	106
B. In Memory of the Missing		109
Josef Umanski z”l, an advocate and supporter of the Hebrew language [H]	Ben-Tzion Uman	113
Dr. Shmuel Szpan, of blessed memory	Yakov Fleischer	115
Daniel Leibl, of blessed memory	Krassel	116
Zev Bloch (Webtchyu) z”l [H]	Y. Fleicher	118
Dr. Naftali Szwarc, of blessed memory	A. Kh.	118
In memory of Ehud Shachar (Schwarz) [H]	A. Kh.	119
C. Fragments of the Former Jewish Community in Tarnow in Pictures		121
D. The Holocaust		147
The Road of Pain and Suffering	Josef Kornilo	149
The trial of Wilhelm Heinrich Romelman, the Murderer of the Tarnow Jews		196
A Mother's Prayer [H]	Nathan Arye Ginzberg	213
Tarnow Rabbis Who Perished on Kiddush HaShem [for the Sancitfication of God's Name]	Manasah Unger	219
The ADMOR [Hasidic rabbi] of Grudzisk [H]		233
About the Heroic Role of Jewish Children during the Nazi Rule	Ahron Szporn	234
Children Accuse		240
A Bundle of Memories from the Hitlerist Hell	Ruchl Goldberg-Klimek	248
Memories of the Uprising in the Tarnow Ghetto	Hela Bornsztajn-Ross	257
How Mariam Korn Heroically Perished	Yakov Kener	261
Memories of Those Terrible Times	Lila Wider Rozenberg	264
Belzec, the Death Place of the Tarnow Jews	Yezshi Bergman	268
I Was Blessed by the Belzer Rebbe, May the Memory of a Righteous Man Be Blessed	Dr. Yeshayahu Hendler	272
The Social Aid Activity in Jewish Tarnow During the German Occupation	Dr. Avraham Chomet	277
Christians who have saved Tarnow Jews	Dr. Avraham Chomet, Josef Kornilo	301
After the Holocaust
What Remained of Our Jewish Tarnow	Josef Kornilo	315
The Bund and Its Activities in the Jewish Committee in the Liberated Tarnow	Ahron Szporn	326
Tarnow Jews in Israel and Abroad
10th of Tevet, General Day of Kaddish and Remembrance of the Community of Tarnow [H]	Zvi Ezrachi (Matt)	330
The Activity of the Tarnower Landsmanschaft [organization of people from the same town] in Montreal	Ahron Szporn	331
From the Tarnower Landsmanschaft [organization of people from the same town] in Toronto	Avraham Singer	334
The Tarnower Landsmanschaft [organization of people from the same town] in New York	L. Gottlieb	337
From the Tarnower Landsmanschaft [organization of people from the same town] in Paris	A. Kh.	339
The Association of Former Tarnow Residents in Israel [H]	A. Kh.	340
List of Holocaust victims		343
Memorial Pages		369
Miscellaneous
Tarnow Book Index
Australian Jew’s fight against the Catholic Church in Poland

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