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Translation of
Tarnow; Kiyuma ve-Hurbana Shel Ir Yehudit
Published in Tel Aviv, 1954-1968
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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, Hasidus, Zionism and Culture | Rabbi Avraham Kahane | 189 |
From the beginning of the Jewish community in Tarnow, its rabbis, communal workers, Torah scholars and writers | Chaim Dov Friedberg | 201 |
The Jewish Religious in Tarnow | Rabbi Yehuda Gefen (Ausabel) | 205 |
A Survey of Religious Jewry in Tarnow | Yitzhak Blazer | 217 |
The Tarnow Kloyz | Yosef Margoszes | 225 |
The Jewish Economic Life in Tarnow | ||
Clothing Industry in Tarnow | Dovid Zayden | 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 Rappaport and his book Nature and Spirit | S.H. Bergman | 296 |
Ben-Zion Rappaport | Ben-Zion Zangen | 298 |
One of the First Zionists - Chaim Neiger | Dr. Shmuel Spann | 300 |
Dr. Max Bienenstock | Dr. M. Rosenbush zl | 302 |
Dr. Zeev Berkelhammer | Yeshayahu Fejg | 307 |
A bundle of memories of the grammarian, Moshe Aharon Wiesen z'l | Ben-Zion Zangen | 313 |
Daniel Leibel | B. Weingrieb | 315 |
The writer Yehuda Yaari (Yudke Wald) | W. Brachia | 316 |
The young Karol Radek | Dr. S.B. Schoenfeld zl | 318 |
Jewish scientists, writers, artists and journalists in Tarnow | Dr. Avraham Chomet | 320 |
Zionism in Tarnow | ||
Tarnow in the Geography of Zionism | Dr. V. Berkelhamer (of blessed memory) | 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 BarGiyora to Gordoniya | Dr. Yeshayahu Shapira | 612 |
In those days.. | Abraham 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 Zh. P. S. | Yehosha Landau | 632 |
The General Jewish Labor Union, the Bund | Oren Sporn | 641 |
On the Jewish Workers' Struggle in Tarnow | Eliezer Wurzel | 667 |
About the Jewish Cultural System in Tarnow | Dr. Avraham Chomet | 670 |
About the Jewish SportsGymnastics Organizations in Tarnow | Dr. Avraham Chomet | 714 |
Charitable Unions and Committees in Tarnow | Dr. Avraham Chomet | 733 |
Memories, Personalities and Types | ||
Memories | Dr. Yeshayahu Feig | 764 |
From my memories | Yosef Heiman zl | 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 Shpan | 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 Fajg | 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 AbramovitzHorwitz | 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 |
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Preface | Editorial board | 7 |
A. Past Eras | ||
There Was Once a Jewish City Tarnow | Ahron Szporn | 15 |
Tarnow In The Old Days [H] | Dr Z. Kasif | 18 |
Tarnow - My Old Home | Avraham Zinger | 25 |
To My Beloved Town That Is No More [H] | Yaakov Fleisher | 31 |
Contribution to the History of Jews in Tarnow | Dr. Avraham Chust (Comet) | 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 of 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 Hatzair 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 Departed | 109 | |
Yoseph Umanski zl devoted to Hebrew language [H] | BenTzion Uman | 113 |
Dr Shmuel Szpan of blessed memory (zl) | Yaakov Fleisher | 115 |
Daniel Leibl of blessed memory | Krassel | 116 |
Zev Bloch (Webtchyu) zl [H] | Y. Fleisher | 118 |
Dr Naftali Szwarc zl | A.Kh. | 118 |
In memory of Ehud Shachar (Schwarz) [H] | A.Kh. | 119 |
C. Fragments of Tarnow's Jewish Community of the PastIn Pictures | 121 | |
D. The Holocaust | 147 | |
The Road of Pain and Suffering | Yosef Kornila | 149 |
The trial of Wilhelm Heinrich Romelman, the Murderer of the Tarnow Jews | 196 | |
A Mother's Prayer [H] | Nathan-Ari 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 the Jewish Children During 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 Miriam Korn Heroically Died | Yakov Kener | 261 |
Memories of Those Terrible Times | LilyWider Rozenberg | 264 |
Belzec, the Place of Death 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 in Jewish Tarnow During the German Occupation | Dr. Avraham Chomet (Khumit) | 277 |
Christians Who Saved Tarnow Jews | Dr. Avraham Chomet, Josef Kornilo | 301 |
After the Holocaust | ||
What Remained of Our Jewish Tarnow | Yosef 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 in Montreal | Ahron Szporn | 331 |
From the Landsmanschaft in Toronto | Abraham Singer | 334 |
From the Tarnow Landsmanschaft in NewYork | L. Gottleib | 337 |
From the Tarnower Landsmanschaft in Paris | Abraham Chomet | 339 |
From the Tarnower Landsmanschaft in Israel [H] | Abraham Chomet | 340 |
List of Holocaust victims | 343 | |
Memorial Pages | 369 | |
Miscellaneous | ||
Tarnow Book Index | ||
Tarnów Necrology Supplement |
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