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Title	Author	Page
Forward – Hebrew	The Editors	12
Forward – Yiddish	The Editors	14
The Town
A chapter of history		16
Goworowo half a century ago	Abraham Schwartzberg	24
Once there was . . .	Moses Granat	28
A walk through the town		37
Rabbis
R. Solomon Zalmen Klepfish z.ts”l	Moses Zinowitz	55
R. Jacob Judah Kahana-Bucian z.ts”l	Moses Zinowitz	57
Some memories of the Alter Rov (The Old Rabbi)	Rabbi N. Talmud	59
The last rabbi	A. Avinoam	61
Rabbi Alter Moses Mordechai Burshtin	Rabbi Samuel Aaron HaLevi Pardes	65
The Religious Life
Jewish life in the town	Joseph Gurka	66
Among Hasidim	Abraham Levine	68
The prayer house (beys medrash)	Joseph Gavati	76
The Alexander synagogue (“shtibl”)	Joseph Zilbertson	79
The Ger synagogue (“shtibl”)	Joseph Gur	82
The Vurk synagogue (“shtibl”)	Abraham Holtzman	86
The “progressive” prayer group (minyan)	G. Joseph	88
Khareydim and teachers	Joseph Gurka	90
“Kosher” khareydim	Jacob Gurka	99
Yeshiva people	Joseph Gurka	100
Two brothers	Bat Yaakov Dov	109
The Beys-Yakov school	Rabbi Isaac Shafran	110
“Sabbath Observer's” Society	A. Inbari	114
Burial Society	Bar Bey-Rav	115
Community Officials and Institutions
The community council (“Gmina”)	A. Bar-Even	118
The Jewish community	A. Bar-Even	121
Schooling and education	A. Boki	124
The merchants' association	D. Ben-Isaac	131
The craftsmen's association	Moses Granat	135
Free Loan Society	B. Alef	139
Hospitality	B. Avi-Ezer	140
Society for lodging poor travelers and Society for visiting the sick	A. Avi-Uriel	142
Parties and Organizations
The Zionist Organization	K. Ber	144
My activity in Tsukunft and in the Bund	Rachel Brestel-Gurka	151
The origin and development of Poaley Tsion	Moses Granat	156
The revisionist movement	B. Kosovsky	165
Mizrahi, HeHaluts-HaMizrahi, and HaSHomer HaDati	I. Avi-Sarah	173
Tseirey agudas yisroel	Rabbi Isaac Shafran	176
Basya and Bnos Agudas Yisroel	Rebitsin Rebecca Rosenthal-Shtshetshina	179
HaSHomer-HaTSair	Eliezer Levine	182
Poaley-Tsion – left	Noah Korvat	186
The Brenner library	Abraham Holtzman	187
The agricultural training camp in Tshirnye	Aaron Shran	190
The training center in Peshaki	Levi Varshaviak	195
The drama circles	Abraham Holtzman	198
Working for the national funds	A. S. Menahem	204
Scholars, leaders, personalities
Naske Govorover	I. I. Trunk	206
Rabbi Moses Joshua Ginzberg z”l	Moses Granat	209
R. Abraham Mordechai Friedman z”l	A. Bashan	211
My father the cantor and shokhet	Elijah Jacob Brukhansky	212
My father R. Jonathan Zilbertsan	Joseph Zilbertson	216
R. Matisyohu Rosen z”l	B. Itshes	218
My parents	B. Kosovsky	221
R. Moses Tenenbaum hi”d	A. Bashan	226
R. Menashe Holtzman z”l	Abraham Holtzman	229
R. Abraham Shafran hi”d	Sh. Yitskhoki	231
Five generations	Khave bas Yakov Dov	233
R. Meir Zeev HaKohen Tehillim hi”d	Isaac Shafran	237
Memorial light for my family	Menuha Zeltser-Grudka	239
R. Baruch Mintz z”l	A. Bashan	240
R. Meir Romaner z”l	A. Egber	241
R. Jacob Hersh Vengrov	A. Bashan	243
R. Fayvl Brik hi”d	A. Bashan	244
Yoyelke the baker	A. Bar-Even	245
In memory of my father R. Moses Skornik z”l	Khayim Skornik	248
Rabbi Khayim Mordechai Bronrot z.ts”l	Sh. D. Yerushalmi	249
Rabbi Abraham Mendl Galant	Moses Khayim Galant	251
Hasidic figures	Joseph Zilbertson	252
R. Avrumke Tsalke hi”d	A. Bashan	256
History of one family in Goworowo	Isaac Vardi-Rosenblum	258
My uncle R. Ephraim Leyb Boynem	Jacob Gurke	263
R. Velvl and Feyge Nekhome Blumstein hi”d	A. Bashan	265
R. Mordechai Leyb Gurka z”l	Y. Ben-Hasid	266
R. Hershl Glogover z”l	M. Rimon	269
R. Elhanan Friedman hi”d	M. Rimon	270
R. Israel Isaac Shran hi”d	A. Enbar	271
R. Khayim David Shran hi”d	A. Enbar	272
R. Khayim Leyb Maryansky, the cantor-shoykhet	Y. Avi-Sarah	273
R. Tsvi Aleyarzh, the Zamoshtsher Rebbe z.ts”l	A. Ben-Even	274
R. Jacob Shtshetshina z”l	A. Bashan	276
R. Isaiah Hertzberg hi”d	Joseph Gurka	277
R. Yudl Shaynyak z”l	B. Avi	278
My mother (Monument to a living soul)	Khave Bernstein-Burshtin	279
Hannah Papiertshik	B. P. Miriam	280
Two figures – Rokhl Shmilkes and Khane Rivke	Khave bas Yakov Dov	281
R. Baruch Kupperman z”l	A. Bayis	282
R. Asher Kutner hi”d	R. Abraham Alter Kutner / A. Ben	283
R. Solomon Leyb and R. Khayim Baruch Shachter z”l	Tsipora Zaltsberg-Shakhter	284
R. Gedalya Grinberg z”l	G. Even	286
My grandfather, R. Jacob Shabbetai Trukhnovsky z”l	Rebecca Rosenberg-Shafran	287
R. Joshua Rosen z”l	A. Bashan	292
R. Jacob Rosenberg hi”d	I. Ben-Mordechai	294
My home	Rebecca Vinderboym Praska	296
Peshke Goldman	H. Sh. Kazhdan	297
R. Mordechai Shmelts z”l	Khaye Shmelts	298
Benjamin Ginzberg hi”d	Rebecca Rosenberg-Shafran	300
Leybl Kersh hi”d	I. Sh. Hertz	302
The leader of the Bund	Feyge Sheiniak	304
Memorial light for our distinguished brother	Moses Granat / Isaac Granat	305
Elhanan Kosovsky	D. Avi-Dani	308
Memories and episodes
I remember you!...	I Zerubabel	309
A Jewish shtetl for the people	A. Reis	313
Goworowo	Israel Ritov	316
The Betar in Goworowo	Joseph Khrust	319
Rabbi Jacob Dovidl Amshinover in Goworowo	Nisen Mozes Shu”b	323
The ban	Isaac David Tehillim	324
The eruv affair	Sh. L. Tsitron	325
One Saturday night	A. Bar-Even	327
A Sabbath dawn in winter	Joseph Zilbertson	330
Sabbath at home	Feyge Sheiniak	331
Memories of youth	Sara Tsimerman-Romaner	332
Four years in Goworowo	R. Menahem Belfer	334
Two neighboring towns	Jacob Katz	336
Martyrdom	R. Tsvi A. Slushts	339
My family	Isaac Romaner	340
My road to Erets-Yisrael	Sara Blumstein-Skurnik	341
With the Rabbi's approval	Isaac Blumstein	344
A Jew goes to Erets-Yisrael . . .	Aaron Shran	346
Goworowo in my eyes	Cantor Nathan Stolnitz	351
Khomets at Passover time	A. B. Shoshani	352
Footnotes to an essay	H. Yustus	355
A story of “nadlitshbovi”	B. Dines	359
Town pranksters	A. Govorover	361
Teaching the in-law a lesson	A. Govorover	365
Two episodes	Jacob Gurka	368
As luck would unfortunately have it	Moses Sarne	371
Town curiosities	Hannah Vaysbord / Sh. Ts.	373
Solomon Akiba the village fool	A. B. Shoshani	376
Town folklore	M. Rimon	379
Goworowo in “HaTsefira”, 1887		380
Holocaust
In Polish fields	Binem Heller	381
“Although we are condemned to death we have not lost the divine image”	Dr. Arye Leon Kububi	382
“I seek my brother”	R. Isaac Jedidiah Frenkel	384
This is how it began	Isaac Romaner	387
Diary of a mobilized soldier	Jacob Gurka	390
Holocaust	Moses Molavani	394
A month with the German beasts	Moses Dranitsa	401
Looking back	Pesah Czerwin	405
The last Kol Nidre night	Eve Bernstein-Burstin	410
So that you may remember. . .	R. Isaac Shafran	414
Elegy	A. Ben-Ir	416
A page of Talmud saved me	B. Aviezer	417
In the crematoria	Joseph Perlstein	420
Hear O Israel. . .	Rachel Auerbach	423
Martyrdom in exile	K. Noah	425
Goworowo without Jews	Mordecai Govartshik	427
Kaddish	R. Moses Bernstein	429
Psalm of David	A. Y. Brukhensky	432
These I remember
Prayer for the dead		434
List of the slain		435
Obituary notices		447
Landsmanshaft organizations
The Yotse Govorovo organization in Israel	Aaron Shran	481
The Free Loan Society of the Yotse Govorovo organization in Israel	Abraham Levine	486
Goworowo societies in America	Isaac Safran	488
The Goworowo landsmanshaft in Canada	A. Ben-Meir	492
Goworowo people in other countries		494
An expression of thanks	Vaad Irgun Yotse Govorova BeYisrael	405 – 6
English summary of the book		I – XVI

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