Memorial Book of Suvalk
(Suwałki, Poland)

54°06' / 22°56'

Translation of
Yisker Bukh Suvalk

Editor: Berl Kagan

Published in New York, 1961

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This is a translation of: Yisker Bukh Suvalk (Memorial book of Suvalk),
Editor: Berl Kagan, New York, The Suvalk and Vicinity Relief Committee of New York, 1961 (Y, E 825 cols)

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Translated by Ite Doktorski

Preface 7-8
 
A.    The First Hundred Years
 
The first hundred years of Suvalk and surroundings – Berl Cohen
   1. How old is Suvalk? 11-19
   2. History of the Jewish settlement 19-29
   3. The economic situation 29-39
   4. Jews in agricultural settlements 39-46
   5. Emigration from Suvalk 46-60
   6. Education and culture (haskalah) 60-76
   7. Love of Zion (Hibbat Zion) 77-98
   8. Jewish Labor movement 98-102
   9. Institutions, societies, & community leaders 102-122
   10. Rabbis 123-196
   11. Writers 197-218
   12. Publishers 219-232
   13. Pioneers of the Yiddish & Hebrew press 232-238
   14. Press correspondents 239-240
   15. Cantors 240-243
   16. Artists 243-244
   17. Folksongs of the Suvalk region 244-250
   18. Jews and Christians once upon a time 250-251
   19. Episodes and odd occurrences 251-252
   20. Subscribers to books 252-266
   21. Bibliography 267-280
From an old diary - Eliezer Mordehai Altschuler 280-286
 
B.     Before and between the two World Wars
 
The last 40 years – Yekhezkel Berlzon 291-316
A city with a lively social life – Shmuel David Bernshtein 315-324
In the years of World War I – A.M. Altschuler 323-328
The progrom in Suvalk in 1914 327-332
Germans in the talmud-torah – Eliezer Aronowski 333-336
After World War I – Shloime Stutsinski 337-340
The period of the Lithuanian occupation – M. Shlomi-Fridman 340-342
The pogrom of 1936 – Mordehai Zlotnitski-Zahavi 343-344
Episodes of my youth – Shmuel Sinenski-Siman 345-346
The shtetl of Ratsk – Avraham Moshe Kliman 347-348
The shtetl of Punsk – Leib Shperling, Albert Kirsh 348-350
My shtetl Baklerove – Shlomo Borowski 349-352
The shtetl Filipove - Mordehai Piwowarski, Moshe Oshinski351-354
 
C.    Institutions, societies, & political parties
 
Suvalk, a nest of torah – Moshe Rozental-Razieli 359-362
Suvalk, a city of compromise – Shmuel Shvartz-Shakharia 363-366
The torah-youth in Suvalk – Rabbi Yehoash Zawoznitski 365-372
The revolution years – Haim Zeligson 371-380
Suvalk institutions – Yakov Arieh Trop 379-386
Hadarim and schools – Caleb Khanowitch 387-388
Lovers of Zion in our city – Haim Zeligson 387-390
Poalei Zion in Suvalk – Leybl Hen 391-400
Zionist activities – Gedaliah Simhoni 399-403
Reminiscences about Jews from Suvalk – Hana Altschuler 404-405
Beitar – Shlomo Riman 406-408
The TOZ in Suvalk – Eliezer Sherer 408-412
Maccabi- Shlomo Riman 412-420
 
D.    Characters
 
Benjamin & Mordehai Magentza – Rabbi Aharon Magentza 425-430
Portraits of scholars, community leaders, and benefactors – Rabbi Yehoash Zavoznitski 431-474
Haim Mendel Fridman – Rabbi Aharon Reuben Tcharni 473-476
Baruh Rozenberg – Eliezer Perlshtein 477-480
Haim Koifman – Yehuda Leib Blechman 487-490
Avraham Shmuel Lizevski 489-492
Aharon Sinenski – Hava Glatshtein 491-492
Once there was… - L. Shimoni 493-504
Heder-teachers – Moshe Shlomi-Fridman 503-506
Features and episodes – Yehoshua Bachrach 505-510
Rabbi Mordehai Tzvi Halevi Waisman - A. Suvalker 509-512
Suvalk characters – Reuben Boiarski 511-514
Odd events in Suvalk – Ben Israel 513-518
The secret saint (tzaddik) - Rabbi Avraham Magentza 517-518
Suvalk nicknames – Zalman David Rozenblum 519-524
 
E.     People from Suvalk in the wide world
 
Suvalk Relief Committee- Haim Zeligson 531-566
The first people from Suvalk in New York - Haim Zeligson 567-580
Suvalk landsmanschaft associations in Israel – Avraham Koifman 579-580
 
F.     Holocaust
 
The destruction of Suvalk -Yehezkel Berlzon 595-628
On the path of bloodshed – Hana Levitan-Ribald 629-632
People from Suvalk in the Slonim ghetto – Dr. Kasriel Eilander 633-636
In the concentration camps in Estonia – Aharon Kershkowski (Ker) 635-636
People from Suvalk in the death camps – Yakov Freimark 637-638
Perished in Lithuania – Avraham Leib Weiss 639-640
From Archangelsk and back – Shlomo Gutman 639-642
Suvalk in 1957 – Hana Altschuler 643-646
 
* * *
 
Mourning announcements 675-788
Index 789-820
TOC of the English section 821-826

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