Mir Memorial Book
(Belarus)

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Translation from
Sefer Mir

Edited by: N. Blumenthal

Published by the "Encyclopedia of the Diaspora" in Jerusalem, 1962


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Acknowledgments

Project Coordinator

Reeva Jacobson Kimble



Our sincere appreciation to Israel Shifron, chairman, Mir landsmanschaft,
for permission to put this material on the JewishGen web site.

Without the assistance of Carole Montello, Mike Posnick, and Patrick Gordis,
who provided the pages to be scanned, this Mir web site would not have been possible.

 

This is a translation from: Sefer Mir (Memorial book of Mir),
Editors: N. Blumenthal, Jerusalem, The Encyclopedia of the Jewish Diaspora, 1962 (H,Y,E, 768 pages)

Note: The original book can be seen online at the NY Public Library site: Mir


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English Section

13 Introduction
17 Mir - the City of the Torah by M. Tiktinski
27 Personalities in Israel and Overseas originating from Mir by Natan Gardi
33 Mir - before the destruction by Simha Reznik
41 The German Occupation and Liquidation of Mir by Miriam Swirnowski-Lieder
 

Hebrew Section

29 History of the Jews of Mir / Dr. N. M. Gelber
45 Rabbis of the Mir Congregation / M. Sinovitz
        1 - Moshe
        2 - Tzvi Hirsch HaCohen Rappaport
         3 - Shlomo Zalman Mirkes
        4 - Rabbi Tzvi Hirsch Eizenstadt
        5 - The “Gaon” Yosef David Eizenstadt
        6 - Rabbi Moshe Avraham Eizenstadt
        7 - Rabbi Chaim Zalman Bressler
        8 - The “Gaon” Yom Tov Lipman (R. Lipa)
        9 - The “Gaon” Ba'al Hadar
75 The “Gaon” Elihu Baruch Kamai / HaRov Ruben Gollick
77 Avraham Tzvi Kamai / HaRov Elchanan Soritzkin
83 The community of Mir during the “Council of Lands” period/ H. Berlis
99 History of the Mir Yeshiva / M. Sinowitz
115 The “Gaon” Chaim Yehuda Leib Tiktinski / Moshe Tiktinski
119 Memories of the Mir Yeshiva / L. Mendelstam, HaRov Tzvi Hirsch Masliyonski, & A. R. Mashvitzki
123 Yerucham Livovitz, HaMasgiah of the Yeshiva / M. Sinovitz
127 Yerucham Livovitz / N. Gordai
131 Scholars in Mir / Tiktinski
 

Memories From The Past

137 Yeshua Zuchovitzer / Yitzhak Zuchovitzky
143 When the Grandfather Left / Zalman Rubashov (Shazar)
151 The Defense of Mir / Y. Shmulevitz
155 The Geniuses & Honor of Mir / Chanoch Rakovitz
163 Bread for the Poor / M. Tiktinski
 

Between The Two Wars

169 My city Mir / Simcha Resnick
185 In my city of Mir / Tzvi Packer
197 A walk in Mir's streets / Bruria Rettner Rosenblum
203 Material merchants / Bruria Rettner Rosenblum
209 Sofer / S. Resnick
213 The Jewish Elementary School / S. Resnick
227 The Library / Moshe Ravni (Postvoski)
233 The Library Comes Back to Town / Nisan Gardi (Garvadzitski)
235 Pioneers / S. Resnick
253 The Chevra Kadisha (Burial Society) / S. Resnick
 

Persons And Periods

265 Mir Chapters / Zalman Shazar
283 People of Note in Mir / Y. Yoselevitz
        Elihu Baruch Kamai
        Akiva Goldberg
        Zeev Yoselevitz
289 From the days I lived in Mir / Aryeh Leib Schwartz
291 Characters / S. Margolin
        1- The Talmud Torah
        2 - The genius from Minsk
        3 - “G'milot Chesed” [loan society]
        4 - Yaacov Abaranok
297 The Youth / S. Resnick
        Chaim Shmukler
        Nachum Elihu Kogon
        Eliezer Gorodner
        Pinkus Resnick
        Avraham Kastrovitzki
        Avraham Piezitzner
305 Establishments With People & Tzedekah / M Tiktinski
 

The Holocaust

313 Osvald Rufeisen / S. Resnick, M. R'uveiny
329 Resistance of the Jews of Mir / Dov Resnick
        Osvald Ruteisen
        Partisans
   
347 Children of the Partisans / S. Resnick
355 The Destruction of Mir / Zalman Leib Hoffman
359 Trees on the Edge of the Pits / S. Resnick
 

People Of Mir In Israel And Other Countries

365 People of Mir in the Building of Israel / N. Avir
379 Alexander Manor / Zalman Shazar
 

Men of Mir

385 Moshe R'uveiny
389 ”Hashomer Hatzair”/ Moshe Kraynowitz
393 Rabbi Isser Zalman Meltzer / R Tzvi Yehuda Meltzer
401 Three generations / Alexander Manor
415 The Shachor home / Zalman Shachor
419 Yishaya Tiktinski / M. Tiktinski
421 Yishaya Tiktinski / Sonia Shvirif
423 Men of Mir in the Hagannah
425 Men of Mir amongst the Partisans
429 Shlomo Meiman / M. Sinovitz
433 Rabbis of Mir / M. Sinovitz
        Avraham Yaakov Lesser
        Yaakov Meir son of Avraham Dov Ber HaCohen
        Baruch Zandel Margolin
        Yaakov Eskolsky
        Israel Isaacson
        Aryeh Leib Zeev from Vilna
        Israel Yaakov of Rabbi Chaim Tzvi Hirsch
        Gershon Tanchum
        Shemai Yelyad Mir
        Ephraim Zalman Halevi Slutzky
        Ezra Altshuler
        Yaakov Yoselevski
        Yosef David Shahar
        Meir Shahar
        Herschel Eliasberg
 
647 We bid Farewell to the Graves



MEMBERS OF THE BOOK AND EDITORIAL COMMITTEES:

M. Tiktinski, S. Reznik, Natan Gardi, M Reuweni, Nissan Gardi, Sh. Margolin, Bruria Rosenblum,
Elieser Breslin, Dov Resnik (Berechke), M Kreinowitz, Moshe Yorshan.


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