Brichany Memory Book

Brichany Memorial Book

Translation supplied by Carol Edan, Composer of Kalvarija ShtetLink Page
Source: Britshan: Britsheni ha-yehudit be-mahatsit ha-mea ha-aharona
English title: Brichany: Its Jewry in the first half of our century
Editor: Ya-akov Amizur et al
Published: Tel Aviv 1964
Publisher: Former residents of Brichany
Volumes: 1 Pages: 296 Languages: H

Table of Contents

Chapter I Communal Life, Institutions, Companies

Public Life: the “Farein”(Yiddish, volunteer translator needed)
The Jewish Community
Old Age HomeHow the Jews Lived in Our City

Chapter II Zionism and Youth Movements

Zionist Histadrut
“Ha Maccabi” Histadrut
Memories from Maccabi Years
Days of Shock and Permulation , Philips Washelvitz’s School, Aguda (Society) Ha Shoef,
Aguda Ha Chaver, Ha Shomer Ha Zayir
Ha Tichiya 1924-1928
Memories of Youth Movements
Gordonia
Our “Ha achshara” Kvutza (group)

Chapter III Culture and Education

Hebrew Education in our City
Ha “Talmud-Torah” the New and Old
The Gymnasia ( high school)
Memories from the Gymnasia
Trade School
Cultural Life -- Works and Institutions
The Zionist Library

Chapter IV Persons

Y.L. Berchevski
Rabbi Moshe Giwalder
Rabbi Shimon Efrati
Avraham Goldgal
Clara (Sarah) Lankovski
Issac Berg
Yosef-Lieb Shiller
Natan Lerner
Yehoshia Kahet
Aaron Stienhauz
Yechiel Cherkis
Shalom and Keila Kiliminik
Ben-Zion (Bani) Melechzon
Benyamin Bichvetz
Mordechai Snieder
Yosef Feldsher
Peretz Greenberg
Shabtai Bokshephon
Efraim Chak
Baruch Yakir
Fania Horesh
Moshe Zilber
Moshe Zam
Rabbi Zalmale

Chapter V Holocaust Days

Days of Upheavals
Holocaust Days
Memories from the Deportation
What I Went Through
Di Visias fon mein Ziden (Yiddish, volunteer translator needed)
Megilat Transnistria
Dar Vag fon Fein (Yiddish, volunteer translator needed)
Ein Blotiken Vag (Yiddish, volunteer translator needed)
Ein Bareshadar Lagar (Yiddish, volunteer translator needed)
Zorik Ahaim

Chapter VI Britshan Fon Amel (Yiddish)
[12 sections in Yiddish, volunteer translator needed]

Chapter VII Events

The Terminated Ball
Lynch Trial
The First Delegation of the Keren Hayessod
A Speech from the Ears of One Man
[10 sections in Yiddish, volunteer translator needed]

Chapter VIII Ours Sons That Fell in Israel Independence War

Meir Galman
Yasha (Yacov Moshe) Gensin
Chanan Tepperman

Chapter IX A Memorial Candle for Family Commemoration

Memorial Inscriptions for Holocaust Victims

Chapter X Britshan Today
[In Yiddish, volunteer translator needed]

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