Drogobych, Ukraine

Memorial to the Jews of Drohobycz, Boryslaw,
and surroundings
(Drogobych, Ukraine)

49°21' / 23°20'

Translation of
Sefer zikaron le-Drohobycz, Boryslaw ve-ha-seviva

Edited by N. M. Gelber

Published in Tel-Aviv, 1959

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This is a translation from: Sefer zikaron le-Drohobycz, Boryslaw ve-ha-seviva
Memorial to the Jews of Drohobycz, Boryslaw, and surroundings. ed. N.M. Gelber. Tel Aviv,
Association of Former Residents of Drohobycz, Boryslaw and Surroundings, 1959 (H,Y)

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I. DROHOBYCZ

Shin Shalom: Foreword	facing p.11
Dr. N. M. Gelber: The History of the Jews in Drohobycz	11-60
Dr. Benjamin Zvi Gil (Freilichmann): The Demographic and Socio-Economic Aspects of Jewish Life in Drohobycz and Surroundings	61-83
Zelig Hacohen Lauterbach: Autobiography	84-88
Shimon Segal: This I Remember	89-94
Yehuda ben Abraham: The Religious Life of the Jews of Drohobycz	95
Shmuel Rothenberg z"l: Drohobycz between the Two World Wars	96-99
Anonymous: Drohobycz under Ukrainian Authority	100-102
Dr. Zvi Heller: Drohobycz, the Zionist City	103-104
Rivka Shapira: My Memories of Drohobycz	105
Yehuda Cohen: Pleasant Memories	106-107
Dr. Chaim Deutschmeister: The Life of the Workers and the Masses in Drohobycz and Boryslaw	108-114
Dr. Shimon Lustig: The Zionist Movement in Drohobycz	115-131
S. Segal: Dr. Leon Tannenbaum z"l	132
Shimek Fritz Eidelscheim: The Young Workers' Movement for Eretz Israel	133-135
S. Shalom: Memoiries of Drohobycz	136-148
Abraham Yaakov Shapira: My Memories of Drohobycz	148-149
Yosef Kitai: The Drohobycz Rabbi – Rabbi Chaim Meir Yekhiel Shapira	150-154
Dr. Simcha Margalit and Dr. M. Dornstrauch: The Destruction of Jewish Drohobycz	155-167

II. BORYSLAW, MEDENICE, SCHODNICA

Dr. N. M. Gelber:The History of the Jews in Boryslaw	171-176
Engineer Itzkhak Stiffel: Boryslaw as a Center of the Oil Industry and the Jewish Role in this Industry	177-184
Josef Kitai: Boryslaw, the Oil Town	184
Ytzkhak Heller: My Little Hamlet, Medenice	185-187
Josef Kitai: Schodnica	188-192
In Memory of the Martyrs of Schodnica	193

III. YIDDISH SECTION

Moishe Gross Zimmermann: On the Eve of Destruction	194-197
Dr. Chaim Deutschmeister: Torn Memories	198-207
Dr. Simcha Margalit and Dr. M. Dornstrauch: The Destruction of the Drohobycz Community	207-224

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