I have always wanted to read my Father's Grajewo Yizkor Book. Now it's happening thanks to you. We have translators for every language, a US tax deductible site on Jewish Generosity and and a fabulous and enthusiastic team of Grajevites(?) landspeople who are sending in partial translations, photos, memories and money to pay our impeccable Yiddish translator Tina Lunson. Another shout out to Shelly Levin who in additioning to managing the Facebook page is co managing the translation project, which means manageing me. Not always easy.
I am hoping to use the blog to report to you on lovely partial texts that we have collected and Tina has already begun. They are not the final Jewish Gen version, but they are too good to keep from you.
Grajewo Memorial Book
Contents
Foreword 7
First Part: Once, once…
Nakhman Rap: Midnight (poem) 9
Sh. Y. Fishbeyn: Grajewo of the Past 11
Mayer Vaser: Our Hometown, Grajewo 19
Prof. Shimen Rabidovitsh: Grajewo, the Aspiring and Dreaming 35
Dr. G. Gorin: Images and Figures of Grajewo 47
Second Part: Community and Life-Style
Itsik Gartshitski: The Zionist Movement in Grajewo 71
Sh. Y. Fishbeyn: Workers' Organizations in Grajewo 105
Abutsh Kolko: A Gathering of Grajewer in Siberia 119
Ari Abn-Zahav: Grajewo Dzshegtshares 123
Heyman Blum: Hasidism in Grajewo 147
Haymi and Sol Shiler: Hepner's Suspender Factory 155
Dr. Tsvi Vislevski: Grajewa [in Hebrew] 159
Third Part: The Holocaust
Nakhman Rap: History of the Grajewo Ghetto 175
Mendl Keyman: A Grajewo Partisan Relates [his story] 215
Khaye Golding-Keyman: Shtshutshin – Grajewo til the Last Breath 218
Murder of the Jews in Shtshutshin (Document) 223
Murder of the Jews in Kolne (Document) 226
The Pogroms in Radzshilov (Document) 228
Forth Part: Grajewo Jews in America
Our Students:
A Word from the Chairman of the United Grajewo Aid Committee 238
H. Blum: The Grajewo Aid Committee in New York 242
Irving Sapirshteyn: The United Grajewo Aid Committee 250
Heyman Blum: Grajewo Branch 35 of the Workers' Circle 261
Irving Kleynman: The Grajewo Branch 56 of the
Jewish Fraternal Public/Popular Order 268
H. B–M: The Shtshutshin and Grajewo Shul in New York 270
A. Blushteyn: Grajewo Countrymen in Chicago 274
Letters and Documents from Grajewo 276
Fifth Part: Grajewo Writers and Scholars
Kh. Antshkovski: Grajewo Jews in Erets-Yisroel 293
Gershen Svet: The Three Grajewers in Jerusalem 298
Dr. G. Gorin: Avrom Mordkhe Piurko 302
Dr. Emanuel Olshvanger: Memoirs of Avrom Mordkhe Piurko 306
Dr. G. Gorin: Prof. Shimen Rabidovitsh 308
In Sanctified Memory (Necrology) 315
