History of the Jewish Community of Schönlanke: 1736-1940  A memorial to the vanished
Publisher: Avotaynu, Inc.
Published: 2016
Place of publication: New Haven, CT, USA
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 474
ISBN-13: 9780983697589
Table of contents: title: PROLOGUE........................................................................................................................ VII; title: PART ONE............................................................................................................................1; title: House of Ashkenaz .............................................................................................................1; title: Thousand Years of German-Polish Jewry...............................................................3; title: PART TWO .........................................................................................................................13; title: Trzcianka ..........................................................................................................................13; title: Evolution of a Town..............................................................................................15; title: Kehila – 1736 ........................................................................................................19; title: Rabbi Joel ben Meyer ben Joseph Asch ................................................................22; title: PART THREE......................................................................................................................33; title: Friedrich II — Napoleon...................................................................................................33; title: 1772.......................................................................................................................35; title: Rabbi Moses Michel..............................................................................................44; title: Duchy of Warsaw — Poland’s Lost Aspiration ....................................................49; title: Jews in War and Peace ..........................................................................................52; title: Prussia's Largesse ..................................................................................................56; title: PART FOUR........................................................................................................................65; title: Deserting the Fold.............................................................................................................65; title: Doubt — Disavowal — Egress .............................................................................67; title: PART FIVE .........................................................................................................................85; title: Who Became Who ............................................................................................................85; title: Rabbi Jehuda Löbel ben Shimshon Halevi Blaschke ............................................95; title: 1848 — Farsighted Exodus .................................................................................100; title: Rabbi Dr. Salomon Lippmann Wäldler...............................................................110; title: PART SIX .........................................................................................................................117; title: Wilhelmine Germany......................................................................................................117; title: The Nineteen Hundreds.......................................................................................119; title: Rabbi Dr. Moses Löb Bamberger........................................................................122; title: 1914 — Fall of Empires ......................................................................................126; title: Rabbi Dr. Benjamin (Benno) Cohen ...................................................................131; title: Rabbi Dr. Elieser Berlinger .................................................................................134; title: Rabbi Dr. Curt Peritz...........................................................................................140; title: PART SEVEN ....................................................................................................................143; title: Might Becomes Right .....................................................................................................143; title: Descent Into Despotism.......................................................................................145; title: ‘Who Shall Have Rest and Who Shall Go Wandering’.......................................150; title: PART EIGHT.....................................................................................................................161; title: ‘If I Am Not for Myself, Who Will Be for Me?’ ................................................163; title: A Safe Haven Found ...........................................................................................164; title: HISTORY OF THE JEWISH COMMUNITY OF SCHÖNLANKE: 1736 TO 1940; title: vi; title: The Illusive Safe Haven ......................................................................................173; title: The Whispered Shelter ........................................................................................188; title: Rabbi Dr. Gerson Eliyahu Yehudah Feinberg.....................................................192; title: PART NINE.......................................................................................................................195; title: The Kehila Falls Silent....................................................................................................195; title: Truth No Longer Dispels Darkness.....................................................................197; title: Census Perfidy.....................................................................................................201; title: ‘Aktion’ ...............................................................................................................204; title: PART TEN ........................................................................................................................221; title: RECKONING.....................................................................................................................221; title: Collapse — 1943–1945 .......................................................................................223; title: Epilogue...............................................................................................................229; title: PART ELEVEN..................................................................................................................231; title: 231 ............................................................................................................................לא תשכח; title: Victims — Survivors...........................................................................................233; title: APPENDIX I......................................................................................................................349; title: Partial List of Emigrants......................................................................................350; title: Census 1774 — Schönlanke................................................................................355; title: Jewish population registers 1831/32— Schönlanke............................................357; title: Family name adoptions in Schönlanke — 1836–1846........................................370; title: Family Name Adoptions in Schönlanke (village) ...............................................375; title: APPENDIX II ....................................................................................................................377; title: Prelude to the Aktion...........................................................................................378; title: Rabbis of the Kehila — 1731–1938 ....................................................................380; title: Michael Salomon Alexander's ancestry and descendants....................................381; title: History of Schönlanke’s Street Names Through 200 Years................................385; title: Elders of the Kehila 1785–1911..........................................................................386; title: APPENDIX III...................................................................................................................389; title: Jewish Registers — Schönlanke 1815–1840.......................................................390; title: SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY ..............................................................................................424; title: GLOSSARY.......................................................................................................................430; title: ILLUSTRATIONS...............................................................................................................439; title: Some Former Jewish Citizens of Schönlanke.................................................................441; title: The Town of Schönlanke ................................................................................................454; title: Photo Credits...................................................................................................................463; title: INDEX ..............................................................................................................................