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Memorial Book for the destroyed Jewish community of Schönlanke (now Trzcianka, Poland)

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Avotaynu, Inc.
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474

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Table of Contents

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

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Number of pages
474
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10 x 8 x 1.4 inches

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OL26231959M
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