Radom

# The Radom Book — Summary

*The Book of Radom; The Story of a Jewish Community in Poland Destroyed by the Nazis*, is the memorial (yizkor) book of the Jewish community of Radom, edited by Y. Perlow; [English section]: Alfred Lipson, (Y,E), running to 474 pages ^[1].

Original-language title: *Sefer Radom* (translated by the JewishGen Yizkor Book Project) ^[1].

The English translation is hosted by JewishGen ^[1]. The summary below is the book's own table of contents, organised as the book is. Each chapter entry links to its English translation page on JewishGen and gives the book's own page reference. Where the book is silent, this page is silent too — no statement about the community is inferred or invented.

Table of contents

- ^[2] "Foreword" (p. 6) - ^[3] "Chapters from the Past" (p. 17) - ^[4] "Pages of History (1815-1830)" (p. 26) - ^[5] "Torah and Hassidism" (p. 41) - ^[6] "Rabbi Eliezer Weinsaft" (p. 57) - ^[7] "The Community [Council]" (p. 71) - ^[8] "Communal Activists" (p. 86) - ^[9] "Reflections of the Jewish Enlightenment" (p. 101) - ^[10] "A Portrait of a Civic and National Leader, Yekhiel Ben Yisroel Frenkel" (p. 127) - ^[11] "Radom – An Industrial Centre" (p. 133) - ^[12] "The Jewish Hospital" (p. 151) - ^[13] "Lovers of Zion and the Zionist Movement" (p. 173) - ^[14] "The Pioneer Movement" (p. 195) - ^[15] "The Pleiad of Radom Writers" (p. 217) - ^[16] "Reb Naftali son of Pinkhas –Zev Halevy" (p. 239) - ^[17] "The Beautiful Polish – Jewish City" (p. 247) - ^[18] "September Days–1939" (p. 277) - ^[19] "Political Life" (p. 292) - ^[20] "The Liquidation of the Large Ghetto" (p. 306) - ^[21] "The Murder in Wolanow" (p. 325) - ^[22] "Radomer Jews executed in the Vaihingen concentration camp,who were brought to be buried in the Radom cemetery" (p. 344) - ^[23] "Rabbi Israel Shapiro" (p. 365) - ^[24] "The Stuttgart Events" (p. 392) - ^[25] "Our Town People from the Second Aliya" (p. 397) - ^[26] "Dov Berl Zelker" (p. 411) - ^[27] "Communal Activists who Died in the Land of Israel" (p. 414) - ^[28] "The First Radom Congregation" (p. 429) - ^[29] "Yizkor – Remember" (p. 453) - ^[30] "Murdered and Deceased Radom Jews perpetuated their Relatives and Friends in France" (p. 469) - ^[31] "Radom Jews Tortured in Shemberg Nazi Concentration Camp" (p. 476) - ^[32] "Yizkor [List of victims]" (p. 483) - ^[33] "Radom in Pictures" - ^[34] "Foreword" - ^[35] "Pages from the Past" (p. 3) - ^[36] "Pogrom in Przytyk" (p. 33) - ^[37] "Under Nazi Rule" (p. 39) - ^[38] "Labor Camps" (p. 58) - ^[39] "Active and Passive Resistance" (p. 77) - ^[40] "In the Displaced Persons Center of Stuttgart" (p. 85) - ^[41] "Radomers – Pioneers in Israel" (p. 95)