Tarnów

# The Tarnów Book — Summary

*Tarnów Yizkor Book*, is the memorial (yizkor) book of the Jewish community of Tarnów, edited by A. Chomet, Tel Aviv, Association of Former Residents of Tarnow, 1954-1968, published in Tel Aviv, 1954-1968, (H,Y,), running to 1381 pages ^[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] "Introduction" - ^[3] "The History of the Jews of Tarnów" (p. 3) - ^[4] "Tarnow – A Center of Torah, Hasidus, Zionism and Culture" (p. 189) - ^[5] "Clothing Industry in Tarnow" (p. 235) - ^[6] "Reb Mordechai Dovid" (p. 264) - ^[7] "Ben-Zion Rappaport and his book “Nature and Spirit”" (p. 296) - ^[8] "Tarnow in the Geography of Zionism" (p. 348) - ^[9] "The “Po'alei Zion-Left” in Tarnow (1926-1939)" (p. 596) - ^[10] "Poalei Zion (united with Z.S.)" (p. 608) - ^[11] "The Jewish Socialist Party – Zh. P. S." (p. 632) - ^[12] "On the Jewish Workers' Struggle in Tarnow" (p. 667) - ^[13] "About the Jewish Sports–Gymnastics Organizations in Tarnow" (p. 714) - ^[14] "Charitable Unions and Committees in Tarnow" (p. 733) - ^[15] "Memories" (p. 764) - ^[16] "Wolf Getzler" (p. 782) - ^[17] "The Annihilation of the Jews of Tarnow" (p. 808) - ^[18] "The World Saw and Did Nothing (pages from the Tarnow ghetto)" (p. 871) - ^[19] "The Last Days of Dr. Yitzhak Shifer" (p. 876) - ^[20] "Tarnow Jews Throughout the World" (p. 890) - ^[21] "Preface" (p. 7) - ^[22] "There Was Once a Jewish City Tarnow" (p. 15) - ^[23] "To My Beloved Town That Is No More" (p. 31) - ^[24] "Adolf Rudnicki – A Jew from Tarnow" (p. 53) - ^[25] "Information About the Jewish Cemetery in Tarnow" (p. 76) - ^[26] "Yoseph Umanski z”l – devoted to Hebrew language" (p. 113) - ^[27] "In Pictures" (p. 121) - ^[28] "The Road of Pain and Suffering" (p. 149) - ^[29] "The Trial of Wilhelm Heinrich Rommelmann, may his name be erased" (p. 196) - ^[30] "Tarnow Rabbis Who Perished oyf Kiddush haShem" (p. 219) - ^[31] "Memories of the Uprising in the Tarnow Ghetto" (p. 257) - ^[32] "The Social Aid in Jewish Tarnow During the German Occupation" (p. 277) - ^[33] "What Remained of Our Jewish Tarnow" (p. 315) - ^[34] "10th of Tevet, General Day of Kaddish and Remembrance of the Community of Tarnow" (p. 330) - ^[35] "List of Holocaust victims" (p. 343) - ^[36] "Memorial Pages" (p. 369) - ^[37] "Tarnow Book Index" - ^[38] "Tarnów Necrology Supplement"