Bialystoker landsmanschaft

... Our landsmanschaft was unable to publish this book earlier, as planned. At the 1970 Bialystoker world convention in Israel, it was decided to issue a memorial book as soon as possible. In the following years, our Center in New York carried on negotiations with our counterparts in Israel to prepare and issue the book jointly. Regrettably, this attempt at collaboration failed. ...

... The year 1981 also marked the 60th year of publication of our highly regarded magazine, Bialystoker Stimme. Published by our /andsmanschaft twice a year, before Passover and Rosh Hashanah, the Stimme is one of the most important publications founded by immigrant Jews and remains one of the few significant magazines published regularly for sixty years. ...

... (Editor’s note: Mr. Bursztejn, of blessed memory, wrote this article in 1961, during the historic Eichmann trial in Jerusalem. A prominent communal activist in Bialy- stok and a Holocaust survivor, Bursztejn was one of the prosecution witnesses, together with other surviving Jews from Bialystok, at the West German trial of the Nazi war criminal, Arthur Gosberg. Bursztejn lived in Israel after World War II, where he played a prominent role in the Bialystoker /andsmanschaft until his death several years ago.) ...