Daniel Stein, Interpreter

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PART ONE

1.

December 1985, Boston. Ewa Manukyan

2.

January 1986, Boston. Esther Gantman

3.

1959–83, Boston. From Isaak Gantman’s notes

4.

January 1946, Wrocław. Letter from Efraim Cwyk to Avigdor Stein

5.

1959, Naples. Port of Mergellina. Letter from Daniel Stein to Władysław Klech

6.

1959, Naples. Telegram from Daniel Stein to Avigdor Stein

7.

Tourist brochure. “Visit Haifa”

8.

1996, Galilee, Moshav Nof a-Galil. From a conversation between Ewa Manukyan and Avigdor Stein.

9.

1981, Haifa. Letter from Daniel to Alon

1983, Haifa. Letter from Daniel to Alon

1983, Negev. Postcard from Alon to Daniel

1983, Haifa. Postcard from Daniel to Alon

10.

November 1990, Freiburg. From a talk by Brother Daniel Stein to schoolchildren

11.

August 1986, Paris. Letter from Paweł Koci

ski to Ewa Manukyan. 1956, Lwów. Photocopies from the NKVD archives

12.

1986, Boston. From the diary of Ewa Manukyan

13.

January 1986, Haifa. Letter from Rita Kowacz to Paweł Koci

ski

14.

June 1986, Paris. Letter from Paweł Koci

ski to Ewa Manukyan

15.

April 1986, Santorini. Letter from Ewa Manukyan to Esther Gantman

16.

1960, Akko. From Julien Sommier’s diary

17.

1963, Haifa. Letter from Daniel Stein to Władysław Klech

18.

1959–83, Boston. From Isaak Gantman’s notes

19.

February 1964, Jerusalem. Letter from Hilda Engel to Father Daniel Stein

March 1964, Haifa. Letter from Daniel Stein to Hilda Engel

May 1964, Jerusalem. Letter from Hilda Engel to Daniel Stein

June 1964, Haifa. Letter from Brother Daniel Stein to Hilda Engel

20.

November 1990, Freiburg. From a talk by Brother Daniel Stein to schoolchildren

21.

June 1965, Haifa. Bulletin board in the vestibule of the Arab Catholic Church of the Dormition of the Most Holy Virgin Mary in Haifa

22.

1964, Haifa. Letter from Daniel Stein to Władysław Klech

23.

January 1964. From Israeli newspapers

24.

July 1964, Haifa. Letter to the Prior of the Lebanese Province of the Order of Barefoot Brothers of the Most Holy Virgin Mary of Mount Carmel

June 1964, Haifa.

August 1964, Haifa. Letter to the General of the Order of Carmelites

25.

1996, Galilee, Moshav Nof a-Galil. From a tape-recorded conversation between Ewa Manukyan and Avigdor Stein.

26.

August 1965, Haifa. Letter from Daniel Stein to Władysław Klech

1 March 2006, Moscow. Letter from Ludmila Ulitskaya to Elena Kostioukovitch

PART TWO

1.

September 1965, Haifa. Letter from Hilda Engel to her mother

2.

1961, Kfar Tavor. Letter from Gra

yna to Wiktoria

March 1965, Kfar Tavor. Letter from Gra

yna to Wiktoria

3.

April 1965, Haifa. Letter from Daniel Stein to Władysław Klech

4.

December 1965, Kraków. From a letter from Władysław Klech to Daniel Stein

5.

September 1966, Haifa. From a letter from Hilda to her mother

6.

September 1966, Haifa. A note Hilda found that evening in her bag

7.

1996, Haifa. From a conversation between Hilda and Ewa Manukyan

8.

December 1966, Haifa. Recording of a talk by Brother Daniel at the Church of Elijah by the Spring

9.

December 1966. Memorandum to the Jerusalem Patriarchate

10.

June 1967, Haifa. From a letter from Hilda to her mother

11.

1967, Jerusalem. Hilda’s notes of a preexamination tutorial with Professor Neuhaus

12.

1967, Haifa. Letter from Daniel Stein to Władysław Klech

13.

November 1990, Freiburg. From a talk by Brother Daniel Stein to schoolchildren

14.

1987, Redford, England. Letter from Beata Semyonovich to Marysia Walewicz

15.

December 1987, Boston. From Ewa Manukyan’s diary

16.

April 1988, Haifa. Letter from Ewa Manukyan to Esther Gantman

17.

April 1988, Boston. Letter from Esther Gantman to Ewa Manukyan

18.

April 1988, Haifa. Letter from Ewa Manukyan to Esther Gantman

19.

1988, Haifa. Cassette sent by Rita Kowacz to Paweł Koci

ski

20.

1988, Haifa. Letter from Rita Kowacz to Paweł Koci

ski

21.

May 1988. From Ewa Manukyan’s diary

22.

1996, Galilee. Letter from Avigdor Stein to Ewa Manukyan

1969, Haifa. Copy of a letter from Daniel to Naomi

23.

November 1990, Freiburg. From a talk by Brother Daniel Stein to schoolchildren

24.

1967, Haifa. From Hilda’s diary

25.

May 1969, Haifa. Letter from Musa to Hilda

26.

1969, Haifa. From Hilda’s diary

27.

1959–83, Boston. From Isaak Gantman’s notes

28.

May 1969, the Golan Heights. Letter from Daniel Stein to Władysław Klech

29.

May 1969, Haifa. Letter from Hilda to her mother

30.

June 1969, Haifa. Sermon of Brother Daniel at Pentecost

31.

November 1990, Freiburg. From a talk by Brother Daniel Stein to schoolchildren

32.

1972. From Hilda’s diary

33.

1972, Dubravlag-Moscow. Correspondence between Gershon Shimes and his mother, Zinaida Shimes

1976. Flight from Vienna to Lod Airport, Israel. Letter from Gershon to Zinaida Shimes

1977, Hebron. From a letter from Gershon to Zinaida Shimes

1978, Hebron. From a letter from Gershon to Zinaida Shimes

1981, Hebron. From a letter from Gershon to Zinaida Shimes

June 2006. Letter from Ludmila Ulitskaya to Elena Kostioukovitch

PART THREE

1.

1976, Vilnius. Files from the archive of the district KGB department

1977, Vilnius. Major Perevezentsev to Lieutenant-Colonel Chernykh

2.

January 1978, Vilnius. From a letter from Teresa Benda to Valentina Ferdinandovna Lintse

3.

May 1978, Vilnius. From a letter from Teresa to Valentina Ferdinandovna

4.

July 1978, Vilnius. Letter from Teresa to Valentina Ferdinandovna

5.

October 1978, Vilnius. Letter from Teresa to Valentina Ferdinandovna

6.

December 1978, Vilnius. From a letter from Teresa to Valentina Ferdinandovna

7.

December 1978, Vilnius. Letter from Teresa to Valentina Ferdinandovna

8.

1979, Vilnius. Letter from Teresa to Valentina Ferdinandovna

9.

1984, Haifa. From “Readers’ Letters,”

Haifa News

10.

November 1990, Freiburg. From a talk by Brother Daniel Stein to schoolchildren

11.

1970. From Hilda’s diary

12.

1970, Haifa. Letter from Hilda to her mother

13.

1972, Haifa. Letter from Hilda to her mother

14.

1973, Haifa. Letter from Hilda to her mother

15.

1972, Haifa. Letter from Kasia Cohen, parishioner of the Church of Elijah at the Spring, to her husband Ethan in the United States

16.

1973, Haifa. Letter from Daniel Stein to Emmanuel Leroux in Toulouse

17.

1973, Toulouse. Letter from Emmanuel Leroux to Daniel Stein

18.

1972, Haifa. Bulletin board in the Church of Elijah by the Spring

19.

1973, Toulouse. Letter from Kasia Cohen to Ethan Cohen

20.

1976, Rio de Janeiro. Letter from Dina to Daniel Stein

21.

1978, Zichron Yaakov. Letter from Olga Reznik to Daniel Stein

22.

March 1989, Berkeley. Letter from Ewa Manukyan to Esther Gantman

23.

1989, Berkeley. Letter from Ewa Manukyan to Esther Gantman

24.

1989, Berkeley. Letter from Alex to Ewa Manukyan

25.

1989, Jerusalem. Letter from Yosef Feldman to Esther Gantman

26.

1959–83, Boston. From Isaak Gantman’s notes

27.

1972, Jerusalem. Letter from Professor Neuhaus to Professor Gantman

28.

March 1990, Berkeley. Letter from Ewa Manukyan to Esther Gantman

29.

January 1990, Haifa. Correspondence from Rita Kowacz to Ewa Manukyan (

Photocopies sent by Ewa Manukyan to Esther Gantman

)

30.

1990, Haifa. Rita Kowacz’s declaration

31.

1990, Haifa. From a letter from Rita Kowacz to Agnessa Widow in Jerusalem

32.

1970, Haifa. Letter from Daniel Stein to his niece, Ruth

33.

1981, Kfar Saba. Letter from Teresa to Valentina Ferdinandovna

34.

1980, Jerusalem. Letter from Mother Ioanna to Father Mikhail in Tishkino

35.

1981. Letter from Teresa to Valentina Ferdinandovna

36.

April 1982, Jerusalem. Letter from Mother Ioanna to Father Mikhail in Tishkino

37.

June 1982, Tishkino Village. Letter from Father Mikhail to Mother Ioanna

38.

January 1983, Jerusalem. Letter from Fyodor Krivtsov to Father Mikhail in Tishkino

39.

1982, Kfar Saba. Letter from Teresa to Valentina Ferdinandovna

40.

1982, Haifa. Conversation between Daniel and Efim Dovitas

41.

1983, Kfar Saba. Letter from Teresa to Valentina Ferdinandovna

42.

1983, Moscow. Letter from Valentina Ferdinandovna to Teresa

43.

1984, Haifa. Letter from Hilda to her mother

44.

1984. Report to the Latin Jerusalem Patriarchate

45.

1984. To the Abbot of the Stella Maris Monastery from the Secretary of the Patriarch of Jerusalem

To the Provincial of the Carmelite Order from the Patriarch of Jerusalem

46.

1984. To the Holy Congregation on Questions of the Doctrine of the Faith

47.

1984, Haifa. From a conversation between Daniel and Hilda

48.

From the biography of Pope John Paul II

49.

1984, Haifa. From Hilda’s diary

50.

1996, Galilee, Nof a-Galil. From a conversation between Ewa Manukyan and Avigdor Stein.

8 June 2006, Moscow. Letter from Ludmila Ulitskaya to Elena Kostioukovitch

PART FOUR

1.

1984, Kfar Saba. Letter from Teresa to Valentina Ferdinandovna

1984, Be’er Sheva. Letter from Teresa to Valentina Ferdinandovna

1984, Be’er Sheva. Letter from Teresa to Valentina Ferdinandovna

2.

February 1985, Be’er Sheva. Telegram from Efim Dovitas to Valentina Ferdinandovna

3.

March 1985, Be’er Sheva. Letter from Teresa to Valentina Ferdinandovna

4.

1985. From the newspaper

Russkii put’

, Paris-New York

5.

1985, Jerusalem. Letter from Mother Ioanna to Father Mikhail in Tishkino

6.

April 1985. From a note from Efim Dovitas to Nikolai Ivanovich Laiko

7.

1 April 1985. Document 107-M

8.

1984, Hebron. From a letter from Gershon Shimes to his mother Zinaida Shimes

9.

1984, Moscow. Letter from Zinaida Shimes to her son Gershon

1984, Moscow. Letter from Zinaida to Gerson Shimes

10.

1985, Hebron. Letter from Gershon to Zinaida Shimes

11.

1987, Moscow. Letter from Zinaida to Gershon Shimes

12.

1987, Hebron. Letter from Gershon to Zinaida Shimes

13.

1989, Moscow. Letter from Zinaida to Gershon Shimes

14.

1990, Hebron. Letter from Gershon to Zinaida Shimes

15.

December 1987, Haifa. From Hilda’s diary

16.

1988, Haifa. From Hilda’s diary

17.

1991, Berkeley. Letter from Ewa Manukyan to Esther Gantman

18.

December 1991, Haifa. Letter from Rita Kowacz to Paweł Koci

ski

19.

January 1992, Jerusalem. Letter from Ewa Manukyan to Esther Gantman

20.

November 1991, Jerusalem. Letter from Ruvim Lakhish to Daniel Stein

21.

1984, Jerusalem. Letter from Fyodor Krivtsov to Father Mikhail in Tishkino

22.

1988, Jerusalem. Letter from Mother Ioanna to Father Mikhail in Tishkino

23.

1988. Letter from Mother Ioanna to Father Mikhail in Tishkino

24.

1 August 1992, Jerusalem. Letter from Mother Ioanna to Father Mikhail in Tishkino

25.

1992, Jerusalem. Telegram from Nadezhda Krivosheina to Father Mikhail in Tishkino

26.

January 1992, Jerusalem. Letter from Ruvim Lakhish to all participants

27.

4 August 1992, Haifa. From Hilda’s diary

28.

July 1992, Berkeley. Letter from Ewa Manukyan to Esther Gantman

29.

September 1992, Haifa. Wall newspaper in the parish house.

August 1992. Speech by Rav Chaim Zusmanovich

30.

August 1992. From a conversation on the flight from Frankfurt to Boston between Ewa Manukyan and Esther Gantman

31.

August 1992, Berkeley. Letter from Ewa Manukyan to Esther Gantman

32.

August 1992, Redford, England. Letter from Beata Semyonovich to Maria Walewicz

33.

September 1992, Tel Aviv. Letter from Naphtali Lejzerowicz to Esther Gantman

34.

1994, Be’er Sheva. Letter from Teresa to Valentina Ferdinandovna

35.

1994, Moscow. Letter from Valentina Ferdinandovna to Teresa and Efim

36.

1995, Be’er Sheva. Letter from Efim Dovitas to Valentina Ferdinandovna

37.

1995, Be’er Sheva. Letter from Efim Dovitas to the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem

38.

Text of the “Supper of Remembrance” (Liturgy) of the Jewish Christian Community of Haifa, compiled by Brother Daniel Stein

39.

November 1990, Freiburg. Final talk by Brother Daniel Stein to schoolchildren

40.

1994, Haifa. From Hilda’s diary

June 2006, Moscow. Letter from Ludmila Ulitskaya to Elena Kostioukovitch

PART FIVE

1.

1994, Israel. From newspapers

2.

25 February 1994, Hebron. From the record of the interrogation of Gershon Shimes

3.

March 1994, Kfar Shaul, Psychiatric Hospital. From a conversation between Deborah Shimes and Doctor Freidin

4.

Psychiatrist’s conclusion

5.

Psychiatrist’s conclusion

6.

1994, Kfar Shaul. From an internal memorandum of the psychiatric hospital

7.

1994, Kfar Shaul. Note from the Kfar Shaul Psychiatric Hospital to the Investigations Department, Ministry of Police

8.

1995. From Hilda’s diary

9.

1994. Letter from Binyomin Shimes to his mother Deborah

10.

1994, Haifa. Talk between Daniel and Hilda

11.

1994. From a telephone conversation between the police and Deborah Shimes

12.

1995, Haifa. Bulletin board in the parish house

13.

1996, Galilee, Nof a-Galil. From a conversation between Avigdor Stein and Ewa Manukyan

14.

1995, Hebron. Police record of questioning of Deborah Shimes after the suicide of Binyomin

15.

1995, Hebron Police record of questioning of Gershon Shimes after the suicide of Binyomin

16.

November 1995, Haifa. From a letter from Hilda to her mother

17.

1 December 1995, Jerusalem. From the newspaper

Hadashot Ha’Erev

18.

1996, Haifa. From a conversation between Hilda and Ewa Manukyan

June 2006. Letter from Ludmila Ulitskaya to Elena Kostioukovitch

19.

December 1995, Jerusalem-Haifa

20.

December 1995, Haifa, Church of Elijah by the Spring. From correspondence addressed to Brother Daniel Stein

21.

14 December 1995, Environs of Qumran. Church of Elijah by the Spring

July 2006, Moscow. Letter from Ludmila Ulitskaya to Elena Kostioukovitch

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