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An Ancient Lineage – Edward Gelles - Index 1

A

A. Holzer & Co (bank), 119

Abraham the Angel, 261tab

Abulafia family, 272

Adlersberg, Alexander Hakohen, 37

Adlersberg, Saul Hakohen, 36

Agudas Shmuel (Delugatch, Shmuel), 277n18

Aichenbaum, Leah, 109tab

Akiba, Rabbi, 309

Altschuler, Gitel, 294tab

Altschuler, Isaac Shrentzel, 294tab

Altschuler, Mordecai, 294tab

Altschuler, Moshe, 271, 294tab

Altschuler, Nachman, 294tab

Altschuler, Rachel, 294tab

Altschuler, Shprinze, 294tab

Altschuler family, 5, 271, 294tab

Altschuler-Stark, Shoshana, 154tab

America

Gans, Chaim, visit to and work in, 164, 225, 314

Jewish communities in, 313–14

Jewish World Service, 118

American Medical Directory, The, 66

Anshei Shem (Buber, Solomon), 277n19

Argoud, Alice, 152tab

Arim ve-Imahot be-Israel, 91, 97

Ashkenasi, Chacham Zvi Hirsch, 149n7

Ashkenasi, Efraim Fischl

background and movement of, 272

descendants of, 272

Ashkenasi, Elimelech, 190–91

Ashkenasi, Israel (of Hanau), 242tab, 289tab, 290tab

Ashkenasi, Israel (of Lublin), 38, 290tab

Ashkenasi, Miriam, 149n7

Ashkenasi, Moses

2 Index

family tree, 290tab

marriage of, 293

Wahl, Saul (of Padua), descent from, 292tab

Ashkenasi, Naftali Herz

family tree, 289tab, 290tab


Ashkenasi, Rabbi Yoel, 35

Ashkenasi, Salomon, 27

Nathan, son of, 27

Ashkenasi, Uri Feivush (of Vilna and Jerusalem), 291tab

Ashkenasi, Yaakov (ABD of Jaroslaw), 38

Auerbach, Chawa (of Krakow), 131, 132

Auerbach, Raphael, 131

Austria

Army Museum, 88

anti-Jewish feeling in, 329

'Court Jews' in, 329

Jewish community in, 329–30

Avarles, Roza, 33tab

B

Babad, Beile, 300tab

Babad, Haim (ABD of Mikulince), 299tab, 300tab

Babad, Isaac (ABD of Sassow), 299tab, 300tab

Babad, Isaac (of Brody), 300tab

Babad, Jacob Yollis

descendants of, 268

family tree, 195ill, 300tab


Babad, Joshua Heschel, 300tab

Babad, Miriam, 292tab, 293

Babad, Moses (ABD of Przeworsk), 300tab

Babad, Nathan, 292tab

Babad, Reitze, 195ill, 300tab, 301tab

Babad, Yakov, 112

Babad, Yente, 112


Babad, Yoel, 268

Babad, Yoel (of Solotwina), 299tab, 300tab

Babad family, 112, 195n1, 245, 278n27

ancestry of, 268, 269

Bader, Menachem (of HashomerHatza'ir), 115

Baghdad (Jewish community in), 312

Banfield, Raffaello de, 170, 171

Barchau, Salomea (of Cracow), 55

Barenboim, Golda Zehava, 110tab, 112

Barlas, Chaim, 115

Baron Hirsch cemetery (Staten Island), 88

Bashkansky, Guy, 318

Bathory, Stefan (King of Poland), 26, 27

Wahl, Saul (of Padua), permissions granted to, 29

Bathya, Sarah, 156

family tree, 214tab

marriage and children of, 207, 272

Belz

Belzer Chasidim, dispute with Taube family, 144, 148n3

Chasidic Dynasty, 144, 148n3, 156

Reis-Tobe clan, 149n4

Taube family, roots in, 144, 145

Benas, Benjamin (of Posen), 33tab, 332tab

Bendet, Baruch, 56

Benish, Ahron, 211

Benjamin of Tudela, 310

Ber, Dov (of Kolomea), 298tab

Ber, Dov (the Maggid of Meseritz), 253, 261tab

Chasidic movement, teaching and ideas of, 254

Ber, Yissachar (of Cracow), 112, 244, 278n27

ancestry of, 60tab

Chalfan family, connection to, 333tab

family connections of, 251tab, 332tab

family tree, 288tab

Landau family, connection to, 291tab

marriage and children of, 270

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Ber, Yissachar (of Frankfurt), 195n1

ancestry of, 60tab

Berenstein, Aryeh Leib, 42, 60tab

Berenstein, Chajes & Co. (of Florence), 43, 48, 326

Berenstein, Wolf, 42

Bergwerk, Chaya (Haya)

business interests of, 55

family tree, 59tab

marriage of, 55

Berlin, Zvi Hirsch (Levin, Hirschel), 149n7, 328

family connections of, 252tab

Berliner, Abraham David Tebele, 149n7, 252tab

Berliner, Aryeh Leib, 149n7

Berliner, Efraim (of Lublin), 149n7

Berliner, Solomon Herschel, 328

Berning, Phyllis Low, 66, 87


Beth Din (Brody), 15

currencies, references to, 213n8

Jewish community life, records from, 209–11

property records of, 210, 212n7

records of, 201–02, 206, 264, 273

Bezalel, Jehuda Loew, 42

Bick, Malka, 215tab

Bielitz (Austrian Silesia)

Popper family, presence in, 160

Register of Companies trading in, 165n7

trade and industry of, 160

Vital Records of, 164n6

Bloch, Tuvia (Loew family), 79tab

Bolechower, Rivke, 59tab

Bolechower, Wolf, 273

Bonems, Itzchak (of Pinsk), 332tab

Bowden, Ruth, 152tab

Brand, Joel, 116


Brandwein, Chaim, 112

Breit, Judith, 111ill


family tree, 109tab

Breit, Moses, 109tab

Brenner, Dov Berel, 190, 196

Brenner, Yaacov, 196

Breslauer, Uri ben Naftali Hertz (Hart, Adam), 295

Brisker, David Tebele, 280n31

Brodsky, Meir Shor, 292tab, 293

Brody (Ukraine)

Austria, control over, 47–48

Beth Din, 15, 201–02, 206, 264, 273

Brody Memorial Book, 55, 88, 208

Chajes family, presence in, 42

decline of, 48

economic position of, 135

families of, 5–6

Gelles family origins in, 5–6

Jewish Cemetery, 217ill

Jewish community of, 47, 48, 201, 216, 328

Livorno (Tuscany, Italy), connection to, 48

Main Synagogue, 218ill

Market, 218ill

Pennell, Joseph, drawings and descriptions of, 216–17, 217ill, 218ill

pictorial record of (19th C), 216–18

records in Lviv archives, 205–06, 264–65

tombstones, old cemetery, records of, 247n6, 276n11

Brody Klaus, 5, 186, 202, 210

Gelles, Moses, scholar of, 6, 16

Ramraz, Yehuda Leib Zundel, scholar of, 6, 156

Buber, Solomon (Anshei Shem), 277n19

Burstin, Cecilia, 110tab

Bushka, Benjamin, 60tab, 289tab

Bushka, Moses, 289tab

Bushka, Saul Joshua Heschel, 289tab

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C

Capet, Hugh, 28

Casimir the Great, 25

Cassuto, Umberto, 44

Castignoli, Dr Paolo, 49

Chaim (Joachim Gaunse), 4–5

Chaim, Moses (of Komarno & Zlatchow), 289tab

Chaim of Czernowitz, 35

Chaja, Guetel, 236n8

Chajes, Julius, 321, 322ill

Chajes, Oscar, 321

Chajes, Yossi Hillel, 321, 322ill

Chajes see also Chayes

Chalfan, Abba Mari Delmedigo

ancestry of, 60tab


children of, 270


family tree, 288tab

Kalonymos family, connection to, 333tab

Chalfan, Abba Mari (of Prague), 288tab

Chalfan, Chaim Menachem Man, 9

Chalfan, Elias ben Abba Mari, 288tab

Chalfan, Elias Menachem (of Venice)

ancestry of, 60tab

descendants of, 270


family tree, 288tab

Henry VIII's divorce case, role in, 8


Chalfan, Isaac, 288tab

Chalfan, Joshua Heschel, 288tab

Chalfan, Loeb Heschel, 288tab

Chalfan, Mordecai ben Yechiel, 251tab

Chalfan, Yechiel


ancestry of, 60tab

children of, 270

family tree, 288tab


Chalfan, Yitzchak, 288tab

Chalfan family, 323–24

background and movement of, 270–71


family tree, 288tab

origin of, 5

Charif, Moses Phineas, 269, 292tab

family tree, 289tab, 290tab, 294tab

Charif, Yaacov (ABD of Leshnov), 269, 278n27

Charif, Yehoshua Heshel (of Cracow), 38

Charif, Yisrael (of Brodshin), 40tab, 269

Charif, Yutta, 289tab, 290tab

Charlaps family, 309, 310

Chasdei Avoth, 35–36

Chasidic movement, 330

Enlightenment era, challenges to, 253–54

foundation of, 253–54

Gelles family, connection to, 255–56

Poland, rise of, 328

sages of, 261tab

socio-economic background to, 254

teaching, 254–55

Chavot Yair Hadas (Kallir, Eleazar), 236n7, 276n13

Chaya, Sarah, 290tab

Chayes (Chajes), Abraham, 321

Chayes (Chajes), Beile (of Kolomea), 59tab

Chayes (Chajes), Chaim (of Kolomea), **SAME AS REB ISAAC CHAIM CHAYES**? 55

Chayes (Chajes), Chana, 56, 57

family tree, 59tab

Chayes (Chajes), David Tebele (of Brody), 45, 55


family tree, 59tab

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Chayes (Chajes), Eliezer (of Brody), ancestry of, 60tab

Chayes (Chajes), Eliezer (of Cracow), 45, 334tab

Chayes (Chajes), Ephraim Fischl, 56

Chayes (Chajes) family, 321–22

ancestry of, 60tab

archives and records relating to, 88

Brody (Ukraine), presence in, 326

coral trade, role in, 43

dispersal of, 316

Drohobycz (Ukraine), presence in, 54, 55

family connections of, 54–57, 59tab, 60tab, 61

history and background of, 42–45, 86, 94, 334tab

Katzenellenbogen family, connections to, 45

Kolomea (Ukraine), presence in, 54, 55

Livorno (Tuscany, Italy), presence in, 48, 50ill, 326

origin of, 5

Wahl family (of Nadworna), connection to, 45

wealth and business interests of, 137

Chayes (Chajes), Guido, 43, 49

Portuguese National Archive, documents relating to, 52ill

Chayes (Chajes), Hirsch Perez (**same as Zvi Hirsch Perez?**), history and background of, 44–45

Chayes (Chajes), Isaac ben Abraham, 324, 334tab **CHECK** - do both these entries refer to the same person?

Chayes (Chajes), Isaac ben Meir (of Brody), 61 **IS THIS THE SAME AS ISAAC CHAYES (OF BRODY)?**

Chayes (Chajes), Isaac Chaim (of Kolomea), 45, 55, 56, 86

death of, 56


family tree, 59tab

Chayes (Chajes), Isaac (of Brody), 45, 56, 334tab

ancestry of, 60tab


family tree, 59tab

Chayes (Chajes), Isaac (of Skole), 56, 60tab

Chayes (Chajes), Isaac Reuven, 56

Chayes (Chajes), Jacob, 60tab, 334tab

Chayes (Chajes), Jacob Isaac, 45

Chayes (Chajes), Jenta, 59tab


Chayes (Chajes), Josef, 45

Chayes (Chajes), Julius, 45

Chayes (Chajes), Leibush, 55

Chayes (Chajes), Leone, 48, 51tab

Chayes (Chajes), Mechel (Michael), 55

Chayes (Chajes), Meir (of Brody and Florence), 43, 48, 55, 334tab

ancestry of, 60tab

family tree, 59tab

Chayes (Chajes), Meir (of Tysmienica), 56, 60tab, 334tab

Chayes (Chajes), Menachem Manish (of Vilna), 334tab

ancestry of, 60tab

Council of Four Lands, role in, 42

Chayes (Chajes), Menachem Manish (wood merchant of Brody), 42–43, 326, 334tab

coral trade, role in, 43

Chayes (Chajes), Regina, 55, 59tab

Chayes (Chajes), Riva Hesse, 59tab

Chayes (Chajes), Salomon (of Brody), 334tab

Chayes (Chajes), Sarah Matel, 6, 16, 45, 56, 57, 70

ancestry and background of, 54

children of, 105, 109tab

family connections of, 92tab, 94, 139tab


marriage of, 54, 86, 105

Chayes (Chajes), Saul, 45

Chayes (Chajes), Schaya (of Kolomea), 55, 59tab

Chayes (Chajes), Solomon, 56, family tree, 59tab

Chayes (Chajes), Teyvel, 55

Chayes (Chajes), Yossel, 55, 56

Chayes (Chajes), Zelig, 55, 56

Chayes (Chajes), Zissel (of Kolomea), 86

Chayes (Chajes), Zvi Hersch (of Drohobycz), 55, 59tab

Chayes (Chajes), Zvi Hirsch (of Zolkiew), 54, 55, 56, 326, 334tab

children of, 61

family tree, 59tab

history and background of, 43–44

marriage of, 61

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Chayes (Chajes), Zvi Hirsch Perez (Chief Rabbi of Vienna), 6, 9, 41ill, 48, 54, 61, 334tab

family tree, 59tab

Chayes (Chayes), Zeida, 55

Chayes, David Tebele, ancestry of, 248n19

Chayot (Chayes) family, background and movement of, 8

Chayot, Isaac ben Abraham (of Prague), 5, 44, 219

ancestry and background of, 42, 54

ancestry of, 60tab

family connections of, 271

Poland, move to and name change of, 48

Chayot, Judah ben Jacob, 42

Chidushei Hagershuni, 35

Chinitz, Phyllis, 190

Chmielnicki, Bogdan, 26, 328

Chmielnicki massacres (1648), 9, 10, 26, 220, 328

Colon, Joseph, 8

ancestry of, 60tab


family tree, 288tab

Committee of Rescue (Istanbul), 114–15

Copernicus, Nicolas, 25

Council of the Four Lands, 275, 278n27

Chajes, Menachem Manish, role in, 42

function of, 275

records of, 275

Wahl, Saul (of Padua), role in, 29

Yaffe, Mordecai (of Prague), role in, 221

Cypres, Malka (of Cracow), 120, 121tab

Czortkow dynasty, 256

D

Da'at Kedoshim (Berman, J.), 230

David of Vilna

descendants of, 251tab

family tree, 287tab

Davidic descent, 307–10


claims of, 5

discussion of, Jewish genealogy, 311

and the divine right of kings, 307, 308

Hillel, ancestry of, 309

importance of, xv

Jewish lineage, and claims of, 309

Merovingian kings, claim of, 308

Dayan family, 310

Delmedigo, Elijah, 8

Delugatch, Moshe, 296tab

Delugatch, Shmuel, 267

Agudas Shmuel, 277n18

family tree, 296tab

Delugatch, Uri, 296tab

der Neuer Morgen Tagblatt (newspaper), 267

DNA studies, 'seed of Aaron', testing relating to, 10

Dov, Shmuel

ancestry of, 267

family tree, 296tab

Drohobycz (Ukraine), 54, 55

Drucker, Deborah

Ashkenasi rabbinical origins, 33tab


Dubnow, Simon, 14

Dunai, Alexander, 150n13

Dzikow (Galicia), 93, 100

Yizkor (Memorial) Book, 122, 136

E

Eberles, Abraham, 271

Eberles, Moses Yankiles, 294tab

Eberles, Moshe (of Cracow), 280n36

Eberles, Rosa, 280n36

family tree, 294tab

marriage of, 271

Eberles, Roza Yankiles, 294tab, 295

12 Index

Eberles, Yaacov, 294tab, 295

Edelmann, Hirsch, 32

Efrati, David Tebele, 270


Toldot Anshei Shem, 247n3

Eibeschuetz, Jonathan, 232

Eis, Israel Chaim, 115

Eleazar of Dubno, 271, 291tab

Eliezer, Israel ben (Baal Shem Tov), 253

Eliezer of Lvov-Komarno, 289tab

Encyclopaedia Judaica, 44

Encyclopaedia of Jewish Communities in Poland, 196

Engelhard-Fraenkel, Blume, 80


generational connections (Loew family), 79tab

Englard, Adela, 109tab

Englard, Shlomo, 279n30, 280n31

Enlightenment era, 9, 10, 253–56

Chasidic movement, challenges to, 253–54

socio-economic background to, 254

Epstein, Abraham (of Brest), 221

Epstein, Yechiel Michel, 39tab

Heilprin connections, 285tab

marriage of, 221

Yaffe-Rapaport connection, 284tab

Erlich, Tami, 154tab

European heritage, xxiiill, xxiii

F

Falk, Yosef, 144, 148n3

Farnmann, Jacob Josef, 101

Farnmann, Moses, 101

Farnmann, Salaman Leib, 101

Feivish, Meshullam, 263tab

Feivush, Uri (Chief Rabbi of Vilna), 6, 61, 243, 246n2



career of, 265–66

descendants of, 266, 270


family tree, 287tab

Holy Land, return to, 313


Feiwel, Jacob Kopel ben Nehemia (of Kolomea), 112

Feniger, Moshe, 79tab

Finkelstein, Abraham, 149n7

Finkelstein, Hinde, 149n7

Fischl, Efraim (ABD of Brisk)

family tree, 289tab

wife and children of, 272

Fischl, Efraim (of Lvov), 295

descendants of, 272


Fischl, Juta, 272, 289tab

Fischl, Zvi Hirsch, 272

Fischler, Rabbi, 36

Fischls, Aryeh Leib (of Cracow), 149n7, 272, 328

ancestry of, 60tab



family tree, 287tab

Fischls, Efraim, 60tab **CHECK**

Fischls, Esther, 149n7

Fleckeles, Eleazar (of Prague), 224

Fleckeles, Wolf, 224

Foote, Gretchen, 155tab

Fortgang, Rega, 109tab

Fraenkel (Engelhard), Nahum 'Pashawer', 298tab

Fraenkel, Abraham Zeev Wolf (of Przeworsk), 80

ancestry of, 273

career of, 273


marriages of, 273

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Fraenkel, Benjamin ('Reisher'), 298tab

Fraenkel, David, 242tab, 242n3

Fraenkel, Dov Ber (of Brody)


Finkel, daughter of, 210, 212n6

Fraenkel, Finkel, 273

synagogue seats, sale of, 210, 212n6

Fraenkel, Hinde, 298tab

Fraenkel, Juda Leib (of Dessau), 230, 242tab

Fraenkel, Meir Shlomo (of Brody), 214tab, 273, 298tab

Fraenkel, Michael, 242tab

Fraenkel, Moshe (of Przeworsk), 298tab

Fraenkel, Shmuel (ABD of Grodno), 298tab

Fraenkel, Yehuda Aaron (of Brody), 274, 298tab

Fraenkel, Zvi Hirsch (of Przeworsk), 298tab

Fraenkel family

Horowitz rabbis, links to, 274

name, and variations of, 273

origin of, 273

Fraenkel-Teomim, Jacob, 192n1

Franciscan land register (Austria), 203, 205

Frankfurt (Germany), persecution of 1612, 9

Frankfurter, Professor Solomon, 45

Freilich, Feiga, 109tab, 114

Freilich, Rebeka, 109tab

Friedman, David Moshe (of Czortkow), 261tab, 262tab

Friedman, Israel (of Czortkow), xvii, 107, 256, 267

Chasidic connections of, 261tab

death of, 137


funeral of, 255

grave of, 258n

Friedman, Israel (of Manchester), 256

Friedman, Israel (of Ruzhyn), 261tab, 262tab

Friedman family (of Czortkow), 267

Friedman family (of Ruzhyn), 105, 137


G

Gadd, Michele, 155tab

Galicia, xxivill, xxv

borderland of (Bukowina), 283ill

Chajes family, presence in, 42

economic and political position of, 134–35

Gelles family, origins in, 13

geography of, 134–35

Jewish community in, 129, 134, 329

oilfields of, 112

Galitzki, Serala, 101

Galmarini, Paolo, 49

Game of Creation, The (Sachs, V.), 178

Gans, Chaim, 222, 224

America, visit to and work in, 164, 225, 314

England, move to and work in, 225

family background of, 225

metallurgy, interest and career in, 225

Gans, David, xvii, 4, 164, 265, 276n12

background and family of, 222

early life and education of, 222–24

family of, 224

tombstone of, 224, 227ill

Zemach David, 222–24

Gans, Yoshua Seligman (of Bischitz), 224

Gans family, tombstones and Prague burial lists of, 224

Gaunse, Joachim see Gans, Chaim

Gedullath Shaul (Edelmann, Hirsch), 32

Gelber, N.M., 201, 247n6

tombstone transcriptions of, 264, 269, 276n7

Gelernter, Israel Dov Ber, 56

Gelles (Gellis), Max, 13, 192n2, 192n5, 193ill, 194ill

career of, 186–87

death of, 187


16 Index

Gelles (Kallmann), Lotte, 13, 187, 194ill, 315

marriage and children of, 189–90

Gelles (Levush), Moshe, family tree, 214tab

Gelles (Vaskievonie), Joseph, 189


family tree, 214tab

issue of, 210

Gelles, Abraham Jonah


marriage of, 271

Gelles, Benjamin (of Krotoschin), 277n14, 317

Gelles, Bertha (Feiga Rivka), 189, 315

Gelles, Chaim Naftali, 214tab

Gelles, David Isaac (Dr), 17ill, 86, 88, 183ill, 315, 330, 336tab

background and ancestry of, 264

birth of, 186, 275n1

career and interests of, 186

children of, 189

death and burial of, 275n1

Doctor Juris, 184ill, 186

early life of, 13

education of, 192n4


family tree, 21tab, 59tab, 121tab, 214tab

marriage of, 14, 18ill, 97, 189

testimonial, from J.Schumpeter, 185ill

tombstone of, 19ill

Zionist movement, role in, 186

Gelles, David Isaac (Rabbi), 189, 250tab, 276n4, 297, 336tab

background of, 233, 264

burial at, 192n1

descent of, 256


rabbis of Solotwina, 299tab

tombstone of, 202, 233, 264, 276n5

Gelles, Edward, 17ill, 189, 336tab


childhood and early life, 13, 187

England, move to, 97



Gelles, Efraim Fischel

death of, 268

family tree, 214tab


Gelles, Elsa, 190, 194ill

Gelles, Gershon, 203

Gelles, Jeremiah M., 318

Gelles, Jonanthan, 318

Gelles, Joseph

education of, 256

family and background of, 268

family tree, 289tab


Gelles, Lea, 202–03

Gelles, Leo (Ahron Leib), 189, 256, 268

Gelles, Ludwig, 13, 189, 194ill

death of, 97


Gelles, Malka Chaye, 192n6

tombstone inscription, 236n8

Gelles, Moredechai (of Brody), 202, 336tab

family tree, 214tab, 265, 287tab, 289tab, 296tab

issue of, 210



Gelles, Moses, 5, 186, 297, 336tab see also Levush, Menachem

ancestry of, and research in to, 201–05

Brody Klaus, scholar of, 6, 16, 255

descendants of, 207, 255, 330

descent from, 16



18 Index

Levush, Menachem, ambiguity relating to, 202, 209, 210


property records, and family research, 203–05

rabbinical records relating to, 201

Rokeach, Shalom (Belz dynasty), connection to, 156

tombstones, and family research, 202–03

Gelles, Moses Gershon, 289tab

Gelles, Moshe, 210-11, 214tab, 255

Gelles, Moshe Gershon, 210–11

family tree, 214tab


property records of, 212n7

Gelles, Nahum Uri, 15–16, 137, 188ill, 236n9, 336tab

background and ancestry of, 186, 244

birth of, 186, 189, 275n1

children of, 189–90

death and burial of, 275n1

descent of, 256

family tree, 21tab, 195ill, 214tab

Horowitz rabbis, links to, 274

letterhead used by, 191ill

pedigree of, 240ill


tombstone and grave of, 15–16, 19ill, 202, 258n, 264

Gelles, Nathan, 214tab

Gelles, Osias, 204, 278n25

Gelles, Philip (Ephraim Fishel), 189

Gelles, Rosa, 189

Gelles, Shmuel, 287tab, 336tab

Gelles, Shmuel Dov, 202, 250tab, 257n


descent of, 256


letter of appointment of, 259ill


marriage of, 255–56


Gelles, Shmuel (of Siemiatycze), 250tab


Gelles, Siegfried (of Krotoschin), 277n14, 317

Gelles, Yankel, 214tab

Gelles family

ancestry of, 264–65

Brody (Ukraine), origins in, 5–6

burial lists (Prague), 224

candle making, trade and supply of, 203–04, 210

Chasidic connections of, 255–56

cultural heritage of, 314–15

dispersal of, 320ill

family connections of, 323–24

Friedman family (of Czortkow), connection to, 267

Galicia, origins in, 13, 319

history and background of, 336tab

Hungary, presence in, 319

of Kishinev, 318–19

of Krotoschin and Lissa, 317–18

Margoshes family, marriage contract (1817), 210, 211n5

modern displacement of, 315–16

name, variations and meaning of, 201, 204–05, 209, 211n4, 243, 250tab, 320ill

rabbinical connections of, 214tab

Rokeach family, connection to, 156

Sephardic roots of, 323

tombstones of, 276n12

Yaffe, Mordecai (of Prague), ancestry linked to, 222

Gellis, David Isaac, tombstone of, 16, 20ill, 211

Gellis, Harold, 317

Gellis, Isaac, 318

Gellis, Israel (of Jerusalem), 313, 317

Gellis, Yaacov, 317

Gellis family

of Gorzd and Kretinga, 317

of Grodno, 317

genealogy

20 Index

and Davidic descent, 309, 311

difficulties with, 3–4, 14

and lineage, xv, 10

methodology of research, 71

property records, and family research, 203–05

research and importance of, xv

'seed of Aaron', 10

ships' manifests, use of in research, 76–77, 100

tombstones, and family research, 202–03

vital records, use of, 203–205

Germany

Ashkenasi Jews, persecutions of, 327

Frankfurt (persecution of 1612), 9

Gelnhausen, 325

Habsburg emperors, 27

Italy, Jewish migrations from, 26–27

Jewish communities in, 325

Jews, migrations from, 26–27

Poland, Jewish migrations from, 26

Gewurz, Moses

children of, 124tab

Safier, Marcel (family website of), 124tab

Gillis, Bernard, 317

Ginsberg, Golda, 123, 124tab, 147

Glina, rabbis of, 276n4

Goldberg, Isaac, 152tab, 160

Goldberg, Wilhelmine, 152tab, 154tab, 160

Goldstein, David S., 106

Gottesman, Chanah Gitel, 149n7

Gottleib, Noach, Ohalei Shem, 239n39, 240ill, 275n1

Gracian-Shaltiel, Moshe, 309

Grand Sanhedrin (convened by Napolean I, 1806), 9

Griffel (Rose), David, 105, 112

Griffel (Rose), Max, 105–06,

Griffel, Andrew, 106, 117–18

Griffel, Beila, 109tab


Griffel, Benjamin, 109tab

Griffel, Chaya, 106, 109tab, 110tab

Griffel, Clara, 110tab

Griffel, David, 98

children of, 110tab


family tree, 110tab

life and career of, 107

Griffel, David Mendel, 6, 34



children of, 65, 104

death of, 65

family connections of, 92tab, 98tab, 139tab

family tree and descendants of, 21tab, 59tab, 106–07, 109tab, 121tab, 131tab, 151tab

inheritance from his father, 114

marriage of, 94, 129

records relating to, 70

Griffel, David (of Boston), 87, 315

Griffel, Edward, 13, 108ill, 315

business interests of, 87, 97


family tree, 59tab

life and character of, 107

marriage of, 98

Griffel, Eliezer (Zeida) (of Nadworna), 6, 16, 45, 56, 57, 70


background and career of, 86

birth of, 104

business interests of, 86, 94, 112, 137

character of, 94

children of, 94, 105, 109tab

death of, 114



life of, 105, 130

22 Index

marriage of, 54, 86, 105

Nadworna Memorial Book, mention of in, 105

Griffel, Eric, 70–71, 87, 119

career of, 315


family tree, 121tab

life and career of, 97, 107

Griffel, Eve, 92tab

Griffel, Frieda, 110tab

Griffel, Gittel (of Nadworna), 105, 110tab

Griffel, Isaac Chaim, 97



children of, 106


family tree, 109tab

inheritance from his father, 114

Griffel, Jacob, 7, 15, 57, 87, 89, 105, 113ill


career of, 137, 315

Chasidic faith of, 106

Committee of Rescue (Istanbul), role in, 114–15


family tree, 109tab

life of, 114


rescue missions of, 114–16, 156

Rokeach, Ahron and Mordecai, rescue of, 156–57

World War II, impact on, 98

Griffel, Joseph Isaac Chaim, 92tab, 115

Griffel, Lea, 105

Griffel, Leah, 110tab, 112

Griffel, Leibish, 109tab

Griffel, Leibish Arie, 110tab, 112

Griffel, Leo, 110tab

Griffel, Ludwig, 85ill


Griffel, Machla, 109tab

Griffel, Max, 110tab, 112, 315

Griffel, Meir Leib, 110tab, 105

Griffel, Moshe, 110tab

Griffel, Rachel, 109tab

Griffel, Regina, 34, 85ill

background and early life of, 13, 65, 70, 86



Low (Loew), Abraham, postcard from, 65, 67, 68ill–69ill, 88

marriage of, 14, 18ill, 87, 97

Griffel, Ruben, 110tab

Griffel, Sara Rivka, 109tab, 112, 115

Griffel, Shalom, 109tab

Griffel, Shaya, 109tab

Griffel, Shmuel Shmelke, 106, 109tab

Griffel, Tali, 118

Griffel, Taube (of Nadworna), 104, 109tab

Griffel, Yehoshua Heshel (Henry)

education and career of, 106

family tree, 109tab

life of, 117

Griffel, Yigal, 112

Griffel, Zissel




Griffel, Zygmunt, 13, 55, 107ill, 315





Griffel family (Nadworna and Stanislau), 104, 120

archives and records relating to, 87–88

descent of and from, 6, 7, 86, 105

family connections of, 56, 59tab, 129, 138tab–39tab, 315–16

24 Index

Galicia, origins in, 13

lines and branches of, 105

Nadworna Memorial Book, 88

Tarnobrzeg (Poland), presence in, 73, 129

wealth and business interests of, 130, 137

World War II, impact on and movements of, 97–98

Grodno (Lithuania), 317

Gross, Reuben, 57

Gruenfeld, Samuel, 106, 110tab

Gruenfeld, Shlomo, 106, 109tab, 110tab

Gruss, Riane, 120

Guenzburg, Benjamin Wolf, 221

Guttman, Matityahu Yecheziel (of Jassy), 202


Guttman, Shalom, descendants of, 263tab

H

Habsburg emperors, 27

Hager, Baruch, 112

Hager, Chaim, 112

Hager, Eliezer, 115

Hager, Menachem Mendel, 112

Hager, Sitka, 106, 110tab

Hager Chasidic dynasty, 105, 106

ancestral connections of, 112


Hakohen, Aaron Zvi Hirsch, family tree, 296tab

Hakohen, Feige, 273, 297, 296tab

Hakohen, Joshua Heschel (of Brody), 272, 273

Hakohen, Moshe, 296tab, 297

Hakohen, Rachel, 298tab

Hakohen, Samson (?), 296tab

Hakohen, Samuel, 298tab

Hakohen, Yoshua Heschel, 296tab

Halberstam, Yechezkel (of Siniawa), 136

Halevi, Ascher Lemel


family tree, 242tab


Halevi, Moshe ben Yekutiel Landau, 295

Halfin (von Fürstenberg), Diane, 319

Halfon, Zundel, 221

Halpern, Abraham (of Stanislau)


career of, 269

family tree, 300tab

marriage of, 269

Halpern, Eliezer Lipman


family tree, 300tab

Halpern, Israel Charif (ABD of Ostrog), 300tab

Halpern, Israel (of Krotoschin), 231, 269

Ashkenazi rabbinical origins, 33tab

Council of the Four Lands, records collected by, 275

family tree, 294tab


Halpern, Joel (ABD of Lesniov), 300tab

Halpern, Joel (of Stanislau), 300tab

Halpern, Moses Ashkenazi, 33tab, 231

Halpern, Zebulon Eliezer Ashkenazi, 33tab

Halpern family




Wahl family (of Nadworna), links to, 36

HaMagid (newspaper), 133

Hart, Aaron, 295

Ha-Sandelar, Johanan, 309

Hauser, Baruch Mordko, 131, 132

Hauser, Bracha


family tree, 133tab

life and family of, 132–33

26 Index

marriage of, 129, 130, 138, 147

Hauser, Caroline, 131

Hauser, Hirsch

children of, 131


family tree, 133tab

life and family of, 132


Hauser, Moses, 88, 137


Hauser, Moshe (of Tarnobrzeg)


family connections of, 129, 139tab

family tree, 133tab

wealth of, 130

Hauser family (Tarnobrzeg), 131, 137–38

family connections of, 129, 138tab–39tab

Hauser-Auerbach, Lucy

birth and life of, 131


family tree, 133tab

marriage of, 137

parents of, 132

Hayyim (Joachim), xvii

Heilprin (Heilpern), Moshe (of Berdichev), 36, 37, 38, 39tab

Heilprin (Heilpern), Yosef, 38

Heilprin (Heilpern), Zak, 238n22

Heilprin, Abraham (of Kowel), 39tab, 285tab

Heilprin, Abraham Zorach Juda Leib (of Brzezany), 285tab

Heilprin, Chanania Joseph (of Brzezany), 285tab

Heilprin, Eliezer (of Fuerth), 33tab

Heilprin, Isaiah (of Vitkov and Brody), 39tab

Heilprin, Israel Nachman (of Brzezany), 285tab

Heilprin, Israel (of Svierz), 39tab, 285tab

Heilprin, Jechiel (of Minsk), 38

Heilprin, Tuvia Yechiel Michel (of Brzezany), 285tab


Heller, Esther, 40tab

Heller, Meir, 204

Heller, Yomtov Lipmann, 35, 40tab, 204

Hermann, Risie, 59tab

Hersch, Zvi (ABD of Drohobycz), 38

Herzkes, Beila, 40tab

Herzog, Chaim, 234

Herzog, Yitzchak Halevi, 234

Heschel, Abraham Joshua (of Cracow), 112, 149n7, 293

ancestry of, 60tab


descendants of, 272


family tree, 296tab


Wahl, Saul (of Padua), 292tab

Heschel, Rebecca, family tree, 288tab

Heymann, Menachem Mendel, 261tab

Hillel, 309

Hillman (Helman), Beila, 230, 242tab

Hillman (Helman), Chana, 236n8

Hillman (Helman), Deborah


marriage of, 230

tombstone of, 230

Hillman (Helman), Hinde, 291tab

Hillman (Helman), Jached

family tree, 242tab



Hillman (Helman), Moshe (of Glognau), 290tab

Hillman (Helman), Shmuel (of Metz), 14, 186, 266, 295

achievements of, 232

ancestry of, 6, 230–32, 243–44, 264

approbations of, 231–32, 235n3, 241ill


28 Index

background and movement of, 9, 328

birth and early life of, 229

children and descendants of, 230, 233-34, 256, 328



life of, 6, 243–44

marriages of, 229

rabbinical connections of, 229, 232–33

Hillman (Helman), Uri Feivush, 237n11

family tree, 242tab


marriage and children of, 230, 242n2

Hillman, Harold, 234

Hillman, Samuel Isaac, 234

Hillman, Sidney, 234

Hirsch, Abraham, 262tab

Hirsch, Nita, 154tab

Hirsch, Yehudah Arieh Zvi, 36

Hirsch, Zvi (of Korostyshev), 262tab

History of the Samuels, The (Samuel, J.B.), 15

Hochgelehrter, Joseph (of Zamosc), 289tab

holocaust

memorials relating to, 105, 148

Taube family, impact on, 148

Holzer, Aaron, 121n4, 121tab

Holzer, Feigla (of Cracow), 119, 120, 121n4, 121tab

Holzer, Lolek, 121n4

Holzer, Marta Chaya, 162

Honey, Michael, 14, 72

historical chart of, 130, 131

Honigsman, Jacob, 150n11

Hoover Institution, 163

Horovitz, Isaiah Halevi, 6, 243

Frankfurt persecution (1612), 9

Holy Land, return to, 313

ideas and beliefs of, 254


Horovitz, Zvi Hirsch, Kitvei HaGeonim, 278n27

Horowitz, Abraham, 80, 298tab

Horowitz, Beile, 195ill

Horowitz, Chaim, 281n44

Horowitz, David Halevi (of Stanislau), 299tab, 300tab

Horowitz, Dovberish, 261tab

Horowitz, Efraim Fischel, 300tab, 301tab

Horowitz, Efraim Fischel (of Munkacz), 192n1, 195n4, 274, 281n45

ancestry of, 269



Horowitz, Eleazar (of Rohatyn), 192n1, 299, 299tab, 300tab

Horowitz, Heinde, 33tab

Horowitz, Isaac (ABD of Hamburg), 195n2

family tree, 195ill, 300tab, 301tab

Horowitz, Isaiah Halvei, 270

Horowitz, Jakob, Jokel (of Bolechow)


family tree, 195ill, 300tab, 301tab

Horowitz, Meir, 255



Horowitz, Meshullam Feivel, 261tab

Horowitz, Meyer, letter from, 80, 81ill **IS THIS THE SAME AS MEIR HOROWITZ?**

Horowitz, Pinchas, 29–30, 33tab, 59tab, 255

Horowitz, Samuel, 59tab

Horowitz, Sarah, 21tab

Horowitz, Shmuel Shmelke (of Nikolsburg), 55–56, 255, 273

Nezir Hashem and Semichas Moshe, 278n25

Horowitz, Yehuda Aaron, 195n5, 281n44

career of, 274


family tree, 195ill


Horowitz, Zalman, 109tab

Horowitz dynasty of Sedziszow, 80, 281n44

30 Index

Fraenkel family, links to, 274

Horowitz family, 323

Hortola, Maria, family tree, 152tab

Hundert, Professor Gershon David, xvii

Hungary

Eisenstadt, 329

Jewish community in, 329

I

Iberian peninsula, Jews, expulsions from, 27

Il Messaggero Israelitico, 44

Imrei Da'as (Shapira, Yehuda Meir), 278n26

Isaac, Chaya Sarah, 263tab

Isaac, Jacob (of Zamosc), 289tab

Isaac, Levi (of Berdichev), 263tab

Isaac, Levi (of Nigresti), 263tab

Isaac, Mattithiah Ezekiel, 263tab

Isaac, Pinchas, 263tab

Isaac, Salomon ben (Rashi of Troyes), 4

ancestry of, 309, 310, 324

birth of, 324

descent claimed from, 5, 11, 253, 309

education of, 324

Geoffrey of Bouillon, meeting with, 8

miracles associated with, 310

Isaac ben Uri (of Gilna), 250tab

ancestry of, 266

death of, 244


marriage of, 266

Isaac of Gilna, family tree, 296tab

Isaac of Siemiatycze



family tree, 287tab

Israel, establishment of state of, 9


Israel of Pikov (Derbarmdiger), 263tab

Israel of Ruzhin, 255

Israelitische Kultusgemeinde (Vienna), 14

burial records of, 150n12

Isser, Israel (of Lublin), 293


Isserles, Dreizel, 267



family tree, 296tab

Isserles, Moses (of Cracow), xvii, 8, 30, 244

ancestry of, 297


descendants of, 6, 253, 266–267


family tree, 296tab


Issers, Hirsch Reb, 292tab

Italy

German Jews, migrations in to, 26–27, 325

Jewish communities in, 325–26

Padua, importance of, 325

J

Jacob of Lublin, 332tab

Jacob of Ludmir, 60tab, 295, 289tab

Jacob of Posen, 301tab, 302

Jewish Agency (role in Committee of Rescue, Istanbul), 115

Jewish Encyclopaedia, 220

Jewish Genealogical Society of Great Britain, 14

Jewish Theological Seminary (New York), 44, 209

Jewish Volunteer Corps, 118

Joel of Brest, 40tab

Joseph, Jacob (of Polnoye), 255

Josephine land register (Austria), 203, 205

Josipovici, Mina, 153tabn1

32 Index

JRI-Poland project, 119, 145, 146, 149n9, 170, 278n25

Popper family, records relating to, 160

Przemysl records, 150n17

Judah, Samuel (of Padua and Venice), 45, 332tab

K

Kadosh, Yitzchak Chalfan


family tree, 288tab


Kahan, Chana, 109tab

Kalamankes (Yaffe family), from Kalonymos, 220

Kalamankes, Sender Loeb, 220

Kalischer, Joseph, 289tab

Kallmann, Kurt (of Berlin), 190

Kalonymos, ben Trodos (of Narbonne), seal of, 345ill

Kalonymos, Fioret, 288tab, 332tab, 333tab

Kalonymos ben David, 270


Kalonymos family


Jewish community, and intermarriages, 312

origin of, 270

Kanner, Leah, 100, 101


family tree, 151tab

Kaplan, Anna, 152tab, 162

Karmel, Rachel, 120, 121n4, 121tab

Katvan, Beile, 245, 292tab, 333tab

ancestry of, 60tab, 266



marriage of, 266

Katvan, David, 278n27




marriage and children of, 244–45

Katvan, Reizel, 195ill

Katz, Bezalel, 301tab, 302

Katz, Efraim Fischel, 301tab

Katz, Isaac, 301tab

Katz, Isaiah, 301tab, 302

Katz, Jonah Nachum, 40tab

Katz, Josef, 294tab, 295

Katz, Malka, 79tab

Katz, Meir, 38, 40tab

Katz, Menachem Meinish, 301tab

Katz, Mendel, 39tab, 40tab

Katz, Michel, 39tab, 40tab

Katz, Moses, 292tab

Katz, Moshe, 38

Katz, Naftali, 301tab

Katz, Naftali Hirsch, 301tab, 302

Katz, Nisan, 301tab

Katz, Rivka, 294tab

Katz, Shabatai, 4, 36, 38, 40tab, 244

descendants of, 267



Wahl family (of Nadworna), links to, 35

Katz, Shmuel, 40tab

Katz, Shprintze, 301tab, 332tab

Katz, Yehudah Leib, 40tab

Katzenellenbogen, Abraham, 39tab

Katzenellenbogen, Abraham ben Yoel Ashkenazi, 45

Katzenellenbogen, David Tebele (Chief Rabbi of St.Petersburg), 9, 270

ancestry of, 248n19


Katzenellenbogen, Dinah, 301tab

Katzenellenbogen, Eliezer (of Hagenau & Bamberg)

ancestry of, 269


34 Index

family tree, 242tab


Katzenellenbogen, Ephraim Zalman, 261tab

Katzenellenbogen, Ezekiel, 39tab, 40tab

Katzenellenbogen, Isaac, 28

ancestry of, 60tab


Katzenellenbogen, Jacob Joseph, 39tab

Katzenellenbogen, Judah Wahl, 261tab

Katzenellenbogen, Meir Judah, 33tab

Katzenellenbogen, Meir (of Padua), 34, 39tab

ancestry of, 60tab


background of, 28



Katzenellenbogen, Meir Wahl, 60tab, 332tab

Katzenellenbogen, Moses (of Anspach), 33tab

Katzenellenbogen, Moses (of Chelm), 33tab, 60tab, 261tab

Katzenellenbogen, Naftali Hirsch, 242n6


family tree, 242tab

Grand Sanhedrin (1806), summons to, 9


marriage of, 230

Katzenellenbogen, Phineas ben Moses, 30, 32

Yesh Manhilin, 235n2

Katzenellenbogen, Samuel Judah (of Venice), 28, 33tab, 34, 35, 39tab, 219

ancestry of, 60tab


Katzenellenbogen, Saul ben Judah see Wahl, Saul

Katzenellenbogen, Saul (of Pinczow), 33tab, 261tab

Katzenellenbogen, Yached, 33tab

Katzenellenbogen, Yoel Ashkenazi, 39tab

Katzenellenbogen family

background of, 28


Chayes (Chajes) family, connections to, 45

descent of, 39tab, 253


name, background of, 28

Taube family, connections with, 145

Wahl-Heller family, link to, 35

Katzenellenbogen Rabbis (Padua and Venice), 4, 28


establishment of dynasty, 8

Kerem Shlomo (Zelig, Shlomo Ahron), 246n2

Kerschen, Paula, 153tabn1, 166n9

Kirschbaum, Sarah Chaja, 154tab

Kirschen, Paula, family notes of (Weinberg family), 166n9 - **ASSUME THIS IS PAULA KERSCHEN

ABOVE?**

Kitvei HaGeonim (Horovitz, Zvi Hirsch), 278n27

Klarman, Jacob (of the Zionist Revisionists), 115

Kloisner, Efraim Fischel (of Ludmir), 301tab, 302

Kloisner, Zacharya Mendel

ancestry of, 60tab


family tree, 287tab

Knot, Moysze, 203

Kohanim, representations of, 4

Kol Todah (Weber, Dov), 231

Kol Yehuda (Selig, Yehuda ben Chanina), 232

Kolesnik, Rabbi (Stanislau), 15

Kolomea (Ukraine), 55

Chayes (Chajes) family, presence in, 54, 55, 56

Kolomea Yizkor Book, 55

Kopel, Chaim, 112

Kopel, Menachem Mendel, 112

Koret, Joseph

Koret Charitable Foundation, 163

Taube, Thaddeus, work with, 163

Kornbluth, Simone, 100

Kosloff, Samuel, 112

36 Index

family tree, 110tab

marriage of, 105

Kosnoth Or (Isaac, Meir ben, of Horochow), 236n5

Kossow dynasty, 112

Krakower, Isaac

ancestry of, 60tab

career of, 245


children of, 269



family tree, 195ill


marriage of, 245


Kranzler, David, 115

Krystynopol, Taube family, presence in, 145

L

Lamm, Arnold, 87


family tree, 133tab

marriage of, 137

Lamm, Salomon, 88

Lamm, Shlomo



family tree, 133tab

life and family of, 132–33

marriage of, 129, 130, 138, 147

Lamm, Steven, 106


Lamm, Zygmunt





Lamm family (Stanislau), 137–38, 147

descendants of, 131–32

family connections of, 129, 138tab–39tab

Landau, Ezekiel (Chief Rabbi of Prague), 6, 244, 280n34, 295


family tree, 242tab


sermons delivered by, 237n14

Landau, Gitel, 294tab, 295

Landau, Judah, 291tab

Landau, Shmuel, 242tab, 291tab

Landau, Zvi Hirsch Witeles, 244, 271, 291tab

Lauterbach, Jacob Bezalel, 55

Lauterbach Chronicle, 55

Lauterbach family (genealogical study of), 55

Lazare, Isidor (Chief Rabbi of France), 9

Leah, Yente, 291tab

Leghorn see Livorno (Tuscany, Italy)

Leib, Aryeh

marriage of, 149n7


Leib, Aryeh (ABD of Anikst), 252tab

Leib, Aryeh (of Slutsk and Grodno)

birth of, 267

career of, 267



Leib, Hirsch, 192n6, 196

Leib, Jacob (of Lemberg), 105

Leib, (Moshe) Aryeh Yehuda (Reb Leib Chasid), 277n19

Leibovici, Rosa Filip, 153tabn1

Leibus, Mordecai, 292tab, 293

Leifer family (of Nadworna), 268

Leinkram, Nellie, 190

Lemberg

Register of Births, 150n13

38 Index

Taube family, 150n11

Taube family, presence in, 145

Lemberger Togblatt, 144

Levitzer (Babad), Israel (of Rovno), 292tab, 293

Levush (Gelles), Michel, 212n6, 297

family and family tree, 207, 214tab, 296tab

issue of, 210

marriage of, 272

Levush, Abraham (of Kostiokowitz), 204

Levush, Menachem, 201, 336tab see also Gelles, Moses

business interests of, 201–02


Gelles, Moses, ambiguity relating to, 202, 209, 210

marriage of, 265

rabbinical records relating to, 201–02

Levush, Moredechai, 202



property records of, 204

Levush, Nehemia (of Svierz), 204, 221

Lichtenstein, Chaim Jacob, 57

Lichtenstein, Hillel, 56, 59tab

Lichtenstein, Wolf Leib, 56, 57, 59tab

Lichtenstein, Zeev Judah, 57

Lichtenstein family (of Kolomea), 56

Lichtman, Abraham Isaac, 79tab

Liebeskind, Marceli, 152tab, 162

Lima, Moses, 244

Lipman, Busha, 110tab

Lipman, Max, 110tab

Lipshitz, Aidel, 33tab

Lithuania

Brest, and Lithuanian Jewry, 28

Council of, 32

Gelles family origins in, 6

Poland, formal union with, 26


Radziwill family, influence of, 28–29

Livorno (Tuscany, Italy)

Brody (Ukraine), connection to, 48

Chayes (Chajes) family, presence in, 50ill

coral trade in, 43, 47

Jewish community of, 47

Jewish settlers in, 43

Llewellyn, Dai, 170, 171

Llewellyn, Harry Morton, 171

Llewellyn, Morton, 170, 171

Locke, Dianne, 189

Loew, Bezalel ben Chaim (of Worms), 60tab, 332tab

Loew, Esther (Erna), 80

Loew, Gitel, 79tab

Loew, Hana, 79tab

Loew, Imanuel, 79tab

Loew, Jacov Shaya, 76

Loew, Judah (of Prague), 4, 219, 309, 310

Davidic descent claimed from, 5

descendants of, 301tab, 302

family connections to, 270

family tree, 220


marriages of, 226n1, 302

Loew, Judah (the Elder), 309–10

Loew, Leah, 79tab

Loew, Nahum Wolf, 80

Loew, Nathan Nata (of Sedziszow), 76, 94


children of, 79tab, 80

generational connections, 79tab

Loew, Sara, 79tab

Loew, Vögele, 301tab

Loew, Willy Zeev, 78n6

Loew, Yacov Shaya (of Sedziszow), 79tab, 80, 298tab

Loew, Zeev William, 80

40 Index

Loew, Zeev Wolf (Mayor of Sedziszow), 79tab

Loew family (Sedziszow), 94, 316

generational connections, 79tab

religious allegiance of, 136

Wahl family (of Tarnobrzeg), connections to, 77, 80, 136

Loewenstam, Saul, 149n7

Loewenstein, Leopold, Index Approbationum, 231

Lopez, Aaron, 314

Lost Childhood, The (Nir, Yehuda), 106

Low (Loew), Abraham, 6, 69ill, 87, 100

ancestry of, 77tab

background of, and research in to, 65–66

biography of, 75ill

career and achievements of, 76, 95–96, 316


medical career of, 66

postcard from, 65, 67, 68ill–69ill, 88

ships' manifests, use of in research on, 76–77, 78n7, 88, 100

WWI, service of, 65, 67

Low (Loew), Eliezer (Lazar), 66, 71

background and family of, 76

birth and death of, 78n3

character of, 95

children of, 79tab, 80, 95


family tree, 151tab

marriage of, 94

Low (Loew), Nathan S, 77

Low (Loew), Selma, 71, 72

birth certificate of, 73, 76, 78n4

Low, Berel (of Sedziszow), 80

Low, Marilyn, 316

Low, Max, 80, 81ill

Low, Willy, 80, 316

Low family (USA), 95

Luria, Isaac, 253-54, 313


Luria, Shlomo (of Lublin), 8, 272

Luria, Yechiel (of Alsace & Brest), 8, 28



Luria family, 4, 8

M

Mach, Stefanie, 120

Maharam of Padua, 112

Maimonides, Moses, 253, 309

Man, Chaim Menachem (of Vienna), 288tab, 332tab

Man, Yisrael Yitzchak (of Cracow), 288tab, 332tab

Mandel, Rahel, 55

Manhilin, Yesh, 32

Manson, Susan, 15, 88, 107


family tree, 59tab

marriage of, 98

Margolioth, Menachem Meinish, 293

Margoshes, Aryeh Shmuel, 272

Margoshes, Berach, 211, 289tab

Margoshes, Eliezer, 272

Margoshes, Joseph, 80

descendants of, 272

Lemberger Togblatt, article in, 144

memoirs of, 130

Margoshes, Joseph Eliezer, 272

Margoshes, Zalman, 289tab

Margoshes family

Gelles family, marriage contract (1817), 210, 211n5

origin of, 272

Marmorstein, Yissochor, xix, 14

marriage, women and name changes, 3–4

Maximilian II (Habsburg), 27

Medici, Jewish community, tolerance towards, 47

Megilas Eivah, 35

42 Index

Meir Chajes & Son (Brody), 43

Meir of Horodycze


family tree, 287tab


Meisel, Mordecai Marcus ben Samuel, 27, 329

Meisels, Leib Chasid, 296tab

Meisels, Moshe (of Ludmir and Lvov), 267, 296tab

Meisels, Simcha Bonem, 267



family tree, 296tab

Meisels, Uri, 296tab

Meisels, Yente Leah, 244

descendants of, 267


Memorial Book of Glina (Halpern, H. ed.), 276n4

Mendel, Menachem, 293



Mendel, Zacharya Mendel (the prophet), 332tab

Mendel, Zacharya (of Belz), 287tab, 289tab, 332tab

Mendels, Beinish Reb (of Posen), 60tab, 287tab

Mendels, Sarah, 60tab

Mendelssohn, Moses, xvii, 9, 253



Meorei Galicia (Wunder, M.), 196, 281n44

Mieses, Teresa, 120

migrations, 3, 312–13

Babylonian exile, impact of, 312

causes of, 4

from Germany, 26–27

Holy Land, and pilgrimages to, 313

Iberian peninsula, expulsions from, 27, 312

impact of, 10


to Italy, 26–27

Ottoman Empire, exile in, 312

to Poland, 26

Minz, Hannah, 33tab, 39tab

Minz, Judah Halevi, 33tab

Modena, Leone da, 28

Mormons' Family History Library (South Kensington), 15

Moses of Pikov, 263tab

Moshe of Glogau, 230

children of, 233

family tree, 242tab


N

Nachman (of Bratslav), 255

Nadworna, 104

Nadworna Memorial Book, 88, 91, 97

Griffel, Eliezer (Zeida), mention of, 105

holocaust victims, names of, 105

names

and alternative spellings, xxi

conventions of, 3, 243

first names, and conventions of, xxi

place names, use of and changes to, xxi, 4

women and marriage, 3–4

Uri, use of and meaning, 243–44

Narayow (Galicia), 186

Nasi, Joseph, 27

Nata, Nathan (ABD of Brody), 61

ancestry of, 270


family tree and family of, 245, 248n19, 287tab



Nata, Nathan (of Tarnigrad and Belz), 287tab

Natan Nata of Posen (**CHECK**), 33tab

44 Index

Neches, Leiser (of Lemberg), 105

Ner Tamid: Yizkor LeBrody (1994), 278n27

Nir (Gruenfeld), Yehuda, 106, 132

pedigree of, 110tab

O

Ohalei Shem (Gottleib, Noach), 239n39, 240ill, 275n1

Ohrenstein, Bonya (Abraham), 109tab

Ohrenstein, Chaim Simon, 87, 170

children of, 147


family tree, 151tab

marriage of, 94, 96, 147, 158

Ohrenstein, Lucia (Countess Tripcovich), 6, 87, 88, 147, 158, 176ill, 177, 326

birth of, 96, 169, 170

family connections of, 92tab, 169

Italy, move to, 159

life and character of, 169–71

marriages of, 171, 173ill

Tripcovich, Oliviero, affair with, 97

'Oil in Galicia', The Galitzianer (Schatzker, V.), 112

Or Chachamin (Katzenellenbogen, Benjamin), 231

P

Padua (Italy), 27

Jewish community in, 325

university of, 27

Padwa, Akiwa, 149n7

Padwa, Eliezer Wolf Taube (of Belz), 149n7

Padwa, Hanoch Dov, 149n7

Padwa family (of Brody), 149n7

Panos, Dianne Marie, 155tab

Parnes, Chaja Ittel, 242tab

Pennell, Joseph

Brody, drawings and descriptions of, 216–17, 217ill, 218ill

Eastern European tour, record of, 216–17


Peregrinatio Hierosolymitana (Radziwill, Nicholas Christoph), 29

Perels, Meir, 220

Perez of Constance (**CHECK**), 33tab

Pinchas (Gelles), Eliyahu




letter of appointment of, 260ill

Pipesberg, Herta, 152tab

Poland

Bathory, Stefan (King of), 26, 27, 29

Chasidic movement, rise of, 328

Chmielnicki massacres (1648), 9, 26, 328

elective kingship, 26

German Jews, migrations in to, 26

interregnum of 1587, 30, 31

Jagiellonian kings of, 25, 26

Jews, presence in and influence of (Renaissance period), 26, 327–28

Katzenellenbogen rabbis, presence in, 327

Lithuania, formal union with, 26

migrations and refuge in, 8, 25, 328

Renaissance period, 25–26

Sforza, Bona (Queen of), 25

Sigismund I (King of), 25

Sigismund II (King of), 26

Sigismund III Vasa (King of), 26

Valois, Henri (King of), 26, 27

Polish Cultural Institute (London), 72

Polonski, Abraham Isaac, 202, 263tab

Polonski, Samson (Shimson) Aaron, 202, 263tab

Pomerantz, Venia (of Mapai), 115

Popper, Adolf, 160

Popper, Armin, 152tab

Popper, Artur Henryk


family tree, 152tab

46 Index

marriage of, 162

Popper, Benjamin Wolf (of Bresnitz), 159

Popper, Chaim, 159

Popper, Elizabeth, 152tab

Popper, Heinrich, 160

Popper, Honoria, 152tab

Popper, Irene

birth of, 162

death of, 159


family tree, 152tab

marriage of, 162

Popper, Isidor Moritz, 152tab

Popper, Jacques


family tree, 152tab

marriages of, 162

Popper, Leopold (of Bielitz)

birth of, 164n5


children of, 162


family tree, 152tab

tombstone of, 161ill

Popper, Lola




Popper, Moritz, 152tab, 160 **CHECK**

Popper, Rudolf, 162


family tree, 152tab

marriage of, 162

Popper, Samuel, 160

Popper, Sir Karl, 159

Popper family (of Bielitz)


Bielitz (Austrian Silesia), presence in, 160

history and background of, 159–62

Popper-Lynkeus, Josef, 159

Portuguese National Archive, 52ill

Potocki grant (1662), 104

Pozza, Ermenegilda, 170

Prague

Jewish community in, 326–27

Jewish migrations to, 220

rabbis of, 326–27

Pshivorggarski, Shlomo, 61

Purini, Romeo Puri, 96, 169, 171

R

Raab, Leon, 120

Radzichow Memorial Book, 136

Radziwill, Nicholas, 28

Radziwill, Nicholas Cristoph (the 'Orphan'), 29

Radziwill family, 28–29

Lithuania, influence in, 29

Poland, position in, 29

Wahl, Saul (of Padua), links to, 29–30

Ramraz, Yehuda Leib Zundel, 156

Rapaport, Abraham Jekutiel Pereles, 293

Rapaport, Abraham Shrentzel, 277n19

family tree, 294tab

Rapaport, Baruch (of Fuerth), 290tab

Rapaport, Berish, 109tab

Rapaport, Chaim, 244



marriage of, 266


Rapaport, Gele, 269, 295



48 Index

Rapaport, Isaac, 289tab

Rapaport, Isaac (of Hanau), 238n16, 290tab

family tree, 242tab

marriage of, 230

Rapaport, Israel, Tifereth Israel, 278n25

Rapaport, Mordecai, 292tab

Rapaport, Nachman ben Chaim, 251tab, 284tab

Rapaport, Nachman ben Simcha, 332tab

Rapaport, Nachman (of Vaskiai), 244


marriage of, 266

Rapaport, Simcha ben Nachman Hakohen

children of, 244




Rapaport, Simeon

family tree, 294tab


Reich, Abraham Yonah, 207

Reich, Chaya, 214tab, 271

Reich, Isaac, 271

Reis-Tobe clan (Belz), 149n4

Resnick, Asher, 192n3

Resnick, Edythe, 189

Resnick, Isidore, 189

Resnick, Nathan, 189

Resnick, Oscar, 189

Rhode, Harold, 234

Riess, Riekel, 242tab

Rimalt, Zvi Hirsch, 80

Ritter, Judith, 71

Ritterman, Avraham, 79tab

Riva, Hessi, 61

Rivka, Esther, 299tab, 300tab

Rofe, Samuel, 224


Roisel, Zlate



Rokeach, Ahron, 156

Griffel, Jacob, rescue mission by, 156–57

Rokeach, Eleazar (of Brody & Amsterdam), 61

family tree, 215tab

Rokeach, Liebish (of Berdichev), family tree, 215tab

Rokeach, Mordecai, 156

Griffel, Jacob, rescue mission by, 156–57

Rokeach, Shalom (Belz dynasty), 6, 144, 149n7, 156, 255

family tree, 215tab

Gelles, Moses, connection to, 156

Rokeach family (of Belz)


Gelles family, connection to, 156

Rose, Chaim Yoshua (of Stanislau), 105, 110tab

Rosefeld, Chana, 109tab

Rosenbaum, Shmuel, 109tab

Rosenstein, Neil, 14, 34, 55

tombstones, research project on, 15

Unbroken Chain, The, 14, 269

Roth, Cecil, 28

Roth, Joseph, 201

Rothenberg, Murray (Moshe), 189

Rothenberg, Robert, 189, 315

Rothenberg, Stuart, 189, 315

Rottenberg, Miriam


family tree, 109tab

marriage of, 115

Rubin, Beile, 300tab, 301tab

Rubin, Menachem Mendel, 195ill, 195n3

Rubin, Naftali Zvi, 195n3

Rudolph II (Habsburg), 27

50 Index

S

Sachs, Ignacy, 97


Sachs, Viola, 7, 87, 88, 97


education of, 177–78

family connections of, 92tab, 139tab, 154tab, 177

Game of Creation, The, 178


written works of, 177–78

Sachsenspiegel, 34

Safed (Israel), 313

Safier, Ahron, 136

Safier, Beila

Census (1880 & 1925), Tarnobrzeg, 124tab

children of (Tarnobrzeg Census, 1880 & 1925), 124tab, 125tab

Safier, Carola, 123


Safier, Chaim (?)

birth of, 122





Safier, Marcel (family website of), 124tab–25tab


Yizkor (Memorial) Book, Dzikow, 122, 136

Safier, Chaya, Census (1880 & 1925), Tarnobrzeg, 124tab

Safier, Elimelech (Meilech)

birth of, 122





Yizkor (Memorial) Book, Dzikow, 122, 136

Safier, Emil, 123


Safier, Felicia, 125tab

Safier, Gitla, 124tab

Safier, Henry L., 125tab

Safier, Isaac, 122, 123, 147

Safier, Isaac ben Chaim

business interests and career of, 123


family tree, 124tab



Safier, Josef, 122

Safier, Klara, 123, 124tab

Safier, Marcel, 123, 124tab–25tab, 147

Safier, Metka, 124tab

Safier, Moses, 122–23, 124tab, 138, 139tab

Safier, Rachel, 124tab

Safier, Sarah (Sara), 6, 93, 101, 130, 147, 316

Census (1880 & 1925), Tarnobrzeg, 122

children of, 93–94, 98tab, 122, 147–48

family connections of, 92tab, 138, 139tab, 147, 154tab


marriage of, 147

Tarnobrzeg (Poland), presence in, 73

Safier, Simon, 125tab

Safier, Szysia, 122–23, 124tab

Safier family, 6

birth records (Tarnobrzeg Census, 1880 & 1925), 124tab

descendants of, 6

dispersal of, 316

family connections of, 138tab–39tab, 316

name, and variations of, 122

Tarnobrzeg (Poland), presence in, 72, 122–24, 136


Safier of Dzikow, 122

Samson of Ostropol, 38

Samuel, J. Burnford, 15, 119

52 Index

Samuel family, 120

San Remo Peace Conference (1920), 44

Scharf, Shalom, 177

death of, 96


Schatzker, Valerie, 112

Schieber, Sarah, 105, 110tab, 112

Schieber, Shlomo, 105, 110tab

Schieber, Taube, 110tab

Schmaus, Peter, 190

Schmaus, Walter, 190

Schmitt, Marilyn Low, 66, 80, 87


Schmulewitz, Sarah, 318

Schorr, Leon

death of, 159, 162


family tree, 152tab

marriage of, 162

Schorr, Nita, 159

birth of, 162

family tree (adopted), 152tab

marriage of, 162

Schreiber, Diana, 92tab

Schumpeter, Prof. J., 185ill

'seed of Aaron' (DNA testing relating to), 10

Sefer Yichus Belza (Yudlov, Yitzchak Shlomo), 280n36

Segal, Ahron Zelig ben Yehuda Zundel

descendants of, 272

family tree, 215tab

Segal, David Halevi (Chief Rabbi of Lvov), 6, 38, 40tab, 86, 104, 112, 330

descendants of, 245

Segal, Modechai, 40tab

Segal, Yechiel Michal, 230

career of, 242n5

family tree, 242tab


Seidmann, Berta, 55, 59tab

Selim (Sultan), 27

Sennensieb, Sussel, 55

Settimana Israelitica, 44

Sforza, Bona (Queen of Poland), 25

Shachna, Rabbi Avraham Reb, 35

Shapira, Yehuda Meir, 267, 268

Imrei Da'as, 278n26

Shapira, Yehuda Meir (of Lublin), 286tab

Shapiro, Ette, 56, 59tab

Shapiro, Nathan Nata (of Grodno), 261tab **CHECK**

Shapiro, Pinchas (of Koretz), 5, 14, 105, 200, 202, 224, 253, 257n




children of, 265

family tree, 294tab

Shapiro line, connections, 286tab

Shapiro, Rebecca, 56, 59tab

Shapiro, Sarah, 262tab

Shapiro, Solomon, 286tab

Shapiro, Yaakov Shimson, 286tab

Shapiro, Yehuda Meir, 224



Shapiro family, 286tab see also headings for Spira and Spiro

descent of, 253

Shaprio, Nathan Nata (of Grodno), 286tab

Sheilath Shalom, 190

Sheindel, Sarah Rachel, 202


marriage and children of, 207, 255–56

marriage of, 265

Shem, Ohalei, 190

Shemot (magazine), 16, 34

Shlomo (**CHECK**), (Ashkenazi rabbinical origins), 33tab

54 Index

Shor, Alexander Sender, 292tab

Shor, Alexander Sender Haim, 292tab

Shor, Deborah, 292tab

Shor, Efraim Zalman, 292tab, 293

Shor, Hinde, 292tab, 293

Shor, Jacob, 33tab

Shor, Veitel, 292tab, 293

Shor, Yente, 33tab

Shrantzel, Gitel, 289tab

Sigismund I (King of Poland), 25

Sigismund II (King of Poland), 26

Sigismund III Vasa (King of Poland), 26, 31

Simson of Posen (**CHECK**), 33tab

Singer, Joan, 189

Sirkes, Joel (Chief Rabbi of Cracow), 38, 40tab, 104, 148n2, 245

Slomka, Jan, 72, 73

memoirs of, 130, 135

Solomon (**CHECK**), (Ashkenazi rabbinical origins), 33tab

Solotwina (Poland)

Encyclopaedia of Jewish Communities in Poland, 196

rabbis of, 299tab

Sousa, Bernardo Vasconselose, 49

Spira (Shapiro), Natan Nata (of Grodno), 33tab, 224

Spira, Samuel, 33tab

Spiro (Shapiro) family, 4, 8

Spiro (Shapiro), Nathan Nata (of Cracow)






Spiro, Abraham Aba (of Shklov), 261tab, 286tab

Spiro, Dov (of Tlost), 286tab

Spiro, Lifsha, 33tab

Spiro, Moshe (of Shklov), 286tab

Spiro, Nathan Nata


descent of, 256

family tree, 294tab

marriage of, 271

Spiro, Shlomo



Spiro, Yehiel Meir (of Shipetovka), 286tab

Sprio, Nathan Nata (of Hildesheim), 261tab

Sprio, Pinchas, 286tab

Sprio, Yitzchak Yehiel Michel, 286tab

Stanislau (World War I & II, impact on), 104

Stariner, Israel, 35, 38, 40tab

Steinberg, Rabbi (of Brody), 190

Steinberg, Stuart, 234

Sternhel, Cypra, 59tab

Sternhel, Hersch, 59tab

Sternhel, Shaltiel Isaac (of Kolomea), 56

Sternhel, Yaakov, 56

Sternhel family (of Kolomea), 56

Stieglitz, Gisa, 120

Strasbourg municipal archives, 71, 72, 88

Suesser, Bendet (Benedikt), 120, 121tab

Suesser, Bernhard, 55, 59tab

Suesser, Maryla, 15, 55, 88

birth of, 120


family tree, 121tab

Suesser, Salomon, 55, 59tab

Swincher, Israel, 266

ancestry of, 245

descendants of, 244




life of, 244

56 Index

T

Tarnobrzeg (Poland), 72, 100

Austrian rule, period of, 93

Book of Inhabitants (1925), 73

Census (1880), 72, 73, 76, 78n5, 88, 101, 122, 124tab, 131

Census (1925), 101, 122, 124tab, 131

Jewish settlers in, 72, 93

natural resources and industry of, 135

Wahl family, presence in, 72, 73, 100

World War II, impact on, 93

Zygmunt III, royal charter of, 135

Tarnowski, Counts, 122, 130

Taube, Abraham (of Lemberg), 71, 87, 169

children of, 147

death of, 71

family connections of, 92tab, 98tab, 139tab, 154tab


first wife of, 94, 96

marriage of, 94, 146, 146n3, 147, 158, 178–79

Wahl family, connections to, 146–47

Taube, Feivel

business interests of, 123, 129, 138, 147

children of, 123, 129–30, 144–45, 147


family tree, 124tab

Safier family, link to, 138

Taube, Feivel (of Belz), 149n7

Taube, Joseph


children of, 146


family tree, 124tab, 145–46, 146tab

marriage of, 145–46, 150n13

Taube, Leon, 148

Taube, Mariam, 146tab

Taube, Mordechai (of Lvov), 123


children of, 147

Taube, Rega, 96, 147, 158, 177

Brazil, move to, 159


life of, 96, 97

Taube, Samuel, 146, 146tab

Taube, Sarah


family tree, 124tab

marriage of, 123, 138, 147

Taube, Simon (of Krystynopol), 145


family tree, 146tab

Taube, Thaddeus, xix, 6–7, 87, 88, 96, 168ill

background of, 162–63

birth and early life of, 158–59


children of, 164

education of, 163

family connections of, 92tab, 139tab, 154tab, 160

family tree, 124tab, 143, 152tab, 155tab

Hoover Institution, executive board member, 163

Koret Charitable Foundation, President of, 163

life and work of, 162–64, 316

Taube Family Foundation, 163

Taube, Yossel, 144

Taube, Zyga, 96, 147, 177, 179, 316

America, move to, 159





marriage of, 158

Taube, Zygmunt Wittels, 158

Taube family, 71, 158

Belz, roots in, 143–44, 145

58 Index

Belzer Chasidim, dispute with, 144, 148n3

descent of, 7

family connections of, 138tab–39tab, 144–45, 154tab

history and ancient links of, 143–44

Katzenellenbogen family, connections to, 145

Krystynopol, presence in, 145

Lemberg, presence in, 145, 150n11

Rokeach Rabbis of Belz, connections to, 156

Wahl-Safier familes, connections with, 129

wealth and business interests of, 138, 144

Taube Family Foundation, xix, 163

Taube-Wittels, Frederica (Fradel)

family tree, 146tab

marriage of, 146

Tebele, David (of Brisk), family connections of, 252tab

Tebele, David (of Lissa), 246n2, 247n7, 328

ancestry of, 245, 270


family tree, 287tab



Teitelbaum, Moshe, 35

Teomim, Moshe, 190

Thaler, Chanah, 110tab

Tifereth Israel (Rapaport, Israel), 278n25

Todros, Rabbi

descent of, 6

family tree, 215tab

Toldot Anshei Shem (Efrati, David Tebele), 247n3

tombstones

Gelles family, 276n12

symbols on, 346

transcriptions of (Gelber, N.M.), 201, 247n6, 264, 269, 276n7

use of in genealogical research, 15

Tosafot Yomtov (Heller, Yomtov Lipmann), 35, 204

Tov, Baal Shem, 56


Trabot, Shlomo, 270

Treivish, Chana

family tree, 294tab

marriage of, 271

Treves, Eliezer, 271

Treves, Mattityahu (Chief Rabbi of Paris), 33tab

Treves family, 4



origin of, 325

Tripcovich, Diodato, 97, 170, 171

Tripcovich, Oliviero, 97, 170, 176ill, 326

death of, 175ill

marriage of, 171, 173ill

Tripcovich family

background of, 169–70

ennoblement of, 174ill

Twersky, Feige, 262tab

Twersky, Leah, 262tab

Twersky, Malka, 262tab

Twersky, Menachem Nachum, 253

ancestry of, 267




Twersky, Sarah Ephrati, 262tab

Twersky, Shalom Shakhna, 262tab

Twersky, Sima, 262tab

U

Unbroken Chain, The (Rosenstein, N.), 14, 269

Uri of Satanov, 277n19

Urquhart, Margaret, 105, 110tab, 112

V

Valois, Henri (King of Poland), 26, 27

60 Index

Vaskivonie, Joseph Gelles, 207

Vassilover, Lippa, 145

Villa Chajes (Livorno, Italy), 49, 53ill

Vilner, Gershon (of Shklov), 61, 244

family connections of, 251tab, 252tab, 270, 271

family tree, 287tab



Vishnitz dynasty, 112

W

Wahl (Moise), Abraham Sulim, 100, 101

Wahl, Bella Rachel, 261tab

Wahl, Blossom (Blume), 66, 72

ancestry and background of, 71, 76

archives and records relating to, 71, 72, 88

birth and death of, 78n3, 93–94

children of, 71, 79tab, 80, 95


family tree, 151tab

life of, 94–95

marriage of, 94

research in to, 72–73

Wahl, Chaim, 93–94

Wahl, Chaim Leib

birth of, 101


family tree, 151tab

Wahl, Chaim Shimon, 101

Wahl, Chawa (of Tarnobrzeg), 14, 16, 34, 72, 86

ancestry and background of, 70, 73, 86

birth of, 93–94

character of, 94

children of, 65

death of, 65, 94

descent of, 6



family tree and descendants of, 59tab, 106–07, 109tab, 121tab, 133tab, 151tab

life of, 97


Wahl, David, 35, 38, 40tab

Wahl, Deborah, 292tab

Wahl, Dinah, 296tab

Wahl, Ester, 101

Wahl, Eva, family tree, 21tab

Wahl, Frieda

children of, 131


family tree, 133tab

life and family of, 132


Wahl, Gestar, 100

Wahl, Gitel, 101

Wahl, Hanele, 31

Wahl, Isaac Naftali, 100, 101

Wahl, Jacques Henri, 100

Who's Who in France, 103

Wahl, Judah (Shmuel), 296tab

Wahl, Leiser, 73, 88

birth of, 135

business interests of, 122, 130, 135–36

children of, 147–48



Wahl, Meir (Rabbi of Brest), 29–30


Council of Lithuania, 32


Wahl, Miriam, 294tab

Wahl, Monique, 101

Wahl, Moses, 77, 93–94

birth of, 101

62 Index


family tree, 151tab

life and death of, 100

probate of, 78n9, 88


wife and children of, 100

Wahl, Muriel, 100–01

Wahl, Pinchas David, 101

Wahl, Rachel, 72, 99ill, 169, 177

background of, 71, 147

birth of, 93–94

Brazil, move to, 159

children of, 87, 96, 97, 147, 170

death of, 94

family connections of, 92tab, 98tab, 139tab, 154tab


life of, 96

marriages of, 71–72, 87, 94, 96, 147, 158, 178–79

Wahl, Rivka, 40tab

Wahl, Samson, 40tab

Wahl, Samuel, 122

Wahl, Sarah (of Tarnobrzeg), 71, 76

Wahl, Saul (of Dessau), 261tab

Wahl, Saul (of Padua), xvii, 4, 8, 27, 39tab



Bathory, Stefan (King of Poland), permissions granted by, 29

birth and background of, 27–28, 34

Brest, presence in and influence of, 29–30



children of, 29–30, 34

Council of the Four Lands, role in, 29

descent from, 6, 14, 34

education of, 325




king for a day (Poland), 30–31

name, and use of, 30, 34, 74n1, 93

Poland, life in and king of, 25, 28, 329

Radziwill family, links to, 29–30

Wahl, Shalom (of Tarnobrzeg), 71, 178

Wahl, Shaya, 101

Wahl, Shmuel Judah



Wahl, Shulem (Zulim), 6, 21tab, 76, 86, 88, 93, 101


children of, 93–94, 98tab, 122, 147–48



marriage of, 147


Wahl, Sypora, 93–94


family tree, 151tab

Wahl, Taube Hinde, 101

Wahl, Zvi Arieh, 34, 135

ancestry of, 70

descendants of, 36–37

family background of, 35–36

family tree **CHECK**, 40tab

letters of, 35–36

Wohl family (of Zurich), descent from, 15

Wahl family (of Nadworna), 15, 34–37, 70, 86

Chayes (Chajes) family, connections to, 45


Halpern family, links to, 36

Katzenellenbogen family, link to, 35

Wahl family (of Tarnobrzeg), 73, 86, 98tab, 101

family connections of, 138tab–39tab

family tree, 121tab

64 Index

Loew family, connections to, 77, 80

Tarnobrzeg (Poland), presence in, 72, 135–36


Wohl family (of Krakow), links with, 119

Wahrman, Yaakov Yitzhak, 263tab

Waichselbaum, Diana, 79tab, 80

Wald, Leon, 120

Walsch, Meir

family tree, 289tab


Weber, Dov, 14

Kol Todah, 231

tombstones, research project on, 15

Weidner, Paul, 28

Weinberg, Ariel Nuta (of Bucarest)

children of, 162

family tree, 153tab

Weinberg, Clara, 154tab, 162

Weinberg, Ernestine


family tree, 152tab

marriage of, 162

Weinberg, Georges, 153tabn2

Weinberg, Marcus, 153tabn1

Weinberg, Natalie (of Bucharest), 153tab, 162

Weinberg, Robert, 153tabn1

Weinstein, Esther, 315

birth of, 192n6

death of, 192n6



Weinstein, Howard, 197ill

Weinstein, Malka (Molly), 196

Weinstein, Nancy, 197ill

Weinstein, Philip, 197ill

Weinstein, Zvi Aryeh, 189


career of, 274

family of, 196, 197ill

family tree, 21tab


responsa, and references to, 196–97

Weiser, Barbara (Bracha), 71, 146


family details given by, 150n14

Weissmandel, Michael Dov, 115–16

Weitgeschichte des Jüdischen Volkes (Dubnow, S.), 14

Wellcome Library for the History and Understanding of Medicine, 66, 88

Welner, Alan, 316

Welner, Barbara, 123, 147, 316


life of, 123

Safier, Marcel (family website of), 124tab–25tab

Welner, Michael Mark, 123, 316

Welner, Nick, 123, 316

Welner, Sarah, 316

Welner family, 123

Werchaizer, Pola (Sura-Perl), 109tab

Wertheim, Aryeh Leib, 261tab, 262tab

Wertheim, David Samuel




Wertheim, Menachem Nahum




Wertheimer, Samson (of Vienna), 38, 329

Who's Who in America, 66

Who's Who in France, 100, 103

Wiesel (Weisel), Fishel Ephraim, 105, 110tab

Wiesel (Weisel), Mendel, 105, 110tab, 112

Wiesner (Weisner), Louis, 105, 110tab

66 Index

Wiesner (Weisner), Mordechai, 105, 110tab

Wiesner (Weisner), Rachel, 105, 110tab

Wiesner (Weisner), Rosa, 105, 110tab, 112

Willett, Mae, 92tab

Wilner, Benzion, 109tab

Wischnitzer, Jetti, 152tab, 160

Wisliceny, Dieter, 116

Wittels, Ahron Leiser, 154tab

Wittels, Beile

children of, 146

family background of, 146


family tree, 124tab

marriage of, 145–46, 150n13

Wittels, Brandel, 96

death of, 146–47

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