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CHAPTER FOUR
CHAPTER FOUR ........................................................................................................................................................xi
Introduction: Descendants of R. Jonah Teomim.......................................................................................................1
Section A: Early Descendants .............................................................................................................................1 Section B: Wallerstein of Rzeszow and Peretz (Perec) of Lubartow Families.....................................................5 Section C: Lewinstein Rabbinical Family of Lubartow and Serock....................................................................8 Section D: Caro (Karo) Rabbinical Family of Sluzewo and Wloclawek...........................................................32 Section E: Kaliski Family of Ostrowo and New York ......................................................................................37 Section F: Sachs Family ....................................................................................................................................43 Section G: Eybeschutz Rabbinical Family ........................................................................................................49 Section H: Rottenberg Rabbinical Family and Alter Chassidic Dynasty of Ger (Gora Kalwaria) and
Wojdyslawski (Vaidislavsky) Family ..................................................................................................58
Section I: Wojdyslawski (Vaidislavsky) Family ................................................................................................59
Branch A:................................................................................................................................................................65
Section A: Thumim Family of Krystynopol, Vilkatsch, Kolomyja, Zbaraz and Buczacz .............................65 Section B: Ashkenazi Rabbinical Family of Zloczew, Stanislaw(ow), Olesko and Seret .............................75
Branch B: Frankel, Wein and Related Families of Przeworsk...............................................................................87 Branch C: Frankel-Hirschhorn Family...................................................................................................................95 Branch D: Descendants of R. Levi Isaac of Berdichev Including the Derbarmdiger, Derby, Liebersohn,
Poupko, Novoseller and Schneersohn-Twersky Families............................................................................108
Section A: Menuhin Family .............................................................................................................................132
Branch E: Weinberg Family of Bilgoraj and Schwerdscharf Family of Kolomyja..............................................136 Branch F: Thumim Family of Zalecszczyki.........................................................................................................138 Branch G: Weingort (Weingot) Family ...............................................................................................................140 Branch H: Descendants of R. Joshua Heschel Frankel-Teomim of Komarno, Including Huberband and
Huberland Families Steinberg Rabbinical Family of Przemyslany and Chassidic Rebbes Epstein of Ozarow.........................................................................................................................................................164
Section A: Steinberg Rabbinical Family of Przemyslany.................................................................................165 Section B: Huberband & Huberland Families..................................................................................................167 Section C: Chassidic Rebbes Epstein of Ozarow .............................................................................................179 Section D: Weber, Halpern and Hager (Giterman) Families............................................................................180
Branch I: Kaminer Family and Chassidic Dynasty Alter of Ger..........................................................................199 Branch J: Descendants of Zalman Goldstoff........................................................................................................210 Branch K: Chassidic Dynasty Rabinowitz of Radomsko (Radomsk) ..................................................................216 Branch L: Chassidic Dynasty Rabinowitz of Szydlowiec, Biala and Munkacs...................................................221 Branch M: Bondi and Related Families, Feilchenfeld Family.............................................................................239
Section A: Feilchenfeld and Amerikaner Families..........................................................................................239 Section B: Feilchenfeld and Gradenwitz Families ..........................................................................................243 Section C: Bondi Family of Dresden and Robitscher Family..........................................................................246 Section D: Wise Family...................................................................................................................................249 Section E: Bondi Family .................................................................................................................................251 Section F: Warburg Family of Hamburg.........................................................................................................254 Section G: Wohlwill Family of Hamburg and Brussels ..................................................................................257 Section H: Maron Family of Hanau ................................................................................................................265 Section I: Bondi, Lewin, Auman, Prins, Lehman, Jeiteles and Related Families and Bondi, Salomon and
Bendheim Families.............................................................................................................................266
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Chapter Five.............................................................................................................................................................310
Branch A: Descendants of R. Solomon Zalman, Son of R. Abraham Abrashky Katzenellenbogen .....................310
Section A: Mirkes, Mirkin and Eskolsky Family of Mir.................................................................................310 Section B: Luria (Lourie) Family of Pinsk Eliasberg Family...........................................................................316 Section C: Hutner and Rabinowitz Family of Turzec......................................................................................327 Rabinowitz Family of Turzec, Izabelin and Sopotskin.....................................................................................327 Section D: Friedensohn and Ben-Shalom Families .........................................................................................329 Section E: Eisenstadt Family Origins...............................................................................................................341 Section F: Meltzer and Kotler Rabbinical Families.........................................................................................342 Section G: Weissbrem Family.........................................................................................................................349 Section H: Families Shachor of Mir and Klatzko-Gunzburg of Vilna ............................................................361 Section I: Eisenstadt Main Family Line ..........................................................................................................362 Section J: Israelit(E) Family............................................................................................................................374 Section K: Kopstein Family of Taurage, Canton (Ohio) and Chicago ............................................................398 Section L: Steinberg Family............................................................................................................................404 Section M: Reines Family ...............................................................................................................................406 Section N: Family of the Barons De Gunzburg Including Fould, De Rothschild, Sassoon Valabregue,
Halperin, Bauer and Dreyfus Families...............................................................................................417
Section O: Berlin Rabbinical Family of Volozhin...........................................................................................438 Section P: Kossowsky, Shachor and Charlap Families ...................................................................................447 Section Q: Bar-Ilan (Shachor) Family.............................................................................................................468 Section R: Rattner (Ratner) Family of Vilna and Mexico...............................................................................474
Branch B: Descendants of Samuel Heller, Son-In-Law of Abraham Abrashky Katzenellenbogen.....................478
Section A: Michelson, Malin and Unterman Families ....................................................................................478 Section B: Gerstein Family .............................................................................................................................505
Branch C: Descendants of R. Naftali Katz and the MaHaRaL of Prague.............................................................535
Section A: R. Nachman, Founder of Breslover Chassidism, Amsel Family ...................................................538 Section B: Kohn-Zedek of London, Roller, Gross, Weinberger of Munkacs and Eisenberg Families............546 Roller, Gross, Weinberger of Munkacs and Eisenberg Families......................................................................549 Section C: Zausmer Rabbinical Family...........................................................................................................552 Section D: Parnas Family of Vilna..................................................................................................................554 Section E: The Kuttner Family of Lissa and the USA.....................................................................................556 Section F: Yawetz and Rabinowitz Rabbinical Families of Lomza and Edinburgh.......................................563 Section G: Steinberg (Halevi) Rabbinical Family of Brody............................................................................572 Section H: Bolchover and Menczel Families ...................................................................................................578 Section I: Wahl Family of Przemysl - A .........................................................................................................587 Section J: Taubes and Gutstein Families.........................................................................................................591 Section K: Leifer Chassidic Dynasty of Nadworna, Rosenbaum Chassidic Dynasty of Krechnev
(Karácsonyfalu)..................................................................................................................................594
Section L: Gutstein Family..............................................................................................................................620 Section M: Naumberg Family of Lodz............................................................................................................630 Section N: Bombach Family of Dobromil.......................................................................................................633
Addendum to Chapter Four .......................................................................................................................................637 Index..........................................................................................................................................................................639
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