THE UNBROKEN CHAIN CHAPTER FOUR

Contents

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 (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 -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 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 () ...... 216 Branch L: Chassidic Dynasty Rabinowitz of Szydlowiec, 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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