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 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 ix CHAPTER FOUR THE UNBROKEN CHAIN 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