JEWISH GALICIA & BUKOVINA

Promoting the study and commemoration of the cultural heritage

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Including references to studies of the Hungarian Rabbis Yitzchak Isaac Taub of Kaliv (271), Zevi Hirsch Friedman of Lesko/ Lisko (280-281) and Yosef Meir Weiss of Spinke (281) in Galicia, and the influence of Galician Rabbis on the Jews of Hungary (on the part of some by moving there). Among them: Moses Ben Zevi Teietelbaum of Ujhely (272-280), his grandson Jekutiel Judah Teietelbaum of Sighet, eventually Rabbi in Gerlitz (272, 280), Alexander Sender father of Isaac Eisik Judah Jehiel Safrin of Komarno, Jehiel Michael (Michel) of Zloczow (272), Yosef, Av Beit Din (Head of Jewish Court of) Kolbuszowa, Aryeh Leib Ha-Levy, Av Beit Din Strizow (273), Mendel Kosover,(274-275), Zevi Elimelech Shapira of Dynow, Av Beit Din Munkatz, Israel Friedmann of Ruzhin (275, 280), Menachem Mendel of Rimanov (275-276, 280), Isaac Eisic Judah Jehiel Safrin of Komarno, Elimelech of Kodinick, grandson of Elimelech of Lyzhansk (276), Shalom Roke'ah of Belz, Hayyim Halberstam of Sanz, Hayyim Hagar of Kosov, and his son Menahem Mendel Ben Hayyim Hagar of Vizhnitz, son-in-law of Rebbe Israel Friedmann of Ruzhin, Meir Ben Aaron Leib of Peremyshlany, Asher Yeshaya Rubin of Rupshitz (280), Isaac Eizik Eichenstein of Zhidachov (281), Baruch Hager of Vizhnitz and Mordechai Leifer of Nadvorna (282).