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(Main source: "Kehila Kedosha Lackenbach", Rabbi Adonyahu Kraus, Jerusalem 1963)
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In 1717 became the Rabbi of Eisenstadt and the Seven Communities, before Lackenbach had its own community Rabbi. He had 6 sons and 2 daughters.
Maharam means [acrostically] "great teacher Rabbi Meyer", and A"Sh means the town Eizenshtat in Hungary.
The name of this town was customarily written with the abbreviation Aleph-Shin א"ש.
2. Rabbi Meir Ben Shimon Ulmo-Ginsburg was the first recognised Rabbi of Lackenbach, at the time of HaMaharam Asch till 1742.
was also Rabbi of Kobersdorf.
One of Benjamin's sons was Salomon;
4. Salomon, son
of Rabbi Benjamin, grandson of MaHaRaM A"Sh. He
was a learned man but - judging from the titles he is given
[80/4] - not a Rabbi [**].
[**] According
to "Otzar haRabbanim", he
became Rabbi in Lackenbach
in 1770 [OR 18740]
5. Rabbi Shlomo Zalman son of Eliezer Lifshitz:
Came from Poland, coincidently visited Lackenbach when Rabbi Benjamin died, agreed to become the town Rabbi, served for about 20 years, from about 1789 to 1809. Many students came from all over Hungary and Poland to learn from him at the Lackenbach Yeshiva.
<<<[C8] Rabbi Zalman Lifshitz Gravestone, Lackenbach Cemetery
6. Rabbi Shalom Ullmann ("Rabi Shalom Charif"), son of Isar (Israel) Ullman from Fiorda:
He came to Lackenbachin the Hebrew year 1809, Taf Kof Samech Tet, תקסט
Served as Lackenbach Rabbi for 25 years.
Wrote the book "Divrei Rash". Died in 16 Adar Taf Kof Pei Hei, 6 March 1825- תקפ"ה, on his 70th birthday!
His wife, Rachil, was the daughter of Rabbi Rephael Hagital, Chief Rabbi of Swiss, died 4 years later.
They had 2 sons: Rabbi Avraham and Rabbi Schlomo Zalman.
<<<[C9] Rabbi Shalom Ullman Gravestone, Lackenbach Cemetery
7. Rabbi Avraham Ullman, son of Rabbi Shalom Ullman:
Born 1791. In 1810
already was a Rabbi in Tapeltshan. Served as Lackenbach Rabbi for 21 years, from 1825 to 1846; died 56 years old.
Was married to Yetl (see gravestone C6), daughter of Ya'akov SEGAL.
Had 4 sons – David, Shalom, Mordechai and Rafael.
Remarried to Rachel, after his first wife Yetl died in 1835.
Died on 12 August 1849 כד אב תר"ט.
He was one of Europe's greatest Rabbis.
[C12] Rabbi David Ullmann Death registration, Lakompak,14 Jan 1901
Copyright © 2009 Yohanan Loeffler
9. Rabbi Yehuda Hacohen
Kraus (Krausz),
B. 10 Dec 1858, son of Yekutiel. Served as the Rabbi of
Lackenbach from 1902
. Was married to Etl, daughter of Adonyahu Schmeltzer, and
second marriage to her sister Leah. His son Adonyahu Kraus
wrote the book about Lackenbach. His other sons were Rabbi
Moshe A'haron Kraus, Rabbi of Banya: Rabbi Nafthaly
Kraus; Rabbi Yekutiel Kraus; His daughters were Bracha
Weinberger; Freidl Sofer;
He retired in 1935, his son-in-law succeeded him. He left his
community to live in Jerusalem, in Meah Shearim, as a simple
Jew [*]. He passed away in 23 Jan 1938, one month before the
takeover of Austria by the German Nazis. He was one of the
only European Rabbis that had left Europe to Israel peacefully before
the Holocaust .
[*]Yohanan Loeffler: Rabbi Kraus's example (leaving Europe to Palestine) probably saved my father and his sisters from the Nazis: my grandfather Yohan Loffler sent after Rabbi Kraus to Jerusalem both his daughters Rozsi (in 1935) and Gitta (in 1937) and in the last moment, his son, my father, Joseph Loeffler in 1938.
With the kind help of Liane Winkler
See titles of some of Rabbi Krausz's work: "Divrei Emeth", "Divrei Shalom", "More Derech".
"Divrei Emeth" (1910) |
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 "Divrei Shalom" |
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 "More Derech" |
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 Dedication by rabbi Krausz in "Divrei Emeth" to his late wife, Ethel, daughter of Sarah, daughter of Rabbi Adonyahu SCHTELTZER |
(C14) Rabbi Krausz (middle) and Rabbi Ungar (left), April 1935, Lackenbach
Ettl Ungar is the girl, with her father and grandfather, Rabbi Krausz (Identified by Eli Ginsburg, May 2011)
Copyright © Yosef Loeffler
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10. Rabbi Meir Chaim
Ungar (Unger), (1905, Zeilim - 1958,
Jerusalem), son of Ya'akov Ungar (son of Yechiel Michael Ungar
from Zeilem) and Beila. Chaia, served as the last Rabbi of
Lackenbach between 1935 and 1938. He was Rabbi's Kraus son in
law (was married to Rabbi Kraus's daughter, Sara).
He survived the Holocaust, in 1938 he
received a certificate to go to Palestine, and served later as
a Rabbi in Jerusalem. He died young, 52 years old.
The Rabbinate Nomination of Rabbi Ungar as the Rabbi of Lackenbach, 1935,
by the Lackenbach Jewish Head of Community (אקרו"ט - אלופי קהל
ראשים וטובים)
46 Community members signed:
Chaim Kraus, Zvi Sega"l, L. Lobl, Avraham Feiglstock,
Greensfeld, Asher Hacker, Binyamin Lobl, Yissachar Dov,
Ya'akov Sega"l, Leib Ullmann, Schultz, Oisterlitz, Yochanan
Loeffler, Moshe Leib Lobl, Yakuthiel Baruch, Avigdor Blum,
Ya'akov Leib Lobl, David Ketingstein, Ber Kohn, ...Wieselmann,
Yosef Lobl, Chaim Zvi Kopstein, Shimon Band, Mordechai Kraus,
Avraham Dov Bergmann, Wolf Max, Shraga Wiener, Avraham...,
Asher Blum, Yermyah Yitzhak Gewirtz, Meir Kamlasch, David...,
Avraham Chaim Hacker, Gavriel Ullmann, W' Kamlasch, Ari'
Tertes, Akiva Sussmann, Berl Weiss, Chaim Zvi Kornfein,
Shlomo Y. Ginsberg, Yitzhak Leitner, Peretz Kohn, Itsek Kohn,
Avraham Watrasch, Moshe Kohn, Meir Stossl.
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Rabbi Ungar's book "Maor Hachaim", published by his son in law, Rabbi Nathan Gestatner, Jerusalem 1960,
as a memory of Rabbi Ungar's brother, Rabbi Yehuda Leib Ungar from Pitsburg and his wife Rivka.
See in: http://hebrewbooks.org/20836
Copyright © The Society for the Preservation of Hebrew Books: Hebrewbooks.org
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Yad Vashem photo archive 1902, celebrating the arrival of the new Lackenbach Rabbi. See in:
http://www1.yadvashem.org/yv/en/exhibitions/rosh_hashana/before04.asp