FAMILY CAST LIST
from Kleczew
Theses
are names that individuals are
working on with a Kleczew relation.
David DuVal writes:
These are names that appear on a family tree from the 1800's
and before from Kleczew:
- Aaron Susskind (Zekind
or Zyskind), Brondel Jacobson
- Mordechai Marks, Fruma
Auerbach, Tressie A., Fanny A., Tobias A., Harry A., Rafael A.
Gabriel Roth writes:
My father's family (Roth) came from Kalicsh, near Kleczew.
My main interest in Kleczew relates to Rabbi Josef Joske Lisner
(1778-1858) who was a silk merchant and then Rabbi of Kleczew. He is reported
to have been married at least four times, and his daughter from one wife
married my great grandfather, while his daughter from another was the
grandmother of
my grandmother.
Note also the connection to Rabbi Moses Mielziner ,
who emigrated to
Denmark and the
US in the late
19th century. His mother's father was
a learned man known as the Morenu Lob of Kleczew. One of Lob's
daughters is reported to have been married to Rabbi Lisner.
Helen Nestor writes:
GGG Grandparents Szmul and Rochina Preger,
b.about 1780, d. before 1849.
GG Grandfather David Preger (1803-1876).
My GG Grandfather, Dawid
(David L.) PREGER (b. 1803 Posen) married three times.
(1) His first marriage to Rayzel
produced 7 children and ended with her death in Klezcew in 1849.
(2) That same year Dawid married Ruchel
GARBARZ ZYSKIND in Kleczew. They had a daughter, Rojza, in 1850.
They divorced almost immediately.
Ruchel married Abraham FRIEDENTHAL
(1852).
Dawid emigrated to the US in 1851 with the 7 children (except Rojza)
(3) Married again to Esther Gumpert in
NY about 1857.
G Grandfather, Abraham Jacob Preger (later Prager),
1833-1895, from Kleczew.
This interesting e-mail about 19th century
Klezcew was received in 2007:
My GG-Grandfather, Rabbi Adolph Eliezer
Asher Moses came from "Kletchevo, Posen, Poland". A biographer writes about it in the preface
to Rabbi Moses's book "Yahwism" published in 1903. He was born there
in 1840. I assume it is the same Kleczew on the Jewishgen Shteltlinks website
that you maintain.
He and his brother Rabbi Isaac S. Moses
left Poland for America around 1870. Their Father, Reb. Israel Baruch ("Isruel
Bureh"), was the "Orator" in the town. His father-in-law Reb.
Josef (Jossel) Graditz was the "Precentor". They shared a house with
Reb. Haskel, the beadle schoolmaster, and the Heder school itself was in their house
(the house being a 'communal edifice'), and the school portion of the house was
described as mostly a "low-windowed apartment". There were about 40 students
that the school served. The town is said to be "Near the Prussian Frontier",
and part of "Posen, Poland" (my GG-Grandfather seemed most fluent in
German). The town is described as being small and rural,"...Likely one would
search in vain on old maps of dismembered Poland to find it...Old-fashioned, Orthodox, Polish town."
The Moses's portion of the house had a large living room, a huge hearth, two
low windows, a couple smaller chambers, and a closet adjoining the main hall (the
closet held Pesach preserves and savings). The hall followed into the Haskel's
portion. In this same hall were held the public scales (on which Reb Jossel weighed
the wool the Polish nobles were selling the Jewish townsfolk). Behind the house
"in fine" stretched a vast orchard (cultivated jointly by both
families). The orchard was separated from the huge meadow of the local Count by
a ditch. In the town was a "big meadow" in which children often
played. Somewhere nearby was a lake.
In 1849 there was a Cholera epidemic in
which my GG-Grandfather's sister, Sarah Vogleche, died as a young child."
And soon after the family moved to "Santomishel". Other interesting
people of the town at the time were:
-The
Rabbi (described as being quite old) but no name given.
-Reb.
Siel the Nagid or Nabob. "Richest Jew in the Province" a money
lender. He held many nobles in debt and acquired a great deal of property. His
house was a "fairy palace" with an orchard stretching almost to the
lake. He had a couple daughters and a stepson named David. Two of his
son-in-laws were Reb Melech and Reb Yakev.
-Reb Sruel (Israel) the Marshalik, the Wedding Bard (who could bring
people to tears and laughter).
-Ifferels Moshe, the smuggler (often in
trouble with the custom's authorities, though he bought them off, his house had
many hiding-holes).
-The Lemmels who were noted for their
red hair.
- Yenkel Lomser, "The leader of
the band and musical genius of the neighborhood".
I have found a family in Kleczew records
with the same dates and first names of my family yet whose last name is
Bersztayn instead of Moses (Israel Berstayn not Israel Moses married Jozef Graditz's
daughter in the records).
Ada Holtzman writes about her family in Kleczew: (Click
Here)
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