Udi Cain's Amdur Research

Udi Cain's Research

Udi's interest is in the 18th century Hassidic Rabbi, Chaim Chaik'l of Amdur.

Udi Cain
Jerusalem, Israel
vn17152@netvision.net.il
Udi's e-mail on JewishGen: [unavailable]

Chaim Chaik'l of Amdur

A daughter of Rabbi Chaim Chaik'l from Amdur (died 1787), got married to Rabbi NATHAN, son of Rabbi SHMUEL of MAKOW. He was forced to divorce her because of the situation between Hassids and Mithnagdim at that time (around 1770?). I assume that she may have got remarried, and maybe to a JOEL (YOEL), who maybe got the surname CHAIKIN.

Is there a way to check MAKOW of the second half of 18th century? And the same time in AMDUR?

There had been a Joel Chaikin in DOBRYANKA, perhaps that's our man?

I know that the origin of my CHAIKIN family is from Admo"r Chaim Chaik'l (Admo"r of Amdur/Indora) that was born in Karlin and died in 1787 in Amdur.

We think that my G'G'G'G'grandfather, Joel Chaikin (c.i.), was born around 1790 in Shklov to his father Moshe Chaikin (grandson of Chaim Chaik'l Rebbe of Amdur, who was born in Karlin and died in Amdur 1787). But my G'G'G'grandfather, Zvi Hirsh Chaikin (c.i.), son of Joel, lived in Kapitonavka. He wrote a letter to the fourth Rebbe of Chabad from there in 1877 (c.i.); in 1876 he wrote a letter from Balandino (c.i.). He went to Palestine — I think with my G'Grandfather (his grandson). I know that my G'grandfather arrived in Chevron in 1881, when he was thirteen years old (c.i.). Zvi Hirsh died in Palestine in 1884 and is buried like his son and grandson and many more members of the family, on "Mount of Olives" (c.i.). His son, Joel Meir Chaikin (whose wife was Chaia Ester, daughter of Zadok Aharon Halevi Zadikov,(C.i.) ), had an estate, a winery, and perhaps an inn near "Kharadeishatz", which we think is Gorodishche or Khradizhsk; both are located near Kapitonavka. The non-Jewish man that all the property was in his name, lost all his money while gambling in Paris, sold "his" property, and the family went to Palestine in 1886 (c.i.). They left two older daughters (sisters of my G'grandfather, Menachem Mendel Chaikin), who were born about 1860; Sarah (c.i.) got married to a Brodski, a scholar that was related to the "sugar king"; and Sima (c.i.) got married to a lawyer called Wolodarski. Sima had at least one son and two daughters; the son's name was maybe Gregory Hirsh, and he might have been an agriculture engineer; a daughter Pauline; and a daughter Rose. One of those two, husbands was also a grandson of Zvi Hirsh, from his daughter that lived in Chernihov (Chernigov?) (c.i.).

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