The Jews of Kraków and its Surrounding Towns

Kraków Jews in Early 20th Century Books


Several books have been written on Jewish personalities from Galicia and Poland. Those names that are associated with Krakow have been extracted and are shown in the Table below. Dates of birth or death do not imply that the birth or death was in Krakow — these are merely individuals who lived in Krakow and had an impact on the Jewish community.

The sources for this list are:

Note that these original sources have a brief biographical paragraph for each individual.


 

Name Father Surname Birth Death Source
Samuel Jakob   IMBER 24 Feb 1889   1
Leo   BLUMENSTOCK
de HALBAN
11 Mar 1838 28 Feb 1897 1
Moses Dawid (Maurycy)   GOTTLIEB 21 Feb 1856 17 Jul 1879 1
Yechezkiel Feiwel Shlomo GOLDSTOFF 12 Mar 1820 2 Aug 1878 1
Abraham   GUNTZLER 2 Jul 1840 24 Jul 1910 1
Jakob Shmuel GESANG 14 Sep 1798 29 Sep 1886 1
Mordechay
(Moritz)
  DUSCHAK 14 Nov 1815 21 Jul 1890 1
Chaim Nathan Yekutiel DEMBITZER 29 Jun 1820 20 Nov 1892 1
Joel Yekutiel DEMBITZER 7 Jan 1829 4 May 1879 1
Joel Dawid Pinchas DEMBITZER 16 Feb 1886 30 Apr 1924 1
Zigmund   HOROWITZ 7 Feb 1856 14 Mar 1929 1
Pinchas Eliyahu Meir HOROWITZ 12 Apr 1765 21 Apr 1821 1
Shevach Tzvi Yechiel WOLKOWSKI 18 Jan 1872   1
Moses   WEISENFELD 24 Aug 1883   1
Feiwel Hirsch   WETTSTEIN 28 Feb 1858 23 Jun 1924 1
Yehoshua Moshe THON 13 Feb 1870   1
Bentzion Shalom Tzvi KATZ 1 Feb 1907   1
Shimon Menachem   LAZER 2 Dec 1864 12 Aug 1932 1
Izaak Moses Menachem BADER 15 Mar 1841 19 Mar 1905 1
Simon   BERMAN   26 Jan 1884 1
Yitzhak   HOLZER 1842 2 Feb 1912 1
Markus   WINTER arrived
Kraków
1864
  1
Moses   JACOB   1932 1
Yehuda Leib   BEN ZEV 1764 1811 2
Berman
(Issachar)
Naftali KATZ 1589   2
Jonathan   EIBESCHUTZ 1690 1764 2
Mordechay Abraham JAFFE 1520 – 1530 1611 2
Jacob Joshua Hirsz     1756 2
Yedidya Abraham Israel GOTTLIEB 1586   2
Jozef Mordechay Gerson KATZ 1511 1591 2
Moses   ISSERLES 1520 1 May 1572 2
Salamon   KALACHORA ca. 1560   2
Moses
Mordechay
Samuel MARGOLIOTH 1540 1602 2
Meir
(Maharam)
Gedalia   1558   2
Shabetai Meir KATZ 1622   2
Nathan Salomon SPIRO 1585   2
Aaron Mozes TEOMIM   1690 2

 


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