JEWISH GALICIA & BUKOVINA

Promoting the study and commemoration of the cultural heritage

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About Hasidism in Galicia, mainly 93-97 (chapter 6, mainly about Rabbi Elimelech Weisblum of Lyzhansk , as well as reference to his brother, Rabbi Zusha, Naphtali Zevi Horowitz of Ropczyce, his father Mendel of Lyzhansk, Samuel Shmelke Horowitz of Nikolsburg, Menahem Mendel Torim of Rimanov, Kalonymus Kalman Epstein, Abraham Joshua Heschel of Opatow, Uri Klughoft of Strelisk and Judah Zevi Brandwein of Stretyn), 104-105 (The dynasties of Zevi Elimelech Shapira of Dynow, Kalonymus Kalman Epstein, Naphtali Zevi of Ropczyce, Shalom Roke'ah of Belz, Moshe Teietelbaum of Ujhely), 134-136 (chapter 24, about the Hasidism of Galicia, the Zhidachov-Sambor-Komarno dynasty, Michael of Zloczow and his descendants, Naphatali of Ropczyce and his descendants in Dzikov, Kolbuszowa and Lyzhansk, Menahem Mendel Hager of Kosov and his descendants there and in Vizhnitz, the Belz dynasty, the dynasty of Zevi Elimelech Shapira of Dynow, there and in Lancut, Blozov, Strzyżów, and Munkacs, Hayyim Halberstam and his descendants in Shinova, Stropkov and Bobowa, and the dynasty of Rabbi Israel Friedmann of Ruzhin, in Sadagura, Shtefenesht, Chortkov, Liova and Husyatin.