Solotvin - A story of a Galician Schtetl

Street in Solotvin, postcard.
Solotvin cemetery
The market Place in Solotvin, photograph, 1930's
Rabbi Yoel Babad and family, 1930's

Kern Family

The documentation shows the Kern family had been in Solotvin from atleast the first half of the 19th Century.

They had family ties to the most known rabbies in that time such as 'Hanoda Beyehuda' from Prague. 

 

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FAMILY MEMBERS

Yehuda Leib Kern

Yehuda Leib Kern

Name: 
Yehuda Leib
Last name: 
Kern

Children

Avraham Abosch Kern to 1846
Community: 
Solotvyn
Documents: 
Genealogy of Kern family
Additional information: 

His wife was the sister of Rabbi Yitzhak Isaac Ha-Cohen from Koritz, the Author of 'Brit K'hunat Olam' Her ancestors go back to Ezra the scribe and Hillel the Sage.

 

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Avraham Abosch Kern

Avraham Abosch Kern

Name: 
Avraham Abosch
Last name: 
Kern
Date of death: 
March 04, 1846
Father: 
Yehuda Leib Kern
Father's name: 
Yehuda Leib
Spouse: 
Reizel Kern

Children

Menahem Mendel Kern 1828 to 1892
Community: 
Solotvyn
Documents: 
Genealogy of Kern family
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Reizel Kern

Reizel Kern

Name: 
Reizel
Last name: 
Kern
Date of death: 
August 07, 1843
Father's name: 
Rabbi Avraham of Baryutish
Spouse: 
Avraham Abosch Kern

Children

Menahem Mendel Kern 1828 to 1892
Community: 
Solotvyn
Documents: 
Genealogy of Kern family
Additional information: 

Her father was the head of the Jewish court in Stanislawow.

Her family had ties to 'Hanoda Beyahuda' of Prague and to Rabbi Yoel Halperin of Stanislawow.

 

 

 

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Menahem Mendel Kern

Menahem Mendel Kern

Name: 
Menahem Mendel
Last name: 
Kern
Date of birth: 
1828
Date of death: 
August 29, 1892
Father: 
Avraham Abosch Kern
Father's name: 
Avraham Abosch
Mother: 
Reizel Kern
Mother's name: 
Reizel
Spouse: 
Batya Kern

Children

Abraham Abush Kern 1847 to 1918
Community: 
Solotvyn
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Batya Kern

Batya Kern

Name: 
Batya
Last name: 
Kern
Date of death: 
1903
Father's name: 
Meir
Spouse: 
Menahem Mendel Kern

Children

Abraham Abush Kern 1847 to 1918
Community: 
Solotvyn
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Abraham Abush Kern

Abraham Abush Kern

Name: 
Abraham Abush
Last name: 
Kern
Date of birth: 
1847
Date of death: 
1918
Father: 
Menahem Mendel Kern
Father's name: 
Menahem Mendel
Mother: 
Batya Kern
Mother's name: 
Batya

Children

Fischel Kern 1871
Ester Sobel 1878
Chenchi Stemler 1869
Community: 
Solotvyn
Place of death: 
Nova Straski, Slovakia
Documents: 
Ketuba of Abraham Abush and Debora Kern
Additional information: 

He was a Rabbi, a Sofer Stam (writer of torah scrolls),  an architect and a Mohel (performed circumcision) in Solotovin and is mentioned in a number of birth certificates. 

He and his wife and family left Solotvin in World War I to the Czech Republic. 

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Debora Kern

Debora Kern

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Name: 
Debora
Last name: 
Kern
Date of birth: 
1847
Date of death: 
1918
Father's name: 
Efraim Fischel Halpern
Mother's name: 
Rachel Halpern
Spouse: 
Abraham Abush Kern

Children

Fischel Kern 1871
Ester Sobel 1878
Chenchi Stemler 1869
Community: 
Solotvyn
Documents: 
Ketuba of Abraham Abush and Debora Kern
Additional information: 

Maiden name: Halpern

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Chenchi Stemler

Chenchi Stemler

Name: 
Chenchi
Last name: 
Stemler
Date of birth: 
1869
Father: 
Abraham Abush Kern
Father's name: 
Abraham Abush
Mother: 
Debora Kern
Mother's name: 
Debora
Spouse's name: 
Y.B. Stemler

Children

Moses Fischel Stemler 1907
Community: 
Solotvyn
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Moses Fischel Stemler

Moses Fischel Stemler

Name: 
Moses Fischel
Last name: 
Stemler
Date of birth: 
1907
Father's name: 
Y.B. Stemler
Mother: 
Chenchi Stemler
Mother's name: 
Chenchi
Community: 
Solotvyn
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Fischel Kern

Fischel Kern

Name: 
Fischel
Last name: 
Kern
Date of birth: 
1871
Father: 
Abraham Abush Kern
Father's name: 
Abraham Abush
Mother: 
Debora Kern
Mother's name: 
Debora

Children

Willie Kern 1901
Taami Batya Kern 1912
Nathan Kern 1898
Joseph Kern 1893
Isaac Kern 1903
Golly Kern 1896
Annie Kern 1899
Community: 
Solotvyn
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Cipora Kern

Cipora Kern

Name: 
Cipora
Last name: 
Kern
Date of birth: 
1876
Spouse: 
Fischel Kern

Children

Willie Kern 1901
Taami Batya Kern 1912
Nathan Kern 1898
Joseph Kern 1893
Isaac Kern 1903
Golly Kern 1896
Annie Kern 1899
Community: 
Solotvyn
Additional information: 

Had her first child at the age of 17.

Maiden name unknown

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Joseph Kern

Joseph Kern

Name: 
Joseph
Last name: 
Kern
Date of birth: 
1893
Father: 
Fischel Kern
Father's name: 
Fischel
Mother: 
Cipora Kern
Mother's name: 
Cipora
Community: 
Solotvyn
Additional information: 

Emigrated to England in 1911.

 

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Golly Kern

Golly Kern

Name: 
Golly
Last name: 
Kern
Born in: 
Solotvyn
Date of birth: 
1896
Father: 
Fischel Kern
Father's name: 
Fischel
Mother: 
Cipora Kern
Mother's name: 
Cipora
Community: 
Solotvyn
Documents: 
Census of England and Wales - Fischel and Cipora Kern family
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Nathan Kern

Nathan Kern

Name: 
Nathan
Last name: 
Kern
Born in: 
Solotvyn
Date of birth: 
1898
Father: 
Fischel Kern
Father's name: 
Fischel
Mother: 
Cipora Kern
Mother's name: 
Cipora
Community: 
Solotvyn
Documents: 
Census of England and Wales - Fischel and Cipora Kern family
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Annie Kern

Annie Kern

Name: 
Annie
Last name: 
Kern
Born in: 
Solotvyn
Date of birth: 
1899
Father: 
Fischel Kern
Father's name: 
Fischel
Mother: 
Cipora Kern
Mother's name: 
Cipora
Community: 
Solotvyn
Documents: 
Census of England and Wales - Fischel and Cipora Kern family
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Willie Kern

Willie Kern

Name: 
Willie
Last name: 
Kern
Born in: 
Solotvyn
Date of birth: 
1901
Father: 
Fischel Kern
Father's name: 
Fischel
Mother: 
Cipora Kern
Mother's name: 
Cipora
Community: 
Solotvyn
Documents: 
Census of England and Wales - Fischel and Cipora Kern family
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Isaac Kern

Isaac Kern

Name: 
Isaac
Last name: 
Kern
Born in: 
Solotvyn
Date of birth: 
1903
Father: 
Fischel Kern
Father's name: 
Fischel
Mother: 
Cipora Kern
Mother's name: 
Cipora
Community: 
Solotvyn
Documents: 
Census of England and Wales - Fischel and Cipora Kern family
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Taami Batya Kern

Taami Batya Kern

Name: 
Taami Batya
Last name: 
Kern
Date of birth: 
1912
Father: 
Fischel Kern
Father's name: 
Fischel
Mother: 
Cipora Kern
Mother's name: 
Cipora
Community: 
Solotvyn
Additional information: 

According to her date of birth (1912) and the document of the Census of England and Wales from 1911 inwhich she does not appear she was probably born in England.

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Ester Sobel

Ester Sobel

Name: 
Ester
Last name: 
Sobel
Date of birth: 
1878
Father: 
Abraham Abush Kern
Father's name: 
Abraham Abush
Mother: 
Debora Kern
Mother's name: 
Debora

Children

Sigmund Sobel 1901 to 1966
Mendel Sobel 1900
Max Sobel 1903
Leon Yehuda Leib Sobel 1914
Leisor Eliezer Sobel 1907
Fischel Philip Fischel Sobel 1909
Dorothy Glickler 1919
Benjamin Sobel 1905
Anna Dacks 1912
Community: 
Solotvyn
Additional information: 

Maiden name: Kern. 

Her husband and children are on the Sobel family page

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FAMILY DOCUMENTS

Genealogy of Kern family

Author:
Avraham Abosch Kern
Document Type:
Other
File:
Genealogy of Kern family (original file).pdf

Ketuba of Abraham Abush and Debora Kern

Author:
Unknown
Document Type:
Protocol
Date:
November 13, 1925
File:
ketuba of Abraham Abush and Debora Kern.pdf

Census of England and Wales - Fischel and Cipora Kern family

Author:
Government authority
Document Type:
Statute
Date:
January 01, 1911
File:
Fischel and Cipora Kern family.pdf