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The Maharam
An older rabbi challenged by the Bach in a 1611 dispute.
Rabbi Afris Fishel
A rabbi who died in 1653, after Rabbi Zvi Hirsch.
Efraim Fishel
Rabbi associated with a notable Polish rabbinic family.
Aryeh Leib Fishel
Known rabbi of Krakow, called Rabbi Leib the Tall.
Rabbi Saul Wahl
Legendary Polish figure identified as an ancestor in the family lineage.
Fishel family
Prominent Polish family whose members served as rabbis.
Avital Frankfurter
Descendant of Rabbi Leib Fishel born in Mezritch.
Solomon Zalman
Rabbi probably serving Lukow after Rabbi Efraim; died in 1660 or possibly 1655.
Abraham Katzenellenbogen
Rabbi of Lemberg and father of Solomon Zalman.
Jacob Wahl
Rabbi possibly identical with another rabbi of Lukow.
Smiatich
City where members of the family served as rabbis.
Kedainiai
City where a family member held a rabbinic position.
Shlomo Zalman of Lukow
A rabbi described as learned in Torah and known in the country.
Rafael Bernstein
A later known rabbi of Lukow, mentioned after 1884.
Bardzin
Town where Shimshon Zelik may later have served as rabbi.
Mendel the Kotsker
Grandfather of Israel Pilor according to the passage.
Vlodava
Town to which Rabbi Baruch Moses later moved.
Potocki
General who received complaints against Strzyziński.
The Progressist in Łuków
Publication mentioned as a heading for a later discussion.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Napoleon is identified as a representative of freedom and civil rights.
Ha-Tzefirah
Publication carrying Mordecai Epstein’s appeal to Lukow residents.
Y. H. Slonimski
Editor named in connection with Ha-Tzefirah.
Epshtin
Epshtin allegedly left Lukow and settled in Mezhiritch.
Rabbi Isaiahle Mushkat
Rabbi Isaiahle Mushkat is identified as a known rabbi connected to Mushkat’s origins.
Israel Benish Goldfarb
A Zionist idealist who addressed residents of Łuków about Zionist aims.
M. Edelbaum
Author cited for a 1957 work on Jewish history.
Y. Helferin
Author cited for a work on the Council of Four Lands.
H. L. Levenshtein
Named in citations concerning Łuków and rabbis.
Yaakov
Named participant in forming a Bundist organization in Lukow.
Moses Koyim
Named as Yaakov's father in the account of Bundist organizing.
Yosef Mendel Hachman
Owner of a smaller shoe factory in Lukow.
Hillel Zeitlin
Lecturer brought by library leaders in 1912.
Reuven Breininen
Lecturer brought by library leaders after Hillel Zeitlin.
Dom Ludowy
Venue of Lukow’s first public concert in 1914.
Kindergarten
Kindergarten founded at the Culture Association.
Miss Shidlovski
Leader of the kindergarten.