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Alexander Siadelski
Noble creditor owed 2,680 zlotys by the community.
Adam Karsh
Noble creditor owed 12,600 zlotys by the community.
Zeilig
Community officer accused of embezzling communal funds and exploiting the poor.
Moshe Yechiel Sashtil
Rabbi who led the Lviv Jewish community and promoted educational reforms.
Simcha ben Nachman HaCohen Rapoport
Rabbi from Lublin selected after Moshe Yechiel Sashtil's death.
Yaakov Yehoshua ben Tzvi-Hirsch
Rabbi who served Lviv and later held rabbinic positions elsewhere.
Leah
Wife of Yaakov Yehoshua who died in the 1703 explosion.
Reizel
Mother-in-law of Yaakov Yehoshua who died in the 1703 explosion.
Shmerl Katz
Person killed in the 1703 gunpowder warehouse explosion.
Toyba
Second wife of Yaakov Yehoshua.
Yissachar-Ber
Wealthy rabbi from Lviv and father of Toyba.
Chaim ben Lizarel
Rabbi of Zolochiv who lived in Lviv and was proposed for its rabbinate.
Pinchas Moshe Charif
Grandfather of Chaim ben Lizarel.
Yehoshua ben Tzvi-Hirsh
Rabbi involved in the 1720 Lviv rabbinic dispute.
Chaim ben Leizerl
Rabbi chosen by the Lviv community in 1720.
Michael Chasid
Rabbi whose successor was appointed in Berlin.
Chaim ben Yitzhak Reyts
Rabbi and head of the rabbinical court in two communities.
Jacob Joshua, author of Pnei Yehoshua
Rabbi of the city and region who led the Lviv excommunication.
Jacob Frank
Leader whose faction later attracted former Sabbatean adherents.
Yehoshua ben Tzvi
Rabbi involved in a dispute over communal authority in Lviv.
Jablonowski
Voivode who received a complaint against the rabbi in 1726.
Princess Jablonowska
Princess Jablonowska is identified as protecting Jews living in the suburbs.
Aidela
Moshe Kuknish's daughter who accepted blame and was executed for refusing conversion.
Moshe Kuknish
Community head and leader mentioned as Aidela's father.
Yehoshua Reytses
One of two brothers involved in a widely reported trial.
Yan Filipovich
Man who converted in Lviv, later returned to Judaism, and was imprisoned.
Rabbi Chaim
District rabbi of Lviv who escaped arrest in Zolkiew.
Moshe
Jewish man accused of confining and assaulting a convert who broke a cross.
Iser son of Mordecai
Jewish man mentioned in the Reitzes case.
David Reitzes
Man mentioned in the Reitzes case.
Moshe
Man accused of urging conversion abandonment.
Stanislaw Jablonski
Participant in the court that sentenced Philipovich.
Janusz Wisniowiecki
Cracow commissioner participating in the court.
Zoltowski
Jesuit priest who tried to persuade Rabbi Chaim to convert.
Chaia Reitzes
Daughter of Rabbi Chaim Reitzes, reportedly killed in the case.
Yosef-Shlomo son of Yerucham
Lviv seal owner whose seal dates to 1629.