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Avraham Zemora
Founder of the Husiatyn kloyz.
Eli Poltorak
Founder of the Husiatyn kloyz.
Komarno Kloyz
Kloyz of Komarno Hasidim founded in Lviv in 1913.
Rabbi Jacob Moses Safrin
Komarno rebbe visited Lviv in 1914 and was enthusiastically received.
Israel Lubin Frankfursher
Early Hasid and founder of the Komarno kloyz; later led a congregation in Paris.
Paris
City where Israel Lubin Frankfursher later led his own congregation.
Mordechai Deitscher
Early Komarno Hasid and confidant of the rebbe.
Yona Lev
Early Hasid and founder of the Komarno kloyz.
Rabbi Aryeh Leib Broida
Rabbi whose residence housed the Olisk kloyz and who prayed there daily.
Olisk Rebbe
Rebbe who resided in Lviv and held his study house at home.
Moshe-David Ashkenazi
Rabbi and grandson of Rabbi Yitzhak of Olesk.
Yitzhak of Olesk
Hasidic leader and grandfather of Moshe-David Ashkenazi.
Abraham Jacob ben Yitzhak of Bayen
Hasidic leader who settled in Lviv as a war refugee in 1917.
Bayen Kloyz
Hasidic prayer house founded by Bayen Hasidim in Lviv.
Shalom Wallach
Leader among Bayen Hasidim who founded the Bayen Kloyz.
Itsi-Meir
Bayen Hasid who helped found the Bayen Kloyz.
Abraham-Joseph Mintzer
Bayen Hasid who helped found the Bayen Kloyz.
Meir Gershan
Prominent merchant and philanthropist who led the Bayen Kloyz.
Gur-Arie Hornstein family
Family members who performed famous Bayen melodies.
Yaakov Pinkerfeld
Named author of a passage about Lviv synagogue architecture and art.
Gildene Roiz Synagogue
Alternative name given for the Torei Zahav synagogue.
Nachmanowitz family
Family identified as among the synagogue building’s founders.
Pakhachim Street
Street where a decorated wooden beam was found during excavations.
Great fire of 1352
Great fire after which an older synagogue building was established.
Isaac
Received a permit to expand the building before his death.
Paulo Romano
Architect who carried out the second building stage in 1595.
Nahmanovitz family
A family whose residence connected the street passage to the synagogue courtyard.
Synagogue building
Gothic synagogue hall with pointed-arch windows and a central platform.
Outside the City Synagogue
Historic Lviv synagogue established in 1652.
Nahmanovich Synagogue
A synagogue identified among Lviv’s synagogues and described as holding ritual objects.
Baal Shem Tov
Later tradition attributed his participation in the Lviv debate.
Abraham of Sharigrod
He reported participants in the Lviv debate in a recorded account.
Bar of Miazlovitz
Named as a participant in the Lviv debate.
Israel of Medzhybizh
Named as a participant in the Lviv debate.
Meir Balaban
He concluded that Polish sources do not document the Baal Shem Tov’s participation.
Maggid of Mezeritch
His Galician disciples helped spread Hasidism in Lviv and Brody.