Lwów
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Sandomierz
A Jewish community studied in the seminar's historical research.
Lublin
A Jewish community studied in the seminar's historical research.
Polish archives
Archives described as mostly destroyed, prompting the importance of preserved research material.
History of Polish Jews and Their Lives
A planned comprehensive book on the history and lives of Polish Jews.
Old Jewish Cemetery in Lviv
The old Jewish cemetery in Lviv reportedly served Jewish residents until its closure in 1855.
Inner-city Jewish congregation of Lviv
The inner-city congregation was one of two Lviv Jewish communities served by the cemetery.
Outside-city Jewish congregation of Lviv
The outside-city congregation was established later than the inner-city community.
Rappaport Street
Street bordering the cemetery.
Hospital founded by Lazarus
Hospital located beside Shpitalna Street near the cemetery.
Jewish Home for the Aged
Jewish old-age home located near the cemetery.
Chevra Kadisha
Jewish burial society with storehouses near the cemetery.
Municipal Archive
Archive holding land-purchase documents cited in the passage.
Ohel at the Cemetery Entrance
Structure at the cemetery entrance used for memorial observances and eulogies.
Beit Almin Shul
Synagogue near Shpitalna Street, built in the nineteenth century.
Jewish Pantheon
Central cemetery area where prominent Jewish figures were buried.
Reiza
Wife of Nahman ben Isaac, named on a cemetery monument.
Rabbi Joshua Falk
Rabbi whose seventeenth-century grave was in the cemetery.
Reitzes Brothers
Brothers said to have died for the sanctification of God’s name in 1728.
Halich
A settlement in eastern Galicia where new Karaite communities were founded.
Davydiv
A settlement in eastern Galicia where a new Karaite community was founded.
Kukiziv
A settlement in eastern Galicia where a new Karaite community was founded.
Rabbi Jacob Kahil son of Asher the Priest
A rabbi and head of a city-outside yeshiva involved in a seventeenth-century scholarly controversy.
Meir Balaban
A professor who researched the Christian properties surrounding the Jewish cemetery in 1588.
Krakow Gate
A danger point through which Jewish funeral processions had to pass.
Krakowska–Skarbekowska street corner
A street corner where unruly Christian crowds gathered near Krakow Gate.
Jan Tschekh
Religious school student who led an attack on a Jewish funeral procession in 1631.
Khtnyslat Bvyshvmorsky
Religious school student who led an attack on a Jewish funeral procession in 1631.
Miriam-Marisha
Woman commemorated by a fourteenth-century cemetery inscription.
Samuel
Named as the father of Miriam-Marisha in her tombstone inscription.
Nahman family
Family that dominated Lviv’s Jewish community during the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries.
Nahman Synagogue
Synagogue funded by Yitzhak ben Nahman in 1582 and later known by other names.
Gildene Royz Synagogue
Another popular name for the synagogue founded by the Nahman family.
Adil of Drohobych
Woman described as executed and killed for the sanctification of God's name in 1710.
Adil bat Moshe Koknish
Woman described as killed for the sanctification of God's name in 1710.
Dr. Jehezkel Karo
A scholar whose proposed etymology for the name Kiknish is discussed.
Rabbi Moshe Koknish
Rabbinic leader identified as Adil's father.