Lwów
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District Court
Court to which appeals were brought.
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.
Shvarshin
Place where Simcha Rapoport died in 1718.
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.
Tarlow
Town where Yaakov Yehoshua served as rabbi.
Korob
Town where Yaakov Yehoshua served as rabbi.
Lesko
Town where Yaakov Yehoshua served as rabbi.
Chaim ben Lizarel
Rabbi of Zolochiv who lived in Lviv and was proposed for its rabbinate.
Zolochiv
Town where Chaim ben Lizarel served as rabbi.
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.
Buchach
Town where Rabbi Yehoshua temporarily settled.
Berlin
City where Rabbi Yehoshua later served as rabbi.
Michael Chasid
Rabbi whose successor was appointed in Berlin.
Council of the Galilee Communities
Regional Jewish council that ruled for Rabbi Yehoshua in 1720.
Chaim ben Yitzhak Reyts
Rabbi and head of the rabbinical court in two communities.
Council of the Reisin region
Regional Jewish council in which Lviv was represented.
Zolkow
City identified as a center of Sabbatean influence.
Rohatyn
City identified as a center of Sabbatean influence.
Podhajce
City identified as a center of Sabbatean influence.
Horodenka
City identified as a center of Sabbatean influence.
Jacob Joshua, author of Pnei Yehoshua
Rabbi of the city and region who led the Lviv excommunication.
Great Synagogue
Synagogue outside the city where the rabbis assembled.
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.
Suburbs of Lviv
Jews from around Lviv lived in the city suburbs under noble protection.
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.