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Pivel Poltorak
Founder of the Husiatyn kloyz.
Shmuel Leibling
Founder of the Husiatyn kloyz.
Avraham Zemora
Founder of the Husiatyn kloyz.
Eli Poltorak
Founder of the Husiatyn kloyz.
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.
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.
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.
Yaakov Pinkerfeld
Named author of a passage about Lviv synagogue architecture and art.
Isaac
Received a permit to expand the building before his death.
Paulo Romano
Architect who carried out the second building stage in 1595.
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.
Judah Leib, the Preacher of Polonnoye
A preacher identified as having died in 1770.
Rabbi Yitzhak ben Mordechai Halevi of Lvov
Rabbi who signed the Krakow resolution against Hasidic practices.
Rabbi Israel of Ruzhin
Hasidic leader who visited Lvov and spoke with Rabbi Yaakov Ornstein.
Rabbi Meir of Przemyslan
Hasidic leader who interpreted Rabbi Israel’s questions to Rabbi Ornstein.
Mordechai Zeev Ornstein
Jacob Meshulam Ornstein’s only son, described as supporting Hasidism.
Israel-Leibel
Preacher opposing Hasidism and author of the Book of Debate.
Emperor Franz
Emperor whom Israel-Leibel petitioned after officials seized his books.
Shimon Sofer
Rabbinic leader who united the devout and Hasidim in opposition to the Enlightenment.
Moshe Sofer
Rabbi identified as Shimon Sofer’s father.
Naftali Hertz Homirg
School administrator who implemented coercive educational measures.