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Yehoshua Tahon
Provided spiritual leadership to the first Zionist student group in Lviv.
Abraham Krochmal
Named among major Jewish scholars associated with Galicia.
Tzvi Hirsch Chajes
Named among major Jewish scholars associated with Galicia.
Moshe Ahrenreich
Named among major Jewish scholars associated with Galicia.
Alexander Kraushaar
Historian listed among scholars whose work on Polish Jewish history was criticized.
Dr. Ludwig Gumplowicz
Historian listed among scholars whose work on Polish Jewish history was criticized.
Shlomo Rabinovich
A named informer from a prominent family.
Pivish Abrahamovich
Head of the Krakow community involved in theft and embezzlement.
Hersh Lastovnitsky
Pivish Abrahamovich’s partner, who organized a gang from 1780 to 1792.
Zalman Wolfovich
Head of the Drohobych community, whose deeds inspired a Ukrainian folk song.
Samson Wertheim
Cultural-historical figure discussed in Balaban's research.
Jacob Pollak
Cultural-historical figure discussed in Balaban's research.
Joshua-Yona Teomim-Frankel
Cultural-historical figure discussed in Balaban's research.
Mordechai Broyda
Historian who studied Jewish history in Poland and Jewish historiography.
S. Dubnov
Person commemorated in a 1930 memorial volume.
Reiza
Wife of Nahman ben Isaac, named on a cemetery monument.
Rabbi Joshua Falk
Rabbi whose seventeenth-century grave was in the cemetery.
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.
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.
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.
Menachem son of Yitzhak
Rabbi and head of a yeshiva memorialized as murdered in Lviv.
Yitzhak son of Shmuel
Rabbi and yeshiva head memorialized as murdered in Lviv.
Adel of Drohobych
Person reportedly sentenced to death by the Latin archbishop of Lviv.
Latin Archbishop of Lviv
Archbishop described as chairing the inquisitorial court for the Lviv district.
Mordecai son of Solomon
Rabbi Mordecai, son of Rabbi Solomon, head of a yeshiva.
Aharon Yehiel son of Joseph
Rabbi Aharon Yehiel, head of a yeshiva and distinguished judge.
Yekhiel Hakohen
Yekhiel Hakohen is named in Mordecai’s patronymic inscription.
David, son of Daniel
David, son of Daniel, is commemorated as killed during persecution outside the city.
Daniel
Daniel is named in David’s patronymic inscription.