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Moshe Kanfer
Journalist, literary critic, and Jewish relief organizer in Lviv.
Oswald Kimelman
Lawyer and presidium member of the General Zionists in eastern Galicia.
Peretz Kleinman (Fritz)
Painter who worked in Jewish theaters and Lviv’s medical service department.
Konigsberglod
Poet born in Busk who wrote Yiddish sonnets and translated Pan Tadeusz.
Abraham Eliezer Kuperstein
Leader of the Mizrahi movement in eastern Galicia and member of an education committee.
Jacob Rapoport
Director of the Hebrew teachers’ seminary in Lviv, writer, and educator.
Rona Raitman
Writer, educator, activist, and youth-section editor at the Khavila newspaper.
Meshulam Ratig
Journalist and editor associated with several Yiddish newspapers and publications.
Michael Ringle
Zionist and Jewish leader in Galicia; Polish senator and Jewish congress delegate.
Deborah Fayerman
Hebrew school teacher and principal in Lviv; social welfare worker.
Feivel Reizer
Jewish community secretary and active labor Zionist who aided ghetto prisoners.
Mordechai Rabinowitz
Journalist and writer; youth movement leader in Galicia.
Abraham (Adolf) Rotfeld
Journalist and General Zionist leader who represented Lviv Jews to Nazi authorities.
David Schreiber
General Zionist leader and head of the Palestine office in Lviv.
Yakov Shuderikh
Poet-worker who wrote Yiddish poetry and prose.
Moshe Shimel
Poet who wrote first in Polish and later in Yiddish.
Dr. Max Shaaf
Jewish educator and director of a Jewish orphanage in Lviv.
Ber Shnafer
Tailor-worker, poet, and essayist who disappeared after deportation.
Zigmund Shor
Humorist writer and author of feuilletons who was murdered in January 1943.
Jenny Shor
Zigmund Shor’s wife and an important educated activist.
Benjamin Shor
Zigmund Shor’s son, described as talented and murdered in November 1942.
Moshe Shtokman
Head of the Hebrew elementary school on Zygmuntowska Street in Lviv.
Yoel Spiegel
Veteran Jewish journalist in Lviv and contributor to Yiddish newspapers in New York.
Rabbi Hillel Shperber
Rabbi and leader of Mizrachi communities and movement in Galicia.
Isaac
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Deborah
A person named in an errata list.
Esther
A person named in an errata list.
H. Barles
Chairperson of the Encyclopedia of Diaspora Communities company.
Emperor Franz II
Emperor mentioned in a section title.
Boleslav of Mazovia
Ruthenian prince whose death preceded unrest and Polish conquest.
Solomon Judaeum
Solomon Judaeum did business with the merchant Spitzmar and others.
Spitzmar
Spitzmar conducted business with Solomon Judaeum and others.
Yosef
A person named Yosef mentioned in connection with trade.
Yosef
Shakhna’s son who worked with him in business.
Lena
A woman identified among known Jewish financiers.
Hannah
A woman identified among known Jewish financiers.