Skala-Podilska
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Feuerstein family
A family whose surname origin was discussed by Baruch Rozenboim.
Moshe Leib Feuerstein
Identified as Baruch Rozenboim's grandfather.
Aaron Meshulam Feuerstein
Served as a metrical registrar and recorded migrants under the Feuerstein name.
Isaiah Kran
Known as a notable figure and described as a miracle worker.
Ivan
A non-Jewish interlocutor questioned the distinction between groups.
Isaiah
Isaiah traveled through distant towns and villages posing as a miracle-working rabbi.
Shaike
A rabbi or righteous man who entered an inn to pray and teach a lesson.
Shlomo Gabai
Shaike’s companion, sent to ask whether the rabbi could enter.
The innkeeper
A wealthy but miserly landowner whose wife refused charity and Jewish visitors.
The innkeeper’s wife
A cruel woman who refused charity and barred Jews from entering.
An unnamed village
A village containing the landowner’s inn or estate.
The inn
An inn where Shaike requested permission to enter and pray.
Shimon Gottesfeld
Named person who married Esther Yossi's.
Esther Yossi's
Named woman who married Shimon Gottesfeld.
Chortkover Hasidim
The Wizental family is described as fervent Chortkover Hasidim.
Chortkover Rebbe
Esther visited the Chortkover Rebbe with petitions and redemptions.
Vizhnitzer Rebbe
Esther considered visiting the Vizhnitzer Rebbe with a petition.
Shloyme Sofer
The narrator heard accounts of Shayke’s miracles from Shloyme Sofer.
Avraham Morgenstern
The narrator studied in a classroom under Rabbi Avraham Morgenstern.
Yekhiel Mikhael
Rabbi identified as the Skala-Horodenka Rebbe.
Meshl Kahn
Hasid present when the Rebbe recalled the earlier story.
Haifa
City identified as Pavel Gatesfeld’s current location.
Horodenka
Place associated with the Rebbe’s title.
The Wiener Shohet
Skala ritual slaughterer known by the nickname “Wiener.”
Wolf Meir David
His house was identified as the starting point of the 1899 fire.
Paretz
Counted houses during the fire and cited a rabbinic blessing.
Elijah Hersher
Identified as Paretz's grandfather's descendant connection.
Wolf Meir David's house
House where the 1899 fire reportedly began.
Yitzhak Mentzel
Identified as an older ancestor of several listed families.
Yakov Wizenthal
Named at the beginning of a passage about Skala and his father’s streimel.
Emperor Franz Joseph
Austrian emperor mentioned in discussion of schooling policy.
Hirsch Eliyahu
The narrator’s father, identified as opposing the school requirement.
Kamenets
Town where Shmuel Poisik spent Passover and baked matzah.
Unnamed householder
A former cantonist who served twenty-five years in the tsarist army.
Tsarist army
Army in which the householder served for twenty-five years.
Tax Office
The office requiring a written declaration of income.