Description: Jerusalem: Rubin Mass, 2005. 1267 pages//Hebrew/Extensively detailed genealogies of Galician rabbinical families are arranged alphabetically by surname. Most family sections include a genealogical chart. For prominent rabbis of each family biographical material is included, in particular rabbinical compositions, responsa correspondence and photographs. There is updated information of generations contemporaneous to the writing of the book. Many sources are quoted for each family and there is an extensive bibliography. This impressive and scholarly work is the most extensive and reliable source of rabbinical genealogy written in the twentieth century............ From the Author's introduction: "The inhabitants of the towns and Jewish villages of Galicia were loyal to the leadership of famous rabbis and Chassidic Rebbes, who perpetuated Jewish tradition from generation to generation. There was hardly a place which did not have a rabbi or scholar. In the cities famous Gaonim officiated whose reputations were recognized throughout world Jewry. There was a relatively high proportion of rabbis amongst Galician Jewry compared to other Jewish centers. The Chassidic movement took hold strongly in Galicia and hundreds of Chassidic Rebbes held their courts in the towns of Galicia where they were supported by hundreds of thousands of loyal adherents. Even in the business and manufacturing world many scholars found time from their daily occupations to study and to write compositions of Jewish learning. Many of the authors of the treasury of Jewish literature left little or no information about themselves, save their names as authors of the books."......

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