THE UNBROKEN CHAIN

Biographical Sketches and Genealogy of Illustrious Jewish Families from the 15th - 21th Century. Dr. Neil Rosenstein's magnum opus The Unbroken Chain was first published as a single volume in 1976. An expanded two-volume second edition of "The Unbroken Chain" was published in 1990.

The author announced in December 2012 that he was in the process of earnestly editing and preparing his manuscript, updated, corrected and significantly enlarged for a third edition. The projected date for publication was end 2014, beginning 2015. The plan was for 3 volumes, the last having a full name / surname index. According to Dr. Rosenstein's website, Volume One of The Unbroken Chain – Third Edition will be available before the end of 2017. Volume One includes Chapters One, Two, Three and Four, consisting of more than 750 pages of text and photos, plus a name index.

The third edition will be 7 volumes, 4,500 pages, 42,000 names with a full name index and will go up to 22 generations. To purchase copies of the Third Edition, see https://www.avotaynubooks.com/product-page/the-unbroken-chain-third...

The Unbroken Chain documents the descendants of Rabbi Meir Katzenellenbogen (MaHaRaM) of Padua (1482–1565) and Rabbi Judah Lowe (MaHaRaL) of Prague through 22 generations. Among the descendants of these two Torah Giants are numerous famous persons including Martin Buber, Rebbetzin Esther Jungreis, Karl Marx, Moses and Felix Mendelssohn, Yehudi Menuhin, Moses Montefiore, Helena Rubinstein, Judge Judy Sheindlin. A high proportion of genealogies are those of the leading Hassidic dynasties: Levi Isaac of Berdichev, Halberstam, Horowitz, Rabinowitz, Ro­ke­ach, Shapiro, Spira, Teitelbaum, Twersky and others.

Volumes 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7 part 1 have been released and are available for purchase via Avotaynu Books.

Entry points for each of the book's chapters in the two-volume second edition are listed below, along with links to specific notable people, and these should be the only profiles added to this project:

Volume One:

• Chapter I: The Katzenellenbogen family
  • The Beginning - It's first three generations
    • R' Jehiel Luria
    • Rabbi Meir Katzenellenbogen
  • King for a Night
  • The children and grandchildren of Saul Wahl
• Chapter II
  • A. Descendants of R' Moses Katzenellenbogen of Chelm
    • 1. Progenitors of the Schick and Heschel Rabbinical Families
    • 1a. Mordechai Margolis Progenitor of the Margolis Family. Full genealogical details of this large family can be found in The Margolis Family, published in 1984, by Dr. Neil Rosenstein.
    • 2. Eliezer Hanoch Heinich Prozner, Progenitor of the Efrati and Ittelson Families, including David Tebele Efrati, author of Toldot Anshei Shem - Neviansky family - R' Moses Avigdor Amiel, Chief Rabbi of Tel Aviv
    • 3. Bacharach Family (of Suwalki)
    • 4. Maggid (of Vilna) and Visanska families
  • B. Descendants of R' Saul, son of R' Moses Katzenellenbogen
    • a. Descendants of R' Saadiah Isaiah Katzenellenbogen
    • Padua and Rubinrot Families
      • Kristianpoller Family, including Ritter von Kallir
      • Padua and Padwa (Kohen) families, including R' Hanoch Dov Padwa of the London Beth Din
    • b. The Samuel family of London and Philadelphia - origins of Anglo-Jewish nobility
    • Progenitor of this family: R' Elijah son of R' Zvi Hirsch (Apter) Katzenellenbogen
      • I. David Samuel Family of London, including R' Barnett Abraham Elzas, prominent American Reform rabbi - Baron Giacomo Lombroso, Italian professor of Ancient History - Haes family - Sir Harry Simon Samuel
      • II. Phillips Family of London
        • 1. Paiba and Salinger Families
        • 2. Pollitzer family
        • 3. Phillips family, including Lord Mayors of London, Sir Benjamin S. Phillips and his son, Sir George Faudel-Phillips - the Earls of Kilmorey - Sir Philip J. Gutterez Henriques
          • Progenitor of family: Samuel Phillips
        • 4. Barnett and related families of London, including Dayan Barnett of the London Beth Din
        • 5. Benas family, including editors of the London Jewish Chronicle
      • III. Moses Samuel Family of London, including Lord Pirbright and Barons of the de Worms family - Landauer and von Schey families - Baron Guy de Rothschild and his son, Baron David de Rothschild - Rev. Victor de Waal, Dean of Canterbury - Ephrussi family - author brothers, Princes Hubertus and Leopold Lowenstein - Wertheim - Simon W. Waley, stockbroker and musician and his sons, Alfred and Sir Frederick - Baron de Samuel and Baron de Vahl - Baron Mayer N. de Rothschild and the Earls of Rosebery - Sir David Salomoms - Air Chief Marshal Sir Walter Merton - Sir Charles Seligman - Baronets Cohen - Sir Julian Goldsmid - Barons and Baronets Jessel - Frederick David Mocatta
      • IV. Samuel family of Philadelphia, including David Samuel, secretary of the oldest Philadelphia Congregation, Mikveh Israel - Haym Salomon - Frank Samuel, iron and steel exporter
    • c. The Katzenellenbogen Family of Krotoschin and Berlin, including Max and Albert Katzenellenbogen, Berlin bankers - Medieval Art Professor Adolf Katzenellenbogen - Tilla Durieux, German actress
    • d. Descendants of R' Moses Katzenellenbogen of Pinczow and Schwabach
      • I. Riesser family, including Gabriel Riesser, the German Jewish emancipator
        • Stetten family of U.S.A. physicians
      • II. Ephraim, Jablonski, Plaut and Wollsteiner families, including Anthony Menk and Reinhard G. Pauly, music professors - Hugo Kortschack (Quartet) - Hugo P. Kortschack, biochemist and violinist and discoverer of C-4 Pathway of Photosynthesis
        • Progenitor of family: R' Eliezer Katzenellenbogen
      • III. K. Ellenbogen family, including A.S.K. Ellenbogen, U.S. Marshall (New York) - Edward Bartol, Polish Ambassador to Washington - Dan Almagor, Israeli songwriter
      • IV. Seligmann family, including Dr. Caesar Seligmann, founder of Liberal Judaism in Germany
  • C. Munk, Jakobovits and related families
    • Including Lord Immanuel Jakobovits, Chief Rabbi of the British Empire
      • Progenitor of family: Elijah Kastan
  • D. Schick, Kamenetzky, Jungreis, Prager and related families
    • 1. Shapiro Rabbinical family of Kovno-Volozhin, including Bilitzky, Karlinsky and Rabinowitz (of Chicago) families
    • 2. Klein family, including General Julius Klein (U.S. Army)
    • 3. Gerstein and related families, including Yeheskel Sahar, Inspector General of the Israeli Police Force and his brother, Israel Sacharov, Director of Bank Leumi Israel, Ltd. - Lifschitz family and Herbert Anderson, physicist and member of the Manhattan Project
• Chapter III
  • A. Descendants of Rabbi Nahum Katzenellenbogen of Slutzk
    • 1. Minz (Mintz) family, including Benjamin Mintz, member of the Israeli Keneset - Zylberstrom family of Meseritz
    • 2. Pernick family of Detroit
    • 3. Greenberg family of New York
    • 4. R' Benjamin Benas Katzenellenbogen, head of Follman, Shereshovsky and Endelman families of Warsaw
  • B. Descendants of Rabbi Israel Katzenellenbogen, son of R' Meir, son of Saul Wahl
  • C. Descendants of Rabbi Judah Katzenellenbogen - the Mendelssohn family
    • Including the Mendelssohns of South Africa - Moses Mendelssohn - Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy - Daniel Itzig - artist brothers Jonas (Johannes) and Philipp Veit - Professor Otto von Simson, art historian - AGFA corporation pioneers Dr. Paul Mendelssohn-Bartholdy - Professor Felix Gilbert, historian - Professor Joachim Wach, historian of religion
  • D. Descendants of Rabbi Naftali Hirsch Ginsburg (Günsburg)
    • 1. Gunzburg and Lipschutz families, including Professor Louis I. Ginzberg, Talmudic scholar
    • 2. Katzenellenbogen family of St. Petersburg - Olswanger and Album families
    • 3. Zak and Zakheim families, including R' Zvi Pesach Frank, Chief Rabbi of Jerusalem - Lando and Stampfer families
    • 4. Levin and Levene families, including R' Aryey Levin, Zadik of Jerusalem
    • 5. Ralbag familiy of Jerusalem and New York
  • E. Descendants of R' Moses HaKohen Katz
    • Gunzburg, Fuenn, Lwow and Marx families, including Karl Marx - French Socialist family Longuet - Sir Harry Juta
• Chapter IV
  • Descendants of Rabbi Jonah Teomim (author of Kikayon DeYonah)
    • 1. Early descendants
    • 2. Wallerstein (of Rzeszow) and Peretz (of Lubartow) families
    • 3. Lewinstein Rabbinical family of Lubartow and Serock
    • 3a. Weinberger Family
    • 4. Caro (Karo) Rabbinical family of Sluzewo and Wloclawek
    • 5. Kaliski family of Ostrowo and New York
    • 6. Sachs family, including U.S. District Judge Howard F. Sachs
  • A. R' Zvi Hirsch Frankel-Teomim, A.B.D. Kalisz
    • 1. Thumim family of Krystynopol, Vilkatsch, Kolomyja, Zbaraz and Buczacz - Ashkenazi Rabbinical family of Zloczow and Stanislaw(ow)
  • B. R' Joseph Saul Teomim
    • Frankel, Wein and related families
  • C. Frankel-Hirschhorn family, including Kinney chairman of Warner Communications - Professor Ephraim A. Speiser, archaeologist
  • D. Descendants of R' Levi Isaac of Berdichev, including the Derbardiger, Derby, Liebersohn, Novoseller and Schneersohn-Twersky families
    • Menuhin family, including violinist Yehudi Menuhin
  • E. Weinberg (of Bilgoraj) and Schwerdscharf (of Kolomyja) families
  • F. Thumim family of Zaleszczyki
  • G. Kamader Chassidic dynasty, including Citron and Tannenbaum families
  • H. Descendants of R' Joshua Heschel Frankel-Teomim of Komarno, including Huberband and Huberland families
  • I. Chassidic Dynasty Alter of Ger (Gora Kalwaria)
    • Progenitor of branch: R' Meir Jehiel Kaminer of Checiny (Chentshin)
  • J. Descendants of Zalman Goldstoff, including Professor Abraham Kogan, scientist - Benzion Katz, Dean of Tel Aviv University
  • K. Chassidic Dynasty Rabinowitz of Radomsk
    • Progenitor of branch: R' Ari Liebus HaKohen Rabinowicz, A.B.D. Neustadt
  • L. Chassidic Dynasty Rabinowitz of Szydlowiec
  • M. Bondi and related families
    • 1. Feilchenfeld family of Posen
    • 2. Wise family, including Dr. Jonas B. Robitscher, professor and pioneer forensic psychiatrist - Jonah Bondi Wise, prominent American Reform rabbi
      • Additional Bondi family
    • 3. Warburg family of Hamburg, including Professor Otto Warburg, botanist and President of the World Zionist Organization
    • 4. Wohlwill family of Hamburg and Brussels
    • 5. Maron family of Hanau
      • Progenator of above branch of the Bondi family - Dr. Eli Bondi
    • 6. Bondi, Lewin, Auman, Prins, Lehmann, Jeiteles and related families
      • including David Sassoon, Hebraist and bibliophile; Hebrew University Professor Adolf Fraenkel; Benjamin Kedar, Haifa University Professor of Medieval History; Sir Hermann Bondi, British mathematician; Salomon and Bendheim families
• Chapter V
  • A. Descendants of Rabbi Solomon Katzenellenbogen
    • 1. Mirkes Family of Mir
    • 2. Luria (Lourie) Family of Pinsk, including the Eliasberg family
    • 3. Hutner Family - Rabinowitz family of Turzec, Izabelin and Sopotskin
    • 4. Friedensohn and Ben-Shalom families
    • 5. Eisenstadt family, including R' Benzion Eisenstadt, author of Dor Rabanav VeSofrav
    • 6. Meltzer and Kotler Rabbinical Families
    • 7. Weissbrem family
    • 8. Families Shachor of Mir and Klatko of Vilna
    • 9. Israelit(e) family
    • 10. Kopstein family of Taurage, Canton (Ohio) and Chicago
      • Steinberg family
    • 11. Reines family, including R' Isaac J. Reines, founder of the Mizrachi Movement - R' Solomon Schlifer, Chief Rabbi of Moscow - R' Avidgor Cyperstein, Head of New York's Yeshiva Isaac Elchanan - Professor Jacob Newman, rabbi and criminologist
    • 12. Family of the Barons de Gunzburg, including Fould, de Rothschild, Sassoon, Valabregue, Halperin, Bauer and Dreyfus families
    • 13. Rabbinical Families Berlin of Volozhin, Schachor, Epstein and Soloveitschik
      • Including R' Meir Bar Ilan - Professor Saul Lieberman - Dean of Haifa University, R' Bernard Och - President of Bar Ilan University, Tuvia Bar Ilan - R' Rafael Shapiro of Volozhin - Riff, Kossowsky, Donchin, Altusky families - R' Jehiel Michel Epstein, author of Orach HaShulchan and his son, R' Baruch Epstein, author of Torah Temimah
  • B. Descendants of Rabbi Naftali Katz
    • 1. Rabbi Nachman founder of Breslover Chassidism - Amsel family
    • 2. Rabbi Joseph Kohn-Zedek of London - Zausmer Rabbinical family origins
    • 3. Parnas Family of Vilna
    • 4. Yawetz and Rabinowitz Rabbinical families of Lomza and Edinburgh, including Dr. Louis I. Rabinowitz, Chief Rabbi of Johannesburg, deputy mayor of Jerusalem and deputy editor in chief of the Encyclopedia Judaica
    • 5. Taubes and Gutstein families, including R' Moses Gutstein, author and historian
    • 6. Ellenberg (of Lvov) and Finkelstein Families of Brest-Litovsk
    • 7. Libschitz Family
    • 8. Zamosc Family
    • 9. Shapiro Chassidic Dynasty of Nezkizh
    • 10. Perlow, Padua and Katzenellenbogen Dynasties of Ustilug (Ostilla)
    • 11. Levine Chassidic Dyansty of Alexandrow
    • 12. Naumberg Family of Lodz
    • 13. Rattner (Ratner) Family of Vilna and Mexico
    • 14. Leifer Chassidic Dynasty of Nadworna
    • 15. Bombach Family of Dobromil
• Chapter VI
  • A. Rabbi Strelisker
    • 1. Horshovsky, Lauterbach and Bombach Families
    • 2. Ressler and Maged Families of Nadworna
  • B. Descendants of Rabbi Jacob Shor
    • Rabbi Ephraim Zalman Shor
    • 1. Epstein Family of Bar and Kolomyja
    • 2. Epstein Chassidic Dynasty of Oziran (Jezierzany)
    • 3. Kristianpoller Family origins
    • 4. Halpern (Heilprin) Family of Tarnogrod, Zaslav and Stanislaw, including Dr. Max Schur, Sigmund Freud's personal physician and his son, Dr. Peter H. Schur, Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School
    • 5. Halevi Shor Family
    • 6. Horowitz-Winograd Family of Lida (descendants of Shmelke of Nikolsburg) The children of Rabbi Eliyahu Shlomo Horowitz-Winograd adopted the surname "Winogradow", including the Polish ceramist Abram Winogradow, his sons Dr. Alexander Winogradow and Dr. Leon Winogradow , alongside Eugenia Winogradow, the fist woman judge in Israel and her daughter Raya Hofri-Winogradow, other descendants of R' Eliyahu's siblings include Dr. Moses Einhorn, founder of the Hebrew Medical journal and Baron Professor Max Beloff, English historian and political scientist, Prof. Samuel Abramsky, Professor of Ancient History and Bible and his brother Joseph Aviram, Director of the Institue of Archaeology of the Hebrew University
    • 7. Benjamin Family of Hanau
    • 8. Adler Rabbinical Family of England, including Chief Rabbis Adler of the British Empire, including Chief Rabbi Dr. Nathan Marcus Adler, R' Dr. Hermann Adler - Harold Sebag-Montefiore, President of Anglo-Jewish Association - Lord Nathan of Churt (A.K.A. 1st Baron Nathan of Churt) - Chief Rabbi of Hamburg, R' Asher Stern - R' Michael Cahn inventor of the metzitza tube for circumcision
  • C. Descendants of R' Solomon Zalman Lipchutz
    • Rabbi Benjamin Lipschutz
    • 1. Divorce Bill (Get) of Cleves R' Israel Lipschutz
    • 2. Biegeleisen Family of Baranow
• Chapter VII
  • A. Descendants of Rabbi Arie Lieb Katz
    • 1. Elias Family of Vilna
    • 2. Margolioth (Margolis) Rabbinical Family of Satanow and Brody
    • 3. Perlow Chassidic Dynasty of Stolin-Karlin
    • 4. Bloch Family of Vilna and Bialystok
  • B. Descendants of Rabbi Meir Walsch
    • 1. Harif (Charif) Family of Lvov
    • 2. Gelehrnter Family of Stryj and Stanislaw
    • 3. Hochgelehr(n)ter Family of Zamosc and Hrubieszow
    • 4. Halberstadt Family of Glogau, Sokol and Dessau
    • 5. Blumenfeld and Wallerstein Families of Rzeszow
    • 6. Nebenzahl and Schreiber Families
    • 7. Halberstam Family, including David Halberstam, Pulitzer Prize Winner
    • 8. Twersky (Twerski) Family of Hornistopol beginnings
    • 9. Halberthal Family of Brody
    • 10. Zausmer Family of Stryj
    • 11. Silberfeld, Rubinstein, Buber and Shlichter Families, including cosmetic queens Helena and Mala Rubinstein - artist Helena Sardeau - Israeli Ambassador Pinhas Eliav - Salomon Buber, Galician scholar - philosopher Martin Buber
      • Head of the combined families of Silberfeld, Rubinstein, Buber and Shlichter
    • 12. Sprung and Neuman Families
• Chapter VIII
  • Rabbi Joel Katzenellenpogen family
    • 1. Hurwitz and Seiniger Families
    • 2. Eliasberg Family of Minsk and Berlin
    • 3. Ellenbogen Family of Krzeszow
      • Progenator of above family - Abraham Saul Katzenellenbogen
    • 4. Spiegel Rabbinical Family, including the Ostrover-Kalushiner Rebbes
    • 5. Cohen Family of Raseiniai and Bransk
    • 6. R' Hillel Libshitz of Lublin and his descendants
  • A. Katzenellenbogen family of Plungian-Kovno-Kretinga
    • 1. Braun Family of New York
    • 2. Katzenellenbogen Family of South Africa
    • 3. Schrolowitz and Levien Families of Gordzec and London
  • B. Katzenellenbogen family of Pinsk-Karlin-Vilna
    • 1. Vilna
    • 2. Pinsk-Karlin
    • 3. Levine Family of New York
  • C. Progenator of Branch - R' Aryey Leib Katzenellenpogen, A.B.D. Brest
    • Zimler, Album and Rabinowitch (Rabinowitz) families
  • D. Progenitor of Branch - R' Abraham Katzenellenbogen of Sislowitz
    • Agus and Beres families of Sislowitz (Svisloch)
  • E. Progenitors of Branch - R' Isaac Eizik Chaver and Rebecca Miriam Chaver (Katzenellenbogen) (Neil has found that his presentation of the Chaver family genealogy is wrong)
    • Chaver-Rabbinowitz families
    • Glickson (Gluecksohn) Family - Benjamin Mazar, Israeli archaeologist - Jay Andrew Rabinowitz, Chief Justice of Alaska - author Stephen Becker - Sandock Family of South Bend, Indiana
  • F. Descendants of Abraham Chaim Katzenellenbogen-Volovelsky of Drohitchin
  • Book states that this branch descends from Zelig Katzenellenbogen-Volovelsky
  • Progenitor of Branch - R' Ezekiel Katzenellenbogen, A.B.D. Svisloch (Sislowitz) and R' Abraham Haim Valevalska (Katzenellenbogen)
    • 1. Shedrovitsky, Shevinsky Families of Chicago -- Goldman Family of Drohitchin and Kiriat Motzkin
      • South American branch of the Shedrovitsky Family
      • Feldman Family
      • Shedroff
      • Rabbis Jack D. Frank and Milton H. Polin, President of the Rabbinical Council of America
    • 2. Hiller Family
    • 3. Lebendiger Family
    • 4. Berman Family of Hartford, CT

Volume Two:

• Chapter IX: Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel
  • R' Abraham Joshua Heschel of Cracow
    • 1. The family background, his children and grandchildren
    • 2. Rappoport and Cohen families of Cologne and Bonn
    • 3. Oppenheim and Ungar families of Bonn
    • 4. Progenitors of the Twersky family, including Israeli President Ben Zvi
    • 5. Heilprin family of the Baal Shem Tov of Zamosc
    • 6. Yolles family
• Chapter X: R' Eliezer, A.B.D. Dubno
  • Landau family Pedigree
    • 1. Friedman family of McKeesport, PA.
    • 2. Lipschutz family of Bilke
• Chapter XI: Rabbi Issachar Berish Heschel
  • Babad Family - Beginnings, including Laufer and Hebenstreit families
    • Berenstein family origins
    • Jerusalimski and Kaganoff families
    • Kahana-Shapira family, including R' Menachem BenZion Sacks of Chicago - Podhorzer and Pedhatzur families
  • Branch A - Eskeles family, including Viennese Jewish aristocracy
    • Doctor and Florsheim families
  • Branch B - Babad family of Kalush and Lvov
  • Branch C - Descendants of R' Joseph Babad, author of Minchat Chinuch
  • Branch D - Babad family of Mikulince (Mikulonitz)
  • Branch E - Chajes family, including composer Julius Chajes - Salomon Frankfurter, pedagogue and philologist
  • Branch F - Brodsky family of Russian industrialists
• Chapter XII: Saul Heschel
  • Branch A - Lowenstam(m) and Auerbach families -
    • 1. Chief Rabbis of Amsterdam
    • 2. Lewin-Epstein family origins
    • 3. Levinson family of Baltimore
  • Branch B - Berenstein family, including Rabbis of Holland
  • Branch C - Berliner family and the Morgenstern Chassidic Dynasty of Kock (Kotsk) including Chief Rabbi of London, Rev. Hart Lyon - Chief Rabbi of the British Empire, Solomon Herschell - family murder - Schlank family
  • Branch D - Michelson family, including R' Zvi Ezekiel Michelson
  • Branch E - Ornstein, Ashkenazi, Ettinge and Braude families, including R' Zvi Hirsch Ornstein, R' Isaac Aaron Ettinge and R' Joseph Saul Nathanson, Chief Rabbis of Lvov - Zionist Markus Braude - composer Max Ettinger
    • Progenitor of branch - Nitashi (Nechama) Ashkenazi (Lowenstam)
    • Sternhel family of Kolomyja
    • Auerbach family of Stanislaw(ow) and Brodie family - Chief Rabbi Rosen of Rumania
• Chapter XIII: Rabbi Zvi Hirsch Ashkenazi
  • Descendants of the Chacham Zvi Hirsch Ashkenazi (The author notes in the third edition, that there is an error in the ancestry of the Chacham Zvi, which he has corrected.)
    • 1. Horodetzky family
    • 2. Heilprin family of Berezno (Brezna)
    • 3. Lorbeerbaum family, including R' Jacob Lisser, author of Chavat Da'at - Chief Rabbi of Safed - Horowitz family - R' Jacob Weinberg, Rosh Yeshiva, Ner Israel Yeshiva, Baltimore
    • 4. Banet family of Hungary
    • 5. Ashkenazi family, including R' Jacob Emden (Yawetz) - the Emden-Eybeschutz controversy
    • 6. Rappoport and Zussman families (This connection has been proven to be erroneous, by the author as the actual connection between the two families is that Haim, R' DovBerish's grandfather and R' Solomon Zalman HaKohen are actually brothers-in-law. The second branch in this chapter actually includes the Zussman (Sussman) Family of Ostrog, Sternbuch Rabbinical Family and The Perlow Rabbinical Family Koidanovo-Lachowicze Chassidic Dynasty)
    • 7. Perlow Chassidic Dynasty of Koidanovo and Lachowicze
    • 8. Bick family of Medziboz (Medzibeh)
• Chapter XIV: Rabbi Aryey Leib Halberstam
  • Halberstam Chassidic Dynasty of Sanz (Nowy Sac)
  • Branch A - (Sieniawa, Shinova) - including the Rebbes of Sieniawa, Chechinov, Stropkow and Tarnow
    • R' Ezekiel Shraga Halberstam, 1813-1896, Admur of Sieniawa
  • Branch B - (Bobowa, Bobov) - including the Rebbes of Bobov
    • R' Meir Nathan Halberstam, died in 1855
  • Branch C - (Chrzanow, Keshanov) - including the Rebbes of Keshanov, Dukla, Galisk, Kempno and Kolashitz - Hinde Halberstam, President of WIZO Organization
    • R' David Halberstam, 1821-1894, Admur Keshanov
  • Branch D - (Nowy Sacz, Sanz) - including the Rebbes of Sanz and Gribov
    • R' Aaron Halberstam, 1824-1903
  • Branch E - (Gorlice, Gorlitz) - including the Rebbes of Gorlice, Bardiyov, Chakov, Klausenberg, Ridnik and Zmigrod
    • R' Baruch Halberstam, 1826-1906, Admur Gorlice
  • Branch F - (Ujfeherto, Rotsfurt)
    • R' Shalom Eliezer Halberstam, 1862-1944
  • Branch G - (Czchow, Chechoyv)
    • R' Isaac Isaiah Halberstam, 1864-1943, Admur Chechoyv-Cracow
  • Branch H - (Rosenfeld family) - including the Rebbes of Oswiecim (Auschwitz)
    • Friedel Rosenfeld (Halberstam)
• Chapter XV: R' Meshullam Feiwel Horowitz of Krements
  • Branch A - Rabinowitz Chassidic Dynasty of Skole, including Goldman, Friedman, Heilprin (Halpern), Manzon and Hager Chassidic Dynasties
    • 1. Rabinowitz Chassidic Dynasty of Skole
    • 2. Goldman Chassidic Dynasty of Zwiahel
    • 3. Friedman Chassidic Dynasty of Ruzhin, including the Rebbes of Adjud, Boyan, Buhusi, Czortkow, Husyatin, Leovo, Pascani and Stefanesti
    • 4. Heilprin (Halpern) family of Vaslui
    • 5. Manzon and Shor families - R' Israel Weinstock, Head of the Institute for Kaballah and Chassidism. Jersusalem
    • 6. Hager Chassidic Dynasty of Vizhniz
  • Branch B - Heschel Chassidic Dynasty, Jeruchem family, Rabinowitz Chassidic Dynasty
    • 1. Heschel Chassidic Dynasty of Apt (Opatow), including the Rebbes of Kopyczynce, Krolevets, Medzibeh (Medziboz) and Zinkov - Abraham Joshua Heschel, mystic and philosopher - Zuckerman family of Roshkov - Yungerlieb family of Radziwillow
    • 2. Jeruchem family
    • 3. Rabinowitz Chassidic Dynasty of Linitz-Manisterich
• Chapter XVI: Rabbi Meir Horowitz
  • Horowitz family Pedigree - Introduction
    • 1. Including Chassidic Masters R' Samuel Shmelke Horowitz of Nikolsburg and R' Phineas Horowitz of Frankfurt
    • 2. Klein Rabbinical Family of Hungary
    • 3. R' Isaac Hamburger Horowitz, Chief Rabbi of Hamburg - R' Meshullam Zalman Igra (Egra) of Pressburg - Schneebalg family
    • 4. Berenstein, Bernstein and Berend family - including chess master Joseph Berenstein - Lewinstein and Frensdorff and Frensdorff families - Bochner and Weissman families
    • 5. Klatzko and Meltzer family of Vilna
  • Branch I - Descendants of R' Zvi Joshua Horowitz
    • Including the Bostoner Rebbes, Biderman, Brandwein and Weinstock Chassidic families
  • Branch II - Horowitz-Margareten family origins
  • Branch III - Descendants of R' Zvi Hirsch Horowitz (author of Machneh Levi)
    • Wigoder family of England, including Lord Basil T. Wigoder and Dr. Geoffrey B. Wigoder, editor-in-chief of the Encylopedia Judaica
  • Branch IV - Fruchter family of Hungary
  • Branch V - The Weinberger family of Dukla
  • Branch VI - Horowitz family of Stanislaw(ow)
    • Including the Chief Rabbis of Tymenitsa, Stanislaw, Koslow, Cracow and Antwerp - Sir George Weidenfeld, British publisher - Kliger family of Grayding - Rabbi I. Liebes of the New York Beth Din
  • Branch VII - Ropshitz (Ropczyce) Chadissic Dynasty
    • Horowitz family - including the Rebbes of Baranow, Biyetch, Dembitz, Dzikov, Jolin, Linsk, Maden, Mielec, Plontsch, Pokshavnitz, Riglitz, Rozvadow, Shendishov, Stachev, Stachin and Ulanow - Frankel family of Mielec-Lymanow - Zenwirth family - Avigdor family
    • Ropshitz (Ropczyce) Dynasty -- Rubin, Mariles and Halpern Families - including the Rebbes of Chechinov-Tamaszow, Dolina, Dombrovo, Glogow, Hussakow, Jaslo, Kerestier, Kortchin, Muszay (Muzhaya), Ropshitz, Rymanow, Rzeszow, Sasow, Sasregen, Sokolov and Sulitza - R' Shulem Rubin, Director of New York State Kosher Law Enforcement - Professor Herbert Rosenkrantz, microbiologist - Horowitz (Tenzer) and Glikman families
    • Weisz Chassidic Dynasty of Spinka
    • Moskovitz Chassidic Dynasty of Shatz
    • Rosenbaum family of Krechnev
    • Halpern (Heilprin) Chassidic Dynasty of Brzezany
  • Branch VIII - Horowitz family of Piotrkow
    • Including Srebrny and related families - Sir Leon Radzinowicz, British criminologist - Endelman familiy of physicians - Lazar Wechsler, film producer
• Chapter XVII
  • Eichenstein Chassidic Dynasty of Zhidachov
    • 1. Langner family
    • 2. Rottenberg family of Kosoni
    • 3. Safrin Chassidic Dynasty of Komarno
    • 4. Eichenstein Chassidic Dynasty
  • Rokeach Chassidic Dynasty of Belz
    • 1. Including the Rebbes of Belz, Bilgoraj, Birch, Grayding, Hrubieszow, Jaroslaw, Karov, Kozlow, Lubaczow, Magerow, Noveria, Ochan and Sokol
    • 2. Flam(m) family
    • 3. Lamm, Mund and Langner families
    • 4. Mayer Chassidic Dynasty of Alesk (Olesko)
    • 5. Zilberfarb family of Rovno
  • Rokeach and related families
    • 1. Bloch and Behrman families
    • 2. Friedland family, including bibliophile Moses Friedland (Bibliotheca Friedlandiana)
    • 3. Klatzco, Louria, Robinson, Lewin-Epstein and related families, including American family of physicians Louria - radio and television star, Florence Hayes - Israel Rokeach, founder of Rokeach kosher products
  • Shapiro Chassidic Dynasty of Lyzhansk-Mogielnica-Grodzisk
    • Including the Chassidic Master, Elimelech Lyzhankser - Gevertzman, Wagschal (of Frysztak), Wolkenfeld, Weissblum and Hopstein (Hofstein) families - Israeli poet Shin Shalom
  • Spira Chassidic Dynasty of Munkacs-Dynow
    • Including the Langsam family and the Rebbes of Birch, Blazowa, Bukovsk, Dynow, Kyvyashd, Munkacs and Rybotycze
  • Teitelbaum Chassidic Dynasty
    • 1. Including the Rebbes of Chentskovitz, Drohobycz, Etshed, Gorlice, Hussakow, Ihel, Kolbuszowa, Nyibator, Satmar, Sighet, Stropkow, Tyachevo and Walowa
    • 2. Meisels family of Hungary
    • 3. Gottesman family of Lashkowitz
    • 4. Gross family
    • 5. Lipschutz family of Wielopole
    • 6. Glanz family
  • Unger Chassidic Dynasty
    • Including the Schapiro family of Narol - author Menashe Unger
• Chapter XVIII: Rabbi Menachem Nachum Twersky of Chernobyl
  • Twersky Chassidic Dynasty of Chernobyl
    • Yunik family
    • Guttman family of Jassy
  • Branch A - (Chernobyl) - including the Rebbes of Azarinitz, Chernobyl, Loyev and Malin - Pechenik family of Berezno (Brezna) - Yuzefof family
  • Branch B - (Korystochev)
  • Branch C - (Cherkassy-Hornistopol) - Twerski family of Milwaukee - the Rebbes of Cherkassy and Hornistopol - Dr. Abraham J. Heschel Twerski, author and noted psychiatrist and his brother, Aaron David Twerski, College Dean and Law Professor
    • Schneersohn Chassidic Dynasty - the Lubavitcher Rebbes of New York
  • Branch D - (Drohobycz) - Drabitcher family
  • Branch E - (Makarov)
  • Branch F - (Trisk) - including noted novelist Yochanan Twersky
  • Branch G - (Tolna) - including Isadore Twersky, author and Professor of Hebrew Literature and Philosophy - Chodorov family
  • Branch H - (Horodetzky)
  • Branch I - (Skivra) - including the Rebbes of Machnovka and Skvira
  • Branch J - (Rotmistrovke) - including the Rebbes of Rotmistrovke and Zlatopol

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A surgeon, author, lecturer, Dr. Neil Rosenstein has accumulated as a result of five decades of investigative study of rare books and manuscripts, trips to libraries and cemeteries, travel and correspondence a vast matrix of material on Jewish genealogy, especially in the field of rabbinical dynasties for which he has become world famous.

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Besides his many books (see website above), he has produced a CD-ROM with the indexed obituaries of the first-ever Hebrew weekly, HaMagid, which was in print from 1856 to 1903.

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