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Urban Rabbinate: The Kornitzers of Krakow

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A look at four generations of the Sofer/Kornitzer family who served as rabbis in Krakow.

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Yehudi Gabru with Jewish history sites and this episode is dedicated in memory an eternal tribute to the our illustrious ancestor Rab Nhemia Corniter Zatal chief rabbi of Krakow and to the generations of Rabanam and devoted Jewish leaders of the renowned Corniter Eisenht family. May the legacy of Tyra leadership, courage, and unwavering commitment to Kalisro that car characterized this remarkable rabbitic characterized this remarkable rabbitic dynasty continue to inspire future gener generations. Dedicated by Akiva and Avigail Eisenht and their children Arielzer, Shim, Razi and Kana, Mrs. Helen Eisenht and Sarah Eisenhten family, Yil and Neienstat and family, Mayor and Simi Eisenhten family and the entire Eisenht family and in loving memory of Misha memory of Misha Rman Eisenh, the only child of the late Rabman Eisenat and named for his illustrious grandfather corner. Israel. So today we will be speaking about um the cornitzer rabbitical dynasty in um the cornitzer rabbitical dynasty in Krakco. uh specifically mostly about corniter but we'll try to get as many other cornets of other generations involved as well and maybe we'll touch on the original one the rib shiman cipher who's not a corniter he's a father-in-law of the corniter father-in-law and and brother-in-law of the corniters um and he was also a raving kow so several generations several generations of the corniter Cipher family. In other words, descendants of the Kasam Cipher were rabbis in Krakow. And it's fascinating to trace the history of Krakco and Galitzian jewelry through the eyes of this very prestigious rabbitical dynasty. If you've ever met, you know, we we always joke about of theam cipher on this podcast. I don't know about always, but we have in the past. If you're talking about

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  1. 0:01Yehudi Gabru with Jewish history sites and this episode is dedicated in memory an eternal tribute
  2. 5:03during the time of modernization in the 19th and 20th centuries with industrialization, modernization, emancipation, the
  3. 10:41devoted to the yeshiva and its students. He saw that as his primary um primary uh
  4. 16:201890s Ariasharovitz is serving as the de facto only rabbi of the community already since Raikornit
  5. 22:04Kraka was in the collective memory of its members. There were times when insisted that certain
  6. 27:41They're not bringing out some Canoi. They're bringing out someone who was born in Krakow, whose
  7. 33:25in January and the Nazi racial ideology and the Nazi racial anti-semitism was now becoming well
  8. 39:44for 22 years until his passing in 1883. So this is this is the first phase
  9. 45:28general subjects so we're approved by the compulsory education laws and this way we keep them
  10. 51:06it's the geographical proximity it's right near there so given that context corner is arrested and

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