Hayyim ben Solomon of Czernowitz?

Czernowitzers...

Let's try to demonstrate our collective memory! Yefim Kogan, the webmaster of the new JewishGen Bessarabia Special Interest Group, online at

http://www.jewishgen.org/Bessarabia/

wrote to me: "Hayyim ben Solomon, of Czernowitz was also known as Hayyim ben Solomon of Mogilev, Hayyim ben Solomon Tyrer and Hayyim Chernovitzer (1760-1813). Rabbi and a cabalist, a Tzadik, and a pupil of reb Israel Ba’al Shem. After he had been a rabbi in five different towns among which was Mogilev, Chernovitz and Kishinev, he settled in Jerusalem where he died in 1813. [...] If there is a person in Mogilev-Pod. Cemetery with Chernovitzer surname it should be a different person, because the Rabbi seems to me was buried in Israel. What is also interesting about this Rabbi of 18-19 century that I found references to his work not long time ago in a regular Chabad siddur, published recently! I do not have any pictures... I have some of the quotes from that siddur, I think I published it on Bessarabia SIG at some article..."

So far Yefim Kogan's note. Do you have any additional information on Hayyim ben Solomon of Czernowitz?

Warmest wishes to all of you from sunny Berlin!

P.S.: I'm going to attend - and to report on - Hedwig Brenner's reading tonight!

Edgar Hauster
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