Re: [Cz-L] Our origin.

Thank you Mark.

  You speak of 5 generations back - what year would that be ?
   When did Buhler - Litman come from Russia ?( 1850 ?)
Hardy
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From: "Mark Wiznitzer" <markwiznitzer_at_gmail.com>
To: "CZERNOWITZ-L" <Czernowitz-L_at_cornell.edu>
Cc: "HARDY BREIER" <HARDY3_at_bezeqint.net>
Sent: Tuesday, April 17, 2012 5:49 AM
Subject: Re: [Cz-L] Our origin.

>From extensive interviews conducted by my cousin Michelle with family
members who are now all deceased, we have developed an extensive
genealogy that traces our family back five generations before me to
Litman Wiznitzer, who was the first person assigned use of the name
"Wiznitzer".

According to family history, Litman's family name was originally
Buhler and he had come from Russia.
He was one of many Russian Jews who fled military service and sought
asylum in the Bukovina at the
court of the Wiznitzer Rebbe (the dynasty known as the Vizhnitzer
Rebbe actually has the family name of "Hager").
They would often receive falsified papers and changed their name.
But we also know that rabbis assigned names to Jews when registering
births, deaths and marriages to conform with the Kaiser's edict that
every person have
a surname (since many Jews had followed the traditional custom of
using "ben" and "bat").
Litman was honored by being the only one allowed to take the name
Wiznitzer, allegedly for having done a favor for the Rebbe.
This was around 1850, the year the Wiznitzer Rebbe married the
daughter of the Sadegura Rebbe and they became one dynasty.
Although some other people may have subsequently taken Wiznitzer as
their family name, most people born today with the name Wiznitzer, as
were those who lived in Czernowitz before WWII, is most likely
descended from the first Litman Wiznitzer.

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