Biography for Jack Likwornik
My ancestor from seven generations ago was Josef Moshe Liquornik.
He was the first known RABBI IN SADAGURA, serving from the late
1700s to 1807. He was buried in Israel in 1808 but I have not been able
to locate the grave. Prior to being a rabbi in Sadagura he was known as
the MAGGID of KOMARNO. His son, JESHEYAHU LIQUORNIK was rabbi of
Sadagura from 1807 to 1828. Josef, his father and grandfather,
were born in OSTROG (W). His grandfather negotiated with the
Russian general, Suvarov, to save the town.
My great uncle
MORITZ LIQUORNIK was head of the Czernowitz chapter of the
Bukovina Zionist State Organization. He helped greet Chaim
Weizmann in 1927. He wrote a book about the history of
Czernowitz, possibly published in Tel Aviv, in 1944. I bought the
manuscript, in auction. It is neatly written, in German, and 60 pages
long. I WOULD GREATLY APPRECIATE HELP IN TRANSLATING SOME OR ALL OF IT.
I could pay a modest fee.
Moritz mothers
last name was RUBEL.
Moritz lived at
7 Russischgasse in 1914; and there was a Moritz Liquornik living at the
following addresses, in these years:
1924, 10 Ghica
Voda (Austriaplatz)
1927, 7 Romana
Strasse
1936, 15 Nicolae
Filipescu Strasse
Moritz
uncle, Israel Liquornik, lived at 9 Bergasse, in 1921.
My grandparents
JACOB TRACHTENBROD and Anna Liquornik, and my mother Teomila lived at
25 Regele Ferdinand Strasse from 1927-1936 and 11 Russiaschgasse in
1909.. They owned two shoe stores in town.
A well known
German writer in the US, Arthur Gong (Alfred Liquornik), was friends
with Paul Celan, and lived at 9 Bergasse.
My father, Isaac
Liquornik, lived in Kolomyya.
I live in New
York.
I hope that
someone recognizes these names or address. So far no one has.
Sincerely,
Jack Likwornik
Please contact
me at jackisa@AOL.com