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Notable People from the Kremenets District
Notable People from the Kremenets District
Aaron Moses ben Shalom of Kremenets, 17th century, author of Nishmat adam, 1620 (Jewish Encyclopedia)
Abraham ben Judah Hazzan, 16th century, author of haggadic commentary (Jewish Encyclopedia)
Yosef Avidar, 1906-1995, Israeli statesman, Haganah commander, author, and ambassador to Argentina and the Soviet Union (Wikipedia)
Ignati Abramovich Bernstein, 1846-1900, railroad engineer (Jewish Encyclopedia)
Tadeusz Czacki, 1765-1813, founder of the Kremenets Liceum (academic high school) (Jewish Encyclopedia)
Joseph ben Moses of Kremenets, 16th century, author of Be'ur al sefer mitsvot gadol (Jewish Encyclopedia)
Mark Kac, 1914 (Kremenets)-1984 (Los Angeles), mathematician, via MacTutor
David Katz, 1929-1941, electrical engineer
David Katz at the Kremenets power station, 1930s (photo contributed by Maya F. Katz Golan)
Isaac Baer Levinsohn (photo from Wikimedia Commons)
Moshe Kagan, Israeli artist, born in Kremenets in 1922, biography from his website
Moshe Kagan: Reflections, 2022 documentaryMoisei (Moshe) Gershkovich Komediant, composer and musician. Members of the Komediant family were well-known musicians in pre-WWII Kremenets. Moshe's father was known as "Hirsh Klezmer."
Music by the Kiselgof-Makonovetsky Digital Manuscript Project
Marshl K1119
Marshl K1152 and K1336
Nign K1161
Kale bazetsn K1127
Kol Nidre
Vals K1153
Polka K1097
Sirba K1159
Untitled Terkisher K1165Landsberg Family, 18th-20th century (Jewish Encyclopedia)
Isaac Baer Levinsohn, 1788-1860, scholar and author (Jewish Encyclopedia)
Montage of scenes connected with J.B. Lewinsohn [c. 1930s], via Center for Jewish Art, YIVO Institute for Jewish ResearchAron Shimon Shpall, 1875 (Kremenets)-1935 (New Orleans), writer, high school principal, Zionist, and Hebraist
Shpall family photos
Article in American Jewish Archives Journal, 2009
Isaac Stern (photo from Wikimedia Commons)
Isaac Stern (1920-2001, born in Kremenets)
Biography via Bach Cantatas website
Obituary, New York TimesJacob ben Eliezer Temerls, 16th century, Talmudist and cabalist (Jewish Encyclopedia)
Yechiel Mikhel of Zloczow (Magid of Zloczow), c. 1731-1786
Buried in Yampol: Original gravestone; Description of New Ohel, 2002
Memoirs by and about Kremenets-District Residents
Memoirs by and about Kremenets-District Residents
See also Photo Album for family photo collections and Holocaust and World War II for Shoah survivors' testimonies to Yad Vashem.
Eternal Presence of Absence, submitted by Carolyn Manosevitz (PDF)
Painful Memories, by Gila Manusovich-Shamir
David Moldavan's Story (PDF)
Return to Kremenets under German Rule, by Natalia Oleksyn-Brodzka
Plotka and Press families, submitted by Shelley Hebert (PDF)
Kremenetz, by Dora Segal, submitted by David Tessler
Remembering the Jewish Community of Kremenets, Ukraine, by Esther Anastasia, daughter of Vivian Tartak
Tobe and Joseph Tessler, by David Tessler
William (Wolf) Kagan (back row, 4th from left) with Kremenets friends, 1933
Banner photo: Shprintse Rokhel in her family circle in Israel, from Pinkas Kremenets, p. 230
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