Families: The Buber Family of Galicia

Records of the Buber family in the All Galicia Database

There are currently 266 records for the surname Buber (including soundalike names and spelling variants) in the All Galicia Database (the AGD), Gesher Galicia's free searchable collection of genealogical and historical records from the former Austro-Hungarian province of Galicia, which is now eastern Poland and western Ukraine. Here is a sampling of some of the results you can find there:

• Salamon Ber BIEBER
  census record from Brody Jewish Census (1850-1857)
• Abraham Alter BIEBER
  census record from Brody Jewish Census (1850-1857)
• Maksmilian BUBER, grandchild of , , ,
  Holocaust record from Lwów Ghetto Residents (1941-1943)
• Fanko BOBER
  1787 property record from Husiatyn Josephine Survey (1787)
• Juzwy BOBER
  1787 property record from Husiatyn Josephine Survey (1787)
• Gitla BOBA
  1788 property record from Żółkiew Josephine Survey (1788)
• Uryn BUBA
  1788 property record from Brody Josephine Survey (1788)
• Herschel BOBER
  1788 property record from Dukla Josephine Survey House Register (1790)
• Pesach BOBER
  1803 other record from Galicia Jewish Marriage Permissions (1803)
• David, son of Chaim BOWER
  1806 death record from Lwów Jewish Deaths (1805-1880)

Search the All Galicia Database to see the full information available for all 266 records. The AGD is updated with new records every few months, so check back often to see the latest results.

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Records of the Buber family in Logan Kleinwaks' Genealogy Indexer website

There are 191 search results for the surname Buber at Logan Kleinwaks' Genealogy Indexer website, a few of which are listed below. Note that results listed below are limited to purely Galician sources, such as telephone and business directories from Galician cities, or school records, but they do not include the many other sources available on his website that span all of pre-war Poland. You may need the free .DjVu web browser plugin to view these files.

• Berezhany Yizkor Book (1978), image 491 {y48}
  ... person, who wished to leave for Israel, had to give up "Aliyah" because of lack of finances. "Esih in Brzezany THE HEBREW SCHOOL /n important chapter in the history of the Jews of our town, was the founding of a Hebrew-School by the organization "Safa-Brura". (clear language) in May 1903. The actual founders were Mordechai Wolf Mai-blum. Yehudah Zarvintzer, Zalman Zaper, Josef Finkelstein and Jacob Bauer. The teaching staff included: Abuhav, Cohen. Rachovski. Zigel. Dlugach and Zvi Scharf-stein. Adolf Horn was elected president of the school. A club called "Ivriyah". 18 with a library and a reading hall were established at the same time.
• Brzezany Yizkor Book (1978), image 491 {y91}
  ... , had to give up "Aliyah" because of lack of finances. Brzezany THE HEBREW SCHOOL n important chapter in the history of the Jews of our town, was the founding of a Hebrew-School by the organization "Safa-Brura". (clear language) in May 1903. The actual founders were Mordechai Wolf Mai-blum, Yehudah Zarvintzer, Zalman Zaper. Josef Finkelstein and Jacob Bauer. The teaching staff included: Abuhav, Cohen. Rachovski, Zigel, Dlugach and Zvi Scharf-stein. Adolf Horn was elected president of the school. A club called "Ivriyah", with a library and a reading hall were established at the same time. "Ezrah" 18
• Brzozow Yizkor Book (1984), image 389 {y94}
  ... was the much more important task of stuffing the over-gorged murderers, refilling their bellies and pockets each day anew. Reb Yossele and his family were starving, kept barely alive by the kindly souls who, from time to time, gave them some provisions to keep them from dying Reb Yossele Weber was the shtet’s last Rabbi and with him the tragic chapter of "Brzozow's Jews" came to an end. His father, Reb Hai’im Weber, God rest his soul, the "Beis-Medresh Rabbi", was a naive Jew, de-tached from the mundane affairs of every-day life and always busy with heavenly matters, so that he had little time left for his earthly needs. At the end of the 20’s Reb Ha’im left the shtetl which had not treated him too kindly, and went to Eretz Israel where he died. After he had gone ...
• Brzozow Yizkor Book (1984), image 390 {y94}
  ... my father till the war broke out, when my parents left Brzozow for Eastern Poland. She was honest, diligent and a thorough and conscientious worker. With the experience gained after many years’ work she learnt to do other, im-portant jobs and became highly proficient. Father saw to it that she got the jobs of typing various documents for the court. Due to the diligence of the sisters the Bibber family emerged from their demoralizing poverty and the girls achieved indcpen-dence. Leah, who was married in France, was probably killed there by the Nazis. Sarah remained in Brzozow. During the war she served as secretary to the Juden-rat, helping people as much as she could. She died in the mass murder of the Brzozow Jews. The sisters live on in my memory — hard-work-ing, honest ...
• Brzozow Yizkor Book (1984), image 397 {y94}
  ... Wolf’s life which caused great agitation in the shtetl. One of his child-ren, a five or six year old boy, was in need of a serious operation and had to be hospitalized for a long time. Reb Wolf could not afford such an opera-tion or the great ex!›enses incurred by it, nor was Reb Wolf was the beadle of the Great Beis Ha-midrash and his apartment was in the same building, close to that of Rabbi Y. Weber. Besides being a beadle Reb Wolf had many other "Mloches" (tasks) which brought him very few **Broches" (joys), and having ten children, he clearly had a hard time making a living and in no way belonged to the well-to-do class of the shtetl. Reb Wolf was a Torah scholar and his name. Ferstendig meaning "wise", fitted him well, for he was a Jew of great understanding. In spite ...

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