Families: The Butter Family of Galicia

Records of the Butter family in the All Galicia Database

There are currently 32 records for the surname Butter (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:

• Ruchel BUTTER
  1823 death record from Lwów Jewish Deaths (1805-1880)
• Tewel, son of Wolf BEUTER
  1831 birth record from Brody Jewish Births (1815-1861)
• Esriel, son of Wolf BUTER
  1834 birth record from Brody Jewish Births (1815-1861)
• Tewel BUTTER, son of Wolf BUTTER
  1839 death record from Brody Jewish Deaths (1815-1861)
• Hersch, son of Wolf BUTER
  1839 birth record from Brody Jewish Births (1815-1861)
• Jüdel, son of Wolf BUTTER
  1841 birth record from Brody Jewish Births (1815-1861)
• Moses BUTTER, son of Wolf BUTTER
  1842 death record from Brody Jewish Deaths (1815-1861)
• Joseph Salomon, son of Wolf BUTTER
  1844 birth record from Brody Jewish Births (1815-1861)
• Joseph, son of Wolf BUTTER
  1845 death record from Brody Jewish Deaths (1815-1861)
• Lea BOTHI, daughter of and Channe BOTHI
  1845 death record from Lwów Jewish Deaths (1805-1880)

Search the All Galicia Database to see the full information available for all 32 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 Butter family in Logan Kleinwaks' Genealogy Indexer website

There are 51 search results for the surname Butter 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.

• Brzozow Yizkor Book (1984), image 531 {y94}
  ... The woman would take up a stand in the "platz’’ close to Gedalia Filler’s house beside the steps going down to "lavkes", where she tries to sell her light farm produce which belongs to her exclusively — half a liter of butter in a small enamel container covered by a white cloth with a character stamped in it in relief, full of grooves and made by a wooden spoon. It is the height of the butter protruding from the enamel container that determines its price. This butter was called "Marx pitter", not in honor of Karl Marx, whom no one in the platz had ever heard of, but to denote market butter bought only by those who treated the mitzvot lighly (as opposed to the strictly orthodox), or for little children. Those who were strict about matters of kashrut would never eat it, fearing it was treif ...
• Baranow Yizkor Book (1964), image 246 {y32}
  ... were held, resolving the con-flict in favor of the older son, Reb Itzele. Subsequently Reb Itzele acquired the rabbinate in Zavichost. Congress Poland, and his son Reb Avigdor succeeded to the rabbinate. He was the last Rabbi Baranow was privileged to have. Unlike his predecessors Reb Avigdor was social minded. Though lacking the scholarly eminence of his father, he was the one instrumental in con-verting the large Besdin room into a center of learning. Here the "BETTER" lx›ys spent many hours poring over Talmudic tomes. The Rov himself conducted a shiur with some of the more promising boys. He saw in Zionism the very antithesis of Orthodoxy. The restlesncss of the younger generation, its flight from the Talmud to secular education, its becoming lax in observing the mores and taboos ...
• Brzozow Yizkor Book (1984), image 391 {y94}
  ... and the Gymnasia teachers were referred to by the term "Professor" after the French for teacher, and even mothers who called at the Grammar School to inquire about their childrens’ grades, always addressed the teacher as "Pan Professor". The only Jewish teacher at the state Gymnasium was regarded as a thorn in the sides of the many anti-Semites in the town. His fellow teachers often made his life bitter, and his Polish students, not parti-cularly distinguished in their studies, in their hatred of the Jewish people were most capable and prolific, trying to trip him up and fault him at every possible opportunity. The parents of the town, were greatly concerned that their children receive a patriotic edu-cation, once presented a petition to the school board, protesting that a Jew should ...
• Brzozow Yizkor Book (1984), image 409 {y94}
  168 B E M A'A L O T KEDOSHIM Avraham Levite / MY FATHER, HA’IM HERTZ LEVITE radically and cut ourselves off from our sinful off-spring, how could we ask God to treat us otherwise ? Far better that we be lenient with our wayward sons and this would give us the right claim before God : "True, we have sinned, but we are Your sons; as You sec, we, too, have sons of whose behavior we do not approve, but we do not banish them, God forbid. They always remain our chilren and our hearts arc open to them." It once happened that one of the shtetl’s well-known fanatics came running to Father, telling him excitedly that he had seen with his own ...
• Brzozow Yizkor Book (1984), image 434 {y94}
  ... rose from their graves, bidding farefell, and proclaiming to me, to all "landsleit" and to the entire Jewish people, that such outrageous ex-periences should never be permitted to repeat them-selves. It only remains for me to ask them "mchilah" (forgiveness) from "our brothers who sacrificed their lives for the sanctification of the honor of Israel. And may the purity of their souls be reflected in our lives." We pray of a better future without such pain-ful and heart rending suffering... We left Brzozow by bus for Przemysl. On the way we stopped in the town Dynow for a half an hour. In that short time I looked around the shtetl. Observing only very small changes. A few houses and stores which had belonged to Jews were empty. Here I was informed of a Jewish hero ...

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