Families: The Raab Family of Galicia

Records of the Raab family in the All Galicia Database

There are currently 1799 records for the surname Raab (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:

• Berl, son of Szmil WUNDER and Mancie REIF
  birth record from Horodenka Jewish Births (certificates) (1856-1916)
• Szloma Hersz REIF
  birth record from Horodenka Jewish Births (certificates) (1856-1916)
• Baila RAAB, grandchild of , , ,
  Holocaust record from Lwów Ghetto Residents (1941-1943)
• Berl RAAB, grandchild of , , ,
  Holocaust record from Lwów Ghetto Residents (1941-1943)
• Bum RAAB, grandchild of , , ,
  Holocaust record from Lwów Ghetto Residents (1941-1943)
• Chana RAAB, grandchild of , , ,
  Holocaust record from Lwów Ghetto Residents (1941-1943)
• Chana RAAB, grandchild of , , ,
  Holocaust record from Lwów Ghetto Residents (1941-1943)
• Chinda RAAB, grandchild of , , ,
  Holocaust record from Lwów Ghetto Residents (1941-1943)
• Eliasch RAAB, grandchild of , , ,
  Holocaust record from Lwów Ghetto Residents (1941-1943)
• Fryda RAAB, grandchild of , , ,
  Holocaust record from Lwów Ghetto Residents (1941-1943)

Search the All Galicia Database to see the full information available for all 1799 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 Raab family in Logan Kleinwaks' Genealogy Indexer website

There are 196 search results for the surname Raab 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.

• Bielsko-Biala Yizkor Book (1973), image 175 {y76}
  ... der "Osten" und "Westen" begegneten, es zunächst die "östler" waren, auf die der Zionismus mit seinen logischen Konsequenzen einwirken musste - und dass sie die ersten Apostel dieser Idee wurden. Und so waren es junge Juden, aus dem Osten, die die Gründung der Studentenverbindungen: "Hasmonäa", "Chewrussa", und "Emunah" beeinflussten. Wie Ehrwürden Herr Rabb. Dr. Steiner in seinem im "Jüdi-sehen Volksblatt" veröffentlichten Aufsätzen "Zur Geschichte der Juden in Bielitz" nachwies, gab es in dieser Stadt eigent-lieh keine autochthonen Juden. Die Juden aus der Slowakei, die übrigens in der jüdischen Geistesgeschichte nie eine Besondere
• Baligrod Yizkor Book (1964), image 423 {y24}
  SUWAŁK & VICINITY RELIEF COMMITTEE OK NEW YORK Rabbi David L1MHITI Honorary Chairman HVMAN SUJOtOM Chairman David Silverman Vice-Ckatrman L Pfarlsthn iDeteaied) Secretary Leon Perlo Treasurer M. M1 -111 !. Secretary Di. David I. Miro w L. Dassky B. Gershen j. GlADSTONF I Lkw S. Rayman I. S1KHI K B. s0linsky j. Trop II. Wladkofsky j. Simon (Deceased) BOOK COMMITTEE Rabbi David Lifshitz, Honorary Chairman Myman Selkso.n, ׀ -Mrman Lazar Pearlstfin, Secretary (Deceased) D». David Mirow, Treasurer T0 obtain j‹l‹lilional volumes of this Yizkor Book, contact MYMAN SELIGSON 1505 Morris Avenue Bronx 57, N. Y. Printed By Twersky Brothers ...
• Baranow Yizkor Book (1964), image 246 {y32}
  ... him) there ensued a conflict for the succession. For a number of years both sons "held court" in Baranow, the pages and followers fighting it out, often in most unsavory methods. Finally elections 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 ...
• Baranow Yizkor Book (1964), image 248 {y32}
  ... development, which deprived a section of the youth from the benefits of secular education, an understanding was reached, that the names of the Orthodox boys who borrowed books were to be withheld from public view lest they be exposed and thus make their position uncomfortable with their parents or the Rabbi. political parties There were basically two politically oriented sections with gradations of shadings in each: those grouping around the Rabbi—the Rov's Party—con-sisting mainly of the older, more conservative, more or less economically well-to-do elements of the population; and the younger generation, liberal minded and sophisticated, who largely followed a Zionist orientation. In the early days the main issues in the election of members of "Kohol" were those of personalities, method ...
• Berezhany Yizkor Book (1978), image 222 {y48}
  ב־ז־זיני רבבנירב בדדב־ז תדביד רב רדי הבנדדרנ 1 — THE BIG SYNAGOGUE 2 — BEIT HAMIORASH "HABANUI" 3 — STRETINER KLOIB 4 — ROZLOWER KLOIS 5 — BEIT HAMIORASH OF THE "HAZAN" 6 — TSCHORTKOWER KLOIS T — BEIT HAMIORASH — RABI JUDEL S — POTIKER KLOIS B — JAD-CHARUZIM — SVNAGOGLE 10 — RABI MENOELE — SVNAGOGUE 11 — JAIfl'S KLOIB — בית הכגסת הגדול — בית המדרש ״הבנוי״ — ססיסינר קלויז — יוזלובר קלויז — בית המדרש מל "תחון״ — צ׳ורטקובר קלויז — בית המדרש •ל רבי יודל — 0וטיקר קלויז — בית הכנסת ׳׳יד הרמים״ — בית הכנסת של רבי מנדלה — בית הכנסת יאיר 10 ...

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