Having discovered that I had one great-great-great-grandfather who was classified as the "kazyonner rabbiner" of the town of Dabrowa-Byalistocka near Grodno in the late 19th century, I was wondering what exactly the word "kazyonner" means and how a person who has that status differs >from any rabbis who did not have it.
He must have had that status >from the 1840s or 1850s and died early in the 20th century before the birth of a relative in 1913 who was named for him.
His name was Rabbi Yechiel Michel Olyan and must have been born in Dabrowa around 1835. Although I have been able to trace Olyans >from there aside >from my family, we have not been able to establish the family links.
