Announcing Sons of the Lion's Cub: The Horenstein Brothers and Their
Fortune, a new book on Eastern European Jewish genealogy and history.

In the late 19th century, two brothers in western Ukraine, both
Hasidic rabbis, became fabulously wealthy within a short time period.
They and their families were celebrated by the Jewish population in
numerous folk tales. Even Sholom Aleichem, the great Yiddish
storyteller, wrote a short tale about them. Today, however, they had
been all but forgotten until the publication of this book.

Based on two decades of extensive genealogical and historical
research, Sons of the Lion's Cub reviews the 1000-year genealogy of
their ancestors in Eastern Europe (which include many outstanding
rabbinical families), and proposes a theory of how they acquired their
remarkable wealth.

Advanced genealogists will especially appreciate the footnotes and
appendices which illustrate some of the complexities involved in
genealogy research. For example, on the basis of Jewish naming
customs, the Horowitz family's claim to descend >from the HaLevi
HaYizhari family of Spain is shown to be dubious.

The book is available at Amazon.com and other major outlets.

Melvyn R. Werbach

Researching:
VERBUKH, HORENSTEIN, KANFER, KOMISAR, KORENBLIT >from Volhynia, Podolia
and Kiev guberniyas, Ukraine; AUZENBERG, RUBINSKI,
LEWINOWSKI/LUDWINOWSKI, ABRAMSKI, BRODOWICZ, SEJNENSKI >from Suwalki
guberniya, Poland; MISHURSKI, GOLDBERG, MENDELSON >from Kovne
guberniya, Lithuania

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