JewishGen Danzig/Gdańsk Research Division Presents:

Members of Eternal Light Society of Mattenbuden, 5593 (1832 or 1833)
Among the objects from Danzig at the Jewish Museum in New York is a short book of the Eternal Light Society of Mattenbuden (No. D 166), dated 5593 (1832 or 1833). Page three contains a list of names, apparently of members of the Society, which is transcribed from Hebrew here. For further information about this book, including a photograph of page three, see pages 118-119 of Danzig 1939: Treasures of a Destroyed Community.

No surnames are provided in the list, so if you can supply further identifying information about any of these people, please contact us. Our CAHJP indexing project includes material from Mattenbuden from this time, which might help. The titles "Moreh" and "HaBachur," appearing frequently in the list, mean "teacher" and "unmarried male," respectively. You can sort the transcription by clicking the column headings.

Thanks to Roni Pelled and Tamar Amit for transcription.

TitleGiven NameFather's TitleFather's Given NameTribalNotes
HaBachurYehoshuaRebYitzchak
HaBachurMordechaiRebYitzchak
HaBachurChaimRebYitzchak
HaBachurShmuelRebChaimHaLevientry appended
HaBachurMosheRebYitzchak
HaBachurYechezkelRebYitzchakentry crossed out
HaBachurYosefRebYitzchakentry appended
HaRav Mem-MemYechiel AryehMem-MemMatityahuHaKohenMichel Levin MUNK; "Mem-Mem"=Maggid Meisharim?
MorehYaakovMorehChaim
MorehAbraham BaruchMorehYoshuafather "HaAshir"=the wealthy; entry crossed out;
is this the gabbai Abraham Baruch BLUHM mentioned on an alms dish (129)?
RebChaim TzviRebYisrael
RebChaimRebYitzchakHaLevientry crossed out
RebChaimRebYosefHaKohen
RebBaruchRebMosheHaKohen
RebDavidRebAharon
RebChaimMorehYosef Yaakovis this the gabbai Chaim Elchanan b. Y.Y. FÜRSTENBERG mentioned on a pair of rimmonim (225)?
RebTzviMorehYehuda
RebElchananRebMoshe
RebTzviRebAzriel
RebYitzchakRebMosheis this Yitzchak GOLDSTEIN, gabbai of Mattenbuden, son of Moshe ben Mordechai?
RebAharonRebShlomo
RebReuvenMorehChaimis this Ruben Chaim RABENSTEIN from the 1814 surname adoption list?
RebAbliRebAbraham
RebYoelRebYehoshua
ShmuelRebElchanan
ShlomoRebAsher
Eliezer ShlomoRebMoshe
AbrahamRebSoel [Shmuel?]