Chaim Chaykel Wistenetzky

Haim ha-kohen Wistynietzky, son-in-law of Judah Leib Margolis, came from Filipove and settled in Baklerove where he was active in community affairs. He was also considered an expert in Hebrew Bible and Grammar Studies. His signature can be found on numerous occasions as a witness on official community records of Pzerosl. He died in 1891 (Suwalki Yizkor Book, p 121). His son, Judah Wistynisetzky was born in 1843 and was named after his material grandfather.

Children born in Przersol (JRI-P, Jewish Gen):

• WISZTYNIECKA Chaja Inda 1845
• WISZTYNIECKA Chajka Reuza 1856

Dr. Neil Rosenstein (The Margolis Family 1984, page 18A) says: Haim ha-kohen Wistynietzky, son-in-law of Judah Leib, came from Filipove and settled in Baklerove where he was active in community affairs. He was also considered an expert in Hebrew Bible and Grammar studies. His signature can be found on numerous occasions as a witness on official community records of Pzerosl. He died in 1891 (Suwalki Yizkor Book, page 121). His son, Judah Wistynietzky, was born in 1843 and was named after his maternal grandfather. He was educated in Raatzk, Baklerove and Suwalki. He was the author of "Elat HaShachar" (Berlin, 1892 and New York, 1894) and of glosses and annotations to "Sefer Chassidim" by Rabbi Judah b. Sauel the Chassid (Berlin, 1891-2). He later came to the USA and was Rabbi of the Buffalo, N.Y. community. He was however unhappy there and after five years returned to Suwalki where he died in 1908. (Suwalki Yizkor Book, page 211-2). On the death of Rabbi Elijah Bardin in 1867 (the brother-in-law of his won grandfather) he wrote the obituary which appeared in "HaMagid" issue #12 of that year."