Isaac Zabludowsky of Bialystok

1860 Isaak and his descendants were given the Title honorary hereditary citizen by Tsar Alexander the 2. In this documents are mentioned his 4 sons his Grandchildren great grandchildren and a gg grandchild In this document Isaak claims he is 87 years old and his son Marcus is 77. That will say Isaak was born 1773 and not 1778, as most of later genealogists claim. It is my belief that the age of Isaak was even older.And the age of his son Marcus is wrong .Marcus is most likely born, when Isaak was 15-17 years old. Marcus in named for his mother Pessa's father ,that will say the grandfather Marcus died around 1788. ( Mikhail , descendant of Isaak, and Nehirah Kadosh, descendant of Chaim Zabludowsky July 11 2020)

See The Jewish Heritage Trail in Bialystok (Search for Zabludowski):

http://szlak.uwb.edu.pl/media/cd_offline_04/files/druk/trail_folder...

Quoted from BIALYSTOK – A HISTORICAL SURVEY pages 3-5:

http://www.zchor.org/bialystok/yizkor2.htm#shmulewitz

Isaac Zabludowski (known as the "wealthy Reb Izchok") from Bialystok. Lived in Bialystok during the beginning of the 19th century and was in the lumber business with the Russian government. In his days, he was Russia's richest Jew and donated a real deal of money and real estate to charity. His descendants were among the wealthiest and most influen­tial families in Bialystok. He died in 1865.

Quoted from the Jewish Heritage Trail in Bialystok:

http://www.szlak.uwb.edu.pl/sites.html

6 Jewish Hospital now Maternity Hospital, Warszawska 15

Before the war, this place was the location of a Jewish hospital founded by Isaac Zabludowski and named after him. The hospital was created in 1872, ten years after Zabludowski had granted the house and land to the Jewish community. Initially the hospital provided 48 beds. It could take in more patients from 1882, when it enlarged to 86 beds. Before the end of the 19th century it already had separate and well-equipped rooms for surgical and internist treatment. It was one of the best equipped medical centres in pre-war Poland and perhaps even in the world. It closely cooperated with Jewish charity organisations, such as Linas Chacedek, which ran a night ambulance service here.

This link shows the hospital in Bialystok before and after it's renovation.

http://bialostocki.blox.pl/2009/07/Bialystok-moje-miasto-Warszawska...

17 Mansions of Isaac Zabludowski at the crossroads of Lipowa and Sienkiewicza streets

On the left side of Sienkiewicza street, at the entrance from Lipowa street, a now non-existent mansion (burnt down during the war) called Under the Moose was situated. Eminent guests to the city stayed in that house, and the better city entertainment, such as balls and masquerades, took place there. On the opposite side of the street, there still stands the Courtly Mansion, now a restaurant known as Astoria. The name of todays restaurant comes from a distorted word austeria (osteria in Italian), which means an inn or a guesthouse. Both houses belonged to Isaac Zabludowski, who was recognised as the firstJewishmillionaire in Russia (after 1807, the Bialystok Area was part of the Russian Empire).

Isaac Zabludowski

In the first part of the 19th century, Isaac Zabludowski was one of the richest merchants in Bialystok. In 1834 he founded a synagogue, known as Chorshul (Choral), which was situated on the present-day Bialowny street. In 1864 the Zabludowski family owned nine of the best houses in the city, including Under the Moose and the Courtly Mansion.

This link shows another Zabludowski house in Bialystok that serves today as the Autria restarunt:

http://www.wrotapodlasia.pl/NR/rdonlyres/86437A3D-D6EE-4D3C-962D-23...

Białystok. Tę kamienicę zwano pałacem Zabłudowskich. Tu była słynna sala balowa, restauracja, kasyno oficerskie, resursa obywatelska... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9abDv42tlQ

32 Rabbinical Cemetery on Kalinowskiego street, todays Central Park

This Jewish necropolis, founded in 1761 or 1764, was described by Jan Glinka, a pre-war enthusiast of local history. According to his findings,rabbis and other prominent members of the Jewish community used to be buried here. Among them were Rabbi Kalman (died in 1789), a Chassidic Rabbi (Tzadik) Moses Wolf (died in 1830) and an affluentmerchantand philanthropist Isaak Zabludowski (died in 1865). German soldiers devastated the cemetery in 1941, covering the graves with rubbles from the burned Jewish quarter. After the war, the remains of the cemetery were covered with earth and a park was planted on it.

http://www.jewishgen.org/Yizkor/Bialystok/bia2_028.html

such as the wood business, like Itshe ZABLUDOWSKII[21] (1781-1865), whose wealth came from Biatowieza [a primeval forest] timber that he would buy and transport abroad. He was the money magnate of Bialystok. There are still legends about his wealth: his house on the corner of Senkewicze and Pilsudski, was the first modern, affluent house in Bialystok.However, none of the rich Jews had ventures to pursue after closing their old businesses and their capital remained inactive. They found natural consumers for their money with the arrival of the German manufacturers. They also found new business pursuits – providing raw materials for the manufacturers who needed purchases made for them in Russia and abroad. Purchasers who worked for commissions and merchandise traders were trained and developed in Bialystok.

At the same time that they had these very close relations with the German manufacturers and their products, the Bialystok merchant class was more closely acquainted with the developers of modern textile manufacturing. As a matter of course, a movement had to awaken among the younger Jewish generation for them to emulate the German manufacturers and themselves become manufacturers of the finer cloth products. They could fill in their lack of knowledge of the craft with hired German master craftsmen and directors.A) Reb Sender BLOKH, B) Reb Nukhem MINC and C) Eliezer HALBERSZTAM, three rich and aristocratic sons-in-law of the wealthy Itshe ZABLUDOWSKI, stood at the head of this movement. With the agreement and the help of their rich father-in-law, they created three self-contained cloth factories, with distinguished master craftsmen and directors.Almost at the same level as them were the well known son of Mikhele, Dodie ZABLUDOWSKI, and another educated Jew, Sender BLOKH's son, Noakh-Dovid BLOKH, who had a partial factory. All of the factories produced the finest cloth and clothing goods.[22]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=p9abDv42tlQ  

Isaac Zabludovsky, the ancestor of the most influential family in Byelostok, is said to have been the first Jewish millionaire in Russia.