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Gáva, Sajószentpéter and Kovácsvágás

Wiesner & Reich

Sátoraljaújhely · Gáva · Kovácsvágás · Ajnácskő · Sajószentpéter · Munich · New York

Miriam Wiesner Perlow was born at Sajószentpéter on 2 October 1922, the daughter of Rav Shmaya (Samuel, Samu) Wiesner (1890–1961) and Szerén (Sarah Leah) Szender. Rav Shmaya, born at Ajnácskő, wrote for the Orthodox press of the 1920s as “Wiesner Samu, Sajószentpéter”; he came to America in 1939, and from 1941 his house and shul stood at 1424 49th Street, Brooklyn.

His father Farkas (Wolf, Ze’ev) Wiesner was born at Gáva in 1865 and married Golda (Gizella) Braunfeld at Sajószentpéter in December 1887; he died there in 1922. Farkas was the son of Antal (Naftali Tzvi) Wiesner and Blüme Reich, who married in 1855; Antal ended his days in Jerusalem in 1907. Blüme was the daughter of R’ Wolf Reich, a wool merchant of Kovácsvágás, born at Nyíri on 4 April 1794, who died on 11 February 1864, and of his wife Mushkat (Muszkat), born at Nagyida on 7 September 1797, who died at Pusztafalu on 20 April 1864 — the marriage original reads “Miskat”, correcting the earlier “Mikal”, and the exact dates come from an 1857 census printed in Alei Zikaron 63 (Probable, high). Blüme’s sister Eszter married Rabbi Sámuel Krausz of Kovácsvágás.

Antal’s father was the elder Shmaya (Sámuel) Wiesner of Gáva, born about December 1802 at Sátoraljaújhely, who died at Gáva in 1862; he married at least three times. Antal’s mother Rozália, born at Csaba, was very probably a daughter of the Pri Tzadik, R’ Meir Avraham of Csaba (d. 1829) — the 1839 printing of the Pri Tzadik names “my brother-in-law R’ Shmaya” of Gáva among its subscribers. The Pri Tzadik’s wife was Frumet Pessel Benet (Probable), who died at Miskolc in 1845, daughter of R’ Gabriel Benet of Cífer and Rebeka of Nikolsburg; his own father, in his handwriting, was “R’ Yosef called Yozpa … at Cífer”.

The Pri Tzadik was buried at Hejőcsaba, near Miskolc — this is now proven: a letter of 1971, printed in “A miskolci Avas” (1993), asks that the graves of “rabbi Meir Avraham (Pri Cadik) and his wife” be moved to Miskolc separately, and a book of 1970 describes a visit to his grave there. Whether the four old stones now standing in parcel VIII of the Avas cemetery in Miskolc are his and his wife’s is possible only.

Of Rav Shmaya’s ten brothers and sisters, several died at Auschwitz in June 1944, as did their mother Golda; Ignácz, Béla, Gyula and the youngest, Antal (Naftali Tzvi), survived.

Grades: Proven, Probable, Possible — exactly as the research gives them.

New research · 23 October 2026

Newly found records

  • Yeta Devora née Benet’s family: her son Dr Adolf (Dávid) Ónodi, born Finkelstein (Miskolc 1857), the Budapest laryngologist, is Proven from his 1857 Miskolc birth, his 1887 Pest marriage to Kornélia Steiner and her 1908 death, which he reported. His brothers Jakab Fénykövi (Proven) and Mór Ónodi (Probable), his father Yosef Finkelstein of Miskolc, and seven Probable siblings from the Miskolc index and the Kozma utca graves are now on the tree. Proven
  • In 1895 Farkas Wiesner was the synagogue warden (“templomi gondnok”) of Sajószentpéter: so he is styled as godfather in entry 20 of the 1895 Sajószentpéter birth register, on the same page as his son Ignácz’s birth (entry 21, 9 June 1895). Sajószentpéter birth register 1895, entries 20 and 21 (FamilySearch film 007951970, image 300 of 505, ark 3:1:3Q9M-CS87-SQWP-P; read on the original). Proven
  • Berta (Blimi) and Sándor Reinitz had three children, all born at Sajószentpéter: Vilmos (Ze'ev), b. 1927; Magda, b. 3 December 1928; and Ábrahám Adolf, b. 1930. Several memorial records name both parents (Proven). All three died at Auschwitz, 13 June 1944 (Probable). Proven
  • Munich: on 1 November 1928 the community agreed to appoint Rav Shmaya its dayan; from January 1929 he ran the Talmud-Thora school; and on 5 September 1931 he spoke at the dedication of the new synagogue of the Eastern-Jewish congregations Linath Hazedek and Agudath Achim at Reichenbachstraße 27, after Rabbi Ehrentreu and before Rabbi Baerwald (Bayerische Israelitische Gemeindezeitung, 15 Sept 1931). In 1933 the community's yearbook lists him as one of its four rabbis. A 2021 photo of the synagogue building is now in the gallery. Proven
  • 25 December 1925: in the Orthodox weekly Zsidó Újság, Rav Shmaya (“Wiesner Samu, Sajószentpéter”) writes on the problems of the yeshivas: students should learn more, the long breaks should be shortened, the existing yeshivas strengthened, and every community should have a local group of the National Tomché Jesivosz Association. On 15 January 1926 two readers' letters answer him. Probable
  • Böske (Erzsébet) Winyik’s five children Vilmos, Ágnes, Éva, Zoltán and Klára and her husband Dezső Winyik (1942 Salvadoran certificate; deaths at Auschwitz, June 1944, Probable); first portraits of Dávid (Dezső) Wiesner, Berta (Blimi) Reinitz and Sándor Reinitz. Proven
  • The Pri Tzadik’s sons-in-law R’ Pinchas David of Kótaj (d. Jerusalem 13 Dec 1878) and R’ Shimon Lieberman, rav of Szenna, from the 1839 book p. 95; his yahrzeit 26 Elul 5589 (24 Sep 1829); R’ Yitzchak Yosef Blich of Gáva as Possible (son-in-law or grandson); Dávid (Dezső) Wiesner sourced — bookkeeper in Miskolc, died Auschwitz 16 or 17 June 1944. Probable
  • Antal (Naftali Tzvi) Wiesner’s life from Alei Zikaron 67 (2025); Béla and Ilona’s children Vilmos, Robert, Hedvig, Aurél and Noémi (Probable, high) and daughters Alice and Judith; Sándor Reinitz, Berta’s husband; burials of Rav Shmaya and Szerén (Woodbridge), Farkas (Sajószentpéter) and Antal (Mount of Olives, 1907). Proven
  • Rav Shmaya’s son Willy (Vilmos, Zev) Wiesner, the siblings’ uncle, was chairman of the board and president of Yeshiva Torah Temimah in Brooklyn, president of the Shmaya School for the hearing-impaired in Israel and chairman of Project RISE (The Jewish Observer, 1982 and March 1985, which calls him “the son of … Rabbi Shmaya Wiesner”). Proven as printed
  • The Pri Tzadik’s wife Frumit Pessel is named in his own book: on p. 90 of Pri Tzadik (1839) his son-in-law, the publisher, remembers “my mother-in-law … Mrs. Frumit Pessel, may she live”. Proven as printed
  • The Pri Tzadik's daughter who married R’ Shimon Lieberman: a Lieberman family-history website names her Malka (one family-compiled source). On the tree her name stays unknown. Possible

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