Udi's interest is in the 18th century Hassidic Rabbi, Chaim Chaik'l of Amdur.

Udi Cain
Jerusalem, Israel
vn17152@netvision.net.il

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Chaim Chaik'l of Amdur

     A daughter of Rabbi Chaim Chaik'l from Amdur (died 1787), got married to Rabbi NATHAN son of Rabbi SHMUEL of MAKOW. He was forced to divorce her because of the situation between Hassids and
     Mithnagdim at that time (around 1770?). I assume that she may have got remarried, and maybe to a JOEL (YOEL), who maybe got the surname CHAIKIN.

     Is there a way to check MAKOW of the second half of 18th century? And the same time in AMDUR?

     There had been a Joel Chaikin in DOBRYANKA, perhaps that's our man?

I know that the origin of my CHAIKIN family is from Admo"r Chaim Chaik'l (Admo"r of Amdur / Indora) that was born in Karlin and died in 1787 in Amdur

     We think, that my G'G'G'G'grandfather, Joel Chaikin (c.i.), was born around
     1790 in Shklov, to his father Moshe Chaikin (grandson of Chaim Chaik'l Rebbe
     of Amdur, who was born in Karlin and died in Amdur 1787).
     But my G'G'G'grandfather, Zvi Hirsh Chaikin (c.i.), son of Joel, lived in
     Kapitonavka, he wrote a letter to the fourth Rebbe of Chabad, from there in
     1877 (c.i.), in 1876 he wrote a letter from Balandino (c.i.).
     He went to Palestine I think with my G'Grandfather (his grandson), I know
     that my G'grandfather, arrived to Chevron,in 1881, when he was 13 years old
     (c.i.). Zvi Hirsh died in Palestine in 1884 and buried like his son and
     grandson and many more member of the family, on "Mount of Olives" (c.i.).
     His son, Joel Meir Chaikin (whose wife was Chaia Ester, daughter of Zadok
     Aharon Halevi Zadikov,(C.i.) ), had an estate, a winery, and perhaps an inn,
     near "Kharadeishatz" which we think is Gorodishche or Khradizhsk, both are
     located near Kapitonavka. The non Jewish man that all the property was on
     his name, lost all his money while gambling in Paris, sold "his" property
     and the family went to Palestine in 1886 (c.i.).
     They left two older daughters (sisters of my G'grandfather, Menachem Mendel
     Chaikin), they were born near 1860, Sarah (c.i.) got married to a Brodski, a
     scholar that was related to the "sugar king", and Sima (c.i.) got married to
     a lawyer called Wolodarski. She had at least one son and two daughters, the
     son's name was maybe Gregory Hirsh, and He might have been an agriculture
     engineer, a daughter Pauline, and a daughter Rose.
     One of those two, husbands was also a grandson of Zvi Hirsh, from his
     daughter that lived in Chernihov (Chernigov?) (c.i.).