My grandmother, who was born in the USA in about 1912, told me once that her father had come from Liska. But the only Liska that I can find reference to that had a Jewish community was Olaszliszka, in Hungary, and my great grandparents were very much not Hungarian; they were Galitzianers, Polish.
There was recently a tisch in KJ for the Jahrzeit of the Lisker Rebbe, which I attended, to see if that was the place they’d come from, and I don’t think that was it; if nothing else, the dialect of Yiddish being spoken didn’t sound like what I remember growing up.
So was there another Liska? I’ve found a place in Poland called Jaśliska (formerly Hohstadt) which might have been it, but they only had about 250 Jews living there at the time.
Compounding the confusion was that he might have been a Belzer chossid in Europe, which does kind of point to the Hungarian area rather than the Polish one.
I can’t find him on Ellis Island‘s website; not sure what his name in Europe was, as he changed it when he got here. I did see him once on ancestry, back when I had a paid subscription, but I don’t now.
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