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Jacob Meir Biderman
Rabbi Jacob Meir Biderman (1870–1941) was the president of Kolel Polen (קופת רבי מאיר בעל הנס - כולל פולין), in 1935 was appointed to the board of Rabbis of the Warsaw community, along with Rabbi Menachem Zemba and Rabbi Avraham Weinberg. Biography Born in the town of Lubicz (Lubitsch) 6 Sep 1869, to his father Rabbi Nathan Solomon Betzalel Biderman, Rabbi of the town. His grandfather was Rabbi Yaakov Dovid, rabbi of Kozhnitz and Wyszogrod. Was son-in-law of Rabbi Yehuda Arye Leib Alter of Ger “Sfas Emes”, and in-law of Rabbi Avraham Mordechai Alter, the "Imrei Emes" and his son Rabbi Yisrael Alter, the "Beis of Israel" the Rebbe of Ger. and the grandfather of Rabbi Pinchas Menachem Alter. He published ''Sfas Emes,'' the writings of his father-in-law on the Talmud, together with his own additional scholarly notes. He was a president of Kolel Polen, the aid society for Palestinian Jews whose families came from Poland. in 1935 was appointed t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Menachem Zemba
Rabbi Menachem Ziemba (1883–1943) ( he, מנחם זמבה) was a distinguished pre-World War II Rabbi, known as a Talmudic genius and prodigy. He is known to be fluent in all of Talmud as well as many of the works of the later Rabbis such as Rabbi Joseph Rosen and Rabbi Meir Simcha of Dvinsk. He was gunned down by the Germans in the Warsaw Ghetto. Biography Rabbi Ziemba was born in Praga, a suburb of Warsaw, in 1883. His father, Elazar, died while Menachem was still a young boy and the orphan was brought up by his grandfather Rabbi Avraham Ziemba. Rabbi Avraham had been a chassid of the Kotzker Rebbe and a student of the Chiddushei Harim, and was now a follower of the Sfas Emes of Gur. Rabbi Ziemba was brought up in the Gerrer chasidus by his grandfather and remained a loyal chasid his entire life. Even years later when he was world-renowned as a Torah scholar, Posek and master of Hasidic thought, he still considered himself a simple Chasid of the rebbe of Ger. When he vi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zalman Sorotzkin
Zalman Sorotzkin, also known as the Lutzker Rav ( he, זלמן סורוצקין; 1881–1966), was an Orthodox rabbi who served as the rabbi of Lutsk, Ukraine. By the end of his life he was noted for his leadership of Moetzes Gedolei HaTorah (Council of Torah Sages, World Agudath Israel, Agudath Israel) The main street in Jerusalem's Kiryat Itri neighborhood, ''Rechov Sorotzkin'', is named after him. Biography Sorotzkin was born in Žagarinė (or Zakhrina), in 1881. Initially, he studied with his father, Rabbi Ben-Zion Sorotzkin, who was the town's rabbi. He then studied in the yeshivas of Volozhin yeshiva, Volozhin, Yeshivas Knesses Yisrael (Slabodka), Slabodka, and Telshe yeshiva, Telz. He was a son-in-law of the Telshe yeshiva, Telzer rav and rosh yeshiva, Rabbi Eliezer Gordon; Sorotzkin's wife's name was Miriam. When Gordon died in 1910, Sorotzkin was offered the position as rabbi and rosh yeshiva in Telshe yeshiva, Telz. He did not accept the position and was shortly thereaft ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1870 Births
Year 187 ( CLXXXVII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Quintius and Aelianus (or, less frequently, year 940 '' Ab urbe condita''). The denomination 187 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Roman Empire * Septimius Severus marries Julia Domna (age 17), a Syrian princess, at Lugdunum (modern-day Lyon). She is the youngest daughter of high-priest Julius Bassianus – a descendant of the Royal House of Emesa. Her elder sister is Julia Maesa. * Clodius Albinus defeats the Chatti, a highly organized German tribe that controlled the area that includes the Black Forest. By topic Religion * Olympianus succeeds Pertinax as bishop of Byzantium (until 198). Births * Cao Pi, Chinese emperor of the Cao Wei state (d. 226) * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Menashe Klein
Menashe Klein (1924–2011) (Hebrew: ר' מנשה קליין), also known as the Ungvarer Rav (Yiddish: אונגווארער רב), was a Hasidic Rebbe and posek (arbiter of Jewish law). He authored 18 volumes of responsa, spanning over 50 years, entitled ''Mishneh Halachos''. Additionally, he authored some 25 other '' seforim'', including a commentary on Simeon Kayyara's ''BeHag''. Toward the end of his life, he relocated from Brooklyn, New York to Jerusalem. Biography Menashe Klein was born in 1924 in the town of Orlova, Czechoslovakia (now known as Irlyava, Ukraine) near the city of Ungvar, Czechoslovakia (now known as Uzhhorod, Ukraine). He studied in the yeshiva of the Rav of Ungvar, Yosef Elimelech Kahane. During World War II, he was incarcerated in Auschwitz-Birkenau, Auschwitz-Buna, and finally in Buchenwald. At Buchenwald, he was sent out to "Stein," a Nazi satellite camp at Eschershausen, but was listed in camp records as returned to Buchenwald, where he was liberated a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sfas Emes Yeshiva
Sfas Emes Yeshiva ( he, ישיבת שפת אמת) was an Orthodox Jewish yeshiva in Jerusalem, serving the Gerrer Hasidic community until 2016. Founded in 1925 in the Mahane Yehuda neighborhood of Jerusalem, it was one of the few Hasidic yeshivas in Israel in the early twentieth century.Kaploun, Uri (transl.) (1987). ''Rebbes of Ger: Sfas Emes and Imrei Emes''. New York: Mesorah Publications, Ltd. , pp. 252-253. History The yeshiva was founded by the Hasidim of Grand Rabbi Avraham Mordechai Alter (''Imrei Emes''), the fourth Gerrer Rebbe, and was named after the Rebbe's father, Rabbi Yehuda Aryeh Leib Alter, (''Sfas Emes''). With the Rebbe's approval, the head staff included Rabbi Menachem Mendel Kasher, Rabbi Yaakov Henich Sankevitz, and Rabbi Nechemiah Alter (the Rebbe's brother). The yeshiva opened with 25 students, who were soon joined by other students from Poland. All the Admorim in Israel sent their sons to it, as well. The yeshiva grew year by year. In 1926, the Rebbe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Falenica
Falenica is a part of Wawer, one of districts of Warsaw, located on the right bank of the Vistula, in the far southeastern corner of the city. Until 1951 it was a separate village, then it became part of Warsaw. Before the Second World War Falenica, which is located in a forested area, was a favorite location for summer cottages and houses. Population of around 8.600 inhabitants. World War II During World War II the Germans opened a Jewish ghetto there, called Falenica-Miedzeszyn Ghetto. All of its inhabitants were transported to Treblinka in August 1942. Falenica is located along the main rail line, which connects Warsaw with Lublin. External links Falenica Home Page and Forum- News, informations, forum, discussion about Falenica Falenica.pl - first Falenica Home Page (rare updates) Jewish Community in Falenicaat Virtual Shtetl The Virtual Shtetl ( pl, Wirtualny Sztetl) is a bilingual Polish-English portal of the Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw, devoted t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gora Kalwaria
Gora may refer to: *Gora (surname) *'' Gora'', a Bengali novel by Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore * Gora (musical instrument) *''G.O.R.A.'', a 2004 Turkish comedy film *Goparaju Ramachandra Rao ("Gora", 1902–1975), Indian social reformer and atheist activist Places *Gora (region), in southern Kosovo and north-eastern Albania * Gora, Croatia, a village near Petrinja, Croatia * Góra (other), places in Poland *Gora, Russia, several rural localities in Russia *Gora (Kakanj), a village in Bosnia and Herzegovina * Gora (Vogošća), a village in Bosnia and Herzegovina *Gora, Krško, a settlement in the Municipality of Krško, Slovenia *Gora nad Sodražico (also known as Gora), Slovenia, a community and parish comprising the villages of Betonovo, Kračali, Janeži, Petrinci, and Kržeti *Gora Ardan, a peak in the western plains of Turkmenistan *Gora Cemetery (other) *Gōra Station is a terminal railway station on the Hakone Tozan Line as well as the Hakone Toz ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Warsaw Ghetto
The Warsaw Ghetto (german: Warschauer Ghetto, officially , "Jewish Residential District in Warsaw"; pl, getto warszawskie) was the largest of the Nazi ghettos during World War II and the Holocaust. It was established in November 1940 by the German authorities within the new General Government territory of occupied Poland. At its height, as many as 460,000 Jews were imprisoned there, in an area of , with an average of 9.2 persons per room, barely subsisting on meager food rations. From the Warsaw Ghetto, Jews were deported to Nazi concentration camps and mass-killing centers. In the summer of 1942, at least 254,000 ghetto residents were sent to the Treblinka extermination camp during under the guise of "resettlement in the East" over the course of the summer. The ghetto was demolished by the Germans in May 1943 after the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising had temporarily halted the deportations. The total death toll among the prisoners of the ghetto is estimated to be at least 300,000 kill ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yosef Shlomo Kahaneman
Yosef Shlomo Kahaneman (1886–1969), he, יוסף שלמה כהנמן, yi, יוסף שלמה כהנעמאן, known also as Ponevezher Rav, was an Orthodox rabbi and rosh yeshiva of the Ponevezh Yeshiva. He was a renowned Torah and Talmudic scholar, a distinguished member of the Council of Torah Sages of Agudath Israel. Biography Rabbi Kahaneman was born 13 May 1886 in Kul, Kovno Governorate of the Russian Empire (present-day Lithuania), a small town of about 300, of which about a third were Jews. As a young boy he attended the Yeshivah in Plungė led by Rabbi Chaim Yitzchak Hacohen Bloch, who is credited with cultivating Kahaneman's potential. At the age of 14, he went to study Talmud at the Telshe yeshiva, where he studied Torah until he was twenty, under the tutelage of Rabbi Eliezer Gordon and Rabbi Shimon Shkop. He then spent half a year in Novardok yeshiva, after which he spent three years in Raduń Yeshiva studying under the Chofetz Chaim and Rabbi Naftoli Trop. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shmuel Dovid Ungar
Rabbi Shmuel Dovid Ungar (23 November 1885 – 9 February 1945), also known as Rabbi Samuel David Ungar, was the rabbi of the Hungarian city of Nyitra (now Nitra, Slovakia) and dean of the last surviving yeshiva in occupied Europe during World War II. He was the father-in-law of Rabbi Chaim Michael Dov Weissmandl, and played a minor role in the Bratislava Working Group's efforts to save Slovak Jews from the Holocaust. Early life Ungar was the only son born to his father, Rabbi Yosef Moshe Ungar (1855–1897), the rabbi of the town of Pöstyén (today: Piešťany). He was a descendant of the Abrabanel. Ungar's father died when he was 11 years old,Project Witness. "Harav Shmuel David Ungar, ''Hy"d'', of Nitra". ''Hamodia'', 17 March 2011, p. C2. and he became a frequent guest at the home of Rabbi Kalman Weber, who was appointed Rav of Pöstyén in his father's place. After his bar mitzvah, Shmuel Dovid left home to study at the yeshiva in Prešov, headed by his uncle, Rabbi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kozienice
Kozienice (; yi, קאזשניץ ''Kozhnits''; german: Koschnitz) is a town in eastern Poland with 21,500 inhabitants (1995). Located four miles from the Vistula, it is the capital of Kozienice County. Even though Kozienice is part of Lesser Poland, it is situated in the Masovian Voivodeship (since 1999); previously, it was in Radom Voivodeship (1975–1998) and in Kielce Voivodeship (1919–1939, 1945–1975). North-west of Kozienice, in Świerże Górne, Poland's second largest coal-fired thermal Kozienice Power Station is located. Kozienice gives its name to the protected area called Kozienice Landscape Park. Etymology In records from 1429, the name of the town was spelled in Latin ''Coszinicze'' (''Kozinice''). In 1569 it was called ''Kozienycze'' – the name comes from the given name Kozina. History History of the town dates back to 1206, when – together with neighboring villages, Kozienice was owned by the Norbertine Nuns from Płock. Subsequently, it used to belong t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
