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in the second half of the twentieth century. He was an alumnus of the Mir Yeshiva in Europe.

Early life

Zeilberger was born in Koenigshaufen, Germany on March 14, 1921, to Yehuda (Julius) and Chana (Johanna) Zeilberger. In 1935 he enrolled in the Mir Yeshiva in what is now Belarus, where he shared a room in a boarding house with

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. When World War II broke out in 1939 the Mir Yeshiva (and many other yeshivas in Poland) fled to Lithuania. Zeilberger remained with the yeshiva when it moved to Japan in 1941, then to

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, and then in 1947 to the United States where it was reëstablished in Brooklyn. Zeilberger married Sara Rochel Kaplan.

Beth Hatalmud Rabbinical College

Zeilberger soon joined the

in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, established in 1950 by older students from the Mir Yeshiva who had also escaped from Europe including

. Zeilberger later became a rosh yeshiva there and was on the faculty for over fifty years.

Death

Zeilberger died in Brooklyn on October 10, 2005, at the age of 84.

References

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Early life

Beth Hatalmud Rabbinical College

Death

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