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Moreh Dasrah of Congregation Nidchei Israel of Baltimore, Maryland
d. 5 Cheshvan, 1862
Rav Rice was the fist ordained Rav to serve as Moreh Dasrah of a congregation in this country. Rav Rice was a talmid (student) of Rav Avroham Bing the Chief Rabbi of Wurzburg and subsequently of Rav Wolf Hamburger of Fuerth. As the first [...]

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Founder of the Bais Hamedrash HaGadol of Norfolk Street
d. 25 Iyar, 1887
Rav Ash was from the first European style Rabbanim to organize and lead a congregation in New York City. Eventually his fame and authority spread across the country. No orthodox congregation in the United States would accept a shoichet (ritual slaughterer) without his certification.
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Congregation Bnai Abraham, Philadelphia
d. 1 Adar I, 1891
Rav Kleinberg was born in the town of Bavisk, Lithuania and was the son-in-law of Rav Yisrael Lipchitz, the Chief Judge of the Vilna Bias Din. Soon after his father-in-laws passing the Rav was appointed as his replacement. He was then known as Rav Eliezer Dayan.
In 1890 Chief [...]

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Congregation B’nei Jeshurun
d. 3 Tammuz, 1868
Rav Moshe Yaakov (Morris Jacob) Raphall was born in Stockholm, Sweden in 1798. At the age of nine his father, a banker, took him to visit the King of Sweden and then to Copenhagen , where he was educated at the Hebrew grammar-school. He later received a Ph.D. degree from [...]

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Moreh Dasrah Congregation Beth Yisroel, San Francisco, CA
d. 17 Teves, 1879 (5639)
Rav Streisand a talmid (student) and great grandson of Rav Akiva Eger was born in a suburb of Poznan (Posen), Poland in 1819. Prior to his arrival in the United State in 1869, the Rav served as maggid mesharim (a preacher of uprightness) of Fardon, a [...]

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Grandson of Rav Aryeh Leib Gunzberg (Ginsburg) the Shagas Aryeh
d. 15 Teves, 1885
Rav Netkin was the son in law of Rav Yosef Zundel Salant. He was sent by his brother in law Rav Shmuel Slant to the United States to collect money for the impoverished Jews of the Old Yishuv.
Anyone with information is asked to [...]

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Chief Rabbi of Pawtucket, Rhode Island
d. 16 Teves, 1898
Rav Rabinowitz safer (book) Yad Yehuda was published in 1897.
Anyone with information is asked to please send it in. See CONTACT page for details.
Directions to kever:
Lincoln Park Cemetery
1469 Post Road
Warwick, RI 02888
(401) 737-5333
(Ohel, along Feinberg Avenue)

Photo credit Mayer Abramowitz.

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Reb Shachne’s Shul
d. 9 Nissan, 1887
Rav Isaacs founded Congregation Bet Tefillah in 1866, a synagogue which was commonly known as Reb Shachne’s Shul.
Anyone with information is asked to please send it in. See CONTACT page for details.
Directions to kever:
Schachnus (Beth Tefyla # 6) Cemetery
Jewish Cemeteries of Greater Cincinnati Association
1711 Sunset Avenue
Cincinnati, Ohio 45238
(Old section, main [...]

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Rav in New York City
d. 9 Av, 1895 (5655)
Anyone with biographical information is asked to please send it in. See CONTACT page for details.
Directions to kever:
Bayside Cemetery
80-35 Pitkin Avenue
Ozone Park, NY 11417
212-874-7005
(Gate: 31, towards the back of the cemetery.)
The cemetery is in disarray, use caution when visiting!!!

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Rav in Providence, RI
d. 25 Elul, 1897 (5657)
Anyone with information is asked to please send it in. See CONTACT page for details.
Directions to kever:
Lincoln Park Cemetery
1469 Post Road
Warwick, RI 02888
(On Feinberg Avenue alongside the ohel of Rabbi Nosson Y.L. Rabinowitz)

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Rav, New York City
d. 24 Shevat, 1895 (5655)
Anyone with biographical information is asked to please send it in. See CONTACT page for details.
Directions to kever:
Bayside Cemetery
80-35 Pitkin Avenue
Ozone Park, NY 11417
212-874-7005
(Gate: 55, towards the back of the cemetery.)
The cemetery is in disarray, use caution when visiting!!!

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Rav in New York City
d. 22 Kislev, 1892
Anyone with information is asked to please send it in. See CONTACT page for details.
Directions to kever:
Union Field Cemetery
82-11 Cypress Avenue
Ridgewood, NY 11385
(Corner of Main Road and Cedar Avenue, next to Rav Netkin)

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Rav, New York City
d. 22 Kislev, 1896 (5657)
Anyone with biographical information is asked to please send it in. See CONTACT page for details.
Directions to kever:
Bayside Cemetery
80-35 Pitkin Avenue
Ozone Park, NY 11417
212-874-7005
(Gate: 55, alongside the kever of Rav Yehuda Barit)
The cemetery is in disarray, use caution when visiting!!!

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Moreh Dasrah Congregation Shearith Yisroel
d. 3 Tamuz, 1871
Rav Illowi was ordained by Rav Moshe Schreiber, the Chasam Sofer and was among the first Rabbanim to serve in the United States. From the time of his arrival on these shores in 1853 until his passing, the Rav spent his time fighting to influence and uphold true [...]

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Moreh Dasrah of Congregation Adas Yisroel, Hartford, CT
d. 23 Elul 1899
Anyone with information is asked to please send it in. See CONTACT page for details.
Directions to kever:
(Adas Israel) Zion Hill Cemetery
Zion Street & Ward Street (Not Ward Place)
Hartford, CT 06106
(Enter the non-Jewish cemetery at the intersection of Zion & Ward Street, make fist left and [...]

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The American Maggid (Preacher)
d. 1864
Rav Falk came to the United States in 1858 and for a short time served as Rav of Newburgh and Poughkeepsie, New York. He also delivered lectures regularly at Congregation Shaaray Torah in New York City. The Rav’s safer, Avnei Yehoshua, was the first book on Pirkei Avos printed in North America.
In [...]

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Rav in Brooklyn, NY
d. 23 Av, 1893
Anyone with information is asked to please send it in. See CONTACT page for details.
Directions to kever:
Union Field Cemetery
82-11 Cypress Avenue
Ridgewood, NY 11385
(Cedar Avenue, Path M, part of a larger stone)
Anyone with biographical information for the Rav is asked to send it in.

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Moreh Dasrah Congregation Chevra Talmud Torah
d. 5 Teves, 1889
Anyone with information is asked to please send it in. See CONTACT page for details.
Directions to kever:
Machpelah Cemetery
82-30 Cypress Hills Street
Ridgewood, NY 11385
(Main road , 20 feet past path number 23 where the road starts to flatten out, on the left along the road, look for yellow [...]

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Spiritual Leader of Congregation Shearith Israel
d. 6 Tamuz, 1816
Rev Seixas was not an ordained Rabbi, but as the only religious official in the congregation, functioned as spiritual leader, interpreter of religious law, supervisor of kashruth, officiated at marriages and funerals and all the varied duties we now associate with an ordained rabbi.
Anyone with information is [...]

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Congregation Mikveh Israel, Philadelphia
d. 8 Shevat, 1868
Rev Leeser founded The Occident, the first general American Jewish magazine. The Occident is one of the most important records of American Jewish life in the middle decades of the nineteenth century. Rev Lesser was the first Rabbinic authority in the United Stated to introduce a weekly sermon as [...]

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Spiritual Leader Congregation Bnai Jeshurun
d.16 Iyar, 1878
Rav Isaac’s primary teacher was Rav Solomon Hirschell (d. 1842), Chief Rabbi of the British Empire. In 1839, with the encouragement of his Rebbe he accepted a position in New York as the spiritual leader (Moreh Dasrah, Chazan, preacher, est.) of Congregation Bnai Jeshurun. In 1859 the Rav tried [...]

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Talmid of Rav Nosson Adler, Rav of Frankfurt am Mein
d. 11 Iyar, 1852
Rev Yisroel Ber Kursheedt is the only known talmid (student) of Rav Nosson Adler the Rebbe of the Chasam Sofer to be buried in the United States. Rev Kursheedt was a contemporary of Rav Avroham Bing and Rav Wolf Heidenheim. It is reported [...]

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Rav, First Jewish Congregation Beth Israel
d. 29 Av, 1866 (5626)
The Rav was born in Posen and studied at the Yeshiva in Munster, Germany. He was ordained by the great Rabbonim of Posen and Rav Nosson Marcus Adler (d. 1890), Chief-Rabbi of Great Britton. Soon after arriving in New York the Rav was appointed as Moreh [...]

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