Miadziol Illu
d. 5 Av, 1922 (5682)
Rav Gordon, the Chief Rabbi of Rochester accepted Chief Rabbi Yaakov Yosef Josef’s invitation to serve on his Bais Din in New York City. The Rav was also a founding member of the Agudath HaRabonim.
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Rabbi Aaron Gordon
December 13th, 2007 · 13 Comments
Tags: Chief Rabbi · Mount Judah Cemetery · New York · Queens / L.I., NY
13 responses so far ↓
1 Alan Walker // Dec 31, 2007 at 12:27 am
I am an Englishman researching Lake Narocz now in Belarus where your ancestors hail from – I see your family name on a list from Miadziol dated 1923 at a “ShtetLinks” site I have just visited. My research is nearly complete. If anyone has any photographs of Lake Narocz around 1930-1939, I would appreaciate you getting in touch. I have plenty of documentary material – but no pictures. Best wishes
Alan Walker, Nottingham, England
2 Farshlufen // Jul 14, 2010 at 1:44 pm
A photo of rabbi Gordon:
http://www.hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?req=24442&st=&pgnum=41
3 Farshlufen // Nov 3, 2010 at 1:48 pm
ספרו “אבן מאיר”:
http://www.hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?req=4209&st=&pgnum=1
4 YD Miller // Jan 10, 2011 at 3:20 pm
His Brother R’ Yehuda Leib Gordon printed the Siddur Bies Yehuda in 1903 and reprinted in 1914:
http://www.hebrewbooks.org/4088
More members of the Family are mentioned here:
http://books.google.com/books?id=TiZPAAAAYAAJ&dq=%D7%93%D7%95%D7%93%20%D7%A8%D7%90%D7%93%D7%99%D7%A0%D7%A1%D7%A7%D7%99&pg=PA183#v=onepage&q&f=false
5 A. Gordon // Mar 21, 2011 at 9:01 am
My great great grandfather was Rabbi Aaron Gordon, directly through father’s father’s father’s father. I am knee deep in family geneology and am wondering if anyone can provide me with more information on Rabbi Gordon (I have also been to gravesite). I was unaware of any of his siblings, but I know he had at least three daughters and at least one son (my grandfather’s father). Any information would be greatly appreciated.
6 YD Miller // Mar 21, 2011 at 4:11 pm
Mr. Gordon,
From the link I provided above (Written in Hebrew) It appears that Rabbi Aaron Gordon had at least 3 sons:
1) Avrohom Yosef (Abraham Joseph) Gordon
2) Yaakov Lieb (Jacob) Gordon
3) Feitel Shlomo (Solomon) Rabinowitz (name change?)
and 3 Daughters:
1) Dina Miriam wife of Rabbi Rabinowitz
http://kevarim.com/rabbi-shalom-rabinowitz/
2) Sarah Gittel wife of Chaim Yehuda Gordon
3) Rivka (Unmarried at time of print).
Which one of the sons was your GG-Grandfather? our freind Asher once sent me a picture of the gravsite of Avrohom Yosef the son of Rabbi Aaron Gordon and his wife Chaya Ruchel.
7 YD Miller // Mar 21, 2011 at 4:28 pm
I just noticed in the above mentioned Sefer Even Mier authored by Rabbi Aaron Gordon he mentionsall his children where a find another daughter
4) Esther Malka wife of Reuven (Son of Naftali Hirtz)
also the before mentioned daughter Rivka was the wife of Eliyahy Kalmanowitz
see:
http://www.hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?req=4209&st=&pgnum=3
8 Rabbi Stern // Mar 21, 2011 at 4:30 pm
Members of the Kalmanowitz family are buried near the Rav.
9 YD Miller // Mar 21, 2011 at 4:58 pm
Any relationship to the Mirer RY Reb Avrohom Kalmanowitz?
10 A. Gordon // Mar 21, 2011 at 5:00 pm
Thank you for all the translation of the information My great grandfather was Feitel Shlomo, who called himself Phillip Rabinowitz.
I did know that Rivka (Rebecca) was married to Louis Kalmanowitz and I have been in touch with one of their descendants.
Also, to be perfectly honest, I am Amy Gordon, not Mr. Gordon. I didn’t change my name when I married – I felt very connected to the name Gordon – it seemed important to me. My father, born Albert Rabinowitz, son of Benjamin, son of Phillip, changed his name back to Gordon as a young adult trying to be accepted into a special wartime program that had “Jewish” quotas and felt that Gordon did not sound as Jewish as Rabinowitz.
11 A. Gordon // Mar 22, 2011 at 9:09 am
Just found a great grandson of Rabbi Gordon (grandson of Louis Kalmanowitz). He apparently has a number of photos of Rabbi Gordon and his wife. If anyone is interested, when I receive them, I can forward them to you if you send me your email address.
12 YD Miller // Mar 22, 2011 at 10:00 am
Hi Amy,
I would be very interested in those photos, please send to millerscranton @ gmail . com (remove the spaces)
13 Farshlufen // Apr 14, 2011 at 1:51 pm
http://www.hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?req=46732&st=&pgnum=27
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