Rav, McKeesport, PA
d. 17 Kislev, 1941
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Mount Hebron Cemetery
130-04 Horace Harding Expressway
(Main Street Cemetery in Kew Gardens Hills)
Flushing, NY 11367
(Block: 6, Reference: 12, Section: I, Lot: 2, Grave: 10, Society: Cong Rohim Ahovim)
Rabbi Avroham Zev (Wolf) Levy
April 22nd, 2009 · 6 Comments
Tags: Mt. Hebron (Main Street) Cemetery · New York · Queens / L.I., NY
6 responses so far ↓
1 MBD // Apr 23, 2009 at 2:39 pm
Who was the Mashiv kHalacha?
2 Miller // Apr 23, 2009 at 3:54 pm
Reb Avrohom Zev Wolf Frankel of Pschevorsk and later in Riesche.
http://www.hebrewbooks.org/1013
3 Ben Bee Zee // Jan 20, 2011 at 1:34 pm
He was Rav in McKeesport, PA, and was a Sanzer Chusid, He had a brother R’ Simcha who was Rav in Port Amboy.
http://hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?req=20673&st=&pgnum=30&hilite=
4 Ben Bee Zee // Jan 20, 2011 at 4:21 pm
McKeesport is about 14 miles from Pittsburgh there was a substantial Hungarian Jewish community.
5 Yankie Friedman // Jan 21, 2011 at 10:31 am
My Great Grandfather, R’ Yaakov Friedman was a Rov in Clairton, Pa (right next to Mckeesport, Pa and was nifter in 1940. I wonder if they knew each other (He also had a married brother with 10 children living in Mckeesport). any way to connect them?
6 Simon Haskel // Apr 19, 2011 at 5:24 pm
I’m pretty sure that this is my uncle Wolf Levy who lived with his family on our block in Brooklyn in the 30s thru 40s. He was ordained but to my knowledge did not have a permanent congregation.
He had two sons (one Rabbi Zalman Levy in N.J.) and 3 daughters
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