Rav, Bais Medrash HaGadol of Williamsburg
d. 14 Tishri, 1912 (5673)
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Bayside Cemetery
80-35 Pitkin Avenue
Ozone Park, NY 11417
212-874-7005
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(Towards the back of the cemetery)
Photo Credit: David Weider of Williamsburg
Rabbi Eliyahu Herzenberg
January 29th, 2010 · 11 Comments
Tags: New York · Pitkin Avenue Cemeteries · Queens / L.I., NY
11 responses so far ↓
1 curios // Jan 29, 2010 at 7:33 am
Interesting that in the English it says Herzenberg, but in the Hebrew it says Hertzberg.
2 curios // Jan 29, 2010 at 7:41 am
Some Torah from him here: http://www.hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?req=23616&st=&pgnum=31
He signs “Rav of Anshei Korland in Brooklyn”, I guess he was there before Williamsburg.
3 Farshlufen // Jan 29, 2010 at 10:06 am
His father was rav in Korland for around six years, see here:
http://books.google.com/books?id=FWw-AAAAYAAJ&dq=%D7%90%D7%9C%D7%99%D7%94%D7%95%20%D7%94%D7%A2%D7%A8%D7%A6%D7%91%D7%A2%D7%A8%D7%92&pg=PA149#v=onepage&q=&f=false
4 YD Miller // Jan 29, 2010 at 12:56 pm
Where was Bais Hamedrash Hagodol of Williamsburg? and where does it say that Rabbi Herzenberg was Rav there?
5 Asher // Jan 29, 2010 at 1:38 pm
YD, on line 7 it’s engraved that he was Rav in BMH”G plus he’s buried in the Beis Bedrash Hagodol of Williamsburg section – gate 84.
6 A.R. // Jan 29, 2010 at 3:02 pm
Poor spacing of the english words on the kever. The english is strange as well ….”14 day”, and as someone pointed out above the name in hebrew is Hertzberg. I wonder who did the english inscription.
7 curios // Jan 30, 2010 at 1:44 pm
Seemingly someone who didn’t know English well (pretty common in those days…).
8 Farshlufen // Jan 31, 2010 at 10:09 am
YD, Bhmh”g of Williamsburg was on 46 Moore Street.
9 A.R. // Jan 31, 2010 at 3:15 pm
Farshlufen-
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?_r=1&res=9B04E0DD1330E733A25750C2A9639C946397D6CF
I found an incredibly interestinf article above. It seems there was a butcher shop at 46 Moore st. and there was rioting and burning of meat there by women one evening (maybe it was tarfus?). Maybe there was a shul built later, but that would not give R’ Herzberg many years as Rav of the Shul.
10 Ben Bee Zee // Jan 31, 2010 at 3:27 pm
if you’ll look in different records you’ll find Moore Street (in old/almost New Williamsburg) to have many shuls. It seems like this was like what we call today “The Heart of Williamsburg”
11 Farshlufen // Feb 1, 2010 at 2:31 pm
A.R. The riots against the butchers was all over the city and was due the butchers and wholesalers raising prices.
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