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• 1 Chaim L // Jan 22, 2009 at 9:14 pm

  Does the Rav have any descendants?

• 2 Volozhiner // Jan 28, 2009 at 11:05 pm

  His son Rabbi Menashe Margolis.

• 3 leah // May 22, 2009 at 4:38 am

  In answer to 1 – The Rav had son in law Rav Uziel Tuvya Goldberd who passwd away on 1924 in NEW YORK and was buried in Yerushlaim. He had 3 sons who lives in USA and 2 daughters in Yerushalim. One was CHAYA GOLDBERG-HAYMBERG and the other RIVKA-GOLDBERG -SHEININ (my grandmother).

• 4 Miller // May 22, 2009 at 1:11 pm

  Leah,
  What a great ancestor you had, he was one of the most iunfluential Rabbis of his time in the US.

  Did he have any other children besides that one daughter?

  Was his SIL a Rabbi?

• 5 moisheleh // Sep 1, 2009 at 3:52 pm

  leah
  cant believe ur a decendent of reb nuchumka horodner!
  do u have any info on him?

• 6 leah // Oct 6, 2009 at 4:03 pm

  Moysheleh, why not? there are more! I don’t know about him, only what’s in the SEFARIM.

• 7 leah // Nov 2, 2009 at 5:25 am

  In his PERUSH on the CHUMASHIM -TORAT GAVRIEL, he wrote a lot about his Perush on the SIDUR TFILA. The family in Israel printed agin the Chumashim and trying to find the Perush on the Sidur Tefila. If some one knows any thing about this Perush, we appreciate if he will let us know.

• 8 YD Miller // Nov 3, 2009 at 6:56 pm

  Another SIL (second marriage) of Reb Velvele was Reb Yosef Zundel Salant, who was from Israel and lived here in the US where he dealt with Etrogi EY.

  I am not sure if the children listed in the link below, are actually from that marriage, can anyone verify?

  http://toladot.blogspot.com/2009/04/blog-post_22.html

• 9 Joshua Hoffman // Nov 3, 2009 at 8:09 pm

  Rav Velvele founded hte Knesset HaRabbonim around 1918, well after he moved to NYC in 19112. I worte about it extensivley in my M.A. thesis, ” The American Rabbinic Career of RAbbi Gavriel Zev MArgolis, BRGS of Y.U., 1992. The thesis is unpublished, but there is a copy in YU’s Gottessman library, and also in Hebrew Univ.’s National Library. Mr,. David Jacobson, directoe of Unied Hebrew Community, told me that when the Adas Yisroel shul was renovated in the early 1950s, a lot of water-logged papers were thrown out by someone who did not realize their potential value. He said that they may have included the missing works of Rav Velvele, such as his peirush on the siddur and vol. 3 of Charuzei Margolis, which, as he wrote in one of his other works, contained his assessment of American Jewry. chaval al de-avdin.

• 10 leah // Nov 11, 2009 at 3:53 am

  Mr. Hoffman, thank you for your answer, but we still hope that somewere, there is a copy of this PERUSH.
  By the way, is there any posibility to get your M.A thesis (full version), we really interested.

• 11 Yehiam Sharon // Jul 28, 2010 at 12:42 pm

  Leah
  If you are in Jerusalem please respond to my email. yehiam.sharon@gmail.com
  I am in Israel

• 12 asher // Aug 17, 2010 at 12:22 pm

  Yahrzeit is this Friday. Anyone care to join or can help with arranging a minyan – kindly respond.

• 13 Cheskel // Aug 18, 2010 at 12:01 am

  Don’t mind to join, but a chauffeur is needed in order that my presence should be noticed.

• 14 asher // Aug 22, 2010 at 8:40 pm

  http://s949.photobucket.com/albums/ad339/aman51/?action=view&current=Margolis.jpg

• 15 Menashe Morris // Aug 30, 2010 at 1:09 am

  So, in answer to 1. My great-great grandfather was Rabbi Gavriel Zev (Velvele) Margolis. Rav Velvele was a frequent topic at our home where my Bubbe (his granddaughter) would tell stories of the great man. Rav Velvele had a son, Menashe. My Bubbe says that this man, her father, was also a student of Talmud. My Bubbe had three children, one still living in New York. There are 7 granchildren and more after that. I have pictures of Rav Velvele and some other things, all of which are very special.

• 16 Menashe Morris // Aug 30, 2010 at 1:11 am

  Joshua, I would be extremely interested in reading your thesis. I am a YU alum myself.

• 17 YD Miller // Aug 30, 2010 at 2:19 pm

  Menashe,

  There are two very nice photos of Reb Velvel together with his friend Rabbi AA Yudelowitz, posing in front of a building on 11/10/25, both photos are available on the Library of Congress website.

  Do you have more information on these pictures?

  here is one:
  http://www.loc.gov/pictures/resource/npcc.15087/

• 18 Eitan Fish // Oct 4, 2010 at 3:25 am

  Dear All,

  Rav Gavriel Ze’ev Margolis (Reb Velvele) was my third-great grandfather. I am putting together his family tree on http://www.geni.com. You can look him up on Geni as “Rav Gavriel Zeev (Velvel) Margolis”. I would appreciate if any of you who know about the family history could help me complete the tree.

  Thanks,
  Eitan

• 19 leah // Oct 31, 2010 at 5:11 am

  To Menashe Morris,

  My father (grandson of yta leah, Reb Velvale daughter) is very interesting in Reb Menashe family and wanted to know if he left any Sfarim or other Perushim.
  We appreciate if you could help him with more information to mail:
  shmuelkatz2010@gmail.com

  He is in Israel ans doesn’t speak English.

• 20 leah // Oct 31, 2010 at 5:13 am

  To Eitan Fish

  I tried to enter this web and find details in order to help, but I couldn’t.

• 21 asher // Oct 31, 2010 at 6:14 pm

  More pictures of his impressive marker.
  http://s949.photobucket.com/albums/ad339/aman51/Margolis/

• 22 YD Miller // Nov 1, 2010 at 2:44 pm

  Very Impressive thanks Asher.

  There is also the marker of Reb Velvevle’s Daughter Necha Levin, wife of Yohoshua Levin (who is buried in Israel)

• 23 asher // Nov 1, 2010 at 3:38 pm

  I was told the Rav was married 3-4 times, is this correct? There are a few other family members buried near him, I believe. Interesting that the plot in front and behind him are vacant.

• 24 Eitan Fish // Nov 3, 2010 at 5:27 am

  To Leah: Write to me at Eitan_Fish@swissre.com and I will help you find Rav Velvele on http://www.geni.com. My great-great-grandmother was Ita Leah Goldberg also.

  To Asher: Rav Velvele was married 4 times and had 9 children.

  To YD Miller: You can also see the kever of Raye Shakow, daughter of Necha and Yehoshua Levine.

  To Menashe Morris: I would like to make the Margolis family tree on Geni more complete. Can you help me with your side of the family?

• 25 Joshua Hoffman // Nov 4, 2010 at 5:54 pm

  Rav velvel was married 3 times. His forst wife was the daughter of Rav Nachum Kaplan, the famed mentor of the Chofetz Chaim. Rav Nachum had around 19 children, but the only one who survived to adulthood was his daughter who married rav Velevel, and she also died young. This was a not uncommon phenomenom in those days, unfortunately. My thesis can be found at YUs Mendel Gottessman Library. For a fee they will make a copy and send it to you, or you can read it there.

• 26 Eitan Fish // Nov 7, 2010 at 4:07 am

  Regarding my email address, I was told that the underscore doesn’t show up sometimes on websites. It is “Eitan”, underscore, “Fish”, at, “swissre.com”.

• 27 Eitan Fish // Nov 7, 2010 at 4:12 am

  Another daughter of Rav Nachum Kaplan survived to adulthood and married Rav Avraham Goldberg, Rav of Krinik, and had a son Reb (Uziel) Tuvia Goldberg. He married Rav Velvele’s daughter (Ita) Leah Margolis and lived in Yerushalayim.

• 28 YD Miller // Nov 8, 2010 at 11:33 am

  Eitan,

  You are referring to this Rabbi Avraham Abba Goldberg:
  http://kevarim.com/rabbi-avroham-abba-goldberg/

• 29 Moshe Escott // Nov 8, 2010 at 2:42 pm

  Here’s an obituary for R. Velvel from the Brooklyn Daily Eagle of Sep. 9, 1935:

  (see the rightmost column)
  http://fultonhistory.com/Newspaper 5/Brooklyn NY Daily Eagle/Brooklyn NY Daily Eagle 1935 Grayscale/Brooklyn NY Daily Eagle 1935 Grayscale – 9170.pdf

• 30 Eitan Fish // Nov 8, 2010 at 4:53 pm

  YD -

  No, I am referring to Avraham Abba Goldberg’s grandfather, Rav Avraham Goldberg.

• 31 Eitan Fish // Nov 9, 2010 at 8:27 am

  Moshe,

  I cannot get the link to work.

• 32 Moshe Escott // Nov 9, 2010 at 2:04 pm

  Eitan,
  try
  http://fultonhistory.com/Newspaper%205/Brooklyn%20NY%20Daily%20Eagle/Brooklyn%20NY%20Daily%20Eagle%201935%20Grayscale/Brooklyn%20NY%20Daily%20Eagle%201935%20Grayscale%20-%209170.pdf
  and wait a bit

  Otherwise, I have e-mailed an image file to Baruch.

• 33 Eitan Fish // Nov 22, 2010 at 4:01 am

  It is interesting that in the obituary, they refer to him as a “Zionist pioneer”. As far as I understand he did not look favorably upon Zionism in the last 30 or so years of his life.

• 34 YD Miller // Jul 13, 2011 at 10:23 am

  http://archive.jta.org/article/1935/09/10/2827591/hold-rites-for-rabbi-margolis-dean-of-orthodox-rabbinate

  Funeral services were held today at Temple Adath Israel, 201 East Broadway, for its rabbi, Gabriel Wolf Margolis, dean of the American orthodox rabbinate, who died yesterday at the age of 87 after a two years’ illness.

  Orthodox leaders eulogized Rabbi Margolis as a scholar and religious leader. Burial was in the United Hebrew Community Grounds in the Montefiore Cemetery, Queens.

  Rabbi Margolis is survived by his widow, Mrs. Sheima E. Margolis and eight children: Rabbi Menashe Margolis of Brooklyn, Leizer, Nehemia, Dr. Jacob Margolis, Mrs. Rachel Saland, Anna, Mrs. Neche Levine and Jean.

  During the 24 years Rabbi Margolis was spiritual leader of Temple Adath Israel the membership grew to more than 10,000. Previously he had been chief rabbi of the Boston Jewish Community and rabbi of the Baldwin Place Synagogue there.

  He was also president of the Assembly of Hebrew Orthodox Rabbis.

  Born in Vilna, Russia, he was ordained rabbi at the relatively early age of 20. He participated in the 1899 Zionist Congress at Basle and four years later at the Krakow Congress was the Sabbath preacher.

  He came to the United States just after the turn of the century and took up his residence in Boston. In 1910 Rabbi Margolis came to New York.

• 35 YD Miller // Nov 7, 2011 at 6:30 pm

  Reb Velvel lists his children and grandchildren:
  http://www.hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?req=3235&st=&pgnum=467

  1) Reb Menashe
  2) Eluzer Gershon
  3) Nechamia
  4) Ita Leah Goldberg
  5) Rachel Salant
  6) Nechama
  7) Chaya Shayna
  Yechiel Yizchok
  9) Necha Levine

• 36 Yaakov Berger // Dec 2, 2011 at 12:11 pm

  This past week, Rav Yisroel Dovid Schlesinger shlit”a from Monsey said over a shtickel Torah from Rav Gavriel zatza”l on Parshas Vayeitzei and even read the Haskamos from the Chofetz Chaim zatza”l and Rav Chaim Brisker zatza”l. Beautiful shtickel!

• 37 Rena Saland Wechter // Jan 15, 2012 at 8:13 pm

  I’m not sure who’s who in this blog, but my father, Emanuel, was the son one of five, from the marriage of Rachel (daughter of Gabriel Margolis) and Joseph Sundel Saland. So, Reb Margolis was my great grandfather. I’d love to be in touch with any of you. Are any of you on Facebook?

• 38 Farshlufen // May 8, 2012 at 3:24 pm

  http://tinyurl.com/RabbiMargolies

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