President of the Knesseth HaRabonim
d. 1 Sivan, 1954
Following the passing of his father, Rav Margolis assumed the presidency of the Knesseth HaRabonim HaOrthdoksim dAmerica vCanada. The organization ceased operations with the Rav’s passing.
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Old Montefiore Cemetery
121-83 Springfield Boulevard
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Rabbi Menashe Margolis
January 28th, 2009 · 13 Comments
Tags: Montefiore Cemetery · New York · Queens / L.I., NY
13 responses so far ↓
1 Chevra-Man // Jan 29, 2009 at 9:36 am
Did he have a shule?
2 YD Miller // Nov 5, 2010 at 12:19 pm
The Daily Eagle reports his death:
http://www.fultonhistory.com/Newspaper%205/Brooklyn%20NY%20Daily%20Eagle/Brooklyn%20NY%20Daily%20Eagle%201954%20Grayscale/Brooklyn%20NY%20Daily%20Eagle%201954%20%20Grayscale%20-%204155.pdf#xml=http://www.fultonhistory.com/dtSearch/dtisapi6.dll?cmd=getpdfhits&u=ffffffff89788999&DocId=13576583&Index=Z%3a%2fFulton%20Historical&HitCount=8&hits=641+7b4+7b6+7b7+7ba+7c6+7d1+7f1+&SearchForm=C%3a%5cinetpub%5cwwwroot%5cFulton%5fNew%5fform%2ehtml&.pdf
3 asher // Nov 5, 2010 at 2:37 pm
Thanx Miller. Does any one have a photo of him, can you kindly share? TY.
He lived in BP 1555 40th street.
4 Moshe Escott // Nov 7, 2010 at 12:34 pm
asher:
I imagine that R. Menashe Margolis appears in the following group photo of rabbanim (see link) from the joint convention of the Knesses HaRabbonim and Degel HaRabbonim that took place in New Jersey in mid-1928. This photo appeared on p.19 of Di Yiddishe Vort in the
Iyar/Sivan issue of 5749.
http://www.hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?req=24502&st=&pgnum=19
The photo was submitted by R. Mayer Simcha Abramowitz who would later include the same photo in his Chachmei Yisroel of New England (1991). I spoke with the R. Abramowitz within the last year and the rabbanim he was able to identify were R. Avraham Aharon Yudelovitch and R. Velvel Margols as the older rabbanim sitting in the middle. Also R. Yaakov Yosef Hurwitz was the older rav with the white beard standing to the upper right of R. Velvel. R. Yaakov Eskolsky (dark beard and hat) is standing just behind R. Hurwitz in between he and R. Velvel. (All of the aforementioned rabbanim have pages on this web site)
I know that R. Menashe Margolis attended that convention but I’m not sure where he is in the picture.
I have a relative that has an original of this picture – perhaps I will be able to capture a high quality image of that at some point.
5 asher // Nov 7, 2010 at 6:11 pm
Moshe, thanx for the link.
Yes! a better res image will be super!
6 YD Miller // Nov 8, 2010 at 11:31 am
Thanks Moshe,
I would love to see a clearer picture of this convention, perhaps we can identify more Rabbonim.
7 Moshe Escott // Nov 8, 2010 at 2:11 pm
…..and here’s a link that has a side view of the face of R. Menashe Margolis. He’s with a group of other rabbanim. To the right is a related news article.
http://fultonhistory.com/Newspaper 5/Brooklyn NY Daily Eagle/Brooklyn NY Daily Eagle 1932 Grayscale/Brooklyn NY Daily Eagle 1932 Grayscale – 9554.pdf
(this site loads pages slowly so you might have to wait a bit)
8 asher // Nov 8, 2010 at 7:45 pm
Thanx again, Moshe! However page failed to open… leave alone the speed, no wonder Apple dropped Flash. Anyhow, can you kindly, save the PDF onto your computer and send to Baruch. Much appreciated.
9 Moshe Escott // Nov 9, 2010 at 2:13 pm
Asher,
try
http://fultonhistory.com/Newspaper%205/Brooklyn%20NY%20Daily%20Eagle/Brooklyn%20NY%20Daily%20Eagle%201932%20Grayscale/Brooklyn%20NY%20Daily%20Eagle%201932%20Grayscale%20-%209554.pdf
and wait a bit
Otherwise, I have e-mailed an image file to Baruch.
10 asher // Nov 9, 2010 at 8:56 pm
Moshe, TY!
I have uploaded the main part here, for quicker speed.
http://i949.photobucket.com/albums/ad339/aman51/margolis-1.jpg?t=1289350445
11 asher // Nov 9, 2010 at 8:59 pm
The paper spelled his name MARGOLIN ( ‘n’) – sure we got the right person.
12 YD Miller // Nov 9, 2010 at 9:10 pm
Asher,
R’ Menashe Margolis is the first from left (#1 on the photo), Margolin is another rabbi, R’ Yeshaya Yosef Margolin of Brownsville, he wrote variuos Seforim available on Hebrew Books
13 Moshe Escott // Nov 9, 2010 at 9:10 pm
Asher,
The Margolin in the caption for the picture is a typo. Probably due to the fact that there was the other Rabbi Margolin in the picture. If you look at the related article to the right, it gets the name correctly as Menas(c)he Margolis.
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