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• 1 Cheskel // Jul 20, 2009 at 9:32 am

  Was he a Kohen ?

• 2 sally kirsch (his grandaughter) // Dec 23, 2009 at 6:09 am

  no he was a yisrael. in fact he is one of the very few rappaports that are NOT cohanim

• 3 YD Miller // Dec 23, 2009 at 6:56 pm

  Hi Sally,
  Very intresting, was there a reason why the family carried the name Rappaport, such as were the married into the Cohanim Rappaort Family, etc.?

  Any othher bio infor would be intresting, was he a Maggid-Preacher in the Lithuanian city of Biyalstok or in a comunity here in the US with that name?

• 4 Moshe Escott // Jun 28, 2010 at 3:31 pm

  In the Degel Yisroel journal (v2.4 Nisan/Iyar 5688 / April 1928 – p.6 in the article titled “Rabbinishe Nayes” – viewable at http://www.hebrewbooks.org/13154) it says that the Bialystoker shtot maggid, R.M.H. Rappaport, recently came to the USA with his family after being the town maggid of Bialystok for 14 years.

  Rav Rappoport did seem to also have a general connection to the Bialystoker shul in the Lower East Side of New York once he came to the USA. I have seen two instances where he gave hespedim at that shul (one for the Meitsheter Ilui in 1928 as reported in different article in Degel Yisroel and one for my great-grandfather in 1931 as reported in Der Morgen Journal)

  There are a few images of Rav Rappaport in a yizkor book on Bialystok that was published in 1951. The book can be viewed at http://yizkor.nypl.org/index.php?id=2976. See images 85, 261 and 281 which will direct you to pages 79, 255 and 275 of the book.

  According to http://pages.cthome.net/hirsch/bhh.htm, he became a rav in New Haven, CT in 1930.

  On page 64 of a book called Ner l’Yisroel (by noted rabbinic biographer R. Aharon Sorasky, 1997) it says that Efraim Rappaport from Brisk had 4 sons:
  Pinchas; “Alter” also known as the Bialystoker shtot magid (interesting that doesn’t mention his name as Myrim Hillel here); Yaakov Tuvia; Eliyahu

  And three daughters: Devora; Sarah; Chaya Raizel

  Ner l’Yisroel is a biography of the Bialystoker magid’s nephew, Yisroel Dov Rappaport. Both Yisroel Dov and his father Yaakov Tuvia were staunch Slonimer chassidim. R. Yaakov Tuvia was at one point the head shochet in Minsk and was an expert on hilchos shechita and treifos.

  Interestingly enough, the Bialystoker magid’s son, Rav H.Z. Rappaport was a rav in Kingston, NY and authored a sefer on hilchos treifos (as can be seen at http://www.hebrewbooks.org/4141). The sefer is called Ohr l’Yoreh Deah. “Ohr” is after his recently deceased father Myrim (a Yiddish nickname for Meir).

  Also interesting is the mention in the hakdama there that says his father was niftar on 4 Iyar, while the matzeiva above says says 11 Iyar.

  Also see
  http://www.neveh.org/price/pricetrs.html – where R. Schwadron is quoted in “Around the Maggid’s Table” where he cites a story from the Bialystoker maggid.

  Sally – if you can, please contact me at eskolskyinfo@yahoo.com. I would be interested in finding out more about your grandfather since he was one of the rabbanim
  who were maspid my great-grandfather, R. Yaakov Eskolsky at his levaya as I mentioned earlier.

• 5 Florence Mitchell // Aug 13, 2010 at 10:20 pm

  Hi – I came across this site when doing a genealogic search. Some of my Rappaport ancestors are mentioned here; my father’s paternal grandfather was the Pinchas Rappaport mentioned here (for what it’s worth, I have his brother’s name as Alter Marem Hillel). Could you tell me more about what “shtot maggid” means, and perhaps some of the other terms (I’m from the secular branch of that family).

• 6 Cheskel // Aug 15, 2010 at 3:07 am

  Translation of “shtot maggid” would be “city preacher”,
  but that is far off of the definition.

• 7 levi rapoport // Apr 10, 2011 at 12:48 pm

  i am his great-great-great nephew

• 8 getzel honekvetcher // Apr 10, 2011 at 12:57 pm

  i read his kids were adopted ?

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