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• 1 Jonathan Berger // Feb 16, 2010 at 7:24 pm

  Rav Barishanski was my great gandfather. With the recent passing of my mother I am searching for information about her family.
  Thank you for this treasure and I welcome any other information.

• 2 YD Miller // Feb 17, 2010 at 5:51 pm

  Rabbi Barishanski’s son, Shulem, printed his fathers correspondence letters after his passing, which is available on http://www.hebrewbooks.org http://www.hebrewbooks.org/41198

  Another son, Eliezer Barishanski wrote a detailed biography on his father, which is printed as the preface of the above book.

  While in Russia he fought the “Yeveskes” which were the Jews who cooperated with the comunist goverment, and was prosecuted and arrested there, alnogside with the Hasidc Rabbi of Homel, RSH”Z Schneerson a descendant of der Alter Rebbe, the story was written at the time in the NY Times, see:
  http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F00A13F7385516738DDDAF0A94DC405B838EF1D3
  and in the Canadian Jewish Chronicle:
  http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=bgEfAAAAIBAJ&sjid=0WEEAAAAIBAJ&pg=2293,6322871&dq=rabbi+barishansky&hl=en

  Rav Barishanski came to the US around WWI where he served as a Rav in a congregation called “Talmud Torah – Toras Moshe” in the Bronx NY, and was active in the Mizrachi movement.

  In 1927 he was elected as Rav Hakollel (Rabbi for a Union of Congregations) in Washington DC, and in his duty he was honored to meet with the President of the US.

  An unclear photo is available here:
  http://www.hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?req=2714&st=&pgnum=17&hilite=

• 3 Jonathan Berger // Feb 18, 2010 at 3:21 pm

  I can not thank you enough for providing this truly treasured information!
  – Jonathan

• 4 YD Miller // Feb 18, 2010 at 4:23 pm

  Mr. Berger, Its my pleasure, I would still like to hear what you do know aout your Grandfather, and perhaps see a photo of him if one is available.

• 5 curios // Feb 18, 2010 at 5:40 pm

  Mr. Berger, how is he your great-grandfather?

• 6 Bradley Sharps // Aug 3, 2010 at 1:06 am

  Jonathan-
  I am also related to Rabbi Barishansky through my family in Pittsburgh. I would like to know how – maybe you can help? Please post if this is of interest to you and we can exchange information

• 7 Leonard Barishansky // Aug 23, 2010 at 7:14 pm

  I am related to you as I am Rabbi Raphael
  Barishansky’s grandson, the son of Rabbi Shalom
  Barishansky. Please do not hesitate to contact
  me. Use my email address as I do not have a
  facebook account.

• 8 Leonard Barishansky // Sep 7, 2010 at 3:11 pm

  I would love to hear fromJonathan Berger
  andBradley Sharps
  at my e-mail address

• 9 Bradley Sharps // Sep 8, 2010 at 5:26 am

  Leonard – I can’t find how to get your email address.
  Please post and I will get back to you
  Bradley

• 10 Farshlufen // Sep 14, 2010 at 4:54 pm

  Correspondence from Rav Berishansky:
  http://www.archive.org/stream/chaimbloch00reel01#page/n656

• 11 Bradley Sharps // Sep 17, 2010 at 1:41 pm

  Leonard –
  you can write me at:
  idtbradley@aol.com

• 12 YD Miller // Oct 11, 2010 at 12:44 pm

  Hesped (euology) on Rabbi Barishnsky by Rabbi Shmuel E. Tiktin:
  http://www.hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?req=23389&st=&pgnum=346

• 13 Richard Lubens // May 28, 2011 at 9:49 pm

  I am the great grandson of Rabbi Barishansky. I was named for him by his granddaughter, my mother, Frances Lubens. My mother has a picture of him. I also have a picture of him with his wife Miriam , his daughter Sonia and son-in-law rabbi Jacob Richman taken in January 1948 on the occasion of my oldest brother’s bris. I also have the shingle with his name and title that was outside his home in New York.

• 14 Farshlufen // Jul 15, 2011 at 9:01 am

  APRIL 26, 1923
  Homel Rabbis to Face Soviet Justice
  MOSCOW, Apr. 25 (JTA) –
  Rabbi Schneersohn, Rabbi Barishansky and other prominent Jewish clergymen of the Homel district will be put on trial for assuming the “prerogative of State Courts” in advising Jewish litigants to have recourse in Jewish ritual courts of law, according to an announcement made by the Chief Justice Druginsky of Homel.
  Announcement of the impending arrest and trial of Jewish clericals of the district was made during the trial of Rabbi Schneersohn who is 70 years old. Contending that so-called Jewish courts are part of the traditional function of the rabbi, Rabbi Sneersohn stated he and all other rabbis of Homel and other parts always had exercised the prerogative uninterruptedly.
  Thereupon Judge Druginsky declared that in view of this statement Rabbi Schneorsohn’s trial will be postponed and proceedings instituted for the same offense against all rabbis of the Homel district.
  Rabbi Barishansky who has already served 7 months’ imprisonment for attacking in his speeches the Jewish section of the Communist Party, declared to the Jewish Telegraphic Agency he was untroubled by the possibility of further imprisonment for this offense. He said he regretted only that it may delay his departure to Palestine where he intends to settle and where, reports have it, he is to become Chief Rabbi of Jaffa.
  http://archive.jta.org/article/1923/04/26/2754850/homel-rabbis-to-face-soviet-justice

• 15 Farshlufen // Jul 15, 2011 at 9:23 am

  AUGUST 24, 1933

  Phila. Jewish Community Elects
  Philadelphia, Aug. 23 (JTA) –
  At a meeting of representatives of more than thirty synagogues and organizations, Rabbi Mordecai Barishansky, was unanimously elected Rabbi of the newly established Jewish Community of Philadelphia, known as Adas Israel.
  http://archive.jta.org/article/1933/08/24/2802446/phila-jewish-community-elects

• 16 Laura Messing // Sep 23, 2011 at 1:01 pm

  My maternal great grandmother was Lima Barishansky, who married Chaim Schwartz. My mother has always said that Rabbi Barishansky was a cousin, but I don’t know how, and would appreciate it if someone can provide information on the Rabbi’s family. My parents were married by Rabbi Barishansky in NY in 1941, and they will celebrate their 70th anniversary this November. My mother remembers Shulem and another son Jack. She also remembers that Rabbi Barishansky had a wonderful sense of humor.

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