Rabbi Yosef Komisarsky
יוסף ב"ר בנימיו
Rav, Congregation Anshe Suvalk. Chicago, IllinoisDate of Death:
Thu. June 18, 1908 -
Sivan 19 5668
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Directions to Kever: Waldheim Cemetery in Chicago maintains computerized records and will provide a detailed location map upon request, Location: Gate: 25 - Anshe Knesses Israel
Name Listed on Cemetery Database: Name listed on marker: Rabbi J. Komisarsky
Biographical Notes:
The Rav was born in Sejni, Russia in the province of Suvalk. He arrived in Chicago in 1883 where he became known as the Suvalker Rav.
Credit: Jim Craig, Evanston, IL
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A haskama of his http://www.hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?req=10090&st=&pgnum=4.
And here: http://www.hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?req=41750&st=&pgnum=5&hilite=.
http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85042462/1908-06-20/ed-1/seq-6.pdf
“RABBI JOSEPH KOMISARSKY DIES OF OPERATION’S EFFECTS
CHICAGO, June 19.—Rabbi Joseph Komisarsky, 78 years old, one of the best-known Jews in the west and head of the orthodox Jewish church In Chicago, died yesterday at the Michael Reese hospital, where he had under gone an operation.
Rabbi Komisarsky was largely responsible for the establishing of a section in the large slaughtering houses ‘at the stockyards where kosher meat is handled.”
The Rav might be born in Germany, but he definetley lived in Suvolk, Russia-Poland prior to his coming to the US where his daughter Rachel Amsel was born in 1861.
https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/N3C9-SBM
(Interesting note on the tombstone: The birth year on both sides do not match the English and Hebrew calendar years 1831-תקצ”ד 1832-תקצ”ה
The refreshed matseiva has added a name to his wife.
Psak-Din from rabbi Komisarsky about the Album-Ridvaz issue:
http://www.hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?req=6802&st=&pgnum=138
YD, that is on page 140.
right:
http://www.hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?req=6802&st=&pgnum=140
And who is Rabbi MM Maharam mentioned on the page linked?
[The Jewish Morning Journal – דער מארגען זשורנאל] 18 יוני 1908
http://goo.gl/FrSOQh