9 Comments

1. 

   LG on August 20, 2009 at 2:37 pm

   Any relation to Rabbi Yisroel Belsky?

2. 

   avremele on August 23, 2009 at 7:25 pm

   Rav Yisroel Belsky is a Levi, I don’t think so.

   I would guess that Rav Meir Belsky (formerly of Memphis) is related.

3. 

   LL on February 9, 2010 at 1:32 pm

   He has a grandson in Jerusalem.

4. 

   zb on July 15, 2010 at 9:32 am

   This is Meir Belsky from Memphis grandfather
   Zalman tzvi father changed his name to Belsky which was his mother maiden name. that was R’ Yisroel Belsky side. They lived in the same town in Russia.

5. 

   Ethan on October 25, 2011 at 9:50 pm

   Is Meir Belsky from Memphis still alive?

6. 

   S. Rothman on October 26, 2014 at 11:51 am

   https://www.facebook.com/david.garfunkel.1/posts/10203937838904325
   Pictures of Rabbi and Mrs. Belsky and family

7. 

   E.D. on January 6, 2015 at 6:28 am

   while the family has a theory about the two Belsky families being related based on the name change, they do not seem to have proof that zalman tzvi’s mother’s maiden name was belsky, or that she was related to the other belsky family. Does someone know anything more about this?

8. 

   M. Smollin on January 24, 2017 at 10:18 am

   Is it possible that the “changed” Belsky name came from Eliyahu Tzvi Oremland (b. 1821, Kobryn)? Eliyahu Tzvi had 8 children, five of which are accounted for.

   The children assumed different last names to avoid conscription in the army: Fremland, Rimland, Grossman, and — supposedly — Belsky.

   Any possibility here?

9. 

   Yitzchok Kranczer on November 21, 2022 at 3:06 am

   His great-grandson, menahel of Yeshiva Rabbi Chaim Berlin’s elementary school, is named Rabbi Zalman Zvi Belsky, though he is known only by his second name.