Talmid of Rav Nosson Adler, Rav of Frankfurt am Mein
d. 11 Iyar, 1852
Rev Yisroel Ber Kursheedt is the only known talmid (student) of Rav Nosson Adler the Rebbe of the Chasam Sofer to be buried in the United States. Rev Kursheedt was a contemporary of Rav Avroham Bing and Rav Wolf Heidenheim. It is reported that Rav Adler held these three talmidim in equal estimation and would often say Avroham is a charif, Wolf is a medackdek, and Yisroel is a chochem.
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Beth Olam Cemetery
2 Cypress Hills Street,
Ridgewood (Queens), New York 11208
(Main entrance, to the left of the Chapel Building, up the hill)
Rev Yisroel Ber (Israel B.) Kursheedt
December 6th, 2007 · 12 Comments
Tags: Beth Olam · New York · Pre 1900 · Queens / L.I., NY
12 responses so far ↓
1 Yitzchak // Dec 12, 2007 at 5:39 pm
He lived in Richmond, VA for a short time before going to New York
2 Yitzchak // Dec 12, 2007 at 5:43 pm
http://www.jewishpress.com/displayContent_new.cfm?mode=a§ionid=61&contentid=20616&contentName=America’s%20First%20Torah%20Scholar:%20Israel%20Baer%20Kursheedt
3 David T // Nov 27, 2008 at 5:09 pm
Are there other students of Rabbi Adler buried in the United States?
4 Ben Bee Zee // May 25, 2010 at 4:59 pm
Rabbi Kursheed maried Abigayil the daughter of the famous Rabbi Gershon Mindes Seixes. He had a son a rabbi in New Orleans his name was Gershom Kursheedt.
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/Kursheedt.html
5 Ben Bee Zee // May 25, 2010 at 5:02 pm
Reb Gershom returned the famed philanthropist Yuda Tura to Judaism. And later he went together on a trip with Sir Moshe Mantefiora to palastine to build up the hospital.
http://www.jewishpress.com/pageroute.do/38053/
6 asher // Jul 6, 2010 at 2:28 pm
Kursheedt Family Tree:
http://www.americanjewisharchives.org/pdfs/stern_p147.pdf
Edwind Israel Kursheedt – grandson of rav Kursheedt:
http://www.washingtonartillery.com/Edwin%20I.%20Kursheedt%20WA%20photo.jpg
http://books.google.com/books?id=UtiEY4s9n9IC&pg=PA111&lpg=PA111&dq=Edwin+I.+Kursheedt&source=bl&ots=raln5W_oo5&sig=DW3oxPnh2WRzAbx82LSx3pyjLSg&hl=en&ei=inUzTMDEJIH7lwe18OSBDA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=3&ved=0CCEQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&q=Edwin%20I.%20Kursheedt&f=false
7 asher // Jul 8, 2010 at 1:42 pm
Solomon I Isaacs (grandkid or mechutan of Rav Kursheedt)
http://i949.photobucket.com/albums/ad339/aman51/IMG_0825.jpg?t=1278610262
(Taken from http://www.thejewishmuseum.org):
Solomon Isaacs was related to the most powerful, respected Sephardic families in America through his marriage to Elkalah Kursheedt, granddaughter of Gershom Mendes Seixas.
8 asher // Jul 8, 2010 at 1:48 pm
There’s a whole bunch of Kursheedts buried in this area. I may upload later some pics.
9 Farshlufen // Jan 18, 2011 at 10:49 am
A nice photo of R’ Gershon
kusheedt from New Orleans:
http://www.archive.org/stream/historyofjewsofl00jewi#page/23/mode/1up
10 Off the Main Line // Nov 3, 2011 at 8:01 pm
http://onthemainline.blogspot.com/2011/11/three-students.html#comments
11 asher // Nov 4, 2011 at 1:19 pm
A clearer picture of Col. E. I. Kursheedt, grandkid.
http://www.archive.org/stream/historyofjewsofl00jewi#page/152/mode/2up
12 Dr. Yitzchok Levine // Nov 7, 2011 at 3:03 pm
Israel Baer Kursheedt was not a rabbi. He never got semicha. See my article about his life at http://www.jewishpress.com/pageroute.do/20616
I wrote two articles about one of his sons, Gershom Kursheedt. See http://www.jewishpress.com/pageroute.do/38053
and
http://www.jewishpress.com/pageroute.do/37674
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