Rebbe Shalom Leifer
שלום ב"ר ישכר בער
Nadvorna Rebbe of Brighton BeachDate of Death:
Tue. January 8, 1980 -
Teves 19 5740
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Photo Caption: Nadvorna Rebbe of Brighton Beach, Credit: Assigned to IFJCAH
Photo Caption: Nadvorna Rebbe of Brighton Beach, Credit: Assigned to IFJCAH
Bio Information:
The Nadvorna Chassidic dynasties trace their lineage to Rebbe Meir’l of Premishlan (d. 1773), a student of the Baal Shem Tov.
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Credit: Shmuel Amsel, Brooklyn, NY
Credit: Shmuel Amsel, Brooklyn, NY
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Yasher Koach for your website. I think there is a mistake in this entry. I remember him well as a Rebbe in Brighton Beach, not Borough Park. Also see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yosef_Leifer who lists among his brothers: “Rabbi Sholom Leifer, Grand Rabbi of Brighton Beach.”
Rabbi Shalom Leifer was the Nadvorna Rebbe of Brighton Beach. I davened in his shul. His son Rabbi Shlomo Leifer was the Nadvorna Rebbe of Boro Park.
To add to what I wrote earlier, please see here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nadvorna_(Hasidic_dynasty), where he writes: “Grand Rabbi Shalom Leifer of Brighton Beach, son of Rabbi Yissachar Dov Ber (Bertche) of Nadvorna-Satmar. Grand Rabbi Shlomo Leifer of Nadvorna in Boro Park, son of Rabbi Shalom of Brighton Beach ” The kever is R’ Sholom’s of Brighton.
“Rabbi Leifer O.B.M.,Rebbe of our Coney Island Ave. Shul in Brighton Beach always talked only words Torah when he would sit down at his table to talk with you, even for a long time. I never heard him talk anything else but Torah” my husband Atty. Sol Lieberman O.B.M. used to say whenever discussing the wonderful qualities of Rebbes he knew and so appreciated!
Two interesting pictures of the Brightoner Rebbe: http://www.kaveshtiebel.com/download/file.php?id=14935&sid=4ac748b24328cc819cae2a0c65013c0f
I have been unsuccessfully trying to determine whom to contact about my suspicion that my father’s family was part of the Rabbi Leifer of Brighton Beach family. In the early 1900s my father’s father came to the US along with several children, among them Chona Leifer my father. My father’s father was named Alter Leifer. My father told me that since Leifer was a dirty word in English, they changed their last name to Levine. He also said that the family came from a long line of Leifer Rabbis. I have never found Leifer as a dirty word. I believe that since my father’s father quit being a Rebbi, he was shunned by the other Leifers. An interesting coincidence (?) was that we rented an apartment on Ocean View Ave. around the corner from the Leifer Synagogue on Coney Island Ave. Anyone know something about this?
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The Rabbi Leifer of Brighton Beach was my great uncle – my father, Mordechai Leifer’s father’s brother. He was also my father’s brother’s father-in-law. As a young child and teenager, I spent many afternoons at his home above the shul on Coney Island Ave. I have very fond memories of him! If there is any way I can be of help in your search, please feel free to contact me.
Miriam Blaustein I can’t otherwise contact you are you didn’t mention your email address. Additionally to what I said above, my father worked in the Revere food store near the corner of the noted block, and my brother worked part-time in Stal’s Kinishes nearby. I was at high school age at the time as I remember walking with friends to Abraham Lincoln HS. We used to buy egg creams at the soda fountain store on the same block of CI ave.
Any help would be appreciated.
Richard M. Levine, did you do 23 and me? If so maybe we can check genetics.