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Photo Caption: Bob Daly, Oak Woods Cemetery worker inspects the damage after 180 tombstones were knocked over and shattered, d. April 3, 1947, Credit: IFJCAH

Photo Caption: Rabbi Yaakov Dovid Wilovsky, Credit: N/N

Credit: IFJCAH

Photo Caption: Street in Tzfas named in memory of Ridbaz, Credit: Menachem Mendel Engel, Tzfas. 

Photo Caption: Rev Ignatz Jacob Kunreuther, Credit: Moreshes Chachmei America

Photo Caption: Rav Naftali Halavi Kunreuthrt, Cheif Rabbi, Glenhausen, Germany (Glenhausen is a suburb of Frankfurt am Main), Credit: Moreshes Chachmei America.

Photo Caption: Abraham Kohn (see bio below) and Rev Ignatz Jacob Kunreuther, Credit: The Jews of Chicago, Cutler


Credit: Chicago Rabbis: Visionaries, and Leaders 

Photo Caption: Short Bio

Photo Caption: Rav Eliyahu Avrohma Regensberg, Credit: Moreshes Chachmei America

Photo Caption: Rav Dov Menachem Regensburg (HY”D) of Zambrova, Credit: Moreshes Chachmei America

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Credit: Moreshes Chachmei America

Photo Caption: Rabbi Avroham Shmuel Braude, Credit: Chicago Rabbis: Visionaries, Pioneers, and Leaders 

Credit: Chicago Rabbis: Visionaries, Pioneers, and Leaders

Photo Caption Original Ohave Sholom Mariampol shul building, Credit: Chicago Rabbis: Visionaries, Pioneers, and Leaders

Photo Caption: The new building after it merged with Anshei Calvary, Credit: Chicago Rabbis: Visionaries, Pioneers, and Leaders

Photo Caption: Bob Daly, Oak Woods Cemetery worker inspects the damage after 180 tombstones were knocked over and shattered, d. April 3, 1947, Credit: IFJCAH

Bio Information:
Rav Avroham Rabinowitz Bio

Credit: Chicago Rabbis: Visionaries, Pioneers, and Leaders 

Credit: Moreshes Chachmei America Archives

Photo Caption: Bob Daly, Oak Woods Cemetery worker inspects the damage after 180 tombstones were knocked over and shattered, d. April 3, 1947, Credit: IFJCAH

Photo Caption: Rabbi Avroham Rabinowitz, Credit: Rachel Rabinowitz, Chicago 

Photo Caption: Rabbi Jerome Yudkowsky, Credit: Jim Craig, Evanston, IL

Photo Caption: Rav Eliezer Moshe Romirowsky around the time he succeeded his father, Credit: Cynthia Meystel

Photo Caption: Rav Eliezer Moshe Romirowsky c. 1990, Credit: Cynthia Meystel

Bio Information:
Rav Silber also sever as president at Hebrew Theological College – Bais Hamedrash L’Torah.

Photo Caption: Rabbi Shaul Silber, Credit:  Moreshes Chachmei America’s Archives


Credit: Booth Library,Charleston, IL 

Photo Caption: Rabbi Uda Michele Zeleznick, Credit: Chicago Rabbis 

Photo Caption: Congregation Ohel Yaakov as it stands today at 1448 S Homan Ave in Chicago, Credit: Google

Bio Information: 
Rav Zeleznick, originally from Kovna was ordained by Rav Yitzchok Elchanon Spector. After just a few short years in Deadwood the Rav moved to Chicago where he ministered at Congregation Ohel Yaakov Anshei Kovna for close to 23 years. Rav Dov Ber Swirsky (d. 1964) served at Ohel Yaakov as well.

Source: MCA

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The Rav came to Agudath Achim U’b’nai Abraham in 1919.

Photo Caption: Ziditchover Rebbe of Chicago, Credit: Chicago Rabbis

Credit: Chicago Rabbis

Credit: Institute For Judaic Culture and History (IFJCAH)

Photo Caption: Rav Aaron Colitz, Credit: Jim Craig, Evanston, IL

Photo Caption: Rav Nisson Yablonsky, Credit: Hebrew Theological College

Photo Caption: Advertisement announcing the arrival of Rav Yablonsky to these shores, Credit: 

Bio Information:
Rav Yablonsky  of Stavisky, Poland was born in 1876 and was the first Rosh Yeshiva of Bais Medrash l’ Torah (Hebrew Theological College). An outstanding talmidim of Slabodka, he was accepted as Rav of Slabodka in 1908 and later as Rosh Yeshiva of Slabodka. He was active in rescue of the Yeshiva in the aftermath of World War I. He came to America in 1922 and was immediately recruited by Rabbi Rubenstein to be the Rosh HaYeshiva of Beis HaMidrash L’Torah. He passed away suddenly on the 28th of Shevat 5688 at the age of 52. Some of his shiurim were published posthumously by his talmidim as the sefer נצני ניסן
Source: Hebrew Theological College

Source: The Jewish Daily


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Photo Caption: Rabbi Shlomo Schechter, Credit: Jim Craig, Evanston, Illinois

Not to be confused with the Rabbi Julius Newman who served at the Notting Hill Federation Synagogue and died in 1950. That Rabbi Newman was buried in London.

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Rav Glick, born 1860, Griva, Latvia where he was the childhood charuta (study partner) of Cheif Rabbi Avroham Yitzchok HaKohen Kook who hailed from the same town. Upon his arrival to these shores, he was hired as the Torah Society Instructor at the Anshei Calvary in Chicago. In 1895, Rav Todros Tichtin, the founding rav moved to Palestine and soon after Rav Glick was installed as the full-time rabbi. Anshei Calvary eventually merged with Ohave Sholom Mariampol where Rav Glick continued to serve. 

Photo Caption: Rabbi Yehoshua Zelig Glick, Credit: Chicago Rabbis: Visionaries, Pioneers, and Leaders

Photo Caption: Rav Todros Ticktin, Credit: Chicago Rabbis: Visionaries, Pioneers, and Leaders

Photo Caption: The new building after it merged with Anshei Calvary, Credit: Chicago Rabbis: Visionaries, Pioneers, and Leaders