Beth David Cemetery - Long Island

אברהם אבא ב"ר צבי הלוי

Hebrew Teacher, (Russia) Brooklyn, New York

Date of Death: Wed. September 25, 1929 - Elul 20 5689

יהושע ב"ר ישראל

Grand Rebbe, Frysztak - Korczyn, Poland

Date of Death: Sat. September 6, 1947 - Elul 21 5707

Photo Credit: Rabbi Mordechai Hecht, Anshe Sholom Chabad JCC

Photo Caption: Rebbe Yehoshua Wagschal letterhead, Credit: Photo Credit: Rabbi Mordechai Hecht, Anshe Sholom Chabad JCC

Photo Caption: Offical records, Credit: Moreshes Chachmei America

Photo Caption: Schulsinger Brothers edition of Noam Elimelech printed in New York (1942) by the Frysztak – Korczyn Rebbe, Credit: VirtualJudaica.com

Bio Information:
The Rebbe was a descendant of the Noam Elimelech, the Rebbe of Lizensk d. 1787

Rabbi Chaim Korn (Korin)

חיים ב"ר יעקב

Cheif Rabbi, Yarmolyntsi, Ukraine

Date of Death: Sun. March 23, 1941 - Adar 24 5701

Bio Information:
Rav Chaim Korin authored the Tav Chaim.

Photo Caption: Rav Chaim Korin, Credit: Moreshes Chachmei America

Photo Credit: Announcing the first yahrzeit of Rabbi Chaim Korn, Credit: Moreshes Chachmei America

Rabbi Avroham Hurwitz

אברהם ב"ר שניאור זלמן הלוי

Hebrew Teacher, Brooklyn, New York

Date of Death: Thu. May 13, 1926 - Iyar 29 5686

Rabbi Shmuel Aryeh Olishevsky

שמואל אריה ב"ר אברהם

Rosh Yeshiva, Rabbeinu Yitzchok Elchonon (RIETS)

Date of Death: Wed. February 10, 1943 - Adar I 5 5703

Credit: Yeshiva University

Credit: Hapardes

Credit: Moreshes Chachmei America

Rabbi Avroham Freuer

אברהם ב"ר שלמה מאיר

Baal, Nishmas Kol Chaim

Date of Death: Wed. March 11, 1936 - 17 Adar 5696

Photo Caption: Rav Avroham Feuer
Bio Information:
Among the Rav’s seforim (books) are Nishmas Kol Chaim, Likutei Avraham, Zichron Avraham .

Rabbi Chaim Leibowitz

חיים ב"ר שמואל

Rav, Mapleton, Brooklyn

Date of Death: Thu. June 30, 1938 - Tammuz 1 5698
Rosh Chodesh

Credit: Hamsiloh, Vol: 3, No: 6-7

Mapleton is a neighborhood in Brooklyn, which borders Bensonhurst and Borough Park to the west, and Midwood to the east. The neighborhood was sometimes known as Mapleton Park.

Rabbi Yosef Eliezer Juravel

יוסף אליעזר ב"ר שמואל זאב

Rav, New York City

Date of Death: Sat. July 19, 1980 - Av 6 5740

Rabbi Yaakov Yitzchok Goldman

יעקב יצחק ב"ר יהודה ליב

Rav, Pawtucket, Rhode Island

Date of Death: Sat. December 27, 1941 - Kislev 27 5701
Chanukah

Credit: Chachmei Yisroel of New England

Rabbi Avrahom Shlomo Adler

אברהם שלמה ב"ר חיים ליב

Rav, St. Petersburg (Tampa Bay), Florida

Date of Death: Fri. February 21, 1947 - Adar 1 5707
Rosh Chodesh

Rabbi Meshulem Zusha Blatt

משולם זיסיא ב"ר שמעון יצחק

Rav, The Sanhedrin Jewish Center of Dunton, Richmond Hill, Queens

Date of Death: Sat. November 11, 1978 - Cheshvan 11 5739

Rabbi Meir Mairim Magnes

מאיר מארים ב"ר משה

Rav, Congregation Adas Yeshurun, Brownsville, Brooklyn

Date of Death: Sat. March 20, 1948 - Adar II 9 5708

Bio Information:
Rabbi Meir Mairim Magnes was the son of Rav Moshe Magnes (Rav of Pohost) and a nephew of Rav Avraham Aharon Yudelovitch. He was named for his great-uncle Rav Meir Mairim Shafit. He immigrated to the USA in 1924 and served as the rav of Adas Yeshurun at the corner of Eastern Parkway and Lincoln Place in Brownsville, Brooklyn. In addition, he was general secretary of the Mizrachi Organization of America in the mid-late 1920s as well as the director of RIETS in the early 1930s.

Photo Caption: Congregation Adas Yeshurun as it stand today, Credit: Google maps

Photo Credit: Detroit Jewish Chronicle Sep. 18, 1931, p.3

Rabbi Yosef Yehuda Braun

יוסף יהודה ב"ר קלמן מאיר

Rav, Congregation Shearis Yaakov, Bronx, New York

Date of Death: Mon. April 28, 1958 - Iyar 8 5718

Rabbi Aaron Tzvi Leeder

אהרן צבי ב"ר יצחק אריה

Rav, Brooklyn, New York

Date of Death: Sun. February 12, 1989 - Adar II 7 5749

Rabbi Ben Tzion Chodosh

בן ציון ב"ר דוד הלוי

Hebrew Teacher, New York City

Date of Death: Sun. November 7, 1943 - Cheshvan 19 5704

Bio Information:
Rav Chodosh arrived on these shores sometime prior to World War I with the plans of eventual bring over the rest of his family. The Rav, had a brother and two sisters in New York who initially supported him while he looked for work. However, his refusal to work on shabbos made holding a job extremely difficult forcing him to find new employment every Sunday. Eventually he found a Sexton/ Hebrew Teacher opportunity which allowed him to save up enough money for him to reunite his family in New York City. Unfortunately , due to the untimely passing of his wife and the outbreak of World War One this never happened. Among his children, Rav Meir Chodosh went on to become the famed Mashgiach of the Chevron Yeshiva.

Photo Caption: Rav Meir Chodosh, Credit: Rebbetzin Shulamit Ezrachi

Credit: The Mashgiach, Rebbetzin Shulamit Ezrachi

Rabbi Yehuda Leib Zilberberg

יהודה ליב ב"ר יצחק מאיר

Rav, New York City

Date of Death: Sun. July 19, 1987 - Tammuz 22 5747

Rabbi Aaron Dim

אהרן ב"ר משה הלוי

Rav, Congregation Shaarei Torah, New York City

Date of Death: Tue. June 5, 1951 - Sivan 1 5711
Rosh Chodesh

Photo Caption: Rav Aaron Dim, Credit: Moreshes Chachmei America’s Archives

Credit: Moreshes Chachmei America’s Archives

Credit: Moreshes Chachmei America’s Archives

Bio Information:
Rav Aaron Dim was the longstanding president of Degel HaRabanim in New York City.

Rabbi Meir Tzvi Suchman

מאיר צבי ב"ר נתן

Cofounder, Agudas Anshei Maamad Ubeis Vaad L'Chachomim, Lower East Side

Date of Death: Mon. December 25, 1939 - Kislev 13 5700

Photo Caption: Rav Meir Hirsh Tzvi Suchman, c. 1920, Credit: MN

Photo Caption: Rav Meir Hirsh Tzvi Suchman, c. 1939, Credit: MN

Photo Caption: The kevarim of Admorei Belz, Belz, Ukraine, Credit: zadikim.net

Bio Information:
The Rav, who hailed from Krystynopol, Galicia (Poland) moved to New York in 1920. A devout Belzer Chossid, he maintained a close relationship with both Rebbe Yehoshua (d.1894) and Rebbe Yissachar Dov Rokeach (d.1826) of Belz.

Rabbi Yaakov Moshe Zimmerman

יעקב משה ב"ר אברהם יצחק

Rav, Brooklyn, New York

Date of Death: Sat. October 7, 1961 - Tishrei 27 5722

Photo Caption: The Rav among the over 400 Rabbanim and Admorim who on Erev Yom Kippur, 1943 marched on Washington, DC demanding that the Roosevelt administration help save the Jews of Europe. Credit: Moreshes Chachmei America’s Archives

Rabbi Yehudah Leib Agushewitz

יהודה ליב ב"ר אליהו

Rav, Toras Emes Synagogue of Borough Park, Brooklyn

Date of Death: Wed. September 12, 1956 - Tishrei 7 5717

Photo caption: Rabbi Yehudah Leib Agushewitz, Credit: Yitzchok Shteierman, Borough Park, Brooklyn

Rabbi Shraga Leib Brill

שרגא ליב ב"ר צבי

Rav, New York City

Date of Death: Wed. February 7, 1951 - Adar I 1 5711
Rosh Chodesh

Photo Caption: Rabbi Shraga Brill, Credit: Moreshes Chachmey America Archives

Photo Credit: Rabbi Shraga Brill, Credit: Moreshes Chachmey America Archives

Rabbi Yaakov Haberman

יעקב ב"ר שמחה

Rav, Brownsville, Brooklyn

Date of Death: Mon. May 21, 1951 - Iyyar 15 5711

The Rav’s brother was Rav Mordecai Aryeh Haberman.

Rabbi Baruch Dovid Weizman

ברוך דוד ב"ר יעקב

Rav, Brownsville, Brooklyn

Date of Death: Tue. March 11, 1958 - Adar 19 5718

Rabbi Menachem Nachum Levenson

מנחם נחום ב"ר משה צבי

Rav, New York City

Date of Death: Thu. February 20, 1958 - Adar I 10 5708

Rabbi Eliyahu Dovid Greenberg

אליהו דוד ב"ר שרגא פייוויל

Rav, Bronx, New York

Date of Death: Thu. May 25, 1933 - Iyar 29 5693

Bio Information:
The Rav arrived on these shores from Russia.

Rabbi Zev Wolf Vodka

זאב וואלף ב"ר צבי

Rav, New York City

Date of Death: Mon. October 13, 1941 - Tishrei 22 5702
Shmini Atzeret

Rabbi Shmuel Tzvi Rosengarten

שמואל צבי ב"ר אברהם

President, Agudath Anshei Miemod and Bais Vaad LaChachomim, Lower East Side, New York City

Date of Death: Thu. September 21, 1961 - Tishrei 12 5721

Credit: Moreshes Chachmei America’s Archives

Rabbi Areyh Leib Braverman

ארי' לייב ב"ר יחיאל בראווערמאן

Rav, New York City

Date of Death: Sat. July 7, 1928 - Tammuz 19 5688

The Rav was tragically killed in a car accident.

Rabbi Alexander Ritter

אלכסנדר ב"ר יוסף

Rav, Vienna, Austria

Date of Death: Fri. July 14, 1939 - Tammuz 29 5699

Rabbi Avroham Miller

אברהם ב"ר אהרן יוסף

Rav, Beth Israel Shul, Borough Park, Brooklyn

Date of Death: Wed. January 10, 1940 - Teves 29 5740

Photo Caption: A delegation of rabboinm in Washington, DC, 1925 (see list below), Credit: Moreshes Chachmei America’s Archives

1. Rav Zalamn Tuvia Golbowsky, Bayone, New Jeresy

2. Rav Tzvi Hirsh Dachowitz, Agudath Achim Anshei Libowitz

3. Rav Menachem Yehuda Guzik, Makover Rav

4. Rav Avroham Aaron Yudelovitch, Eldridge Street Synagogue

5. Rebbe Yitzchok Leifer, Nedvorana Bronx Rebbe

6. Rav Gavriel Zev Margolis, Knesseth HaRabonim

7. Rav Avroham Miller, Cong. Bnai Yisroel of Borough Park

8. Unknown

Photo Caption: Side view of the original Sheerith Yisroel building at 841 Southern Boulevard in the Bronx as it stands today. Credit: google maps

Bio Information:
Originally from Kovno, Rav Miller immigrated in the year 1911 under the name Charnofsky. He changed it back to Miller in 1921—at the same time that he assumed the position of Rav of the Beth Israel shul in Borough Park. His career is replete with leading his fellow Jews in numerous communities, in his activism at Agudas Harabanim, and in his Torah greatness.

Miller Community Pioneers
Source: Hamodia, 2016

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