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Photo Caption: Rav Avroham Yitzchok Geiger, Vienna c.1927, Credit: Judith Goldsmith

Photo Caption: Rav Geiger accompanying the Tzvi LaTzaddik, Credit: MCA

Bio Information: 
Rav Geiger was the personal assistant of Rebbe Tzvi Elimelech Spira of Bluzhov (d. 1924), also known by the eponym, Tzvi LaTzaddik. Upon his arrival on these shores, he rabbinated at Agudas Anshei Mamud u’ Bais Vaad Lachachomim located at 156 Henry Street  on the Lower East Side.

Photo Caption: Rabbi Chaim Hyamson, Credit: N/N

Photo Caption: Congregation Orach Chaim located at 1459 Lexington Ave, New York (d. 2019), Credit: Google

Photo Caption: Congregation Orach Chaim located at 1459 Lexington Ave, New York (d. 2019), Credit: Google

Photo Caption: Rabbi Berel Brennglass, Credit: Chris Brock (NNY-360)

Photo Caption: Massena, New York (c. 1930), Credit: Edward Berenson

Photo Caption: Rabbi Berel Brennglass, Credit: MCA

Photo Caption: Brennglass family, 1931, Credit: MCA

Photo Caption: Rabbi Eliezer Brennglass, Credit: MCA

Of Note:
In September of 1928, just two days before Yom Kippur,  a blood libel was launched against the Jews of Massena. After only being missing for less than a day, the small Jewish community was accused of killing Babara Griffiths, a local four-year-old. It’s was claimed that they needed her blood for the upcoming Yom Kippur service. Rabbi Brennglass did everything in his power to protect his congregants as well as fight off the accusations. Griffiths was later found wandering lost in woods.

Photo Caption: Rabbi Isser Yehuda Unterman (d.1976) Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of Israel, Credit: N/N

Photo Caption: Rabbi Isser Yehuda Unterman with Rabbi YosheBer Soloveitchik, Credit: Needed

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

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

Credit: Yeshiva University

Credit: Hapardes

Credit: Moreshes Chachmei America 

Photo Caption: Rav Avroham Feuer, Credit: IFJCAH

Credit: Institute For Judaic Culture and History IFJCAH

Bio Information:
Among the Rav’s seforim (books) are Nishmas Kol Chaim, Likutei Avraham, Zichron Avraham (pictured above) .

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.

Credit: Chachmei Yisroel of New England

Photo Caption: Rav Yaakov Yitzchok Goldman, Credit: MCA

Credit: Moreshes Chachmei America

Bio Information:
Rav Braun who arrived on these shores in 1928, received ordination from the Chofetz Chaim.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

The Rav’s brother was Rav Mordecai Aryeh Haberman.

Source: US Department of Labor 

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