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Photo Caption: Rabbi Chaim Dovid Regensberg of Chicago (the Rav’s uncle), Credit: Moreshes Chachmei America

Photo Caption: Rav Levertov in Europe, Credit: Levertov4ever Website

Photo Caption: Rav Levertov along with Oskar Shindler, who saved him during the War (d. 1974 and is buried on Mount Zion in Jerusalem), Credit: Chaim Kowalsky 

Photo Caption: Rabbi Dov Berish Elefant, Credit: Meir Meisels

Credit: S. Raskin, Israel

Photo Caption: Rebbe Tzvi Hirsh Rabinowitz, Credit: Yitzchok Shteierman, Borough Park, Brooklyn 

Bio Information: 
The Rebbe was a descendant of the Rebbe Yaakov Yitzchak of Peshischa  better known as the Yid Hakodosh d. 1813

The Rav’s father was the Sulitzer Rebbe of Far Rockaway.

Photo Caption: Gateshead Talmudical College c. 1930, rabbis and students, The 2 rabbonin in the picture (no hat) are believed to be Rav Nachman Dovid Landinski and Rav Eliezer Kaha, the Yeshiva menahel (principal), Credit: Shaul Davis

Photo Caption:  Rav Nachman Dovid Landinski, Credit: Shaul Davis

The Rav was born in Kobrin and studied under Rav Pesach Pruskin by whom he was ordained. He later studied in the Mirrer Yeshiva and escaped along with them to Shanghai, China via Kobe, Japan. In America the Rav was among the founders of Bais HaTalmud in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn. Among his writings, Arzei Betzalel and Kuntreis Reshimos were published postmortem.

Photo Caption: Rav Nosson Nuta Salant, Credit: Needed

Photo Caption: Rav Shmuel Salant d. 1909, Ashkenazic Chief Rabbi of Jerusalem, great-grandfather of the Rav Nosson Nuta Salant. This photograph made for Pearsons Magazine just a few days before the Rav’s passing is believed to be the only portrait for which the Rav ever sat. Credit: Institute For Judaic Culture and History (IFJCAH)
Note: Special thanks to Circus Tent “theantitzemach.blogspot.com” for picture origination.

Source: The Jewish Morning Journal, November 20, 1919

Photo Caption: 2006 Israel Post commemorative stamp honoring Rav Shmuel Salant, Credit: IFJCAH

Photo Caption: Rav Shimon Dovid Eider, Credit: Chez Eider

Bio Information: 
Rav Eider who lived in Lakewood, NJ was among the first to write Halacha Seforim (book of Jewish law) in English.

Source: The Morning Journal, 1922 

Photo Caption: Modzitzer Rebbe of the Bronx, Credit: Yehudis Schonbrun

Photo Caption: The Rebbe’s father, Credit: N/N

Bio Information:
The Rebbe’s father, Rebbe Yisroel a grandson of Rebbe Yechezkel of Kuzmir (d. 1846) was the founding father of the Modzitzer chasidic court.
Rebbe Yisrael Taub, the second son of Rebbe Shmuel Eliyahu of Zvolin, was born in 1849. In 1888, he succeeded his father in Zvolin and in 1891 relocated to Modrzyc (Demblin), Poland, where he soon became known as the Modzitzer Rebbe. The Rebbe famous for his composition abilities is believed to have composed over 200 melodies. A story is told that the Rebbe, who suffered greatly from diabetes traveled to Berlin in 1913 for a critical life-saving operation. Observing the beautiful architectural buildings in Berlin from his hospital window, the Rebbe was visibly saddened. The view, by comparison, reminded him of the desolation and destruction of Yerusalyim. During the operation, he composed his epic masterpiece based on the words of Ezkero (recited on Yom Kippur). The niggun (melody) comprised of 36 sections each contrasting in nature and takes over a half-hour to sing, is still popular with Modzitzer chassidim today. His teachings on Breishis, Shemos and Vayikra have been collected and published under the title Divrei Yisrael. Unfortunately, the writings on Bamidbar and Devarim were lost.
Source: Needed 

Photo CaptionL Rav Yehoshua Katz, Szombathely Rav at a wedding shortly before he passed away, Credit: From the archives of Alan Paul Katz

Photo Caption: Standing behind the Rebbe is his son-in-law, Rebbe Avroham Eichenstein, Chicago Ziditchover Rebbe, Credit: Chicago Rabbis

Photo Caption: Rav Chezkel Mertz, Credit: MCA

Bio Information:
Rabbi Yechezkel Shraga Mertz was highly regarded in the chassidisher world as an outstanding tzaddik. Being a close friend of Rebbe Yoel Teitelbaum, the Satmar Rebbe, he was buried alongside the ohel (mausoleum) that was originally designated as the Satmar Rebbe’s intended burial place.

Photo Caption: Rebbe Moshe Teitelbaum of Ujhely, d. 1841, better  known as the Yismach Moshe, Credit:  Needed

Photo Caption: First edition title page, Yetev Lev, authored by Rebbe Yekusiel Yehuda Teitelbaum of  Siget, d. 1883, Credit: IFJCAH

Photo Caption: Rebbe Moshe Teitelbaum of Ujhely, d. 1841, better  known as the Yismach Moshe, Credit:  Needed

Photo Caption: First edition title page, Yetev Lev, authored by Rebbe Yekusiel Yehuda Teitelbaum of  Siget, d. 1883, Credit: IFJCAH

Photo Caption: Rebbe Moshe Teitelbaum of Ujhely, d. 1841, better  known as the Yismach Moshe, Credit:  Needed

Photo Caption: First edition title page, Yetev Lev, authored by Rebbe Yekusiel Yehuda Teitelbaum of  Siget, d. 1883, Credit: IFJCAH


Photo Caption: Rav Tzvi Hirsh Meisels, Credit: N/N

Bio Information:
Prior to becoming Chief Rabbi of Veitzen in 1930, the Rav led the Jewish community of Neimark, Galicia. In Neimark, the Rav headed a yeshiva with hundreds of students. In 1944, the Rav along with his entire community was deported to Auschwitz. After his liberation he was appointed Chief Rabbi of the Bergen-Belsen German/British Section DP Camp where he established Yeshiva Shearis Yisroel. In 1946, upon the encouragement  of his brother-in-law Rebbe Shlomo Halberstam, Bobover Rebbe he settled in Chicago, Illinois.

Photo Caption: Sanzer Rebbe, Credit: From the library of Vivian Trokenheim Ostrov

Photo Caption: The Rebbe escorting his son Rebbe Moshe (present Kaliver Rebbe) to the Chupa, Credit: MCA

In Memorial:


Photo  Caption: Kever of Rebbe Yitzchak Isaac Taub (d. 1821) in Nagykálló, Hungary. The Rebbe, who was orphaned at a very young age is considered the first Hungarian Admor. Credit: Shlomo Reich, Cedarhurst, NY

Photo Caption: Rabbi Moshe Weinberger, Aish Kodesh Rebbe of Woodmere at the kever of the Rebbe, May 2019, Credit: Shlomo Reich, Cedarhurst, NY

Photo Caption: Spinka Rebbe leading a tish, Credit: Moreshes Chachmei America’s Archives


Photo Caption: Spinka Rebbe attending a simcha, Credit: Moreshes Chachmei America’s Archives

Photo Caption: Bobover Rebbe at a wedding c.1950, Credit: Institute For Judaic Culture and History

Photo Caption: Bobover Rebbe’s mother, Rebbetzin Chya Fraidel Halberstam d. 1974. Rebbetzin Halberstam the daughter of Rebbe Shalom Eliezer of  Ratzfert m. 1944 is one of only three grandchildren of the Divrei Chaim to be buried here in the United States.

Photo Caption: Rebbe Naftali Halberstam, Bobover Rebbe, Credit: Needed 

Photo Caption: Rebbe Yaakov Halberstam, Chakava Rebbe, Credit: Moreshes Chachmei America’s Archives

Photo Caption: Kever of Rebbe Baruch Halberstam of Gorlitz (1906), the Rebbe’s grandfather, Gorlice, Poland, Credit: Moreshes Chachmei America’s Archives

Photo Caption: kever of Divrei Chaim of Sanz (d. 1876), the Rebbe’s great grand father. 

Photo Caption: Map the the kever of Rebbe Yakov Halberstam, Chakava Rebbe

Photo Caption: Kever of the Rebbe’s son, Rav Moshe Halberstam (d. 2006), Mount of Olives cemetery in Jerusalem, Credit: MCA

Bio Information:
The Rebbe was married to the daughter of Rebbe Sholom Moskowitz of Shotz of London.