Rabbi Aaron Dobrzynski
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Rav, Congregation B'nai Yaakov Bronx, NYDate of Death:
Sun. January 21, 1940 -
Shevat 11 5700
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Name Listed on Cemetery Database: Name listed on marker: Rabbi Aaron Dobrzinski
Biographical Notes:
Photo Caption:Â Rabbi Aaron Dobrzinski, Credit:Â Institute For Judaic Culture and History
Photo Caption: Title page of Pirchai Aaron authored by Rabbi Aaron Dobrzinski and published posthumous. It should be noted that this book was the personal copy of Rabbi Dr. Leo Jung d. 1987, Credit: Institute For Judaic Culture and History
Photo Caption: Congregation B’nai Yaakov at 1712 Garfield Street in the Bronx as it stands today. Credit: Google
Bio Information:
The Rav was ordained by Rav Yisroel Yehoshua Trunk d. 1893 of Kutno, Poland
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He was the uncle of the famous Cantor Shmuel Vigoda.
The cantor’s father Shraga Feivish (born in Poland and lived in Hungary) was a brother in law of R Aharon.
He was born in Kutne, Poland, into a prominent Hassidic family. He studied in religious elementary school and in the synagogue study hall. He later became a disciple of the Gaon R. Yehoshuele Kutner, and from him he received rabbinical ordination. In 1900 he emigrated to the United States and became a ritual slaughterer. At the same time he studied languages and secular subject matter. He was at one time rabbi at the Bnei Yaakov school in New York. He contributed to Y. D. Ayzenshteynâs [Judah David Eisensteinâs ten-volume] Hebrew-language encyclopedia, Otsar yisrael (Treasury of Israel), and to the Hebrew newspapers Haivri (The Jew), Hamitspe (The watch tower), and others in New York. He also wrote articles on Jewish issues and Jewish history and religion for Yidishes tageblat (Jewish daily newspaper) in New York, Der idisher vekhter (The Jewish watchman), Morgn-zhurnal (Morning journal), Der yudisher veg-vayzer (The Jewish guide), and to the English-language Jewish press. Among his books: PirḼe aharon (Blossoms of Aharon), a collection of articles in Yiddish (54 pp.), Hebrew (42 pp.), and English (34 pp.) (Petrikov, 1928). He also published under the initials: A. D. He died in New York.
Sources: Sh. N. Gotlib, Ahale shem (The Jewish people) (Pinsk, 1912), p. 192; Otsar yisrael (London, 1935), vols. 3, 4, 5, 7.