Rabbi Dov Ber Halperin
דובער ב"ר מרדכי
Rav, Cong. Ansche Sfard Linith Hazedek, Newark, New JerseyDate of Death:
Sun. February 20, 1921 -
Adar I 12 5681
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Name Listed on Cemetery Database: Name listed on marker: Rabbi Dover Halperin
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I passed by afew times there the place is run down who’s this great tzadik
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R. Dover b. Mordecai Heilpern (1858- 1921), rabbi of Cong. Ansche Sefard Linat HaZedek, Newark, New Jersey. R. Heilpern was born in Nesvizh is a town in Minsk Region, Belarus, and ordained by R. Y.L. Perlman, known as the Great one of Minsk and R. Joshua Rabinowitz of Nesvizh in 1887. He came to America in 1887 and was appointed rabbi of Chevra Mishnei’ot of New York followed by other appointments over the next 30 years. R. Heilpern was a member of the Agudat HaRabbonim and active in community affairs. He was a regular contributor to the Torah journal HaMasif. He was killed in a car accident upon returning from a wedding where he officiated. ספר היובל ×¢’ קמ
For a biographical blurb on Rav Halperin, see the following from pp. 118, 119 of the journal Aspaklaria by R. Benzion Eisenstadt in 1907: https://www.nli.org.il/en/newspapers/espac/1907/04/15/01/page/30/
Among other things, it mentions that his mother Faige was a descendant of the Shulchan Shlomo.