Rabbi Eliyahu Herzenberg
Rabbi Eliyahu Herzenberg
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Rav, Bais Medrash HaGadol of WilliamsburgDate of Death:
Wed. September 25, 1912 -
Tishrei 14 5673
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Name Listed on Cemetery Database: Name listed on marker: Grand Rabbi Elias Herzenberg
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The Bais Medrash HaGadol of Williamsburg located at 46 Moor Street and prided itself as being, strictly Shomer Shabbos.
Credit: Asher Lowy, Brooklyn, NY
Credit: Asher Lowy, Brooklyn, NY
Credit: Map to the kever of Rav Herzenberg
Credit: Map to the kever of Rav Herzenberg
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Interesting that in the English it says Herzenberg, but in the Hebrew it says Hertzberg.
Some Torah from him here: http://www.hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?req=23616&st=&pgnum=31
He signs “Rav of Anshei Korland in Brooklyn”, I guess he was there before Williamsburg.
His father was rav in Korland for around six years, see here:
http://books.google.com/books?id=FWw-AAAAYAAJ&dq=%D7%90%D7%9C%D7%99%D7%94%D7%95%20%D7%94%D7%A2%D7%A8%D7%A6%D7%91%D7%A2%D7%A8%D7%92&pg=PA149#v=onepage&q=&f=false
Where was Bais Hamedrash Hagodol of Williamsburg? and where does it say that Rabbi Herzenberg was Rav there?
YD, on line 7 it’s engraved that he was Rav in BMH”G plus he’s buried in the Beis Bedrash Hagodol of Williamsburg section – gate 84.
Poor spacing of the english words on the kever. The english is strange as well ….”14 day”, and as someone pointed out above the name in hebrew is Hertzberg. I wonder who did the english inscription.
Seemingly someone who didn’t know English well (pretty common in those days…).
Farshlufen-
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?_r=1&res=9B04E0DD1330E733A25750C2A9639C946397D6CF
I found an incredibly interestinf article above. It seems there was a butcher shop at 46 Moore st. and there was rioting and burning of meat there by women one evening (maybe it was tarfus?). Maybe there was a shul built later, but that would not give R’ Herzberg many years as Rav of the Shul.
if you’ll look in different records you’ll find Moore Street (in old/almost New Williamsburg) to have many shuls. It seems like this was like what we call today “The Heart of Williamsburg”
A.R. The riots against the butchers was all over the city and was due the butchers and wholesalers raising prices.
People in that part of the world with the name Herzenberg were also Herzberg, Hercenberg, Hertzenberg, Hertzberg, Gerzenberg, etc, due to the many languages/alphabets used in the area (Hebrew, Latvian, German, Russian, Polish, Yiddish…).
My ancestor Joseph or Jossel Herzenberg was a rabbi in Pilten, Kurland, Latvia. He had four sons Elias, Lemchen (my line), Chone and Osher. Elias and his son Josip were also Rabbis. Osher had a son Eliahu born abt 1812 of whom I know nothing else. Obviously not the same Eliahu, but perhaps there’s a connection there.
I don’t read Hebrew, so I’m not able to read the texts mentioned. I know that some of my distant relatives left Kurland for the US in the mid 1800’s but I don’t know much about them.
An eulogy, upon his passing in Hamodia of 1912, by Rabbi Shimon Tuvia Kaplan
http://tinyurl.com/d9ermme
עוד מדברי תורתו
http://www.hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?req=35303&pgnum=9
Credit:
Moreshes Cachmei America
Snapshot of society gate with Rav Hertzenberg’s name spelled with the letter “N”, in difference to to his marker.
http://s949.photobucket.com/user/aman51/media/Bayside/Hertzenberg_zpsc2e054e8.jpg.html?sort=3&o=0
Pix of Aaronson, who’s buried next to the Rav. It says, “Chevra Beis Ha’Midrash Hagodol, 46 Moor Street, Williamsburg, Strictly Shomer Shabbos”
http://s949.photobucket.com/user/aman51/media/Bayside/AAronson_zpse7fda92b.jpg.html
דער מארגען זשורנאל 01 אוקטובר 1912
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