Rabbi Menachem Pollak
מנחם ב"ר אברהם הלוי
Szerencze Rav of the Lower East SideDate of Death:
Wed. September 24, 1952 -
Tishrei 5 5713
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Directions to Kever: Block: 23, Gate 16, Society: HUNGARIAN CHEVRA, near the Main Street part of the cemetery.
Name Listed on Cemetery Database: POLLAK, EMANUEL
Biographical Notes:
Photo Caption:Rav Menachem Pollak in Europe, Credid: Yad Vashem
Photo Caption: Rav Menachem Pollak, Credit: Mendy Pollak, Upper West Side
Photo Caption: Rav Menachem Pollak (back row) in New York. Credit: Mendy Pollak, New York City.
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The Rav authored “Chelek Levi” which his SIL Rab Yehudah Lemberger printed, it was recently reprinted.
http://www.hebrewbooks.org/3127
http://www.hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?req=24457&pgnum=44
http://collections.yadvashem.org/photosarchive/en-us/71910_69528.html
Rabbi Menachem halevi Pollak was born in 1890 in Kisvarda/Kleinvardein to son of R’ Avraham halevi Pollak and Leah Krausz (from Nyirmada). His brother R’ Itamar Naftali halevi lived in Kisvarda.
He was Talmid of the Arugas Habosem in Chust, and of R’ Shmuel Rosenberg in Hunsdorf. His first wife Helen Kahan died between 1912-1914. In 1914, he married daughter of R’ Pinchas halevi Billitzer of Szerencs, and then served as Rav there until 1939, when he left Hungary and settled in New York. He died in 1952.
His son-in-law Rabbi Yehuda Leib Lemberger, was son of the Tiszapolgar Rav R’ Menachem Lemberger, and brother of the Makava Rav R’ Moshe Nathan Lemberger (of Kiryat Ata, Israel).
Rav Pollak was a landsman of my grandfather who was also from Kleinvardein. He was also my parents mesader kedushin in 1948.
yehi zichro boruch.