Rabbi Meir Yehoshua Peikes
מאיר יהושא ב"ר בנימין
Rav, Congregation Kehilath Jeshurun, New York CityDate of Death:
Fri. March 15, 1929 -
Adar II 3 5689
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Name Listed on Cemetery Database: Rabbi Meyer J. Peikes
Biographical Notes:
Photo Caption: Rabbi Meir Yehoshua Peikes, Credit: Tova E. Cohen
Bio Information:
In 1885 Rav Peikes, a founding member of the Agudath Harabonim was appointed the Congregations first rabbi
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He was appointed rabbi to congregation Kehilath Jeshurun in 1885. There is information online if you search for “Kehilath Jeshurun Peikes,” including a google books excerpt of how he was ousted from the congregation. His death record says that he died in Brooklyn at age 62, born in Russia, in the US for 45 years, father Benjamin, mother Sarah Cohen. An online family tree lists his first wife as Rachel Cohen and second wife as Dora.
Here is the link to the book Laurel is reffering to:
http://books.google.com/books?id=STuowW4K44wC&lpg=PA66&dq=%22Kehilath%20Jeshurun%22%20peikes&pg=PA66#v=onepage&q&f=false
I find the name “Mier Yehoshua Peikes” later in the 1960’s I assume this is a grandson who was on the borad of editors for Kol Yaakov a periodical printed by the Yeshivah RJJ.
http://www.hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?req=29054&st=&pgnum=22
Obituary 3 No Title
$3.95 – New York Times – Mar 18, 1929
… United Israel cIon I have learned deep grief of the death o the revered Rabbi M. J. Peikes honorary director devoted and faithful friend of the hospital ..
Of which hospital?
http://tinyurl.com/Peikes
can someone please translate? I can make out some of it. I am a direct decedent of Rabbi Peikes.
Thank you.
RABBI PEIKES WAS MY GRANDFATHER. ANY INFORMATION WILL BE MUCH APPRECIATED
THE HOSPITAL WAS THEN CALLED ISRAEL ZION AND NOW KNOWN AS MAIMONIDES MEDICAL CENTER AND RABBI PEIKES WAS ONE OF THE FOUNDERS
http://www.jpress.nli.org.il/Olive/APA/NLI_heb/SharedView.Article.aspx?parm=ZmPVr0VLx2sfsbTvmqqhkOt91zoXdFre56ol6lOl1MACv0yLlI08Ty3wawR654%2FXYw%3D%3D&mode=image&href=TJM%2F1914%2F07%2F17&page=8&rtl=true
Peikes, M. J. Elected Rabbi of Congregation B’nai Benjamin, New York, in 1904.
From Jewish yearbook on internet. Can’t find any reference to this synagogue. Maybe a sort-lived break-away synagogue from KJ.
Their is a slight error in the description on top. Rabbi Peikes passed away on the third of Adar Bais as indicated on the tombstone.
Meyer was born in what is now Vilnius Lithuania and after he left Kehilath Jeshurun he became a jeweler and made watch chains. But he still was very involved in the Jewish community in Borough Park and was very well known by the Jewish community there thanks to his philanthropic activities there.
The translation of the grave is here lies my husband and our father Rabbi Meyer Yehoshua the son of binyomin peikes many are your resources in torah and knowledge in the hearts of your brothers have you planted them your mouth gave forth pearls to all who listened fear and love for G-d you related through them those who knew your true worth are bitterly mourning you an elegy were you eulogized by your sons and daughters on the loss of their glory and beauty with your death forever will your good name be remembered by your congregation he passed away on the 3rd day of adar 2 5689 may his soul rest in the eternal resting place.
I am also a direct descendant of Rabbi Peikes as he is my 2nd great grandfather