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   YD Miller on November 11, 2009 at 12:43 am

   Harav Mayefsky was over 40 years a R”M in Yeshivah Tiferes Yerushalaim on the East Side of Manhattan, he also founded the Chevra Shas in the Konwitz Yeshive where he gave a daily Shiur.

   The Konwittz Yeshiva was a part of the East Side Torah Center that was founded in year after the passing of the Rydve”z and named after him, which started out as a Talmud Torah, and then after the passing of his Son-in-law Rabbi Yosef Konwitz a Yeshiva was added after him.

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   YD Miller on November 11, 2009 at 12:48 am

   Forgot to add;
   I took this information from Hamoer on the Yartziet of Rabbi Mayefsky, where a Sium was held by the Konwitz Yeshivah and three of his sons adressed the sium:

   1) Rabbi Ahron Kayefsky
   2) Rabbi Yitzchok Mayefsky, Chicago
   3) Rabbi Yehuda Mayefsky, R”M Yeshivas Konwitz

   http://www.hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?req=27829&hilite=b7d8f9e7-68da-492b-9a11-c1e5f79ae7bf&st=%d7%9e%d7%90%d7%99%d7%a2%d7%95%d7%95%d7%a1%d7%a7%d7%99&pgnum=23

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   Moshe Mayefsky on May 20, 2011 at 2:07 am

   Interesting information about the person after whom I am named. I especially like that you linked to your source.

   Harav Mayefsky was my great grandfather. His son Yehuda Tzvi had a son Eliyahu Shmuel Reuven, who is my father.

   There are a couple of typos above — first son should be Mayefsky, not Kayefsky, and I believe the link to Hamoer says that he served 45 years, not 40, as a R”M in Tiferes Yerushalayim.

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   Moshe Isenberg on October 23, 2012 at 4:30 pm

   Thank you for posting this.
   Rabbi Moshe Mayefsky was my great-grandfather as well.
   His son, Rabbi Yitzchok Mayefsky ZT”L (noted above as addressing the siyum at the Konowitz Yeshiva) was my grandfather.
   In addition to being a direct descendant of the Vilna Goan (as noted in Eliyahu’s Branches a:Chaim Freedman Sept. 1997) Reb Moshe was a close chaver of Reb Moshe Feinstein ZT”L

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   Warren Graham on September 4, 2014 at 3:13 pm

   He was also my great-grandfather, and I remember him, although vaguely, as he died when I was only 4. My maternal grandmother, Betty Lipsky, nee Mayefsky, was his eldest daughter and second oldest child, having been one of the five children who left Palestine to avoid being drafted into the Ottoman Army during WWI. There were 4 more children born here. R. Mayefsky had been born in Vilna, and had come to Palestine with his father in the late 1880’s. He was married to Judith Hirschenson, whose family had been in Palestine for a number of decades. One of his great-grandsons is, in fact, named Moshe Mayefsky, as you can see above.

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   YD Miller on September 7, 2014 at 10:51 am

   Hi Warren,

   Was R’ Chaim Hirschenson a brother-inlaw to Rabbi Mayefsky?

   http://kevarim.vohost.us/rabbi-chaim-hirschensohn/

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   Yitzhak G on October 17, 2020 at 5:45 pm

   @YD Miller,

   I am a great great grandson of Rav Mayefsky. I too was wondering if Rav Chaim Hirschensohn was related to Yehudis Hirschensohn. I did some research and it appears that they were not related.

   Based on family tradition, Yehudis Hirschensohn was a granddaughter of Rav Zevulun Hirschensohn through his son Yehuda Tzvi. According to this encyclopedia article, (http://www.tidhar.tourolib.org/tidhar/view/3/1330) Rav Zevulun immigrated to Jerusalem from Białystok. (I have found no clear evidence to corroborate this claim)

   Rav Chaim Hirschensohn’s father, Rav Yaakov Mordecai, immigrated to Safed from Pinsk. You can read about it here, and this is corroborated by many other sources.(http://www.tidhar.tourolib.org/tidhar/view/4/1706)

   As far as I know it is very unlikely that they were closely related.

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   DanzigEisen on November 24, 2021 at 8:22 am

   I appreciate reading all your comments and learning a little about Rabbi Mayefsky. I am a great granddaughter of R’ David Danzig, whom I believe was R’ Moses Mayefsky’s brother. Their father, R’ Elimelech Mayefsky Danzig, is listed on some sites as being “son of Rabbi Avraham Mordekhai Danzig; Dov Tzvi Mayefsky and Sarah Mayefsky, of Belitzeh.” I am curious about the history of the Mayefsky-Danzig names, since my family has always traced itself through the Danzig line, but R’ David Danzig is also listed in some places as Rabbi David Mayefsky Danzig. I was once told the name change was due to children switching last names because of draft issues in Lithuania, but am thinking perhaps it wasn’t this, and his (R. Elimelech’s) biological father was Dov Tzvi Mayefsky who passed and then his mother remarried R’ Avraham M Danzig? But why then, would R’ Moses Mayefsky use only the Mayefsky name, without the additional Danzig name which his father R’ Elimelech used? Any ideas/information?

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   Simon on December 20, 2021 at 7:03 pm

   Getting ahead with family tree. Sarah Shoshana Danzig Stern 1866 to 1896. Hospital in Vryburg, rests Kimberley. Youngest of 22 Danzigs. Eliyahu’s branches entry. Sarah fell from a train. Cause of death a fractured skull so seems to be her. If Matzevah survives then father’s name possible. This all fits into Mayefsky tree, according to some.