Rabbi Moshe Meir Matlin
משה מאיר ב"ר יהושע הכהן
Chief Rabbi, Sioux City, IowaDate of Death:
Sun. November 9, 1924 -
Cheshvan 12 5685
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Directions to Kever: The Mount Carmel Cemetery is located in Sioux City, Iowa alongside Floyd Cemetery.
Name Listed on Cemetery Database: Name listed on marker: Rabbi Moses M Maltin
Biographical Notes:
Source: Orthodox Judaism in America, Sherman
Credit: Sharon Christensen
Credit: Sharon Christensen
Credit: Sharon Christensen
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I have seen a picture of the never of rabbi matlin and I find it strange that it doesn’t say ..hacohen…As we are a family of cohanim. Can anyone shed light on this please
In the book Orthodox Judaism in America it says that before Rabbi Matlin went to Iowa, he was in Montana trying to build a Jewish community but was unsuccessful.
He was definitely a Kohen. There is a famous story where his son Akiva left medical school because he was a Kohen. As a side, Akiva was why he started a school in the first place.
WHO WAS RABBI YAKOV SHMIEL MATLIN SON OF R MATISYUHI
Michael you are right about being cohanim. My email address is heatherlmhc@aol.com. My mother was Ada Epstein Silverman, granddaughter of Rabbi Moshe Meir Matlin. I would like to figure out how we are related.
On the Kever it says כ”צ, meaning כהן צדק.
In response to Dovid B, Rabbi Matlin (my mother’s grandfather) acquired land in Ismay Montana on the Homestead Act. I have heard through family lore that he wanted to move his family from the congested Lower East Side of NY, to the open air countryside. They apparently planted sugar beets which turned out not to be the edible kind! They also purchased a horse who they found out later was blind. They eventually moved from Montana to Sioux City, Iowa. I was told that it was to find a learned husband for my grandmother, Rabbi Matlin’s daughter Bessie Lillian who I am named after. I have a document, signed by the secretary of President Woodrow Wilson, showing that Bessie owned land herself under the homestead act but after moving to Iowa, they eventually they let the ownership of their land expire due to taxes required to maintain ownership. I am still researching the details of this story.
In addition to my previous entry, I would like to add that Bessie’s documentation on her Homestead Act Montana property was dated Jan 22, 1920.
@Michael Matlin – to answer the question from a while ago, it does mention Rabbi Matlin as a Cohen on the tombstone.
It reads as “Moshe Meir ben Yehoshua K”Tz (Kohen Tzedek) z”l Matlin”