Rabbi Naftali Zev Leibowitz
נפתלי זאב ב"ר יעקב מיכאל הכהן
Rosh Kollel, Yeshivas Bais Yitzchok KamenetzDate of Death:
Fri. December 24, 1954 -
Kislev 27 5715
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Directions to Kever: Mount Judah Cemetery in Queens maintains computerized records and will provide a detailed location map upon request. Location: Section: 1, Block: T, Gate: 5, Path: L04, Society: TIF ISR OF N Y, along Judah Road last section before Sinai Avenue on the left side
Name Listed on Cemetery Database: LEIBOWITZ, NAFTEL
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Credit: IFJCAH
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Was he related to Rav Baruch Ber?
You’ll be surprised, but they were brothers-in-law! Reb Boruch Ber wasn’t a Cohen, so the name is just a coincidence, but they were married to sisters, daughters of Reb Avrohom Yitzchok Zimmerman Rav of Krementchuk.
Reb Naftoli was Mashgiach in Kamenitz, and in America after the war was the head of the Kamenitzer Kollel.
After his petirah the kolle printed a Sefer Zikaron with a biography called “Zecher Naftoli”, currently unavailable in Hebrewbooks.
His daughter Rebbetzin Lichtenstein is still alive, her husband Reb Kalman was a Rav in Chelsie Mass.
Her son Reb Yaakov Yisroel is a Dayan in London.
my father and Rabbi lichtenxtien were best friends from Baranovich
I assume your father was Reb Hershel Milner, and you are called after your grandfather, see here: http://hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?req=46427&st=&pgnum=400&hilite=.
R”Hershel Milner was a sil of Rabbi Ashkenazi, a Shanghai shidduch