Rabbi Tzvi Shimon Album
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Rav, Congregation Mishna U'Gmoro, ChicagoDate of Death:
Tue. June 7, 1921 -
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Directions to Kever: Waldheim Cemetery in Chicago maintains computerized records and will provide a detailed location map upon request, Location: large mausoleum
Name Listed on Cemetery Database: Name listed on marker: Album
Biographical Notes:
Credit: Chicago Rabbis
Photo Caption: Congregation Mishna U’Gmoro as it stands today at 3313 W Douglas Blvd in Chicago, Credit: Google Maps
Bio Information:Â
The Raw was born in Tazitz, Kovno Province, Russia into a well-known rabbinical family (his brother, Rav Dovid Tevel Katzenellenbogen, was the chief rabbi of St. Petersburg). He studied in the Volozhin yeshivah. “I was a man of wealth and means … and I never strayed from Torah. It was on my lips day and night. This is how I thought I would live my entire life, but suddenly the wheels of fortune turned. [ln 1891] a great fire in my town destroyed my house, my belongings and all that I had, which forced me to … [immigrate to Chicago] where I was appointed a rabbi and teacher in one of the holy congregations ”. (Some sources record that the Rav was a rabbi in Russia and that he immigrated following pogroms). Rav Album, who was among the foremost champion of Orthodox Judaism in Chicago, was involved in community-wide activities and he supervised kashrus without receiving any remuneration. This latter endeavor was of supreme importance since Chicago was the nation’s slaughtering capital. His authority in this sphere was threatened in 1903 by the appointment of Rav Yaakov Dovid Willowsky also known by the acronym Ridbaz as the city’s chief rabbi. A struggle ensued between the two, which at one point erupted into a violent confrontation between the supporters of each side. It abated only when Willowsky left town the following year.  The Rav passed away at the age of 72.
Rav Meir Simcha HaKohen of Dvinsk (d. 1926) once commented to a group of visiting American rabbis that Rav Album was my best student.
Source: Chicago Rabbis
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His sefer Divrie Shimon:
http://www.hebrewbooks.org/6802
Here he is mentioned in the sefer of his brother Mie Naftuach:
http://www.otzar.org/forums/viewtopic.php?p=96337#p96337
A third brother is also mentioned, Reb Moshe Yitzchok of Kaminitz
The link in my previous post has a photo of his brother, here is the link to the sefer:
http://hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?req=37494&st=&pgnum=4
The third brother was called Rabinowitz, so the 3 brothers each adopted different family names.
Handwritten Haskama of Rabbi Album:
http://hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?req=41215&st=&pgnum=7&hilite=
Oy, that was a vicious fight. So sad.
YD, you mean his sefer “Divrei Emes”, which was written about the machlokes.
See here pg. 12, a detailed description about the machlokes and a picture of Rabbi Album.
Here is the lin: http://chicagojewishhistory.org/pdf/2012/CJH-1_2012_cx.pdf.
Page 12.
Sorry, it’s pg 11.
More about him here: http://flps.newberry.org/article/5423972_10_1_1110/.
was a chavruta of Rabbi Meir Simcha of Dvinsk
Is Mitch Alboim, the sports writer a descendant?
The Rav’s Brother:
https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%93%D7%95%D7%93_%D7%98%D7%91%D7%9C_%D7%A7%D7%A6%D7%A0%D7%9C%D7%A0%D7%91%D7%95%D7%92%D7%9F