Rabbi Yisroel Jacobson
ישראל ב"ר יעקב ליב
Rav, Congregation Agudas Achim Ansche Bobruisk, Brownsville, BrooklynDate of Death:
Tue. May 27, 1975 -
Sivan 17 5735
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Name Listed on Cemetery Database: JACOBSON, ISRAEL (RABBI)
Biographical Notes:
Bio Information:
Rav Jacobson was among the first Chasidei Chabad to arrive on these shores and was very instrumental in establishing and rebuilding the movement in North America. The Rav relocated from Russia with the permission of the of the Frierdiker Rebbe.
Photo Caption: Rav Yisroel Jacobson, Credit: ChabadPedia
Photo Caption: Rav Yisroel Jacobson, Credit: Rabbi Herchel Tzeig
Photo Caption: Congregation Agudas Achim Ansche Bobruisk as it stands today on 729 Saratoga Avenue, Credit: Google
Photo Caption: Rabbi Aaron Lazer Zeitlin (Rabbi Jacobson’s brother-in-law) d. 1938. Rabbi Zeitlin died in a Russian prison camp for the “crime” of spreading Judaism. Credit: ChabadPedia
Photo Caption: Rebbe Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn, Lubavitcher Rebbe d. 1950, soon after his arrival to the United States, Credit: Institute For Judaic Culture and History (IFJCAH)
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His original surname was ‘Paretzky’ (as can be seen in the igros of the Previous Rebbe about him).
It may have changed (-his father’s name is indeed Yaakov/Jacob..) for his papers etc..
the picture of the Frierdige Rebbe is from his visit here in 1929-’30. Not his arrival to stay here permanently.
Rabbi Jacobson’s great uncles Mendel and Lipman came to New York in the 1890’s. They changed their name from Paritzky to Jacobson because their father’s name was Yaakov (Yaakov Yosef). The rest of the family followed suit when they came to America in the following decades, particularly because Mendel and Lipman helped many of them get jobs as shochtim in NY.