Rabbi Yitzchok Sharf
יצחק ב"ר אשר ענזיל
Rav, Chevra Torah Anshe Chesed, BrooklynDate of Death:
Fri. February 2, 1979 -
Shevat 5 5739
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Photo Caption: Chevra Torah Anshe Chesed located at 1863 Douglas Street in Brooklyn, c. 1940, Credit: NYC
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Rav Sharf had/has a son Reuven Shamshon who learned in the Bobov Yeshiva and married in 1971 To the daughter of Aron Kessler, anyone knows this family?
Another son Nussen Yaakov was killed RCH”L falling off a roof in 1977.
Hamoer on his passing:
http://hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?req=27976&st=&pgnum=47&hilite=
Reuven Sharf, he’s a famous Seforim distributor in BP
Where is/was this shul Chevra Torah Anshe Chesed, Brooklyn?
1863 Douglas Street.
It was the product of a merger of Chevra Torah and Anshe Chesed.
Ben Bee Zee,
Sorry, but R’ Reuven handed over quite a few years ago his seforim distributing business to his son Ben Tzion, who has since then expanded to retail too.
R’ Reuven has also printed a few seforim on his own, besides being a well known melamed.
“Yitzchok Scharf was born in Tarnopol, Poland in 1918. He had three sisters and four brothers. The Soviets deported Yitzchok and his brother Moshe to Siberia. They are the only members of their family who survived. After the war Yitzchok Scharf came to an Italian displaced persons’ camp where he met and married Sheindel Trebitz from Subotica Yugoslavia. On January 7, 1950 they immigrated to the United States and Yitzchok, now Rabbi Scharf, served as a congregational rabbi for 25 years. He passed away in 1979”
Studio portrait of four students from the Tarnopol Yeshiva with religious texts.
Pictured on the far right is Yitzchok Scharf
http://digitalassets.ushmm.org/photoarchives/detail.aspx?id=1161499&search=23155&index=1
Vandalism on Rabbi Sharf’s shul in Brownsville.
http://archive.jta.org/article/1967/08/07/2750221/brooklyn-police-maintain-24hour-vigil-over-desecrated-65yearold-synagogue
Before him served Rabbi Margolin in this shul
see page 85 for a short bio of Rabbi Sharf
https://clubnissim.files.wordpress.com/2018/06/anthology-21.pdf
Brooklyn Police Maintain 24-hour Vigil over Desecrated 65-year-old Synagogue
August 7, 1967
SEE ORIGINAL DAILY BULLETIN FROM THIS DATE
A 24-hour police guard was still maintained today over the 65-year-old Chevra Torah Anshe Chesed synagogue, in the Brownsville section of Brooklyn, which sustained $10,000 in damages when it was entered and vandalized last Thursday night. The holy ark was broken into, and the Torah scattered; prayer books were ripped, memorial plaques were torn from the walls, and windows were smashed. Several religious tapestries were stolen.
Police believe the synagogue, located in the heart of what is now a Negro and Puerto Rican neighborhood, was not the victim of racial or anti-Semitic assault, but of burglars who broke into the synagogue through the side door during the night. When nothing of marketable value was found, they apparently vented their frustration by tearing the place apart. The synagogue was built in 1863 when the first wave of Jewish immigrants arrived in Brownsville. Today, many of its former Jewish residents live in other parts of the city and in the suburbs.