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Rabbi Yonoson Steif

by | Nov 25, 2008 | Beth Israel Cemetery - Woodbridge, NJ, Chief Rabbi, New Jersey | 13 comments

Rabbi Yonoson Steif

יונתן ב"ר צבי

Chief Rabbi, Budapest, Hungary

Date of Death: Tue. August 26, 1958 - Elul 10 5718

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Cemetery Details
1098 Woodbridge Center Drive
Woodbridge, NJ 07095
United States

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Notes: Also, know as Woodbridge Memorial Gardens located along US Highway 1 in Woodbridge, New Jersey. Gate hours are officially 8:30 – 4:30 but will remain open until sunset (6:30 during the summer). In addition, Beth Israel maintains computerized record

Directions to Kever: Beth Israel Cemetery in Woodbridge, NJ maintains computerized records and will provide a detailed location map upon request. Location: Viener Chelka

Biographical Notes:


Photo Caption: Rav Yonoson Shteif, Credit: Vien Archives

In Memorial:
Rav Yaakov Koppel Reich (d. 1929)
Chief Rabbi, Budapest, Hungary

Photo Caption: Rav Yaakov Koppel Reich, Credit: Needed


Photo Caption: Kever of Rav Reich, Budapest, Hungary, Credit: Yossi Rubinfeld and MCA

Photo Caption: Rav Reich outside the cemetery in Budapest, c. 1920, Credit: Yossi Rubinfeld and MCA

Photo Caption: Cemetery ar it appears today (2019), Credit: Yossi Rubinfeld


Credit: IFJCAH



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13 Comments

  1. Joe Klein
    Joe Klein on March 3, 2009 at 7:05 pm

    Rav Shteif was also the chief rabbi of the Viener community in the United States.

  2. Miller
    Miller on March 3, 2009 at 11:06 pm

    On the bottom of his Matzieve, his son Reb Zvi Yehudah is mentioned, he perished in Auschwitz HY”D but his children survived.

  3. Joe Klein
    Joe Klein on March 3, 2009 at 11:12 pm

    Whose children survived?

  4. Miller
    Miller on March 4, 2009 at 5:22 pm

    Reb Zvi Yhuda’s

  5. EA
    EA on December 2, 2009 at 5:44 pm

    Rabbi Jonathan b. Zvi Steif (1877-1958), was a prominent rabbinical scholar, served in prestigious communities. A student of the Ktav Sofer, he was appointed to the Budapest Rabbinical court in 1923. After the Holocaust he settled in the United States where his views and responsa were widely accepted. Several of his works were published in Europe during his lifetime, several books of collected responsa and novella were printed in Brooklyn after his demise.

  6. avremele
    avremele on December 3, 2009 at 10:25 am

    I believe the Ksav Sofer was niftar in the 1860s. He wasn’t born yet.

  8. avremele
    avremele on December 3, 2009 at 1:57 pm

    It was most probably the Shevet Sofer

  9. EF
    EF on January 4, 2010 at 2:12 am

    Actually, it was the Shevet Sofer. Feldheim has just released a new about about Rabbi Yonason Steif – it is simply fascinating.

  11. curios
    curios on April 27, 2010 at 1:21 pm

    I also read the book, it is written by his daughter Mrs. Blayer. It’s truly fascinating. He was a real Gadol!!

  13. michael steif) grandson
    michael steif) grandson on November 26, 2012 at 4:23 pm

    he learned by the shevat sofer for 11 years he had hatras haroah and shimush by rab dovid lakenbracher/name was neiman / a talmid of the csam sofer ztz among others

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