Rabbi Yosef Grossman
יוסף ב"ר אלכסנדר זיסקינד
Rav, Philadelphia, PennsylvaniaDate of Death:
Wed. April 28, 1920 -
Iyar 10 5680
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Directions to Kever: Montefiore Cemetery in Jenkintown, Pennsylvania. Jenkintown which is part of Abington Township is located about 10 miles north of downtown Philadelphia.
Biographical Notes:
Credit: David Weider, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
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His SIL was Rabbi Dov Berel Swiren of Waterbury CT, see short Bio. on Rav Grossman:
http://www.hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?req=41513&st=&pgnum=20&hilite=
Notice of the engagment in The Reading Eagle
http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1955&dat=19130821&id=f5gtAAAAIBAJ&sjid=z5wFAAAAIBAJ&pg=3385,2504470
News about his untimely death at age 56 and some biographical nottes on Rabbi Grossman, who came to the US at age 26 from Luknik, Lithuania in year 1890:
http://books.google.com/books?id=w4blAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA378&dq=rabbi+joseph+grossman+philadelphia&hl=en&sa=X&ei=KHCaUcqwAfex4AOZ7oDYDw&ved=0CDkQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&q=rabbi%20joseph%20grossman%20philadelphia&f=false
his Brother-in-law R. Yoseph Magilnitzke published a kids Haggada in Philadelphia in year 1903, Rabbi Grossman was back then a rabbi in Hazelton PA, he wrote an Haskama to his BIL’s work:
http://hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?req=10958&st=&pgnum=45&hilite=
Which Rov is buried to his left (Right side of the picture) ?
הייזעלטאן פא
הרב הגדול ר’ יוסף גראסמאן
רב אב”ד דפה
http://www.hebrewbooks.org/pagefeed/hebrewbooks_org_5359_98.pdf
“Rabbi Joseph Grossman, of Philadelphia, delivered an address on
“The Training of Children.”
http://doi.library.cmu.edu/10.1184/pmc/CRI/CRI_1906_023_009_08101906
His Rebetzins marker can bee seen here on the left:
http://kevarim.vohost.us/rabbi-yehuda-schustal/
Incredible work. I am a great grandson and knew much of the information, but learned new things as well.
If anyone know of Rabbi Zahler heritage ,please
contact me.My mother was a Zahler and always
told me that the family were Rabbis in Galicia
but that was all she know.
thank you