topic:"Rabbis" found 4 records - The Canadian Jewish Heritage Network

History / Biographical: Rabbi Abraham Shtern was born in Poland in 1878 and passed away in Montreal in 1955. Rabbi Shtern arrived in Canada in 1938 with members of his family and was appointed rabbi of the Zeirei Dat Vadaat Congregation of Montreal. Several of his children had arrived in Canada prior to his arrival and were counted amongst the Yiddish cultural elite: Jacob Zipper, author and principal of the Jewish Peretz School; Sholem Shtern, poet and literary writer; Israel Shtern, Yiddish and English poet; Yehiel Shtern, educator and author; and Shifra Krishtalka, educator and writer of pedagogical literature. Rabbi Shtern was the author of three volumes of essays on biblical and hasidic themes, in both Hebrew and Yiddish: "Edut be-Yisrael" (1943), "Kevuzat Kitvei Aggadah" (1947), and "Hutim ha-Meshulashim" (1953).

Language: Yiddish; Hebrew; English

Subjects: Shtern, Abraham; Shtern, Israel.; Shtern, Sholom, 1906-; Shtern, Yechiel; Zipper, Jacob, 1900-1983; Rabbis; Rabbis -- Canada.

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Repository: Jewish Public Library Archives

Simon Glazer Fonds

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Collection: Simon Glazer Fonds

Description Level: Fonds

Material Type: multiple media

Physical Description: 1 file of textual material ; 4 photographs : b&w

Fonds No.: 1231

Date: 1917

Scope and Content: Consists of photographs and biographical documents related to Simon Glazer.

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Collection: Simon Glazer Fonds

Description Level: Fonds

Material Type: multiple media

Physical Description: 1 file of textual material ; 4 photographs : b&w

Scope and Content: Consists of photographs and biographical documents related to Simon Glazer.

Date: 1917

Fonds No.: 1231

Storage Location: 7-3C, SC3

History / Biographical: Orthodox rabbi and author, Simon Glazer was chief rabbi of the United Synagogues of Montreal and Quebec City before moving to the United States.

Custodial History: Donated to the JPL-A by Warren Grover, grandson of Rabbi Glazer.

Notes: Stored in Small Collections Box#3 (SC3)

Subjects: Glazer, Simon, 1876-1938; Rabbis

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Repository: Jewish Public Library Archives

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Yudel Rosenberg Collection

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Collection: Yudel Rosenberg Collection

Description Level: Fonds

Material Type: artefact

Physical Description: 1 artefact.

Fonds No.: 1399

Date: [c.1890-1900]

Scope and Content: 1 scroll.

Collection: Yudel Rosenberg Collection

Description Level: Fonds

Material Type: artefact

Physical Description: 1 artefact.

Scope and Content: 1 scroll.

Date: [c.1890-1900]

Fonds No.: 1399

Creator: Yudel Rosenberg

Physical Condition: Poor

History / Biographical: Yudel Rosenberg was born in Poland in the town of Skaryszew, near Radom. He received a traditional Hasidic education in both rabbinic literature and Kabbalah. He was also exposed to secular learning both through the Hebrew works of the nineteenth century modernist movement known as the "Haskalah" Enlightenment, and through his mastery of the Russian language which he studied in order to obtain governmental permission to function as a rabbi. It is noteworthy that, unlike many Eastern European Jews with a similar background who were exposed to secular thought, Rosenberg remained loyal to the Orthodox tradition. Rosenberg received rabbinic ordination, and after a couple of failed attempts at business, functioned as a rabbi in the town of Tarlau and in the cities of Lublin, Warsaw and Lodz. He emigrated to Canada in 1913, at the invitation of a congregation of Polish Jews in Toronto. In 1919, he moved to Montreal, where he served as rabbi until his death. During the last thirty years of his life, Rosenberg wrote prolifically, in both Hebrew and Yiddish, on a wide variety of subjects. For a scholarly audience, he wrote a supercommentary on the talmudic tractate, Nedarim. He wrote respopnsa to legal questions, a volume of homilies on the Pentateuch, and a short-lived Rabbinic journal. He also wrote and edited a number of liturgical and Halachic works meant to be read by a popular audience. Notably, he wrote a series of stories concerning Rabbi Judah Loewe of Prague, most prominent of which was his account of Rabbi Loewe and the Golem. Rosenberg's major literary project, in which he was engaged for some 25 years, was a translation and reworking of the classic work of Jewish mysticism, the Zohar. He reedited the work to form a true commentary on the Bible and translated it from an often obscure Aramaic to a clear and simple Hebrew. He also added his own commentary. Within the Canadian Jewish community, Rosenberg elicited both respect and controversy. He had considerable influence in Orthodox circles in the two major centres of Jewish population in Canada: Toronto and Montreal. His reputation spread throughout the Jewish world. In particular, his influence was felt in the Canadian Jewish community in the issue of kashrut, the regulation of the Jewish dietary laws. His religious outlook, as gleaned from his writings, was quite pessimistic. In this, he was similar to many of his contemporary Orthodox rabbinical colleagues, though he was, perhaps, more articulate than most. It would be wrong, however, to assume that Rosenberg felt that the cause was by any means lost. In fact, he believed that he possessed the key to the salvation of Orthodox Judaism and its reconciliation with the modern world. This key was Kabbalah.

Language: Hebrew

Custodial History: Donated to the Jewish Public Library Archives by Barry Rosenberg.

Accession No.: 18-018

Name Access: Rosenberg, Rabbi Yudel

Subjects: Rabbis -- Canada.; Rabbis -- Poland.; Kabbala

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Repository: Jewish Public Library Archives

Yudel Rosenberg Fonds

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Collection: Yudel Rosenberg Fonds

Description Level: Fonds

Material Type: textual record

Physical Description: 0.1 cm of textual records.

Fonds No.: 1383

Date: [c. 1907-1935]

Scope and Content: 1 file containing an incomplete manuscript, possibly a sequel of his published work, Raphael ha-Malakh.

Collection: Yudel Rosenberg Fonds

Description Level: Fonds

Material Type: textual record

Physical Description: 0.1 cm of textual records.

Scope and Content: 1 file containing an incomplete manuscript, possibly a sequel of his published work, Raphael ha-Malakh.

Date: [c. 1907-1935]

Fonds No.: 1383

Storage Location: JPL

Creator: Yudel Rosenberg

History / Biographical: Rabbi Yudel Rosenberg, was born in 1859 in the village of Skaryszew, Poland, and received a traditional Hasidic education. However, his exposure to secular learning through the Haskalah (Jewish Enlightenment), along with his mastery of the Russian language constituted an unusual combination of skills. Ordained as a young man, Rosenberg failed at several business ventures which resulted in an appointment as the rabbi in Tarlow, as well as in Warsaw, Lodz, and Lublin. In 1913, at the invitation of Polish Jews in Toronto, he emigrated to Canada and eventually settled in Montreal in 1919, where he became the Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Orthodox Congregations of Montreal, a coalition of synagogues serving immigrant Ashkenazi communities too impoverished to hire their own rabbis. Amongst Rosenberg’s most well-known works is his translation of the Zohar from Aramaic to Hebrew, while his other works encompassed supercommentaries, the Haggadah for Passover with the Explanation and Customs of the Maharal of Prague (Warsaw, 1905), the Shaarei Zohar Torah (Warsaw, 1905), an attempt to organize Torah sections based on passages from the Zohar, and Rephuat ha-Nefesh u-Rephuat ha-Guf (Warsaw, 1907), a Yiddish translation of Maimonides’ second treatise from the Mishneh Torah which focuses on the health of the human body and soul. Rosenberg published Sefer Raphael hamalakh (Lodz, 1907), one of his most influential books which is a handbook of Hasidic healing constituing home remedies, medicines obtainable without a doctor’s prescription, inluding amulets and incantations. He was also known for a sequence of stories about the Golem of Prague, which he attributed to the Maharal of Prague. Contemporary study indicates that the work was in fact Rosenberg's. He was the grandfather of celebrated Canadian author Mordecai Richler, whose work was presumably inspired by Rosenberg's stories. He died in Montreal on October 23, 1935.

Language: Hebrew

Notes: Deaccessioned from the Jewish Canadiana Collection.

Accession No.: 18-002

Name Access: Rosenberg, Rabbi Yudel

Subjects: Rosenberg, Rabbi Yudel; Rabbis; Rabbis -- Canada.; Rabbis -- Poland.; Manuscripts; Kabbala

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Repository: Jewish Public Library Archives