Rabbi Yehuda Yudel ROSENBERG (1860 - 1935)

Cemetery Baron de Hirsch de la Savane Cemeteries
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Title Rabbi
Given Names Yehuda Yudel
Surname ROSENBERG
Hebrew Name haReb Yehudah Yudel bar haReb Yisrael Yitzhak
Hebrew Date 26 Tishrei 5696
Translation Here lies our splendor, glory and radiance of our honour, our teacher and Rabbi, our dear father, an echo of those worthy to ascend to the heavens, a genius in Torah, wisdom and knowledge, the epitome of righteousness, author of many books on Jewish law, legend, research, Kabbalah and a translation of the Book of Zohar to Hebrew. Our honourable and glorious teacher and Rabbi, Yehudah Yudel, the son of our teacher and Rabbi Yisrael Yitzhak, a descendant of Rabbi Yehudah the Chassid, of the Rosenberg family, Rabbi and head of the Rabbinical courts in Poland and in our city of Montreal. Woe unto us, as our sun has set on Wednesday, 26 Tishrei 5696
Birth Date 1860 Dec 24
Birth Place Gębarzów, Poland
Death Date 1935 Oct 23
Death Age 74
Father ROZENBERG, Izrael Icek
Mother CYGIELMAN, Maria Gitla
Relatives Wife Sarah
Comments/Notes Chief Rabbi of the Board Rabbis of Montreal
Obituary He died after a short and severe illness. He grew up in Skorysh, Ukraine. He was a Judge in Warsaw, then Lodz. In 1912, he was appointed Rabbi in Toronto and latter moved to Montreal. He come from a much honored rabbinical family descendants of Rabbi Yehuda the Chasid. His grandfather was Rabbi Jacob Koppel, author of 'Shaarei Gan-Eden' or 'Gates of Eden'. His sons includes 2 rabbis, 1 shochet, and 1 well-known dramatist. A prolifoc scholar and author. Translated the Zohar into Hebrew, so all could read it. A folklore scholar. Funeral from home to Russian-Polis Hadras Kodesh; then to Adath Yeshurun Shul.
Source GenealogieQuebec.com Deaths for birth, death;
+  Keneder Adler obituaries for death;
+  JRI-Poland.org Radom births for birth, parents
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Document Radom Birth Record from JRI-Poland.org. Translation: Birth Akt 104, 1860, Radom, Poland. It happened in the town of Radom on December 19th/31st, 1860, at 3 p.m. It appeared Izrael Icek Rozenberg, a cattleman in the village of Gębarzów, 43 years old, and in the presence of witnesses Chil Abrament, 43 years old, and Mosek Finkielsztejn, 58 years old, both synagogue servants, residents of the town of Radom, and showed us a child of a male gender and declared that it was born on 12th/24th day of current month and year, at 11 p.m., as a son of his wife Maryia-Gitla nee Cygielman, 35 years old. During the ceremony of circumcising the child was given the name Judka. Then the act was read and signed by the witnesses. Father illiterate.
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