Elimelech Gavriel Tress

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Elimelech Gavriel Tress , Elimelekh Gavri'el Tress, also called "Mike" Tress (born 1909 in New York City , United States ; † July 9, 1967 in New York City), was an American ultra-Orthodox rabbi .

Tress was the son of an immigrant and was born in the United States. Without training as a rabbi, he was later dubbed Reb Elimelech because of his influential activities , and he was also known by his nickname Mike . Before and during the Second World War , he founded various youth organizations to counteract assimilation. Tress was president of the " Agudath Israel of America " for many years and helped the union to become one of the largest political, communal and cultural representations of the orthodoxy of its time in the United States that did not belong to the Zionist Misrachi movement. He headed the organization until his death, when he was succeededMoshe Sherer . In order to finance the Agudath Israel and help Jews flee Europe, he gave up his business as a businessman and used his wealth for this. Tress saved the lives of many European Jews during the Holocaust through his commitment .

His biographer is the ultra-orthodox publicist Jonathan Rosenblum , whose work z. Partly based on research by the historian David Kranzler .

In his honor, the Agudath Israel will present the Reb Elimelech Tress Memorial Award .

literature

  • Yonason Rosenblum: They Called Him Mike. Reb Elemelech Tress, his era, hatzalah and the building of an American Orthodoxy. Artscroll Publications, Brooklyn, NY 1995, ISBN 0-89906-623-2 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Yoel Finkelman: Nostalgia, Inspiration, Ambivalence: Eastern Europe, Immigration, and the Construction of Collective Memory in Contemporary American Haredi Historiography. In: Jewish History , Volume 23, No. 1, 2009, pp. 57-82, here p. 67. ISSN  0334-701X ( JSTOR Stable URL ).
  2. ↑ Short review on www.goodreads.com .
  3. ↑ Gerson Kranzler: "He Who Saves A Soul in Israel" ( Memento of the original from February 28, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , English, accessed May 12, 2013. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / tzemachdovid.org
  4. ↑ cf. Catalog entry, National Library of Israel
personal data
SURNAME Tress, Elimelech Gavriel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Tress, Mike (nickname); Tress, Michael G .; Tress, Elimelekh Gavri'el; Tress, Reb Elimelech
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American President of Agudath Israel of America
DATE OF BIRTH 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City , United States
DATE OF DEATH July 9, 1967
Place of death New York City , United States