Mordechai Schlomo Friedman

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Mordechai Schlomo Friedman , also Solomon Mordechai Friedman (born October 15, 1891 in Bojany , then Austria-Hungary , now Ukraine ; died March 2, 1971 in New York City ) was an American rabbi and Boyaner Rebbe from New York City .

Life

Mordechai Shlomo Friedman was born in Bojany / Bukowina in 1891 as the youngest son of the first Boyian Rebbe, Rav Yitzchok Friedman . His great-grandfather was Rav Israel Friedmann (1797–1850).

When the First World War broke out , Rav Mordechai Shlomo fled to Vienna with his family . After his father's death in 1917, he stayed in Vienna until his mother's death in 1922 and moved to New York in 1927 with his wife and three children. He became one of the first Hasidic Rebbes to settle in America.

Under the most difficult spiritual and financial circumstances, with his engaging personality, he succeeded not only in retaining Rizhin Hasidim, but also in relatively assimilated Jews. He took leading positions in organizations such as the Orthodox Agudath Israel of America and the Va'ad Hatzalah and marched in October 1943 in the "Rabbi's March" in Washington to President Roosevelt to focus attention on Jewish suffering in Europe.

After the end of the Second World War , he took care of the physical and psychological well-being of Shoah survivors and laid the foundation stone for the new Rizhin Torah center in Jerusalem during a trip to Israel in 1953 .

literature

  • Avrohom Yaakov Finkel: Contemporary Sages / The great Chasidic masters of the twentieth century , J. Aronson, 1994, ISBN 1-56821-155-4

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Mordche S. Friedman, 80, Dies; Led Union of Hassidic Rabbis . Obituary in The New York Times . Retrieved April 17, 2020.
  2. ^ Moshe D. Sherman Orthodox Judaism in America: A Biographical Dictionary and Sourcebook. Greenwood Publishing Group, 1996, pp. 9 and 11, ISBN 978-0313243165 ( online in Google book preview, English).
  3. ^ Where Heaven Touches Earth: Jewish Life in Jerusalem from Medieval Times to the Present. Dovid Rossoff Feldheim Publishers, 2001, p. 526, ISBN 978-0873068796
personal data
SURNAME Friedman, Mordechai Schlomo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Friedman, Solomon Mordechai
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American rabbi and Boyaner Rebbe from New York
DATE OF BIRTH October 15, 1891
PLACE OF BIRTH Boyany
DATE OF DEATH March 2nd 1971
Place of death New York City