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Rabbi Binyamin Zeilberger (sometimes pronounced Tzahlberger; Hebrew: רב בנימין צלברגר/ציילברגר) was the rosh yeshiva of Beth Hatalmud Rabbinical College in the second half of the twentieth century. He was an alumnus of the Mir Yeshiva in Europe.
Rabbi Binyamin Zeilberger | |
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 Zeilberger (at left) with Elya Svei | |
| Personal life | |
| Born | March 14, 1921 Koenigshaufen, Germany |
| Died | October 10, 2005 Brooklyn, New York |
| Spouse | Sara Rochel Zeilberger née Kaplan |
| Parents |
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| Alma mater | Mir Yeshiva (Belarus) |
| Religious life | |
| Religion | Judaism |
| Denomination | Orthodox Judaism |
| Jewish leader | |
| Predecessor | Chaim Vysokier |
| Successor | Yehuda Zeilberger |
Early life
editZeilberger was born in Koenigshaufen, Germany on March 14, 1921, to Yehuda (Julius) and Chana (Johanna) Zeilberger.[1] In 1935 he enrolled in the Mir Yeshiva in what is now Belarus,[2] where he shared a room in a boarding house with Aryeh Leib Malin, Yonah Minsker, and Michel Feinstein.[3]
When World War II broke out in 1939 the Mir Yeshiva (and many other yeshivas in Poland) fled to Lithuania.[4] Zeilberger remained with the yeshiva when it moved to Japan in 1941, then to Shanghai,[2] and then in 1947 to the United States where it was reëstablished in Brooklyn.
Zeilberger married Sara Rochel Kaplan.[2]
Beth Hatalmud Rabbinical College
editZeilberger soon joined the Beth Hatalmud Rabbinical College in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, [2] established in 1950 by older students from the Mir Yeshiva who had also escaped from Europe including Aryeh Leib Malin.[5] Zeilberger later became a rosh yeshiva there[2][5] and was on the faculty for over fifty years.[2]
Death
editZeilberger died in Brooklyn on October 10, 2005, at the age of 84.[1]
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ a b "Rav Binyomin Zeilberger, Rabbi". geni.com. Geni.com. 14 March 1921. Retrieved 15 June 2021.
- ^ a b c d e f "Noted in Sorrow" (PDF). The Jewish Observer. XXXVIII (9): 6, 41. November 2005. Retrieved July 12, 2020.
- ^ Geberer, Yehuda; Safier, Dovi (March 23, 2021). "FOR the record: The Yekke List". Mishpacha (854): 176.
- ^ Wein, Berel (October 1990). "Hitler's War Against the Jews". Triumph of Survival (First ed.). Brooklyn, NY: Shaar Press. p. 355. ISBN 1-4226-1514-6.
- ^ a b Geberer, Yehuda; Safier, Dovi (March 23, 2021). "FOR the record: The Yekke List". Mishpacha (854): 176.