Monday, 7 September 2015

SHMUEL GELBART

SHMUEL GELBART (1908-June 1943)
            He was born in Lodz into a family of scholars.  His father Yisroel-Itshe was the author of Hebrew-language religious works.  He studied in religious elementary school and in the yeshivas of Lodz and Mir.  Until February 1940, he was living in Lodz, later in Tshenstokhov (Częstochowa).  He published the book Di groyse yeshive “toyres khesed” in lodzh, ire shafer un boyer (The great yeshiva “Torat Ḥesed,” its founder and builder) (Lodz: Masora, 1929), 76 pp.  In this book he gave a well-rounded picture of the lifestyle at this yeshiva.  He died during the selection in the Częstochowa ghetto.


Source: Kh. L. Fuks, in Fun noentn over 3 (New York, 1957).

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