YITSKHOK-DOVID
MINTSBERG (1903-winter 1942)
He was born in Łuków, Shedlets (Siedlce) district, Poland, into a
rabbinical home. He studied in a number
of different yeshivas. Over the years
1921-1930, he was active in Agudat Yisrael in Ostrov-Mazovyetsk (Ostrów-Mazowiecka). He was a cofounder of Beys-Yankev schools in
Poland. After the death of Rabbi Shapiro
in 1933, he became the spiritual leader of Yeshivat ḥokhme lublin (Yeshiva of
the sages of Lublin). He contributed
articles, literary essays, and translations of Hassidic tales to: Ortodoksishe yugend-bleter (Orthodox
youth sheets), Dos yudishe togblat
(The Jewish daily newspaper), Haderekh
(The way), Deglanu (Our banner), and Darkhenu (Our path)—in Warsaw; Beys-yankev zhurnal (Beys Yankev
journal), Der yudisher arbayter (The
Jewish worker), and Di yudishe shtime
(The Jewish voice) in Lodz; and Dos vort
(The word) in Vilna; among others. He
also wrote under the pen names: Bar Be Rov and Rav Domi. When the Germans entered Lublin, he fled to Ostrów-Mazowiecka,
and from they to Lekhevits (Lakhve, Lyakhivtsi). He was confined in its ghetto, and he later was
hidden in a bunker. In the winter of
1942 the Nazis dragged him out of the bunker naked, forcibly led him to the
Umschlagplatz, and shot him there.
Sources:
Y. Emyot, dedication to Trialetn
(Warsaw, 1936), as well as personal information; Y. Fridenzon, in Ela ezkera (These I remember), vol. 3
(New York, 1959), pp. 200-6; T. Makover, in Sefer
hazikaron likehilat ostrov-mazovyetsk (The remembrance book for the
Jewish community of Ostrów-Mazowiecka) (Tel Aviv,
1960), p. 571.
Khayim Leyb Fuks
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