SHMUEL-YOYSEF SHULZON (b. May 16, 1902)
He was
born in Molodye (Molodiya), Bukovina. He
attended the town’s religious elementary school and high schools in Czernowitz
and Karlsbad. He studied at the
Universities of Vienna, Berlin (1923-1925), and Czernowitz, where he received
his doctoral degree in philosophy. He
acquired ordination into the rabbinate and served as a rabbi in Seret (Bukovina),
Caransebeș,
Czernowitz, Fagarash (Făgăraş), and elsewhere.
He survived WWII in concentration camps.
From 1948 he was living in the United States, the rabbi for a New York
Congregation. He was a regular
contributor to Yudisher fraynd
(Jewish friend) in Czernowitz (1929-1939).
He also wrote articles for: Forverts
(Forward), Morgn-zhurnal (Morning
journal), Tog (Day), Der amerikaner (The American), and Nyu-yorker vokhnblat (New York weekly
newspaper). He was last living in
Brooklyn.
Berl Cohen
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