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Lot #    5834
Auction End Date    10/8/2003 3:22:00 PM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Eulogy for R. Gabriel Zev Margolis
Title (Hebrew)    äñôã òì ôèéøúå äâàåï îåä
City    Jerusalem
Publisher    Erez Israel
Publication Date    1938
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    Broadsheet, folio, 245:350 mm., usual age staining,
          
Detailed
Description		    Broadsheet announcing the hesped in Jerusalem for R. Gabriel Zev ben Jehiel Isaac Margolis (1848-1938). R. Margolis was descended from the Jehiel Heilprin (Seder ha-Dorot 1660–1746) and learned by R. Jacob Barit (1797-1883) in Vilna. He was married to the daughter of R. Nahum Kaplan of Grodno. He served as Av Bet Din in several cities in Lithuania and, after the passing of his father-in-law, in Grodno for twenty-eight years. He also participated in and signed enactments of rabbinic assemblies against Zionism and Mizrahi. R. Margolis accepted a position as Rav in Boston. in 1908 and in 1912 in New York, where he was the rav of Adat Yisrael. He was also the author of a number of works, among them, Agudat Azov (Vilna, 1895)m Torat Gavriel (Jerusalem 1912), and Haruzei Margoliot (Jerusalem 1912).

The hesped is announced for Thursday, 21 Elul at 6:00 P. M. at the Yeshiva ha-Gedolah Meah She’arim. Hespedim are to be delivered by R. Joseph Gershon Horowitz, Isaac Jacob Wachtfogel, and Jehiel Michel Mushkin.

          
Reference
Description		    Schwatz, Artzot ha-Hayyim pp. 23b-24a.
        
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Language:    Hebrew
  
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