The Brest-Belarus Group
small-area-map
Also: Divin, Drogichin, Khomsk, Malech, Telechany
 
Table of Contents  (?)
Site Page Counts
Public: 510
Restricted: 677

Rozenblum -- Rabinovitch Family Tree
This page summarizes the Rozenblum -- Rabinovitch Family Tree.

Sources

The primary source of information is a second diary, kept by Dov Yehuda Z’ernanski, grandson of Shalom Menashe’s brother, Shlomo Chaim. Dov Yehuda was born in Kaminetz D’Lita 8th of Av 564 (3/8/1881). His diary was mostly composed of family genealogy. He listed the paternal and maternal sides of his mother Yehudit’s family. She was born to a marriage between descendents of Rabbi Shlomo Galdes, the earliest known ancestor.

Four entries in Dov Yehuda's diary provide most of the information:

Maternal and paternal sides, starting with Rabbi Shlomo Galdes and his two wives.
• Information about Shalom Menashe and his brother Shlomo Chayim.
• The 4 sons and 2 daughters of Shalom Menashe.
Generations 1-4 from the second wife, Golda; including Rabbi Moshe Shlomo, “the Rabbi from Iliya”

The Family Tree

The earliest known ancestor, the base of the tree, is Shlomo Galdes, great-grandfather of Shalom Menashe Rabinovitch and great-great-grandfather of Baruch Meir Rozenblum, had 2 wives. He was Rabbi, Head of Yeshiva and AB”D in Brisk D’Lita in the years ~ 1753 until his death, ~1796.

Rabbi Shlomo Galdes + first wife
(1) Rabbi Shlomo Galdes + first wife, name unknown
  (2) Sarah (Sarka) + Her husband R’ Tzvi (Hirsh) Mentner [could be Ben Menashe according to Rozenblum’s diary]
        (3) R’ Moshe Aharon b: [5552]= 1792+ his wife (3) Feshe/Peshe…..
           (4) Rabbi Shalom Menashe b: [5580] 1820 d: [5564] 1904 + Liba Sarah
              (5) 4 sons. Among them Rabbi Baruch Meir b: 1857 and 2 daughters.
           (4) R’ Shlomo Chaim b: [5574] 1814 d: [5626] 1866 + (3) Golda [his relative]
              (5) Yehudit [mother of DovYehuda writer of this diary] b: [5611] 1851 d: [5694] 1934

Rabbi Shlomo Galdes + second wife
(1) Rabbi Shlomo Galdes + second wife, Golda
   (2) Fruma + husband R’ Yeshaya’le magid in Kaminetz D’Lita
        (3) Perila + R’ Nissan Brisker [lived in Minsk]
           (4) R’ Mordechai
           (4) Rabbi Moshe Shlomo –“the Rabbi from Iliya”
        (3) Golda + (4) R’ Shlomo Chaim [her relative]
           (4) Yehudit, [mother of Dov Yehuda writer of this diary]b: [5611] 1851 d: [5694] 1934


Note the marriage of (4) R’ Shlomo Chaim, descendant of Rabbi Shlomo Galdes and his first wife to (3) Golda, descendant of Rabbi Shlomo Galdes and his second wife.

More about (4) Rabbi Moshe Shlomo
Dov Yehuda, the diarist, titled Rabbi Moshe Shlomo the Rabbi from Ilya. Looking back, we may note that Rabbi Moshe Shlomo was not an only child and may have changed his surname to Khari. If so, he was the teacher of Baruch Meir, as described in the following excerpts from the Yizkor Book of Ilya:

In the Yizkor Book of Ilya page 69:

... our Rabbi Moshe Shlomo Khari rest his soul, the son-in-law of Rabbi Leibale Kovner. He was a humble, pious, righteous man in everything he did, innocent, withdrawn, and many acts of miracle are attributed to him.

The elderly told that he was interested in mysticism as well, and our small town constituted a suitable place for him, from where he refused to depart.
In the same book, page 74:
Our teacher Rabbi Moshe Shlomo Khari arrived in our town Ilya as the son-in-law of the rabbi, the Ga'on Rabbi Aryeh Leib Shapira, who was later known in the rabbinical and Jewish world as the Ga'on Rabbi Leibale Kovner (From Kaunas).

... Rabbi Moshe Shlomo Khari... refused to occupy the vacant rabbinical chair, for reasons of humbleness and honor. He recommended that the rabbinate be passed on to Rabbi Leibale Kovner's distinguished student - the Ga'on Rabbi Reuvale Levin, later known in the world as the Ga'on from Dinburg [Dvinsk/ Daugavpils]. Only after Rabbi Reuvale was invited to serve as the chief rabbi of the town of Dinburg, did Rabbi Moshe Shlomo agree to succeed the rabbinical chair in Ilya.
Baruch Meir's reasons for keeping his diary echoed those of his mentor The Gaon and Tzadik R’ Moshe Shlomo AB”D in Ilya, who himself kept a diary of 35 years.

According to a subsequent passage in the Ilya Yizkor Book, Rabbi Moshe Shlomo was still in Ilya in 1905 when the rioters terrorized Jewish communities. He called the community to fast and “he declared a small Yom Kippur”. After the prayers, loud thunderclaps were heard, and --according to the story-- these frightened the rioter-conspirators away from the shtetl.

The details --titles, status, and characteristics-- are all a good match, supporting the identification of Rabbi Moshe Shlomo Khari as Rabbi Moshe Shlomo of Ilya, whose death occurred in 1912:
Rabbi Moshe Shlomo of Ilia passed away on the 27th of Adar A 5672 [16 March 1912] at the age of 93.
rabbi rabinovitch
...Rabbi Moshe Shlomo of Illia passed away...
(view context)

In sum, Rabbi Moshe Shlomo's date of birth is established as 1815. Rabbi Baruch Meir was 15 when he became his student – 1872. Moshe Shlomo was then 53. It stands to reason that he was really Rabbi Moshe Shlomo Khari whose name is connected with legendary tales during the pogroms of 1905.


Notes: Rabbi Leibale Kovner was also known as Ga'on Rabbi Aryeh Leib Shapira

Page Last Updated: 28-Jun-2013