Biography
Born in the town of Lubicz (Lubitsch) 6 Sep 1869, to his father Rabbi Nathan Solomon Betzalel Biderman, Rabbi of the town. His grandfather was Rabbi Yaakov Dovid, rabbi of Kozhnitz and Wyszogrod.
Kozienice is a town in central Poland with 21,500 inhabitants (1995). Located four miles from the Vistula, it is the capital of Kozienice County. The name of the town first appeared in records in 1429, when it was spelled in Latin Coszinicze (Kozinice). In 1569 it was called Kozienycze – the name comes from the given name Kozina.
Wyszogród is a town in Poland, in Masovian Voivodeship, in Płock County, by the Vistula River. The population of Wyszogród was 2,793 in 2004.
Was son-in-law of Rabbi Yehuda Arye Leib Alter of Ger “Sfas Emes”, and in-law of Rabbi Avraham Mordechai Alter, the "Imrei Emes" and his son Rabbi Yisrael Alter, the "Beis of Israel" the Rebbe of Ger. and the grandfather of Rabbi Pinchas Menachem Alter.
Góra Kalwaria is a town on the Vistula River in the Mazovian Voivodship, Poland, about 25 kilometres southeast of Warsaw. It has a population of about 11,000 (1992). The town has significance for both Catholic Christians and Hasidic Jews. Originally, its name was simply Góra, changed in 1670 to Nowa Jerozolima, and in the 18th century to Góra Kalwaria.
Avraham Mordechai Alter, also known as the Imrei Emes after the works he authored, was the fourth Rebbe of the Hasidic dynasty of Ger, a position he held from 1905 until his death in 1948. He was one of the founders of the Agudas Israel in Poland and was influential in establishing a network of Jewish schools there. It is claimed that at one stage he led over 200,000 Hasidim.
Yisrael Alter,, also known as the Beit Yisrael after the works he authored, was the fifth Rebbe of the Hasidic dynasty of Ger, a position he held from 1948 until 1977.
He published Sfas Emes, the writings of his father-in-law on the Talmud, together with his own additional scholarly notes.
He was a president of Kolel Polen, the aid society for Palestinian Jews whose families came from Poland. in 1935 was appointed to the board of Rabbis of the Warsaw community, along with Rabbi Menachem Zemba and Rabbi Avraham Weinberg. [2]
In 1935 year was part of a rabbinical delegation to Israel, which included Rabbi Samuel David Unger, Rabbi Zalman Sorotzkin and Rabbi Yosef Shlomo Kahaneman.
Rabbi Shmuel Dovid Ungar, also known as Rabbi Samuel David Ungar, was the rabbi of the Slovakian city of Nitra and dean of the last surviving yeshiva in occupied Europe during World War II. He was the father-in-law of Rabbi Chaim Michael Dov Weissmandl, and played a minor role in the Bratislava Working Group's efforts to save Slovak Jews from the Holocaust.
Zalman Sorotzkin, also known as the Lutzker Rav, was a famous Orthodox rabbi who served as the rabbi of Lutsk, Ukraine.
Yosef Shlomo Kahaneman (1886–1969), יוסף שלמה כהנמן, known also as Ponevezher Rav, was an Orthodox rabbi and rosh yeshiva of the Ponevezh Yeshiva. He was a renowned Torah and Talmudic scholar, a distinguished member of the Council of Torah Sages of Agudath Israel.
In his late years he suffered from diabetes, but even then he continued his studies and his teaching. In 1940, with the establishment of the Warsaw ghetto, his health worsened due to lack of drugs and under suitable conditions, and on 08,06,1941 died and was buried next to the Warsaw hospital.
