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The Leiden Jewish History Chamber
brings new articles about Leiden’s
Jewish Sages of yesteryears,
are you ready for the past?
“Everyone can recognize history when it happens. Everyone can recognize history after it has happened;
but it only the wise person who knows at the moment what is vital and permanent,
what is lasting and memorable.” Churchill
Jewish Sages & Tzaddikim in Leiden
Rabbi Jacob Heymann Mozes Lewenstein-
Chief-Rabbi of Surinam
Born by the name Mozes Juda (Mozes the son of Juda) in Utrecht in 1829 and passed away at age 35 whilst serving as Chief Rabbi in Paramaribo, Surinam in 1864.
Rabbi Jacob Heymann De Leeuw-
Talmudist
Rabbi Jacob Heymann (the son of Chaim) De Leeuw was born in 1811 in Zutphen, he was an expert Talmudist who first worked on the taxes authority in Den Bosch and then left for Leiden where he studied Torah for 33 years and published 6 books!
Rabbi Tobias Lewenstein -part 1 – Paramaribo – Leiden – Amsterdam
Born in Paramaribo, young Tuvia Lewenstein leaves Surinam for Leiden at age one.
He begins his life as an orphan but soon after moving to Amsterdam with his family he starts to excel in his studies.
Part I: Paramaribo,
Leiden & Amsterdam
Rabbi Tobias Lewenstein –
Part 2 – Berlin – Babruysk – Hamburg
After the passing of Rabbi De Leeuw in 1883, Rabbi Tovia Lewenstein leaves for Berlin and after that to White Russia from which he gets expelled.
Part 2: Berlin –
Babruysk – Hamburg
Rabbi Tobias Lewenstein-
Part 3 – leeuwarden –
The Hague – Copenhagen
Coming Soon
Rabbi Tobias Lewenstein-
Part 4 – Zurich – The Hague -Rebuilding Dutch Jewry after WWII
Coming Soon
Rabbi Daniel Hirtzke Frisch- Kabbalist and author of Matuk M’Dvash commentary on the Zohar
Coming Soon
Rabbi Jona Glauber-
Rosh Yeshiva
in Leiden after WWII
Coming Soon
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Historic Area’s with a Halachic Status
Het Draaggebied: “The Carrying Area”, the Leiden Eiruv
before WII
Leiden had an area in which some people would carry their belongings on Shabbos, it was called “Het Draaggebied”.
This post is dedicated in the blessed memory of all Jews in Leiden and surroundings, that perished in the Leiden Explosion, the Holocaust
or Al Kidush Hashem
.ת. נ. צ. ב. ה
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