Rabbis and Religious Officials of Lyakhovichi: Images

Rabbi Israel Shlomo Zalman Alexandrovsky

Educated in the Hasidic Yeshiva of Lyakhovichi, first by Rebbe Noah of Lyakhovichi and after Noah's death in 1832 by Rabbi Moshe of Kobrin.

Abraham Yankel Kaplan

Wealthy philanthropist, supporter of three synagogues, rabbi and father and father-in-law of rabbis.

Mitnagid leader Rabbi Israel David Ratzkevitz, rabbi and judge in Lyakhovichi

Rabbi Edel Manish or Meinishes, the Compassionate

Founded a hospice for poor Jews. He got his name from his father Manish according to the property records showing his house on Kletsk Rd in Lyakhovichi. He owned sufficient property when he died at age 83 to donate a building solely for the use of those needing care as they died.

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Aron Lemel Gavza

Called Lemel (or Lemke) Deiks for his mother's name Daicha. Frequently called rabbi though he supported himself as a weaver. Great-grandson of Rabbi Shaya Gavza, one of the preeminent rabbis of the eighteenth century in Lyakhovichi.

Crown Rabbi of Lyakhovichi - Rabbi Wolf Brimberg

Rebbe Noah Malovitsky, Lechowitzer Rebbe

Led Lechowitzers from 1880-1920, including during WWI.

Rabbi Noach was the son of Rabbi Aaron Malowitsky called Rebbe Aharle. Aharle's father was Rebbe Mordechai II, the son-in-law of Rabbi Noah of Lyakhovichi. Rabbi Noah of Lyakhovichi led the Lechovicher Hasidim after the death of his father, the Holy Elder of Lechowitz, Rabbi Mordechai of Lyakhovichi.

Rabbi Noachke's sons included the Lechowitzer Rebbe Rabbi Jochanon Malowicki and Jochanon's brother the Lechowitzer Rebbe in America - Rabbi Pinchas Malowicki.

Rabbi Moshe Mates Winogrod

Died in Slutsk in 1917 and the Slutsk Chevra Kadisha gave special honors to the man their register noted was "a rabbi son of a rabbi."

Shmuel Joseph Mandel

Former Crown Rabbi of Lyakhovichi, in a picture taken in Jerusalem around 1910

Rabbi Tzeisling

Rabbi of Beis Yakov Shul in Lyakhovichi, son-in-law of Abraham Yankel Kaplan, moved to Eretz Israel

Lippe the Cantor

He is remembered also performing weddings in the small communities around Lyakhovichi

A melamed - Haim Shifris

Rabbi Yakov Moshe Greenspan

Shown here with his son Nyama (probably Benjamin) in Russian clothing and his son Haim in a leather jacket.

Rebbe Yohanan Malowitsky

He led the Lechovicher Hasidim from the death of his father Rabbi Noach in 1920. Lechowitzer Rebbe from 1920 until Holocaust, murdered by Nazis.

Cantor Abraham Isaac Weinstein

Officiated in Lyakhovichi after World War I, a modern Polish cantor. He also served as the mohel of Lyakhovichi in this period. He perished in the Holocaust.

Title Page of Shaari Yitzchak (high-resolution version)

Title page for Shaari Yitzchak by Rabbi Isaac Katz Alexandrovsky 1783-1858 who was a pupil of Rabbi Noah of Lechovitz in Lyakhovichi between 1826 and 1832 and of Rabbi Moshe of Kobrin, subsequently. The English annotations are by Jay Lenefsky a descendant of Isaac Alexandrovsky's granddaughter Feiga Alexandrovsky Linevsky. You will want to see the Family Reunion Memorabilia from 1920 in the memory of Isaac Katz Alexandrovsky's son Israel Zalman haKohen Alexandrovsky 1810-1877 (whose picture appears at the top of this page) that Jay also shared. In 1920 this family, whose progenitor had studied in Lyakhovichi and with the most noted of the Lechovitzer schools in Kobrin and Slonim, celebrated an event fifty years after his death and invited their kinsmen to use the happy occasion to fund a moshav zekenim, a home for the aged. In the same time period as the first banquet, descendants of Israel Zalman's son Mordechai Sender Alexandrovsky, used their shared heritage as a reason to support a young pogrom survivor newly arrived in the US. Mordechai Sender appears on the title page of Shaarei Yitzkhak which was written with two credits to Lyakhovichi scholarship - his grandfather Isaac Katz Alexandrovsky and his father Rabbi Israel Shlomo Zalman Aharon haKohen Alexandrovsky. Both documents are supplied by Jay Lenefsky of Israel who is a descendant of Rabbi Israel Shlomo Zalman Aharon haKohen Alexandrovsky. Click Reunion and Banquet to see the poster and translation.

Mordechai Sender Alexandrovsky

Son of Israel Zalman.

Rabbi Nachman Shlomo Greenspan

Rosh Yeshiva London.

Document with Rabbi Szolom Szkolnik signature (high-resolution version)

Rabbi Morris Gitlin

Of Windsor Canada, Detroit, and Lyakhovichi.

Rabbi Joshua Joffe

Educated in Lyakhovichi, among first teachers at Jewish Theological Seminary. Photo taken in 1897.

Rabbi Zundel Karelitzky

His wife Zipa supported the family with a store, he studied and taught Talmud. He was called Zundel Gedalyos for his father-in-law Gedalya who first supported his studies and the family.