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Rabbi Shmuel Gerstenfeld (1873-1958) – Rabbi Shmuel Gerstenfeld was born in Rava-Russkaya in Galicia. He studied in the yeshiva at Klausenberg where received semikhah from Rabbi Moshe Shmuel Glazner zt”l. He served as rabbi in England for 12 years. After coming to America in 1916, Rabbi Gerstenfeld served as rabbi in Beit Haknesset Shomer Shabbat- Nusach Ashkenaz in Brooklyn. In 1917, he was appointed a rosh yeshiva at Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary, where he taught for more than 40 years. Rabbi Gerstenfeld, rare among his European peers of that time, also wrote in the English language with ease and style and published articles in various Torah journals as well as for the broader community.
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Learning on the Marcos and Adina Katz YUTorah site is sponsored today by Miriam & Alan Goldberg and Ruth Peyser Kestenbaum to mark the twelfth yahrtzeit of their father, Irwin Peyser, Harav Yisroel Chaim ben R' Dovid V' Fraidah Raizel Peyser and by Francine Lashinsky and Dr. Alexander and Meryl Weingarten in memory of Mary Wininger, Matel bat Ephraim, z"l on the occasion of her yahrzeit on the 29th of Shevat and in honor of their children, Mark, Michael, Julie, Marnie and Michelle, and in gratitude to Hashem for the release of Agam bat Meirav Berger and for the zechut of the other hostages and the chayalim