Rabbi Binyamin Zeilberger (sometimes pronounced ''Tzahlberger''; ) was the
rosh yeshiva
Rosh yeshiva or Rosh Hayeshiva (, plural, pl. , '; Anglicized pl. ''rosh yeshivas'') is the title given to the dean of a yeshiva, a Jewish educational institution that focuses on the study of traditional religious texts, primarily the Talmud and th ...
of
Beth Hatalmud Rabbinical College in the second half of the twentieth century. He was an alumnus of the
Mir Yeshiva in Europe.
Early life
Zeilberger was born in Koenigshaufen, Germany on March 14, 1921. In 1935 he enrolled in the
Mir Yeshiva in what is now Belarus,
where he shared a room in a
boarding house
A boarding house is a house (frequently a family home) in which lodging, lodgers renting, rent one or more rooms on a nightly basis and sometimes for extended periods of weeks, months, or years. The common parts of the house are maintained, and ...
with
Aryeh Leib Malin
Aryeh Leib Malin (1906–1962) was a Polish-born American Haredi
Haredi Judaism (, ) is a branch of Orthodox Judaism that is characterized by its strict interpretation of religious sources and its accepted (Jewish law) and traditions, ...
,
Yonah Minsker, and
Michel Feinstein.
When World War II broke out in 1939 the Mir Yeshiva (and many other yeshivas in Poland) fled to Lithuania.
Zeilberger remained with the yeshiva when it moved to Japan in 1941, then to
Shanghai
Shanghai, Shanghainese: , Standard Chinese pronunciation: is a direct-administered municipality and the most populous urban area in China. The city is located on the Chinese shoreline on the southern estuary of the Yangtze River, with the ...
,
[ and then in 1947 to the United States where it was reëstablished in Brooklyn.
Zeilberger married Sara Rochel Kaplan.][
]
Beth Hatalmud Rabbinical College
Zeilberger soon joined the Beth Hatalmud Rabbinical College in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, [ established in 1950 by older students from the Mir Yeshiva who had also escaped from Europe including ]Aryeh Leib Malin
Aryeh Leib Malin (1906–1962) was a Polish-born American Haredi
Haredi Judaism (, ) is a branch of Orthodox Judaism that is characterized by its strict interpretation of religious sources and its accepted (Jewish law) and traditions, ...
.[ and was on the faculty for over fifty years.]
Death
Zeilberger died in Brooklyn on October 10, 2005, at the age of 84.
See also
* Yeshivas in World War II
After the German invasion of Poland in World War II and the division of Second Polish Republic, Poland between Germany and the Soviet Union, many yeshivas (Jewish schools of Torah study, generally for boys and men) that had previously been part of ...
References
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1921 births
2005 deaths
Mir Yeshiva alumni
Orthodox rabbis from New York City
American Haredi rabbis
20th-century American rabbis
Haredi rosh yeshivas
Clergy from Würzburg
People from Bensonhurst, Brooklyn