Thursday, March 25, 2010

Ambition: Undecided



Click here for a current picture and description of Rabbi Nosson Tzvi Finkel.

Hat tip: TBA.
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13 comments:

  1. MDJ9:16 AM, March 25, 2010

    So, where did he go to HS?

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  2. MDJ9:17 AM, March 25, 2010

    Also, I hope that the fact that this post is at top is a good sign.

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  3. S.9:18 AM, March 25, 2010

    Riverdale High

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  4. Anonymous12:57 PM, March 25, 2010

    Riverdale High? I wonder if he knew Archie.

    At any rate, I can forgive the no yarmulke, but not being an "academocrat".

    DF

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  5. S.1:04 PM, March 25, 2010

    Just a joke. (But you got the reference.) I am informed that he "probably" went to HTC-Skokie (since my informant knows that his brother did).

    I don't think that's no yarmulke. He wasn't a modernish bum who puts the yarmulke in front of the head.

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  6. Anonymous1:35 PM, March 25, 2010

    Indeed he was in Ida crown not Skokie. My mother on law was on his class

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  7. Neil Harris4:29 PM, March 25, 2010

    I had actually heard that he attended Ida Crown Jewish Academy (Chicago).

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ida_Crown_Jewish_Academy

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  8. Anonymous10:37 PM, March 25, 2010

    Is this what he looked like when he married R Beinish Finkels daughter? Can you imagine a girl growing up in Mea Shearim marrying this person?

    His wifes cousin R Elya Baruch Finkel married a girl from NY (Lawrence)

    This is a really great find.

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  9. Anonymous9:08 AM, November 09, 2011

    Taking a closer look the picture he seems to be wearing a knitted yarmulke slanted a bit to the right side of his head (our left).

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  10. S.9:19 AM, November 09, 2011

    I'm sure he is. The idea that someone would not be wearing a yarmulke in his HS yearbook photo in any Orthodox school in 1959 is surely ludicrous.

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  11. micha berger12:29 PM, November 09, 2011

    I put the picture up on RNZF's wikipedia page.

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  12. S.1:14 PM, November 10, 2011

    In case anyone's reading this - here's an interesting question. I noticed that in much coverage, from the yeshivishe side, there has been recognition that he was "an American kid" and look how high he soared.

    My question is, would this have been what people were saying if this photograph had not been widely distributed?

    I know that many people have said that R. Nosson Zvi was open about his origins, was mechazek people by referencing it and so forth - still, I can't help but wonder if not for this picture if that would have been part of the story repeated after his petirah. Could the dissemination of this picture have actually influenced the way talmidim have been speaking about a deceased odom godol?

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  13. Anonymous7:51 PM, April 25, 2012

    Back in the day, the school was called the Chicago Jewish Academy. I am also class of 1960 and the idea that Natie would not wear a yarmulke in his graduation picture is preposterous.

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