Thursday, January 20, 2011

Mendel Beilis's daughter, שתחיה, is still alive?

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  1. Anonymous5:19 AM, January 22, 2011

    did you know that rabbi zecharia fendel just passed away?

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  2. jay beilis10:34 AM, January 24, 2011

    yes she is, she'll be 102 next month

    jay beilis

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  3. S.10:39 AM, January 24, 2011

    I can see that. I guess you are a relative?

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  4. e-kvetcher11:38 PM, January 24, 2011

    What is known about Rabbi Yaakov Mazeh, the Chief Rabbi of Moscow who was one of the defense witnesses at the trial? I am specifically curious about the origin of his last name.

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  5. Dan Klein2:33 AM, January 25, 2011

    I have cousins similarly named "Mazze." As your "Vikipedia" link itself indicates, it's roshei teivos for "Mi-Zera Aharon (Ha-kohen)."

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  6. S.9:02 AM, January 25, 2011

    He wrote a four volume memoir called Zichronosai.

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  7. e-kvetcher9:06 AM, January 25, 2011

    Thanks Dan. I originally read the Russian version which didn't mention the origin of the name, and glanced at the Hebrew, but skipped right over the first line.

    Seems like Mazeh is a common name among Moroccan Kohanim. I wonder how a Chabad Jew from Mohilev wound up with it...

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  8. e-kvetcher2:09 PM, January 25, 2011

    There is a story, don't know if true, that Rabbi Mazeh was the head of the delegation from the Moscow Jewish community to Trotsky. They were asking if the Kiev synagogue which was confiscated by the Bolsheviks could be returned to the Kiev community. When Trotsky refused, Rabbi Mazeh asked him - "Do you consider yourself a Jew or a Russian?". Trotsky replied - "You're mistaken. Neither one. I am a Social-Democrat. That is sufficient." To which R' Mazeh replied - "Revolutions are made by Trotskys, but it's the Bronsteins that wind up paying for them".

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  9. DF1:47 PM, January 26, 2011

    This post inspired me to re-ead Malamud's Fixer. Now that was a damn depressing read.

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  10. jay beilis7:02 AM, January 27, 2011

    DF, before you read the fixer, you might wanna read this, this is how my family feels about what Malamud did

    http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1498862

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  11. Zalman Alpert3:27 PM, January 31, 2011

    Mazah is also the original family name of none otehr than Jackie Mason whose dad was a well known rabbi and pamphleteer on the Lower east Side.

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  12. Zalman Alpert3:29 PM, January 31, 2011

    Rabbi Zeev Rabiner also authored a wondeful little bio of the Crown rabbi of Moscow

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  13. Anonymous4:48 PM, October 18, 2011

    Hi I'm Jamal Mazeh from Lebanon I use to live in Los Angeles but not any more I'm looking for some relatives around the world . Jamalmazeh@hotmail.com

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