Kalman Wagner of Brisk came to this country as a child. An orphan, he became a Christian, married, and had five children. One night, he said, his father appeared to him in a dream and told him to return to Judaism. After some resistance from his wife, she agreed, and she and his children were converted. And that is how a whole Detroit family converted to Judaism in December of 1916.
According to michjewishhistory.org/pdfs/vol20-2.pdf, Rabbi Joseph Eisenman was one of four Orthodox Rabbis in Detroit at the time. The original Orthodox shul was Beinei Israel, run according to minhag Polin.
ReplyDeleteFrom ajcarchives.org/AJC_DATA/Files/1917_1918_6_Lists.pdf, Rabbi Eisenman was affiliated with Cong. Beth Tephila and Beth Medrosh Hagodel. Neither document identifies which shul was known as the “Hungarian Synagogue”.
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ReplyDeleteThis was a frum shul in 40's Rabbi Moses Fischer was an accepted Posek
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Quite a romance!
ReplyDeleteVery cool, thanks for finding this.
ReplyDeleteRabbi Joseph Eisenman was a musmach of Rav Yitzchok Elchonon Spector and Rav Leib Tzirelson. He was my wife's great-grandfather.
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