Binyamin Zeilberger

Rabbi
Binyamin Zeilberger
Zeilberger (at left) with Elya Svei
Personal
BornMarch 14, 1921
Koenigshaufen, Germany
DiedOctober 10, 2005
Brooklyn, New York
ReligionJudaism
SpouseSara Rochel Zeilberger née Kaplan
Parents
  • • Yehudah [Julius] Zeilberger (father)
  • • Chana [Johanna] Zeilberger née Reinhold (mother)
DenominationOrthodox Judaism
Alma materMir Yeshiva (Belarus)
Jewish leader
PredecessorChaim Vysokier
SuccessorYehuda Zeilberger
PositionRosh yeshiva
YeshivaBeth Hatalmud Rabbinical College
Yahrtzeit7 Tishrei

Rabbi Binyamin Zeilberger (sometimes pronounced Tzahlberger; Hebrew: רב בנימין צלברגר/ציילברגר) was the rosh yeshiva 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[edit]

Zeilberger was born in Koenigshaufen, Germany on March 14, 1921, to Yehuda (Julius) and Chana (Johanna) Zeilberger.[1] In 1935 he enrolled in the Mir Yeshiva in what is now Belarus,[2] where he shared a room in a boarding house with Aryeh Leib Malin, Yonah Minsker, and Michel Feinstein.[3]

When World War II broke out in 1939 the Mir Yeshiva (and many other yeshivas in Poland) fled to Lithuania.[4] Zeilberger remained with the yeshiva when it moved to Japan in 1941, then to Shanghai,[2] and then in 1947 to the United States where it was reëstablished in Brooklyn.

Zeilberger married Sara Rochel Kaplan.[2]

Beth Hatalmud Rabbinical College[edit]

Zeilberger soon joined the Beth Hatalmud Rabbinical College in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, [2] established in 1950 by older students from the Mir Yeshiva who had also escaped from Europe including Aryeh Leib Malin.[5] Zeilberger later became a rosh yeshiva there[2][5] and was on the faculty for over fifty years.[2]

Death[edit]

Zeilberger died in Brooklyn on October 10, 2005, at the age of 84.[1]

See also[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b "Rav Binyomin Zeilberger, Rabbi". geni.com. Geni.com. 14 March 1921. Retrieved 15 June 2021.
  2. ^ a b c d e f "Noted in Sorrow" (PDF). The Jewish Observer. XXXVIII (9): 6, 41. November 2005. Retrieved July 12, 2020.
  3. ^ Geberer, Yehuda; Safier, Dovi (March 23, 2021). "FOR the record: The Yekke List". Mishpacha (854): 176.
  4. ^ Wein, Berel (October 1990). "Hitler's War Against the Jews". Triumph of Survival (First ed.). Brooklyn, NY: Shaar Press. p. 355. ISBN 1-4226-1514-6.
  5. ^ a b Geberer, Yehuda; Safier, Dovi (March 23, 2021). "FOR the record: The Yekke List". Mishpacha (854): 176.


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