Menachem Mendel Monsohn

rdf:langString Menachem Mendel Monsohn

rdf:langString Menachem Mendel Monsohn

rdf:langString Menachem Mendel Monsohn

rdf:langString Brooklyn, New York

rdf:langString Jerusalem, Ottoman Syria

rdf:langString Mendel and Zipporah Monsohn

rdf:langString Esther , Shmuel [Samuel Stanford] Manson, Shimon [Simon] Manson, Chaya Masha Gittel [Marsha] , Raytse [Rose]

rdf:langString Rabbi Menachem Mendel Monsohn (Hebrew: מנחם מענדל מאנזאהן‎; October 13, 1895 – September 3, 1953) was a member of the Monsohn family of Jerusalem, born in the Old City of Jerusalem. He was a great-grandson of Abraham-Leib Monsohn, one of the founders of the Ashkenazi Old Yishuv of Jerusalem in the early nineteenth century, and a son of Abraham-Leib Monsohn II, a founder of the A.L. Monsohn Lithography in Jerusalem. After marrying, Monsohn lived with his family in the Batei Broide section of Nachlaot, Jerusalem, which provided housing for rabbis and their families. In 1924 Monsohn immigrated to the United States with a group of rabbis from Eretz Israel, settling in Brooklyn, New York, where he served as rabbi of Congregation Ezrath Israel on Gates Avenue, in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section, until his death in 1953. His book, Mi-Peninei Ha-Rambam: Bi’ur ‘al ha-Torah, a compendium of Maimonides’ commentaries on the Pentateuch, arranged by the compiler in order of the Torah chapters, first appeared in Brooklyn c.1925 and was reprinted there several times in the early 1930s. In 2006 it was re-released by Mossad Harav Kook of Jerusalem, which also published an English translation, Pearls of the Rambam (tr. Avraham Berkovits) c. 2008. Some of the early editions included a Yiddish introduction to the life of Maimonides.