Pictures

Rav Zalman Sorotzkin

Har HaMenuchos, Jerusalem (d. 5726 / 1966).

Rav Eliezer Sorotzkin

Har HaMenuchos, block 17 (d. 2007).

Hadassa Chasya Sorotzkin

Daughter of Rav Eliyahu Meir Bloch, wife of Rav Eliezer Sorotzkin. Har HaMenuchos (d. 10 Iyar 5747 / 1987).

Rebbetzin Sarah Miriam Sorotzkin

Daughter of Rav Eliezer Gordon, wife of Rav Zalman Sorotzkin. Har HaMenuchos (d. 21 Nisan 5725 / 1965).

Rav Eliyohu Meir Bloch

Rav Eliyohu Meir Bloch, seated over an open sefer.

Rav Eliyohu Meir Bloch - younger portrait

A younger printed portrait, captioned in print "Rabbi Elijah M. Bloch".

Rav Eliezer Gordon’s ohel, London

Exterior memorial plaque, and the kever and matzeivah inside the ohel. Photos taken January 2020; the grave has since been rebuilt.

Rav Aryeh Leib Rudensky

Rav Aryeh Leib ("Reb Leib") Rudensky in his younger years in Europe.

Rav Shlomo Heiman - early portrait

Rav Shlomo Heiman as a young man (family identification).

Rav Shlomo Heiman - passport page

Interwar Polish passport photograph and signature page, signed "Szloma Gejman".

Rav Shlomo Heiman at Camp Mesivta

Rav Shlomo Heiman with his talmid Rav Moshe Rapps, Camp Mesivta, Ferndale, early 1940s.

Rav Shlomo Heiman with Rav Yaakov Yitzchok Ruderman

Family identification; before 1945.

Rav Shalom Rudensky

Son of Aryeh Leib and Chaya Rachel; nephew and talmid of Rav Shlomo Heiman. Har HaMenuchos.

Rav Chaim Avrohom Rudensky and Chaya Leah Greenberg Rudensky

Har HaZeisim, Jerusalem - the family row.

Rav Chaim Avrohom and Chaya Leah Rudensky - close view

Har HaZeisim.

Rav Aryeh Leib and Chaya Rachel Rudensky

Har HaZeisim, family row.

Rav Chaim Sharin

Rav Chaim Sharin, author of Divrei Chaim. Photo from the Walkin family, 2016.

Rav Chaim Sharin - original photographic print

The old photographic print of Rav Chaim Sharin, two complementary exposures.

Rav Chaim Sharin - portrait painting

Painting of Rav Chaim Sharin by Elozer Dovid Gluck, the family painter.

Framed portraits in a relative’s album

Rav Chaim Sharin (left). The portrait on the right is labeled "Zeideh Horav Yoel Sharon" in the album; the family has reviewed it and the label is a misidentification.

Rav Yoel Sharin, the Illui of Poltava

The Illui of Poltava (Zvhil) - portrait and stamp, composite from the Tiferet auction catalog (sale 20).

Wedding of Rav Dovid Feinstein and Malka Greenberg

Greenberg-Rudensky-Schiff family group.

Rav Dovid Feinstein learning

A color candid at his desk.

Rav Dovid Feinstein at the office

Chaim Dov and Sara Greenberg

Portraits on the cover of the family recollections booklet.

Chaim Dov Greenberg - earliest portrait

Believed the youngest known portrait of Chaim Dov; identification not confirmed.

Sara Greenberg - earliest portrait

Believed the youngest known portrait of Sara; identification not confirmed.

The Greenbergs of Bridgeport

Chaim Dov and Sara with Chaya Leah, Ruchel, Moshe Yehuda and Malka. The booklet’s title photo, early 1930s.

Sara as a young woman

From the booklet’s Trilisk pages.

Children of Bail’ke Resnik

Aharon, Leibel (rowing) and Chaya - the family of Sara’s sister Bail’ke, who survived the war in Europe.

Unidentified Trilisk relative

From the booklet’s Warshavsky pages; identification pending.

Tanta Chaycha

Captioned in the booklet; believed Chaya Leah as a child.

Chaim Dov and Sara in Yanov

With a child; believed the mid-1920s, before emigration.

Believed Rav Avrohom Shmuel Greenberg

The melamed of Yanov, Chaim Dov’s father (1864-1931). Identification unconfirmed.

Rav Boruch Ber Leibowitz’s reference letter

Written for Chaim Dov in his Slabodka years, attesting to his learning and his fitness for a rabbinic or teaching post. Still in the family.

Shechita kabbalah from Rav Walkin of Pinsk

Chaim Dov’s kabbalah documents, on the Beis Aharon’s letterhead.

Sara with Chaya Leah, Ruchel and Moshe Yehuda

Malka as a baby

Born in Bridgeport, Nissan 1931 - the first of the family born in America.

Yeshiva Torah Vodaas, class of June 1940

Moshe Yehuda (“Maishel”) is third from the left in the second row.

Malka, Williamsburg years

A Greenberg elder in America

Uncaptioned in the booklet; identification pending.

Tena’im of Chaya Leah and Avrohom Rudensky

The witnesses’ signatures are Rav Moshe Feinstein and Rav Avraham Yoffen.

Chaya Leah and Avrohom Rudensky

Chaya Leah and Avrohom Rudensky, indoors

Ruchel (Schiff)

Avrohom and Chaya Leah Rudensky, later years

Rav Moshe Feinstein at home

Uncaptioned booklet photo. The families had been close since Seagate, summer 1942.

Moshe Yehuda learning in Telz, Cleveland

His mother sent him by train with a sleeper car so he would arrive fresh and ready to learn.

Wedding of Ruchel and Rabbi Yosef Schiff

Rebbetzin Shima Feinstein spoke the shidduch; they married soon after Chaim Dov’s petira.

Moshe Yehuda Greenberg

Bais Yaakov class photo

Malka and Evelyn, second graduating class of the Bais Yaakov Teachers Seminary.

Bais Yaakov Teachers Seminary

The seminary building.

Wedding of Moshe Yehuda and Evelyn (Chava Leah)

Evelyn had been Malka’s friend since seventh grade.

Wedding of Malka and Rav Dovid Feinstein

The bride and groom with Sara.

Malka and Rav Dovid Feinstein

Sara Greenberg, later years

“When I think of my mother, I see a face with a smile.”

Sara Greenberg

A formal portrait, later years.

Our Story, Our Legacy

The booklet’s closing page - the family that grew from Chaim Dov and Sara.

Rav Shmuel Yosef Schiff and Rochel Greenberg Schiff

Sara Greenberg

Daughter of Reb Shmuel (d. 21 Sivan 5753 / 1993, age 98).

Rabbi Chaim Dov Ber Hyman Greenberg

Son of Avraham Shmuel Greenberg.

Rav Dovid Feinstein

Avraham Shmuel Greenberg

Son of Chaim Dov Greenberg; killed in an accident as a child.

Rav Avraham Shmuel Greenberg

Son of Moshe Yehuda (1864-1931).

Rav Moshe Yehuda Greenberg

Son of Chaim Dov; rav of Young Israel of Midwood. Niftar 12 Elul at 93; the year on the stone is unconfirmed and the cemetery is being identified.