R' Yosef Nechemia Kornitzer, A.B.D. Cracow

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Rabbi Jozef Nechemia Kornitzer

Also Known As: "Josef Chemia", "Josef Nechemiasz", "Yosef"
Birthdate:
Birthplace: Kraków, Kraków County, Lesser Poland Voivodeship, Poland
Death: April 28, 1933 (52)
Kraków, Kraków County, Lesser Poland Voivodeship, Poland
Place of Burial: Miodowa
Immediate Family:

Son of Rabbi Jakob Akiwe Kornitzer and Reizel Kornitzer / Klein
Husband of Breindel Blanka Kornitzer (Klein)
Father of R' Akiva Kornitzer; Rav Shmuel Shmelke Kornitzer, A.B.D. Cracow; R' Shimon Kornitzer; Miriam Reizel Eisenstadt; Devora Gittel Katz and 5 others
Brother of Yitzchok Eliyahu Kornitzer; Binyamin Wolf Kornitzer; Yisrael David (Itche) Kornitzer; Avraham (Avramche) Kornitzer; Gittel Devora Kornitzer and 2 others

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About R' Yosef Nechemia Kornitzer, A.B.D. Cracow

b. 10 Tevet, 5641

d. Erev Shabbat, 2 Iyar, 5693

Krukover Rav (Cracow)

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"שו"ת וחידושי רבי יוסף נחמיה",

חידושי רבי יוסף נחמיה" עה"ת

ו"דרשות רבי יוסף נחמיה".

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Translation

Yosef Nechemia Kornitzer was born in 1881. He was a nephew of the Rabbi Shimon Sofer of Krakow. He studied alongside R' Yehuda Greenwald and worked making soap. When the factory burned down he decided to accept the rabbinate. He first served as rabbi Vslis, and later was appointed rabbi of Cracow. After his death, Zaddik appointed under his son, Rabbi Shmuel Shmelke Kornitzer. Son was murdered during the Holocaust. In-law of Rabbi Shabtai Frankel was Kornitzer.

Yosef Nechemia Kornitzer was the last chief Rabbi in Krakow before ww2.

Source: Daniel Klapper

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About R' Yosef Nechemia Kornitzer, A.B.D. Cracow (עברית)

הרב יוסף נחמיה קורניצר - נכדו של הרב שמעון סופר בעל "מכתב סופר". מילא את מקומו ברבנות קראקא.

יוסף נחמיה קוניצר נולד בשנת 1881. היה נכדו של הרב שמעון סופר, רבה של קראקא. למד אצל הרב יהודה גרינוולד אב"ד בוניהד. הוא סירב לכהן ברבנות, ולמחייתו עבד כמנהל מפעל לסבון. רק לאחר שהמפעל נשרף נעתר לקבל עליו את הרבנות. תחילה כיהן כרב בסליש, וכעבור זמן התמנה כרבה של קראקא. לאחר פטירתו בשנת תרצ"ג התמנה תחתיו בנו, הרב שמואל שמלקה קורניצר. בנו נרצח במהלך השואה. חתנו של הרב קורניצר היה שבתי פרנקל.

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R' Yosef Nechemia Kornitzer, A.B.D. Cracow's Timeline

1880
December 12, 1880
Kraków, Kraków County, Lesser Poland Voivodeship, Poland
1902
March 18, 1902
Vynohradiv, Vynohradivs'kyi district, Zakarpattia Oblast, Ukraine
1903
1903
1905
July 29, 1905
Sojlesch
1907
June 14, 1907
Vynohradiv, Vynohradivs'kyi district, Zakarpattia Oblast, Ukraine
1909
July 10, 1909
Vynohradiv, Vynohradivs'kyi district, Zakarpattia Oblast, Ukraine
1933
April 28, 1933
Age 52
Kraków, Kraków County, Lesser Poland Voivodeship, Poland
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