Rabbi Szymon Englander

By Yitzhak Hammer

R. SHIMON ENGLANDER Many have been the young men, in our Jewish world of yesterday, who were ordained to the rabbinate but, refusing to exploit the ordination as a source of livelihood, turned to other pursuits and became talmidei-hakhomim, lay scholars. My grandfather, R. Shimon Englander, was one of them. He operated a Hebrew print shop, then erected a plant for light beverages and opened a fabrics shop, importing the merchandise from Vienna and Budapest. He was also musical and was' blessed with a fine voice. From his early youth to the end of his days he was the baal-mussaf in the Beth Hamidrash on the High Holydays.

A highly respected member of the community,, he served, on the panel of jurymen. In 1934 he left Nowy-Targ for Eretz-lsrael and settled in Haifa, where he plunged into activity on-behalf of the religious community, studying, writing. He completed, his Shaar Shimon, a commentary on the cabbalist work 'Brit Kehunat Olam. His handwriting was remarkably clear. In 1946, the print shop where the book was being prepared on Ben-Yehuda Street in Jerusalem was destroyed in the bombing incident, and for some time the manuscript remained unretrieved.

In the mid-1930's, when welfare institutions were few and Far from efficient, my grandfather organized Ateret Zekenim, to provide for the needs of the elderly scholars in Haifa. When he died, in 1950, thousands attended his funeral.

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Mentioned in the Yizkor book
https://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/nowy_targ/Nowy_Targ.html#TOC

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Brit Kehunat Olam title page states that Mohr R' Shimon Englander is a descendent of the author Smichat
Chachamim
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Date of death
ט׳ אדר ה׳ תש״י | 26/02/1950

Haifa - Hof HacarmelPlot ב, Row 45, Spot 27 Hevra Kadisha Haifa

https://gravez.me/en/deceased/222EFA32-A598-4666-80A1-115648D28123

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Grave mentions to be the offspring from Rabbi Naftali Katz and the Maharal of Prague

Rabbi Naftali Hirsch Katz, ABD Lublin, "Peirot Genosar"
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