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Yehudah Yudel Rosenberg (Yiddish: יהודה יודל ראזענבערג, Hebrew: יהודה יודל רוזנברג; 24 December 1860 – 23 October 1935) was a rabbi, author, and Jewish communal leader in Poland and Canada. He is best known for his Hebrew translation of the Zohar, and for popularizing the tale of the Golem of Prague.[1]

Rabbi

Yehudah Yudel Rosenberg
Personal
Born
Judka Rozenberg

(1860-12-24)24 December 1860
Gębarzów, Poland
Died23 October 1935(1935-10-23) (aged 74)
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
ReligionJudaism

Biography


Rosenberg was born Judka Rozenberg on 24 December 1860 in Gębarzów, Poland (near Radom), the son of Maria Gitla (née Cygielman) and Izrael Icek Rozenberg.[2] He grew up in the nearby town of Skaryszew, Poland. As a young boy, he was known as "the Illui of Skaraschev".[3][better source needed]

At age 17, he married Chaya Chava, the daughter of Shlomo Elimelech of Tarlow, granddaughter of the Otrovtzer Rav, Rabbi Liebish Zucker and great-grandchild of the Ostrovtzer Rebbe. After receiving his rabbinic designation, he served as rabbi in Tarlow (and thus became known in Poland as Rav Yudel Tarlow'er), Lublin, Warsaw, and Lodz.[1]

In 1913, Rosenberg immigrated to Canada, where he became the spiritual leader of Toronto's Beth Jacob Congregation, which was founded in 1899 by a group of Polish-born Jews.[4] During his close to six years in the city, Rosenberg founded the Eitz Chaim Talmud Torah on D'Arcy Street, in a building which once was an Italian club. He moved to Montreal in 1919,[5] where he became the Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Orthodox Congregations, a group of synagogues serving immigrant Ashkenazi communities, and vice-chairman of the Jewish Community's Rabbinic Council, which he served as until his death in Montreal at age seventy-five on October 23, 1935.[6]

Among Rosenberg's grandchildren were Shlomo-Yisrael Ben-Meir, Meir Yehoshua Magnes, and the celebrated Montreal author Mordecai Richler.


Work


Rabbi Rosenberg was a prolific author. Besides numerous halakhic works, his writing ranged from an anthology of the sciences (Sefer ha-Berit), which was a source of scientific knowledge for Jews unfamiliar with European languages,[7] to a Hebrew translation of the Zohar, which he hoped would revive interest in Kabbalah.[8]

He is perhaps most famous for his stories about the Golem of Prague, which he attributed to the Maharal of Prague, published in Hebrew as Niflaʼot Maharal (1909).[9] Rosenberg himself later translated the Hebrew text into a rather different Yiddish version, also available in English translation.[10] Rosenberg's text claims to be an edition of a three-hundred-year-old manuscript found in an imperial library in Metz, but recent scholarship recognises the text as a work of fiction by Rosenberg.[11][12]


Publications



References


  1. Hill, Brad Sabin (2005–2006). "Early Hebrew Printing in Canada". Studia Rosenthaliana. 38–39: 334. JSTOR 41482690.
  2. "JRI–Poland online database". Jewish Records Indexing – Poland. Retrieved 10 January 2021.
  3. "R' Judah Yudel Rosenberg". Geni. Retrieved 20 January 2016.
  4. Beauchemin, Valérie. "Rabbi Yudel Rosenberg - Residence". Museum of Jewish Montreal.
  5. Robinson, Ira. "Kabbalist and Communal Leader: Rabbi Yudel Rosenberg and the Canadian Jewish Community". Canadian Jewish Studies / Études juives canadiennes. York University.
  6. "Tarler Rebbe". kevarim.com.
  7. Slifkin, Natan; Slifkin, Nosson (2006). The Challenge of Creation: Judaism's Encounter with Science, Cosmology, and Evolution. p. 175. ISBN 1933143150.
  8. Renny. "Rabbi Yehudah Yudel Rosenberg". W&M Honors Fellows. Retrieved 11 December 2015.
  9. Yudl Rosenberg, The Golem and the Wondrous Deeds of the Maharal of Prague, ed. and trans. by Curt Leviant (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007).
  10. Joachim Neugroschel, The Golem, ed. and trans. by Joachim Neugroschel (New York, NY: Norton, 2006).
  11. Elizabeth R. Baer, The Golem Redux: From Prague to Post-Holocaust Fiction (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2012), pp. 28-29.
  12. Rabinowitz, Dan. "More on story fabrication - The Golem". the Seforim blog. Retrieved 2 March 2006.


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