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Moses S. Margolies

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Samuel Margolies, or Shlomo Zalman in Hebrew (1877-1917), followed his father into the rabbinate. He was the rabbi of Congregation Anshe Emeth in Cleveland, Ohio from 1904 to 1917, when he died in a car accident. During his time there, he founded, led, and promoted many Orthodox institutions,
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in 1889 to serve as the chief rabbi for that city's Orthodox Jewish community. Margolies held that position from seven years. He came to New York City in 1906 to serve as rabbi of
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on March 27, 1933, bringing the crowd of 20,000 to its feet with his prayers that the antisemitic persecution cease and that the hearts of Israel's enemies should be softened.
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newspaper, and Talmud Torah schools. He and his wife Rena Franks Margolies had two sons, Asher and Daniel. Architectural and art critic
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a week before his death. Funeral ceremonies were to be held the following day at Congregation Kehilath Jeshurun.
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including the Union of Jewish Organizations, the Cleveland Kehillah, the Hebrew Institute, a kosher kitchen at
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described Margolies as the "dean of orthodox rabbis in North America," a "Zionist leader and Jewish educator."
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from Rabbi Yomtov Lipman Heilpern, the Oneg Yom Tov, around 1876. Shortly thereafter, he became the rabbi of
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Margolies had four children — two sons, Hyman and Samuel, and two daughters, Ida Newman and Etta Schlang.
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at age 26, serving there about a dozen years until he immigrated to the United States.
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as "one of the largest and most influential Orthodox congregations in the country."
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Etta, or Hadas in Hebrew, married Isadore Schlang and was the mother of the future
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in 1937, which was named in honor of Margolies, known by the acronym of "
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Margolies died at age 85 on August 25, 1936 at the Carlton Hotel in
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Hartocollis, Anemona; Arenson, Karen W.; and Holloway, Lynette.
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Emigrants from the Russian Empire to the United States
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