Zechariah Elefant

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Zechariah Elefant
זכריהו עלעפאנט זכריהו אלפנט Elefánt Zoltan
Born	(1886-02-11)February 11, 1886 Kárász, Austria-Hungary
Died	June 1957(1957-06-00) (aged 71) New York City, New York, U.S.
Occupations	Rabbi writer publisher bookseller
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Zechariah Elefant (Yiddish: זכריהו עלעפאנט; Hebrew: זכריהו אלפנט; Hungarian: Elefánt Zoltan; February 11, 1886 – June 1957) was a Hungarian-American Rabbi, writer, publisher, and bookseller.

Early life and education

Elefant was born February 11, 1886 in Kárász, Austria-Hungary (present-day Hungary) to the Rabbi Dov Berish Elefant [yi] and Bava Elefant (née Eisenberger). Elefant was the brother of Rabbi Joseph Meir Elefant [yi] and Mendel Elefant, a Yiddish-language poet, writer, editor and journalist.

As a young man he studied at the Yeshiva of Siget and the Pressburg Yeshiva.

Career

In 1923, he emigrated to New York City with his wife and three children. In New York, he served as rabbi of a synagogue. Later he opened a bookstore on Canal Street in Manhattan's Lower East Side, where he sold "rare manuscripts and published works" as well as Torah scrolls.

In 1938 he and his father published the book "Ein Habedolach" by Rabbi Chaim Zvi Menheimer, who was his father's teacher. After the death of his father, he published another book, "Ein Habadolach on the Talmud", in 1944.

The National Library of Israel has two manuscripts with his signature from his private library.

Personal life

A few years before the World War I, he married Sarah (née Kahane), a Polish citizen.

Elefant died in New York in June 1957.

References

External links

• Ein Habedolach 1944, preface detailing his life's story up to then (in Hebrew).
• Sources quoting Rabbi Elefant:
  • Rabbi Yekutiel Yehuda Grienwald, Kol Bo on Mourning, Vol. 1, New York 1947, p. 380 (in Hebrew).
  • Rabbi Yekutiel Yehuda Grienwald, Kol Bo on Mourning, Vol. 2, Brooklyn 1951, p. 147 (in Hebrew).
  • Dr. Yohanan Cohen-Yashar, "ספר חדש של פרופ׳ נהר על המהר״ל", Hamaayan (Tishrei 5727, 1966), Vol. 7, Issue 1, p. 78, item 74a (in Hebrew).