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Rabbi Yehuda Leib Gordin,
RABBI GORDIN DIES SUDDENLY AT HIS PRAYERS Birth: 1854 Death: Apr. 11, 1925
Chief Rabbi Jehuda Leib Gordin, head of the Chicago Orthodox Rabbinical association, last night stood at his wall in the old fashion of the patriarchs and said his evening prayer. He was 71 years old. Years of pursuit of knowledge – the rabbi is rated by his race as one of its greatest Hebrew scholars – and the toil of his religious service has weakened his heart.
As he softly intoned the sonorous prayers for the evening, his voice quavered into silence. The venerable body slid to the floor. Heart disease was the cause of death. Rabbi Gordin had charge of the Tisereth Zion synagogue. He had written many books and had achieved fame in Jewish circles on an international scale. Chicago Daily Tribune – April 12, 1925
FUNERAL TODAY FOR RABBI GORDIN; 35,000 WILL JOIN CORTEGE
Funeral services for the late Rabbi Yehuda Leib Gordin, dean of the orthodox rabbinical association of Chicago and chief rabbi of the city will be held today in accordance with arrangements completed at a meeting yesterday afternoon of representatives of more than a hundred Jewish organizations at Tifereth Zion Shul, the synagogue where the rabbi officiated.
More than 35,000 people are expected to be in the funeral cortege,
 including all rabbis from within a day's ride of the city and many members of their congregations. The line of march will proceed from the residence at 1401 North Hoyne avenue, to the synagogue at 1243 North Lincoln street.
Services will be held while the body, following an ancient custom of the Jews, remains outside the synagogue.

Enroute to the Tifereth Zion cemetery on Roosevelt road, the funeral will halt in front of the Beth Hamedrash L'Horah, the training school for rabbis, of which Rabbi Gordin was dean. Chicago Daily Tribune – April 13, 1925

10,000 JEWS PAY TRIBUTE TO LATE RABBI GORDIN

Ten thousand Jews yesterday stood in silent prayer in Tifereth Zion, Anshe Knesses Yisroel, Beth Hamedresh Hagodel, Benai Moshe and Knesses Yisroel synagogues in tribute to the memory of the late Yehuda Leib Gordin, called by his people "the great Gaon" and the "prince of the Torah."

The United Orthodox Congregations of Chicago passed resolutions providing for collection of a memorial fund for beneficences in the name of the dead patriarch, noted as a Hebrew scholar, but who died a poor man.

The Jury of Rabbis also met and passed similar resolution. Chicago Daily Tribune – April 27, 1925
 
 
Burial:
Waldheim Jewish Cemetery
Forest Park
Cook County
Illinois, USA
Plot: Gate 13 - Tipheret Zion

Birth: 1854 Death: Apr. 11, 1925
RABBI GORDIN DIES SUDDENLY AT HIS PRAYERS
Chief Rabbi Jehuda Leib Gordin, head of the Chicago Orthodox Rabbinical association, last night stood at his wall in the old fashion of the patriarchs and said his evening prayer. He was 71 years old. Years of pursuit of knowledge – the rabbi is rated by his race as one of its greatest Hebrew scholars – and the toil of his religious service has weakened his heart.
As he softly intoned the sonorous prayers for the evening, his voice quavered into silence. The venerable body slid to the floor. Heart disease was the cause of death. Rabbi Gordin had charge of the Tisereth Zion synagogue. He had written many books and had achieved fame in Jewish circles on an international scale. Chicago Daily Tribune – April 12, 1925
FUNERAL TODAY FOR RABBI GORDIN; 35,000 WILL JOIN CORTEGE
Funeral services for the late Rabbi Yehuda Leib Gordin, dean of the orthodox rabbinical association of Chicago and chief rabbi of the city will be held today in accordance with arrangements completed at a meeting yesterday afternoon of representatives of more than a hundred Jewish organizations at Tifereth Zion Shul, the synagogue where the rabbi officiated.
More than 35,000 peo

Gordin

Abba Gordin
Birth:
1887
Michalichuk, Smarho?, Hrodzyenskaya Voblasts’, Belarus
Death:
1964 (77)
Tel Aviv, Israel
Immediate Family:
Son of Rabbi Yehuda-Leib Gordin and ? Gordin
Brother of Ze'ev Gordin
and Bluma Rosenson/ Raziel
Abba Gordin (1887-1964), writer and philosopher, one of the more remarkable representatives of the Yiddish anarchist movement. Gordin had been the inspirer of the pan-Russian anarchist movement and one of the organizers of the Anarchist Federation of Moscow (1918). From 1925, he lived in New York, where he had emigrated and where he published a literary philosophical review, Yiddishe Shriften (1936-1957), as well as being a habitual contributor to the most long-lived anarchist periodical in the Yiddish language, the Freie Arbeiter Stimme (1890-1977).
In 1958, Abba Gordin moved to Israel, and in Tel Aviv, founded a Yiddish anarchist circle, "Agudath Schochrei Chofesh" (ASHUACH), with a library of classic anarchist works in Yiddish, Hebrew, and Polish, and with a large hall for meetings and conferences. He also began to publish a bilingual monthly review (in Yiddish and Hebrew), Problemen/Problemot, which he directed from 1959 to 1964. During this period, ASHUACH had approximately 150 members and drew hundred of people to conferences on the philosophy of anarchism. Among the more debated topics: the spiritual roots of anarchism and the connections between anarchism, the Book of the Prophets (Neviim), and the Kabbalah. Problemen published stories and articles on the history of anarchism, Hasidic legends, medieval Jewish literature and the current problems of Yiddish literature.
August 24, 1964
Funeral services were held here Today for Abba Gordin, prominent Yiddish writer and poet, who died here this weekend at the age of 77.
Born in Michalzik, Smorgon area, the son of Rabbi Yehuda Leib Gordin of Lomze, Abba Gordin was one of the veteran anarchists during the early days of the Russian revolution; He came to the United States in 1926 and continued an active career of journalistic writing. Seven years ago he settled in Israel, where he devoted his time mainly to translating his Yiddish works into Hebrew.
Read more: http://www.jta.org/1964/08/24/archive/abba-gordin-noted-yiddish-writer-poet-dies-in-israel-at-77#ixzz2aP25rnJ6

Gordin

brothers Zeev Gordin, Abba Gordin

wrote; ?osmos, 1909 - 23 pages
Their sister Bluma was the mother of David Raziel and Esther Naor. Avraham Mordechai Raziel (Rosenson) and his wife Bluma (Gordin), both from families of well-known rabbis and scholars, lived in the town of Smorgon district of Vilna. On November 11,1910 their first son David was born, and a year later the daughter Esther was born.  The Language spoken at home was Hebrewand the parents refused to speak Yiddish so that was practiced in Eastern Europe. In 1914 the family immigrated to Israel, and the father served as a teacher in elementary school in Tel - Aviv (he taught Bible, Talmud and Hebrew). During the War - The First World Raziel was expelled - by the Turks to Egypt, along withthousands of Jews who held foreign citizenship. From Egypt the Raziel family moved back to to Russia, and in 1923 returned to Israel -The atmosphere at the home of Raziel was religious -nationalistic, and the parents preferred the current revisionistparty -over the stream of religious Zionism, which was too mildfor them.
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David Raziel
Birth:
December 19, 1910
Smorgon, vilna, Russia
Death:
May 20, 1941 (age 30)
Immediate Family:
Son of Avraham Rosenson/ Raziel and BlumaGordin
Husband of Shoshona Raziel
Brother of Esther Naor

Gordin
David Raziel (December 19, 1910 - May 20, 1941) was a fighter of the Jewish underground during the British mandate, and one of the founders of the Irgun
Born in Smarho? (now in Hrodna Voblast, Belarus), Vilna district in the Russian Empire, he immigrated with his family at the age of three to The British Mandate of Palestine, where his father became a Hebrew teacher at a Tel-Aviv elementary school. When the 1929 Hebron massacre broke out, he joined the Haganah in Jerusalem, where he was studying philosophy and mathematics at the Hebrew University. When the Irgun was established, he was one of its first members, and displayed outstanding military skills.
In 1937 he was appointed by the Irgun as the first Commander of Jerusalem District and a year later Commander in Chief of the Irgun. His term as leader was especially marked by violence against Arabs, including a sequence of market-place bombings.
On May 17, 1941 he was sent, with three of his comrades including Ya'akov Meridor, to Iraq on behalf of the British army to fight against al-Gaylani pro-axis regime. On May 20, a bomb from a German aircraft killed him and the British officer with him near an oil deposit in Habbaniyah. Meridor returned to Palestine and took over command of the Irgun.
In 1955 his remains were exhumed and transferred to Cyprus, and again in 1961 to Jerusalem's Mount Herzl military cemetery. His sister, Esther was later a member of the Knesset for Herut, the party founded by Irgun leader Menachem Begin. Comemoration
Ramat Raziel, a moshav in the Judean Mountains is named after Raziel, as well as many streets in Israel bearing his name in commemoration. The Israel postal service issued a stamp in his honor.[1]
Street named after him. Freedom fighter for Hagannah. Buried in special heroes cemetery,Mount Herzl , in Jerusalem.

 

Esther Naor (Rosenson/ Raziel)
Birth:
November 1911
Smarho?, Hrodzyenskaya Voblasts’, Belarus
Death:
November 11, 2002 (91)
Israel
Immediate Family:
Daughter of Avraham Rosenson/ Raziel and Bluma Rosenson/ Raziel
Wife of Yehuda Naor
Mother of David Naor; Aryeh ????' ???? Naor ???? and Efrat
Sister of David Razie

Gordin

Esther Raziel-Naor (Hebrew: ???? ?????-????‎, 29 November 1911 – 11 November 2002) was a Revisionist Zionist, Irgun leader and Israeli politician. She was the sister of fellow Irgun leader, David Raziel.
Raziel was born in Smarho? (now in Hrodna Voblast, Belarus) in 1911, a year after her brother, David. Her household spoke Hebrew, as her parents refused to speak the more common Yiddish. In 1914 her family immigrated to Eretz Israel, after her father was offered a Hebrew teacher’s position at the “Tachmoni” school in Tel Aviv. However, when World War I broke out the family was deported by the Ottomans, along with other Russian nationals, to Egypt. She moved back to Russia and returned to Palestine in 1923, after an 8-year absence.[1]
In 1932 she joined Betar and organized the "National Cells". In 1935 she completed the Levinsky Teachers Seminary in Tel Aviv and moved to Jerusalem to work as a teacher, but was fired after being caught wearing a Betar insignia. She returned to Tel Aviv and took a "Lieutenants" course.[2] Irgun activity
In 1936, as the Arab Revolt broke, she joined her brother in the Irgun. She took a first aid course and in August she took participated in a reprisal. In 1939 she was became first broadcaster of the Irgun's underground radio station, Kol Zion Halohemet, as well as a writer for Hamashkif, its newspaper. In 1943 she was selected to be a member of the Irgun's command structure.[2]
On March 4, 1944, the police raided her parents' house and found the radio transmitter. She was arrested along with her husband, Yehuda Naor, and was jailed in Bethlehem (Yehuda was taken to Acre and later deported to Africa, where he stayed for four and a half years, until the establishment of the State of Israel). She was pregnant at the time of her arrest and on August 18, 1944, after a seven month internment, she was released and gave birth shortly after. She was placed under house arrest and was frequently investigated.[2]
On July 22, 1946, following the King David Hotel bombing, she was once again arrested and was sent to the Latrun detention camp, where she remained for several weeks. After her release she remained under strict surveillance and was prevented from continuing her underground activity.[2] Post-independence
After the United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine was accepted on November 29, 1947, she returned to Kol Zion. After the establishment of the State of Israel she joined Herut and was elected for it in 1 through 7 Knessets. Throughout her 25 year service she was a member of the Education and Culture Committee and the House Committee. In the election to the 8 Knesset she was replaced by Geula Cohen.[2]
She died on November 11, 2002, and was buried in Jerusalem.[3] Her son, Aryeh Naor, was Government Secretary under both of Menachem Begin's governments and his wife is Miriam Naor, a Supreme Court judge.