Person · 5645–5703 AM · 1885 CE — 1943 CE
Rabbi Alter Yechezkel Eliyahu Horowitz of Dzikov רבי אלטער יחזקאל אליהו הורוויץ מדזיקוב
the fourth rebbe of Dzikov; he set up the Beit Dzikov yeshiva in Tarnow
He became rabbi of Dzikow in 1909, in the lifetime of his father, Rabbi Yehoshua. He was married to Chava, daughter of Rabbi Yisrael Hager of Vizhnitz.
In the First World War he left with his family for Vizhnitz, and on returning settled in Tarnow, where he set up the Beit Dzikov yeshiva. In 1926 he travelled to London.
He perished on 7 Adar 1943, when the Germans destroyed the Krakow ghetto. The year of his birth is given two ways—1884 and 1879. His son Rabbi Chaim Menachem David took the court.
On the timeline
5537 · 1777 CEThe courts of Galicia, Bukovina and Hungary: Ruzhin, Belz, Sanz, Satmar5699 · 1939 CEThe Shoah: the Destruction of European Jewry
Related
Sources
Documents of the period
- The catalogue description of a letter of Rabbi Alter Yechezkel Eliyahu, Tarnow, 1929 — the second reading of the year of birth, 1879, and his standing in Tarnow
- The register of the Galician courts' days of remembrance — 7 Adar 1943
Scholarship
- The register of the Dzikov house — the dates, the marriage to Rabbi Yisrael Hager's daughter, and the Beit Dzikov yeshiva in Tarnow
Basis: documents and evidence.