Person · 5620–5701 AM · 1860 CE — 1941 CE
Rabbi Elisha Halberstam of Gorlice רבי אלישע הלברשטאם מגורליץ
the second rebbe of Gorlice; the last rabbi of the Gorlice community
He was first rabbi of Krosno, and after the death of his father, Rabbi Baruch of Gorlice, in 1906 took the seat of Gorlice, and remained on it as the community's last rabbi.
In the first days of the German invasion he left for Lvov, and from there was exiled to Siberia, where he died on 19 Tishrei 1940.
Two of his sons reached Erets Yisrael—Rabbi Mordechai Dov in Jerusalem and Rabbi Baruch in Bnei Brak; several other children went to America.
On the timeline
5537 · 1777 CEThe courts of Galicia, Bukovina and Hungary: Ruzhin, Belz, Sanz, Satmar5699 · 1939 CEThe Second World War
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Scholarship
- Pinkas ha-Kehillot Polin, the volume on Gorlice — the rabbinate of Krosno, the seat of Gorlice after his father, the flight to Lvov and the exile
- The Gorlice memorial book — that two of his sons reached Erets Yisrael
Basis: documents and evidence.