Yehuda Chitrik
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Rabbi Yehuda Chitrik (August 28, 1899 – February 14, 2006) was an author and , New York.
Early life
Yehuda Chitrik was born in 1899 in
In 1926 Chitrik married Kayla Tomarkin, the daughter of Rabbi Aharon Tomarkin, a Rabbi in
Post-Holocaust
In the turmoil that followed World War II and
In 1949, he emigrated to
Rabbi Chitrik was the eldest living Chabad Chassid for many years. He died 17 Shevat 5766. He has four children and eighteen grandchildren, and is survived by over 300 descendants in total.[citation needed]
Many of his descendants serve as spiritual leaders and rabbis across the globe. Amongst them is his son-in-law Rabbi David Moshe Lieberman, who serves as the chief rabbi of Antwerp, Belgium. His great grandsons, Rabbi Mendy Chitrik of Istanbul, Turkey serves as the Chairman of the Alliance of Rabbis in Islamic States. Other descendants serve in China, Turkey, Germany, Australia, Israel, Canada, Uruguay, Brazil, Ukraine, England Archived 2007-07-04 at the Wayback Machine and cities across the United States: Bedford, NY; Philadelphia, PA, New York City, NY; Munster, IN; Oak Park, MI.
Writings
- Reshimot Devorim, four volumes.
- From My Father's Shabbos Table, A Treasury of Chabad Chassidic Stories
External links
- A collection of stories by Yehudah Chitrik on Chabad.org
- Books Archived 2006-03-06 at the Wayback Machine
- Rabbi Yehuda Chitrik, 106; Chasidic Storyteller Archived 2007-03-13 at the Wayback Machine The Jewish Week
- New York Times eulogy