75th Yórtsayt of the famous Vilner Rov:  Rabbi Chaim-Ozer Grodzenski (1863-1940)

75th Yórtsayt of the famous Vilner Rov:  Rabbi Chaim-Ozer Grodzenski (1863-1940)

This week, the entire Ashkenazic Orthodox world, spread over many parts of the world, marked the 75th yórtsayt (anniversary of the death) of the beloved pre-Holocaust “last rabbi of Vilna,” Rabbi Chaim Ozer Grodzenski, forever known in Litvak Yiddish as Reb Chaim-Eyzer. To this day, Jewish visitors from around the world come to look at the legendary balcony on the corner of Zaválne (today’s Pylimo St.) and Greys-Pohulánke (Basanavičiaus).

One of the many tributes came in >>Hamodia