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Newsletter of the \Vorldwide Congregation Charlap/Yahya 1 NEWSLETTER OF THE \VORLDWIDE CONGREGATION CHARLAP/YAHYA Vol. 12, No. 2 Sivan 5761; June 2001 FROM LOMZA, POLAND TO MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA On June 30, 1998, Rabbi Shlomo Rudzki (600,Pl.153) was honored for 60 years ofservice to the Melbourne Jewish community. The following are excerpts from the testimonial program. We thank Eliezer (797) and Esther Rudzki (796) Prisman for submitting the program. Esther is Reb Shlomo 's daughter. Rabbi Shlomo arrived in Australia in 1938 from his home town of Lomza in Poland. Within a year he was appointed as Chief Minister of Beth David Hebrew Congregation in Carleton, better knO\m as "Stone's Shul." He was subsequently appointed as Principal of the Hascola Talmud Torah which he served with distinction for over 20 years. In 1961 he became Chief Minister of South Caulfield Hebrew Congregation and served there for 28 years. While in this position, he devoted much time to the Melbourne Beth Din and to those proceedings brought a dimension of compassion that elevates him above the ordinary. Rabbi Rudzki was a founding member of the Mizrachi Movement and is also a long time member of B 'nai Brith. A staunch Zionist, he has worked for both the Jewish National Fund and the United Israel Appeal, with love. An author and scholar, he has enhanced the Melbourne Jewish community during his many decades of public involvement. From Lomza to Melbourne is a long way - in geographical distance, in social contrast and in all aspects of a Jewish community. Though the le-wish community of prewar Lomza only traced its continuous history to the period immediately following the 1815 Congress of Vienna, there had been Jews in the town as far back as the mid 1500s. Once their presence was authorized, the Jewish population increased to 737 in 1826; 2,574in1852; 9,244in1897; and 11,088 in 1915. In 1929 Jews comprised 70.8% of the total population. Educational institutions such as Talmud Torahs and cheders had already been established in Lomza during the 19th century. In 1883 Reb Eliezer Szuliawicz established the Lomza Yeshiva, which lives on today in Petah Til·-vah, Israel. The 19th century saw Jews as playing a major role in the economic life of the town and surrounding region. They O\\ned factories and served as leading wholesalers in the grain and timber trades. The majority of Jews gravitated towards small businesses in the various shtetls ofLomza Gubemiya. In 1921 there were 498 Jewish workshops in Lomza, 295 of them \\ith salaried employees. Jews were engaged in various crafts, but were forced to abandon these businesses by anti-Semitic measures enacted by the Polish government. The resulting economic crisis aggravated by anti-Jewish boycotts imposed by trade unions, political parties, and the church and increasing violence directed against them, greatly impoverished the Jews and many left Lornza. It was into this intensely Jewish atmosphere of Lornza that Shlomo Rudzki was born in June 1910 to wheel manufacturer Aaron Joseph and his wife Rachel (nee Fridshtein). There were six children in the family, five brothers and one sister. The major (continued on page 4) 4 LOMZA TO MELBOURNE (cont. from p.1) his mind that the storm clouds were gathering. Nevertheless he did not realize the finality of his departure. Most of his family factor in the children's lives was daily attendance at cheder. he would never see again. One brother succeeded in escaping Studies were mainly in Chumash, Mishna, and Gemara. A to Israel while another followed him to Australia. The woman would come three times a week to teach Polish and remainder of his family, including his parents, shared the fate basic arithmetic. The rest of the time was spent helping parents of Am Yisrael during the Holocaust. Rivka had one brother in as Aaron Joseph o\vned two shops and unpaid family help was America, but her mother and a brother stayed in Poland where an essential feature of the operation. The cycle of the Jewish they suffered martyrdom. calendar predominated over all else. Shlomo's mother would *************************************************** rise early on a Friday to bake challah for Shabbat; as early as FROM THE ZAMBROW YISKOR BOOK Hanukkah geese were set aside and fattened for the following Zambrow is located between Ciechanowiec and Lomza, Pesach. The rituals and practical constituents of the Jewish life halfway along the road from Czyzewo. Representatives of cycle were impressed upon the young people in a natural way several branches of our family lived there including: and became an integral part of their beings. Charlap, Kopyto, Lew, Mankuta. Pakcziarz. and Ser. At age 18 Shlomo enrolled in the Lomza Yeshiva. While it had an excellent reputation, after some time he sought It began about the year 1863, when the Lomza-Suwalk to expand his horizons \\ith study at a more distant yeshiva. branch of the Warsaw Kollel in Jerusalem disassociated itself Consideration was given to three of the great yeshiva from the organization to become a separate unit. The city of institutions: Radin (home of the famed Chofetz Chaim), Kletzk Zambrow was then chosen as the center, representative of both (associated with Rav Aharon Kotler), and Mir, the largest of Suwalk and Lomza provinces. The first President of the new the three and the one finally chosen. If Lomza and his parental organization was the former Rabbi of Zambrow, Reb Lippe home were the primary influences on Rabbi Rudzki, the other Chaim. Among his tasks was the management and supervision most important influence was the formative period spent at the of the charity funds contributed by the Jewish population of great institution of prewar Lithuania, the Mirer Yeshiva. The both provinces; to grant aid and comfort to those, mostly outstanding personality in Mir was the spiritual advisor Reb elderly, Jews who strove to live or die in Erctz Yisrael; to Y erucham Leibovitz. Shlomo Rudzki absorbed the very determine who amongst them is worthy and deserving of such essence of Mussar derech (modem study combined with aid Successor to the presidency was Reb Lippe Chaim's son­ traditional Orthodoxy) from his exposure to Reb Yerucham in-law, Yehoshua Heschel, Rabbi of Szczuczyn. The third and the other great scholars of Mir. After four years at that President was a grandson ofReb Lippe Chaim, also Rabbi of venerable institution, Shlomo returned to Lomza, where he was Szczuczyn. The last to preside over the charitable institution of ordained. the Suwalk-Lomza provinces was the distinguished Rabbi of Despite his religious standing, he was forced into Zambrow, Reb Dov Menachem Regensberg, another son-in­ compulsory military service and served with distinction. law of Reb Lippe Chaim. The head of the Lomza-Suwalk Follo\\ing his release from military duty he returned to his Kolle! in Jerusalem was Reb Moshe Charlap, who had been parents' home in Lomza. In 1935 he married Rivka bat Shepsel close with all who hailed from these provinces. It was the Pasternak (599), granddaughter of Baruch Pasternak (504) and exclusive authority and right of the Rabbi of Zambrow to Kayla Kur (503) ofNur. Rivka's cousin Frumke (564,Pl.156) approve, recommend, or deny the granting of aid from the married HaRav Aharon Zlotowitz (565). Rav Aharon's text charity funds to Zambrow landsmen living in Jerusalem. Shailot U'Teshuvot Nachalat Aharon includes a response to Rabbi Rudzki regarding utilization of electric lights on Shabbat Mexico was never known as a country of concentrated and festivals. mass irnrnigration of Jews. Yet, there is now (ca 1960) a Rising anti-Semitism in Poland prompted Shlomo and flourishing Jewish community, among them quite a number of Rivka to emigrate to Eretz Yisrael where he could join the former residents of Zambrow. The first from Zambrow to Lomza Yeshiva in Petah Tikvah. However, he was unable to irnrnigrate to Mexico was Abraham Zaltzman, who landed obtain a visa to the British Mandate, or to the USA or Canada. there approximately in 1927. Soon afterwards other Zambrow The young couple decided to leave for Australia. In July 1938 landsmen made their appearance in Mexico. But they Shlomo left for Danzig. There he boarded a boat that took him considered the new country only as a spring-board to reach the to England. After a brief stay in London with Dayan Yehezkiel United States. Gradually, though, a number of them settled Abramsk.·y, he embarked on an Orient Line steamer for the six there to stay. Zambrow families living in Mexico include: week journey to Melbourne. Rivka would follow him the next Golombek, Gorodzinsk.)', Zaltzberg, Lavsk)', Slovik, year. She arrived in Australia just seven weeks before Germany Pekarevitch, and Rothberg (Czerwonagura). They associate and invaded Poland bringing on World War IL meet from time to time, remembering with nostalgia the old As Shlomo Rudzki left Europe there was no doubt in times in their home tO\m of Zarnbrow. 5 CREATIVE ONSLAUGHT A SUPERB VIOLINIST The following is drawn from an article by Meredith Born in Kiev, Ukraine in 1952, Yury Gezentsvey Broussard which originally appeared in an on-line (7 44 7,Pl.115) began his violin studies as a pupil of Prof. publication Philadelphia Citypaper.net. Aaron Levy Abram Stem, Concertmaster of the Kiev Opera Orchestra. (1350,Pl.l 20) is the originator of our family website Subsequently he pursued further studies at the Gniessin www.charlap.org. Aaron is in that branch ofthe family that Institute in Moscow under Prof. Peter Bondarenko. He is descended from Zebulon Ser (1285) and Chaya Kopyto graduated in 1974 with the multiple diploma in Solo (1286). Performance, Orchestra Soloist, Chamber Music, and Music Pedagogy.
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