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Ezras Torah Fund
The phrase "for Relief of European and Palestinian Rabbis" mentioned in Religious Leaders of America was merely a description of the organization and not reflective of the actual name. That the original name was simply Ezras Torah can be seen in many older sources. Among these sources are Der Morgen Journal - August 29, 1915 - רבנים קאנפערענץ נעהמט אן פלענער צו העלפן מלחמה קרבנות and the introductions to Sefer Hazikaron (c. 1919) and Zichron B'Sefer (c. 1922)
 * It would be wise to incorporate the full official name in the article. It appears in the following sources:
 * Religious leaders of America, Volume 1, J.C. Schwarz, 1936.
 * Who's who in New York City and State, Volume 11, L.R. Hamersly Co., 1947.
 * American Jewish year book, Volume 58, American Jewish Committee, 1957.
 * American Jews: their lives and achievements ; a contemporary biographical record, Volume 2, Golden Book Foundation of America, 1947.
 * World biography, Volume 2, Institute for Research in Biography, 1948.
 * The National cyclopaedia of American biography, James Terry White, 1967. Chesdovi (talk) 12:52, 31 August 2011 (UTC)

The current full official names of the organization are simply Ezras Torah in Hebrew and Torah Relief Society in English as can be seen at http://www.ezrastorah.org/about_us.php and in their mailings.

(Mossad) Ezras Torah was founded in August 1915 and was known by that name in numerous Yiddish and Hebrew news articles, advertisements and publications from the early 20th century. Ezras Torah's own publications (see the links to the hebrewbooks.org documents on the wiki page) also mention just Ezras Torah without any addendum. One can also see "Ezras Torah Fund" without any additional title listed in page 45 of the following PDF document American Jewish Yearbook, 1921-1922 (Directories). The organization was incorporated in early 1920 under the name Torah Relief Society. The incorporation document can be found in New York City's Division of Old Records in Manhattan.

I can think of three possibilities re: "for Relief of European and Palestinian Rabbis"
 * 1) The 1936 volume by Julius Caesar Schwarz was giving a description and not adding to the title
 * 2) That book was in error
 * 3) Ezras Torah had a different official name in the mid-20th century (this would need to be supported by official documents or from material published by Ezras Torah)

If either of the first two possibilities were correct then the later English language publications listed above might have just copied the lengthened organization name from earlier English language sources without consulting more authoritative sources.

Msescott (talk) 07:35, 27 September 2011 (UTC)

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Ezras Torah Fund Timeline
Hi, I noticed you uploaded the comprehensive timeline of rabbinical leaders on the Ezras Torah Fund page, do you have nay source for the list of rabbis and dates? (none is given in the article and the Ezras Torah website only mentions a small fraction of the rabbis on your timeline) Shaked13 (talk) 03:25, 10 January 2023 (UTC)


 * Much about the rabbis listed from Rabbi Israel Rosenberg through Rabbi Yeshaya Karlinsky has been written up in two articles appearing in the bi-annual Yeshurun (Torah journal - in Hebrew). In volume 20, a major set of articles was devoted to Rabbi Henkin and in volume 32 (as can be seen in the references section in this wikipedia article) an article was devoted to the early history of Ezras Torah.
 * In particular, here are some relevant sources:
 * - The starting dates of founding rabbis such as Rabbis Rosenberg, Klein, Eskolsky, Margolies can be found at: "Kol korei l'Ezras Torah", Der Morgen Journal, 24 Elul 5675 (Sep 3, 1915) p. 5 (Yiddish)
 * - Rabbi Baruch Epstein - evidence of his time of service in 1924 can be seen in:
 * Dos Idishe Licht, 24 Adar I, 5684 (Feb 29, 1924), p. 12 (Yiddish)
 * A letter (in Hebrew) to Rabbi Epstein as Menahel/director of Ezras Torah from Nov 6, 1924 can be found in the collection of the Central Relief Committee of the Yeshiva University Archives (270/3)
 * (images of these two items appear in the Yeshurun article of vol 32 on page 934)
 * - Rabbi Yeshaya Karlinsky as Secretary: see Sefer HaYovel of the Agudas HaRabbanim, p. 78, New York 1928 (Hebrew)
 * - Rabbi Henkin alternatively as Director and Secretary: see the Yeshurun article of vol 20 on page 289 and also vol 32 pp. 935, 936 (Hebrew)
 * (All of the above sources are also quoted in the article of Yeshurun vol. 32)
 * Most of the dates pertaining to Rabbi Chaim Bloch through Rabbi Moshe Margolin were culled from various issues of HaPardes (in Hebrew) which can be found online at hebrewbooks.org
 * The dates of the most recent rabbis starting from Rabbi Dovid Lifshitz through Rabbi Yisrael Gettinger can be found on the Ezras Torah web site.
 * Many of the end dates of the rabbis' terms of service coincided with the time of their deaths which can be more easily looked up.
 * If you wish to improve the article, feel free to edit and add this info. Msescott (talk) 07:05, 10 January 2023 (UTC)