Zechariah Elefant

Zechariah Elefant (Yiddish: זכריהו עלעפאנט, Hebrew: זכריהו אלפנט, Hungarian: Elefánt Zoltan, English: Sol Elefant; February 11, 1886, Kárász, Hungary - June 1957, New York City) was a rabbi, author, publisher, and book salesman.

Biography
Elefant was born in the town of Nyírkarász, Hungary. His father was Rabbi Dov Berish Elefant, and his mother was named Bava (née Eisenberger). As a young man he studied at the Yeshiva of Sighet and the Pressburg Yeshiva. A few years before the World War I, he married Sarah (née Kahane), a Polish citizen. In 1923, he emigrated to New York with his wife and three children.

In New York, he served as rabbi of a synagogue. Later he opened a bookstore on Canal Street in Manhattan's Lower East Side, where he sold "rare manuscripts and published works" as well as Torah scrolls.

In 1938 he and his father published the book "Ein Habedolach" by Rabbi Chaim Zvi Menheimer, who was his father's teacher. After the death of his father, he published another book, "Ein Habadolach on the Talmud", in 1944. The National Library of Israel has two manuscripts with his signature from his private library.