The Shaare Zedek Cemetery is a small Jewish burial ground located behind the first Shaare Zedek Hospital in Jerusalem. Originally used by the hospital as farmland for grazing milk cows, the area was c
Old Shaare Zedek Hospital and Cemetery
Graves of the first Dushinsky Rebbe, Rabbi Yosef Tzvi Dushinsky (foreground) and his son, Rabbi Yisroel Moshe Dushinsky, second Dushinsky Rebbe (background)
Graves of Rabbi Yechiel Michel Schlesinger (right) and his son, Rabbi Avraham Schlesinger (middle)
Yosef Tzvi Dushinsky, also known as the Maharitz, was the first Rebbe of Dushinsky and Grand Patriarch of the Edah HaChareidis, as well as their Chief Rabbi of Jerusalem, previously having held the ti
Shaare Zedek Cemetery, Jerusalem
…A handful of graves still remain on the site. The most notable are: Yosef Tzvi Dushinsky (1867–1948), first Dushinsky Rebbe and Gaavad Av Beis Din of the Edah HaChareidis of Jerusalem, who died in the Shaare Zedek Hospital in October 1948…
Yosef Tzvi Dushinsky