| LC control no. | no2012031365 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Portugal, Yisroel Avrohom, 1923-2019 |
| Variant(s) | Porṭugal, Yiśraʼel Avraham ben Eliʻezer Zusya, 1923-2019 Admor Sheliṭa, 1923-2019 Portugal, Israel Abraham, 1923-2019 פורטוגל, ישראל אברהם, 1923-2019 אדמו"ר מסקולען, 1923-2019 ישראל אברהם בן שיינא רחל, 1923-2019 אדמו״ר שליט״א, 1923-2019 פורטוגל, ישראל אברהם בן אליעזר זוסיא, 1923-2019 |
| Located | Cernăuți (Romania) Chernivt︠s︡i (Ukraine) Bucharest (Romania) Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) Borough Park (New York, N.Y.) |
| Birth date | 1923-06-02 |
| Death date | 2019-04-01 |
| Place of birth | Sculeni (Moldova) |
| Place of death | Baltimore (Md.) |
| Profession or occupation | Rabbis Hasidim Ultra-Orthodox Jews |
| Special note | Non-Latin script reference not evaluated. |
| Found in | Ḳunṭres Eleh masʻe, 2011: title page אדמו״ר שליט״א = (Admor Sheliṭa) Wikipedia, March 1, 2012 (Yisroel Avrohom Portugal (or Israel Abraham Portugal); born June 2, 1923, son of Rabbi Eliezer Zusia Portugal and his first wife, Sheina Rachel, is the Rebbe (Grand Rabbi) of Skulen in Brooklyn, New York) OCLC, March 1, 2012 (hdg.: Porṭugal, Yiśraʼel Avraham ben Eliʻezer Zusya, 1923-) New York times WWW site, viewed Apr. 8, 2019 (in obituary published Apr. 5: Rabbi Yisroel Avrohom Portugal; b. June 2, 1923, Skulyany (Skulen in Yiddish), in what is today Moldova; later moved with his father to Chernowitz, then to Bucharest, where the Communist authorities jailed them for five months on charges of teaching Torah and smuggling children into Israel; outraged, prominent American Jews in 1959 successfully prevailed on Dag Hammarskjold, the United Nations secretary general, to intervene, and they were freed; they emigrated to the United States in 1960; became the Skulener Rebbe when his father died in 1982; d. Monday [Apr. 1, 2019], at the Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, aged 85; grand rabbi of the tiny Skulen Hasidic sect, revered throughout the growing ultra-Orthodox world; lived in Borough Park, Brooklyn) |
| Associated language | heb yid |
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