Grand Rabbi Yisroel Aryeh Margulies, Admur Premishlan-London

G15.4 R. Israel Aryey Leib Margulies, Admur Przemyslany, born in Przemyslany in 1892 and died in East Finchley, London on January 18, 1955, married Pesha (Peszy), daughter of R. Isaac Babad of Tartakow (see Chapter XI- Branch D). He was named after his maternal grandfather who died in 1891. He was Admur Przemyslany in Cricklewood, north-west London where he settled in 1927 with his family.

Source

The Unbroken Chain - Neil Rosenstein (3rd Edition) Volume 3, Chapter 7, pages 210-211

The Jewish Chronicle - Jan 21 1955

RABBI I. MARGULIES

The death occurred on Tuesday, at the age of 62, of the Premishlaner Rebbe, Rabbi Israel L. Margulies, writes Mr. S. B. UNSDORFER. For nearly 30 years he had played a leading role in strengthening the religious life of the London community. Apart from being a sympathetic orator with a charm and simplicity of speech which commended his words to the learned and unlearned alike, be was a constructive religious leader. He established his own Beth Hamedrash in the East End, in Cricklewood, and, during the last year, in Hampstead Garden Suburb, and was one of the founders of the Union of Orthodox Hebrew Congregations. He was appointed a member of the Moetzet Gedolei Hatorah and in that capacity recited chapters of the Psalms at the opening of the Knessia Gedola in Jerusalem last June.

Rabbi Margulies' greatest enthusiasm was for Jewish education, and the North West London Jewish Day Schools, of which he was a founder, and which has 260 pupils, is a standing tribute to his enterprise.

The children of the school flanked the street as the cortege passed on its way to Enfield. A large assembly, which included the Chief Rabbi, gathered at the synagogue in Minster Road, where the traditional ceremony of "Hakafot" was performed, and orations were delivered by leading rabbinical personalities.

The late Rabbi, who is survived by his wife, three sons, and six daughters, was of illustrious stock—a descendant of the Baal Shem and a great-grandson of Rabbi Meir of Premishlan. The aim of constructing a part of the defences of Judaism guided him throughout his active life and it was one which he succeeded in transmitting to his children. They, the sons and sons-in-law, who include Rabbi A. Babad, of Sunderland and Rabbi S. Pinter, Principal of the Yesodey Hatorah Schools, have, by their activities, shown his influence.

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