Avraham Mordechai ALTER 1865–1948

Avraham Mordechai ALTERAge: 821865–1948

Name: Avraham Mordechai ALTER

Given names: Avraham Mordechai

Surname: ALTER

Title: 4th Gerrer Rebbe From 1905 To 1948 (The Imrei Emes)

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Birth	25 December 1865 Góra Kalwaria (Ger), Powiat piaseczyński, Mazovia, Poland Source: Geni.com (The Gerrer Rebbes) Publication: World Family Tree, database, Geni (a MyHeritage company)
Marriage	Chaya Rhoda Judith CZARNA - View family Source: Geni.com (The Gerrer Rebbes) Publication: World Family Tree, database, Geni (a MyHeritage company)
Birth of a son #1	12 April 1883 (Age 17) Góra Kalwaria, Piaseczno County, Mazovia Voivodeship, Poland son - Meir ALTER
Birth of a daughter #2	13 October 1884 (Age 18) Góra Kalwaria (Ger), Powiat piaseczyński, Mazovia, Poland daughter - Feige ALTER
Birth of a daughter #3	Warsaw, Warszawa, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland daughter - Breindel ALTER
Death of a brother	1885 (Age 19) Góra Kalwaria, Piaseczno County, Mazovia Voivodeship, Poland younger brother - Noah ALTER
Birth of a son #4	1886 (Age 20) Góra, Góra County, Dolnoslaskie, Poland son - Yitzchak ALTER
Birth of a daughter #5	1889 (Age 23) daughter - Esther ALTER
Birth of a daughter #6	1 February 1891 (Age 25) Poland daughter - Deborah Matil ALTER
Death of a mother	18 December 1900 (Age 34) Góra Kalwaria, Piaseczno County, Mazovia Voivodeship, Poland mother - Yocheved Rivka KAMINER
Death of a father	11 January 1905 (Age 39) Góra Kalwaria (Ger), Powiat piaseczyński, Mazovia, Poland father - Yehuda Arye Leib ALTER
Death of a wife	10 February 1922 (Age 56) Góra Kalwaria (Ger), Powiat piaseczyński, Mazovia, Poland wife - Chaya Rhoda Judith CZARNA
Death of a daughter	4 October 1924 (Age 58) Warszawa, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland daughter - Feige ALTER
Birth of a son #7	9 June 1926 (Age 60) Falenica, Mazovia, Poland son - Pinchas Menachem ALTER
Death of a son	25 October 1934 (Age 68) Poland son - Yitzchak ALTER
Death of a brother	1936 (Age 70) Warszawa, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland younger brother - Yitzchak Meir ALTER
Death of a sister	9 July 1938 (Age 72) Warszawa, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland younger sister - Fajga ALTER
Death of a brother	17 August 1941 (Age 75) Warszawa, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland younger brother - Chanoch Chaim ALTER
Death of a brother	17 August 1941 (Age 75) Warszawa, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland younger brother - Nechemia From ALTER
Death of a son	1942 (Age 76) Treblinka, Powiat Ostrowski, Mazovia, Poland son - Meir ALTER
Death of a brother	7 August 1942 (Age 76) Treblinka, Powiat Ostrowski, Mazovia, Poland younger brother - Menachem Mendel ALTER
Death of a brother	5 September 1942 (Age 76) Treblinka, Powiat Ostrowski, Mazovia, Poland younger brother - Moshe Bezalel ALTER
Death of a daughter	23 April 1943 (Age 77) Poland daughter - Esther ALTER
Occupation	4th Gerrer Rebbe (The Imrei Emes) from 1905 to 3 June 1948 (Age 39) Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Jerusalem District, Israel Source: Wikipedia Publication: the free encyclopedia Text: Portrait of Rabbi Avraham Mordechai Alter (1865 –1948), known as the Imrei Emes, the third Rebbe (1905-1948) of the Hasidic dynasty of Ger [based in Gora Kalwaria], one of the most influential Hasidic leaders in Poland before World War II. The Gerer dynasty traced its spiritual lineage back to the Baal Shem Tov, the founder of the Hasidic movement.
Relationship 16-20	R' Avraham Mordechai ALTER, 3rd Admur Ger is your second cousin's husband's first cousin once removed's husband's great aunt's husband's son Source: Geni.com (The Gerrer Rebbes) Publication: World Family Tree, database, Geni (a MyHeritage company) Citation details: 16 connections Text: You →Ruth Alter COHEN your mother →Louis Mordecai ALTER her father →Harry ALTER his brother →Frances ALTER SALEM his daughter →Beverley SALEM PASTERNAK her daughter →Harvey Stephen PASTERNAK her husband →Louis PASTERNAK his father →Favel PASTERNAK his father →Chaim Yosef PASTERNAK his brother →<private> PASTERNAK HALBERSTAM his daughter →<private> HALBERSTAM her husband →Binyamin TEITELBAUM HALBERSTAM his father →Yocheved Rivka HALBERSTAM TEITELBAUM his mother →Reizel HALBERSTAM EICHENSTEIN-CHODOROV-ALTER her sister →R' Judah Aryey Leib ALTER, Sfas Emes, Admor 2nd Gerrer her husband →R' Avraham Mordechai ALTER, 3rd Admur Ger his son Avraham Mordechai ALTER (1866–1948)
Wikipedia	Avraham Mordechai Alter Source: Wikipedia Publication: the free encyclopedia Text: Avraham Mordechai Alter (Polish: Abraham Mordechaj Alter, Yiddish: Avram Mordche Alter, Hebrew: אברהם מרדכי אלתר; 25 December 1865 – 13 June 1948), also known as the Imrei Emes after the works he authored, was the fourth Rebbe of the Hasidic dynasty of Ger, a position he held from 1905 until his death in 1948. He was one of the founders of the Agudas Israel in Poland and was influential in establishing a network of Jewish schools there. It is claimed that at one stage he led over 200,000 Hasidim. Personal life Gerrer Rebbe at the Hurva Synagogue in Jerusalem, with the horrific news of the murder of millions of Jews from Poland and Europe, November 1942. Next to him is his son Pinchas Menachem Alter had eight children by his first wife, Chaya Ruda Czarna, daughter of Noah Czarny, a prominent Gerrer Hasid in Biala. His eldest son, Rabbi Meir Alter, who was a Torah scholar and businessman, was murdered in Treblinka during the Holocaust with his children and grandchildren. His second son, Rabbi Yitzchak Alter, died in 1934 in Poland. In 1922, his wife Chaya Ruda died. Some time later he married his niece, Feyge Mintshe Biderman, who bore him his youngest child, Pinchas Menachem Alter, in 1926. In 1924, Alter visited Palestine together with his brother in-law, Rabbi Hirsh Heynekh Lewin, his son-in-law Rabbi Yitzchak Meir Alter and the Sokolover Rebbe, Rabbi Yitzchak Zelig Morgensztern. Over a six-week period, they visited Jerusalem, Safed, Hebron, Tiberias and Tel Aviv. World War II During World War II, Alter was a prime target of the Nazi authorities in German-occupied Poland. In 1940, he managed to escape to Palestine with several of his sons and began to slowly rebuild his Hasidic dynasty. He resided in the Sfas Emes Yeshiva from 1940 until his death in 1948. Death and legacy Graves of Grand Rabbi Avraham Mordechai Alter (right) and his son, Grand Rabbi Pinchas Menachem Alter (left) in an ohel adjacent to Sfas Emes Yeshiva in Mea Shearim, Jerusalem With the outbreak of the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, Alter was trapped in Jerusalem. He died during the holiday of Shavuot of natural causes during the siege of the city by the Jordanian Arab Legion. As bodies could not be removed to the Mount of Olives during wartime, he was buried in the yeshiva courtyard on the condition that he would be reburied elsewhere after the war. However, his sons and successors, the Beis Yisrael and Lev Simcha, declined to go through with the reburial. After Alter's death, the dynasty continued with his three remaining sons, who became the consecutive next three heads of the Gerrer Hasidim worldwide: Rabbi Yisrael Alter (fifth rebbe of Ger); Rabbi Simchah Bunim Alter (sixth rebbe of Ger); and Rabbi Pinchas Menachem Alter (seventh rebbe of Ger). In 1996, Rabbi Pinchas Menachem Alter was buried next to his father in the courtyard and a red-brick ohel was placed over both graves, which are visited regularly by students in the adjoining yeshiva.[3] The Hebrew acronym for Rabbi Avraham Mordechai is "Re'em (Hebrew: רְאֵ"ם). A religious moshav in central Israel is named for the Rebbe, Bnei Re'em, (lit. Sons of Re'em)[4] as well as the nearby junction of highway 40 and highway 3.
Marriage	Feiga Mintshe BIDERMAN - View family Source: Geni.com (The Gerrer Rebbes) Publication: World Family Tree, database, Geni (a MyHeritage company)
Death	3 June 1948 (Age 82) Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Jerusalem District, Israel Source: Geni.com (The Gerrer Rebbes) Publication: World Family Tree, database, Geni (a MyHeritage company)
Burial	after 3 June 1948 Jerusalem, Yeshivat Sfat Emet, Jerusalem District, Israel Source: Geni.com (The Gerrer Rebbes) Publication: World Family Tree, database, Geni (a MyHeritage company) Grand Rabbi Avraham Mordechai ALTER (1865–1948) Note: Photo of the graves of Grand Rabbi Avraham Mordechai Alter (the Imrei Emes), right, and his son, Grand Rabbi Pinchas Menachem Alter (the Pnei Menachem), left, in an ohel adjacent to the Sefas Emes Yeshiva in downtown Jerusalem, Israel. ALTER, Rabbi Avraham Mordechai CZARNA / BIDERMAN / KAMINER [JOWBR]
Reference number	G4
Last change	4 September 2023 - 14:13:28 by: Site Admin

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father	Yehuda Arye Leib ALTER Birth 15 April 1847 Warszawa, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland Reference number G3 Death 11 January 1905 (Age 57) Góra Kalwaria (Ger), Powiat piaseczyński, Mazovia, Poland Loading...
-15 months mother	Yocheved Rivka KAMINER Birth 1846 Gmina Chęciny, Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship, Poland Reference number G12 Death 18 December 1900 (Age 54) Góra Kalwaria, Piaseczno County, Mazovia Voivodeship, Poland Loading...
	Marriage: 5 March 1862 — Góra Kalwaria (Ger), Powiat piaseczyński, Mazovia, Poland
5 years #1 younger brother	Yitzchak Meir ALTER Birth 13 December 1866 Góra Kalwaria (Ger), Powiat piaseczyński, Mazovia, Poland Reference number G119 Death 1936 (Age 69) Warszawa, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland Loading...
-1 years #2 himself	Avraham Mordechai ALTER Birth 25 December 1865 Góra Kalwaria (Ger), Powiat piaseczyński, Mazovia, Poland Reference number G4 Death 3 June 1948 (Age 82) Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Jerusalem District, Israel Loading...
2 years #3 younger brother	Moshe Bezalel ALTER Birth 27 January 1868 Góra Kalwaria (ger), Powiat Piaseczyński, Mazovia, Poland Reference number G47 Death 5 September 1942 (Age 74) Treblinka, Powiat Ostrowski, Mazovia, Poland Loading...
5 years #4 younger brother	Yisrael ALTER Birth 1873 Góra Kalwaria, Piaseczno County, Mazovia Voivodeship, Poland Reference number G123 Death Góra Kalwaria, Piaseczno County, Mazovia Voivodeship, Poland Loading...
-1 years #5 younger sister	Fajga ALTER Birth 8 January 1872 Góra Kalwaria (Ger), Powiat piaseczyński, Mazovia, Poland Reference number G120 Death 9 July 1938 (Age 66) Warszawa, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland Loading...
-1 years #6 younger brother	Chanoch Chaim ALTER Birth about 1871 Góra Kalwaria, Piaseczno County, Mazovia Voivodeship, Poland Reference number G122 Death 17 August 1941 (Age 70) Warszawa, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland Loading...
3 years #7 younger brother	Nechemia From ALTER Birth August 1873 Góra Kalwaria, Piaseczno County, Mazovia Voivodeship, Poland Reference number G146 Death 17 August 1941 (Age 68) Warszawa, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland Loading...
4 years #8 younger brother	Menachem Mendel ALTER Birth 2 October 1877 Góra Kalwaria, Piaseczno County, Mazovia Voivodeship, Poland Reference number G148 Death 7 August 1942 (Age 64) Treblinka, Powiat Ostrowski, Mazovia, Poland Loading...
5 years #9 younger brother	Noah ALTER Birth 1883 Góra Kalwaria, Piaseczno County, Mazovia Voivodeship, Poland Reference number G150 Death 1885 (Age 2) Góra Kalwaria, Piaseczno County, Mazovia Voivodeship, Poland Loading...

Father’s family with Reizel HALBERSTAM - View family

father	Yehuda Arye Leib ALTER Birth 15 April 1847 Warszawa, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland Reference number G3 Death 11 January 1905 (Age 57) Góra Kalwaria (Ger), Powiat piaseczyński, Mazovia, Poland Loading...
11 years step-mother	Reizel HALBERSTAM Birth 10 September 1858 Nowy Sacz, Nowy Sącz County, Lesser Poland Voivodeship, Poland Reference number G157 Death Loading...
	Marriage: yes

Family with Chaya Rhoda Judith CZARNA - View family

himself	Avraham Mordechai ALTER Birth 25 December 1865 Góra Kalwaria (Ger), Powiat piaseczyński, Mazovia, Poland Reference number G4 Death 3 June 1948 (Age 82) Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Jerusalem District, Israel Loading...
wife	Chaya Rhoda Judith CZARNA Birth 1866 Reference number G13 Death 10 February 1922 (Age 56) Góra Kalwaria (Ger), Powiat piaseczyński, Mazovia, Poland Loading...
	Marriage: yes
#1 son	Meir ALTER Birth 12 April 1883 Góra Kalwaria, Piaseczno County, Mazovia Voivodeship, Poland Reference number G43 Death 1942 (Age 58) Treblinka, Powiat Ostrowski, Mazovia, Poland Loading...
18 months #2 daughter	Feige ALTER Birth 13 October 1884 Góra Kalwaria (Ger), Powiat piaseczyński, Mazovia, Poland Reference number G14 Death 4 October 1924 (Age 39) Warszawa, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland Loading...
15 months #3 son	Yitzchak ALTER Birth 1886 Góra, Góra County, Dolnoslaskie, Poland Reference number G41 Death 25 October 1934 (Age 48) Poland Loading...
3 years #4 daughter	Esther ALTER Birth 1889 Reference number G40 Death 23 April 1943 (Age 54) Poland Loading...
2 years #5 daughter	Deborah Matil ALTER Birth 1 February 1891 Poland Reference number G39 Death 22 July 1981 (Age 90) Israel Loading...
#6 daughter	Breindel ALTER Birth Warsaw, Warszawa, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland Reference number G42 Death Warsaw, Warszawa, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland Loading...

Family with Feiga Mintshe BIDERMAN - View family

himself	Avraham Mordechai ALTER Birth 25 December 1865 Góra Kalwaria (Ger), Powiat piaseczyński, Mazovia, Poland Reference number G4 Death 3 June 1948 (Age 82) Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Jerusalem District, Israel Loading...
24 years wife	Feiga Mintshe BIDERMAN Birth 28 January 1890 Góra Kalwaria (Ger), Powiat Piaseczyński, Mazovia, Poland Reference number G126 Death 7 March 1996 (Age 106) Góra Kalwaria (Ger), Powiat Piaseczyński, Mazovia, Poland Loading...
	Marriage: yes
#1 son	Pinchas Menachem ALTER Birth 9 June 1926 Falenica, Mazovia, Poland Reference number G7 Death 7 March 1996 (Age 69) Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Jerusalem District, Israel Loading...