Tel Aviv #54- History of Meah Sheaarim area in TA, Rabbis Levy, Zislin, Kantor, 1950-60s- RC Dalfin

No, no, no, no. Please, he's waiting for me. Please sit over here. Amen. So I want I want I want to ask you about how many if you were born here, raised here, tell me sit down. What is your name? Yes. What is your name? Zevman. Zevman. What? Hoffman. Hoffman. Huffman. And you were born in in in Tel Aviv. In Tel Aviv in this neighborhood. In this neighborhood. Mom, this is called Nordau. No. What's this neighborhood called? Tel Aiv. Center of Tel Aviv. I thought Where's Nordo? Nordo. So, this is called Meas Tel Aviv. The Central Tel Aviv. Okay. The old center of Tel Aviv. Yeah. Do you mind telling me when you were born? Oh, this is a secret. When were you born? 19 50. before little bit a little bit okay so tell me just a little bit about this go ahead I was born approximately with together with with medinat is 1948 something like this okay and and tell me about this area in well in the 1950s you don't remember from 1940s. What? Tell me a little bit. For from 1940s, I cannot right 50s also. I was a little kid. So, but uh here in in this neighborhood, not only in this neighborhood in Tel Aviv, uh we have a lot of Orthodox Jews, Orthodox Jews, but they were together live together with all all the other Jews because the other Jews were also they learned in they learned I I mean in the diaspora when they came here almost everyone was sure they came survivors survivors like this sho was a sur a survi a sh of survivors right that's right but some of them like my mother came in the 30s I mean from where where did she come from my mother came from Berlin Berlin and your father from vain for most Austrian. So you're a yucka. It's Austrian. We are Galatianos because because the grandfather they came they came from from father's side whom came came from from a place that was called Jimalof. Jimalov was was a place where Jimalov it was one of the post this this time and all his sons you heard about sure sure was the son of the oh Rabbi Videnfeld Videnfeld that for that's why he came also from this region Jib Jimalov. Jimalov. Jimalov. And his father was the the RV over there. That's right. A rabbi. That's right. And my grandfather came also from from this place. And you he left it there. I think it was before before the the first war world war to to win. And uh my father was born in V. But in in Vienna as they call that 300,000 Jews. Yes. And a lot of rabbis. Yes. Rabbis. I know. They came they ran they all ran to Vienna. The the was that's all all the region. Yeah. The region all went to Yeah. Yeah. They were of Yeah. your your your father's family was. Yeah. Yeah. That's right. And but they came here. Your parents came to this country when? 1935. My my father came now. He came on 48. 1948. No, not so 38. 38. That's right. Yeah. Before the war. And your mother? 33. 33. Yeah. Okay. isim from from Berlin. My my mother. Right. Okay. So, what do but what do you remember in the 1950s in this area? That's really what I want to hear about this area. A lot. We have a lot. a lot of Orthodox people and they mixed them together with everyone else cuz those the people even who weren't orthodox but they had gone to in Europe so they were familiar right okay I I understand there were a lot of here too a lot of them therefore get right not only vision sir every everybody here in Tel Aviv there are 40 rabbis 40 40 rabbis how many of them were I mean not not rabbis I I mean rabbis I 40 rabbis rabbis a lot of lot of rabbis in in there yes number 10 all all the 100 all of them was a rabbi they came the who was the RV there no now I no who was the RV then then who was was there once a famous RV there well I think Margulis that wrote he wrote about about San that we we make a this is the but but my I mean he have a library you are know no he have a library that was the the here we have the Rambam library you know no in in Tel Aviv you have you have to go there I'll go I'll globally. Neither here. It's a beta. Betarella. Okay. Near nearby to the to the how you you call it now. Okay. Whatever. Or it's near the museum. Okay. Tel Aviv. There's Betella. This is Oh, the Israeli museum. Not Israeli. The Tel Aiv Museum. Tel Aviv Museum. Nearby the building. It's called Betella. Beta is a central library of Tel Aviv. Okay. In this library you have some libraries like this everything that you you need about you you are searching for in in ink. Okay, let's go on. So, and this this library was based on the library of the Raangulis really. And this Rais was also and yeah and have and you have a connection with the rabbi that were here. Yeah, we're going to talk about that in a second now. Okay. So, um before I forget, did you know bear zein? Yes, he was a rabbi of him in on the corner. On the corner corner. Now it's called this it's called now it's called after right but before it was called right but I want to ask all the all the neighborhood was called not I know I know I know I know I know my question is he was he was there the rabbi I remember him I okay but I want to ask you I went into that sh two years ago when I was here it's called bes ly vegetable. Okay. Is that the same? It's the same. The sh still exists. But I I heard that there used to be a mikvah over there. Not two buildings apart from was also a mikvah. Where? With two buildings on going to toafa. Oh, really? Yeah. What is there today in those buildings? Nothing. It's a garden. It's a So that was where the mikvah was. Yeah. Okay. Did you ever hear and and and there also it exists now also another sh on the GU the G I was there I took pictures and this is this the this two shoes and the m there were the the shoes and there of of of this me right I understand the the and and and if you if you were there there's a building an ax to to the mer to the bench and this wall the building of it's called no on next then next to the that's where you you will go there and you see an X building an X building and is Is it was it was called um I don't remember. Okay. Did you ever hear Zisan speak? Did you ever hear him give it? I was I was I was a little No, he passed away in 1964. Okay. So, you were already 15 or 16 years old. But you don't remember? I remember he was a rabbi. I I remember that my my father took me to to ask him a sh in in in you know that he was a and he was a tal he was a mashia in 1902 I think he was from the musim of the lab by he was a ish muslam in he was a balmanag He was a mushl. I think I think that he was is a pardon number 26. I have I have a letter from the to him. It says 26 I remember right and it was an ashk. It was and they used to say and they celebrated not it was agra was ashk yeah but this sho was this shoe was not not I I don't think the sho was it was this sho was like was like you have three times Yeah. Over here you has to have also minion after. Yes. Yes. I see. It's like this. I'm saying in your time when you remember they had several minor. So they used to let you dab in either Spar or Ashkenaz. That's right. And there was a great shoe and in the Polish there were the little sh in in the Ang where they right. You know they had a little room for se another minion. Yes. And on the shabas some minions were also also outside outside in the in the car in in outside the in the corridor. I mean in the yard. Yeah, that's right. And I I remember that one that is maybe a Yemenite rabbi. He was a dian. No, it's not called was a dab. and he also Mhm. So it was for everybody. Okay. So the in either of these sh the or this did any of the big the the chief rabbi of of Tel Aviv did they come to give a shabas or you know who who was Rabonson who who was the RV then Rabbi No, I don't remember. Rabbi Yaf the the says a name there. We started the RV. Mhm. Ra Levy Levy. Ra Levy something else. Ra Levy his his apartment was opposite to on it was also dying. He was he was he was a Yeah. He he he was the one who started the show. That's why. And he's also a cababala cabalist. He was a cabalist. Yes. And he's the father of his of his wife was also al his name was Alvi. Also he was a rabbi of Jaffa. Yeah. Go ahead. was also his father-in-law. He That's father-in-law. Yeah. And he wrote a perouch on on on Mhm. I have it. Okay. Good. Now, I have a question. Um, do you remember the Yeshiva yesterday 16? Yes. And it used to be called No, I I remember it as Yeah. Were you ever Were you ever there as a boy? Were you ever there? No, I No, it's it was opposite to to another sh on the other side of the of Rafuk also. I don't remember it's called but his name was Raftor Cantor. It was aliter all the all the pal there in this jewel and himself I don't know but he was here he was a go a go of bak in in inven and he wrote also a book with with diagrams especially on on the ro uhhuh now let me ask you it was it was it was a great he gave a show in Gammor every every day where at the at the beach no more there was on in but every day he came to to to right that gave Uhhuh. So I remember was there I I I think there was a a vision I want I want I want you want to tell something? Yeah. after his passing. Who? Can. Yeah. What the the