The Author of Pnei Yehoshua and The Levushim
Elizabeth, NJ — World-renowned Jewish genealogist Dr. Neil Rosenstein recently announced the on-going release of the genealogical tree from his archives, many which form the basis of his magnum opus The Unbroken Chain.
Presented here is the Berenstein Rabbinical family descended
from the Pnei Yehoshua which includes
Wahl, Simchoni, Treuenfels, Francis, WinterLewinstein, Berend,
Eiger, Egra, Frensdorf, Spanier and Feichenfeld families.
Joseph (Josek) Lewinsten (Lewinsztejn) rabbi and religious author, born on July 11, 1842 in Lublin.
He was a member of the family of rabbis and Talmudists which includes the author of Pnei Yehoshua and the Levushim.
He was the son of Rabbi Abraham Abbish Lewinstein and Chana Himmelfarb.
In 1860, at the age of twenty, he became the Rav of Karol in the governorate of Plotzk (Płock) and of Zaklikov in 1868.
His final rabbinate was from 1875 in Serock in the Łomża district. He died in 1924 in Serock.
Neil Rosenstein, a world-renowned genealogist, an expert in medieval Jewish history continues to release old, archival articles to the public over the internet.
Rosenstein says, “It is of the utmost importance for Jewish historians, researchers and genealogists to gain access to the content of the many articles and book reviews which are hidden away in numerous periodical, magazines, and newspapers over the past twenty or thirty years.”
About Neil Rosenstein:
Neil Rosenstein was born in Cape Town, South Africa in 1944. He studied medicine at the University of Cape Town and interned in Israel.
He specialized in surgery at the Mt. Sinai hospitals in Cleveland and New York City, and the University of Medicine and Dentistry in Newark, New Jersey. He maintained a private practice as a general surgeon in New Jersey for over 30 years.
As a result of over four decades of investigative study of rare books and manuscripts, trips to libraries and cemeteries, travel and correspondence, Rosenstein has accumulated a vast matrix of material on Jewish genealogy, especially in the field of rabbinical dynasties for which he has become world famous.
His research has included travel in South Africa, Israel, USA, Poland, Germany, Czechoslovakia, England, Italy, and France.
He founded the Jewish Genealogical Society, Inc. (New York) in 1977, and is also founder and director of the Computer Center for Jewish Genealogy.
Rosenstein is the author of many works on Jewish Genealogy, his magnum opus being The Unbroken Chain, first published as a single volume in 1976. An expanded two-volume second edition was published in 1990.
Other noted works include Saul Wahl, The Grandees of New Jersey, The Lurie Legacy: The House of Davidic Royal Descent, Avnei Zikaron (Stones of Remembrance), The Gaon of Vilna and his Cousinhood, and Latter Day Leaders, Sages, and Scholars.
He has produced a CD-ROM with the indexed obituaries of the first-ever Hebrew weekly, HaMagid, which was in print from 1856 to 1903. In addition, he is a contributor of articles to various Jewish genealogical publications and The Jewish Press.
He lectures frequently and has spoken many times to various Jewish genealogical societies, in the United States and abroad, as well as at the International Seminars for Jewish Genealogy and the annual National Summer Seminars.
His biography is included in Who’s Who in World Jewry (1987) and is listed in Marquis’ Who’s Who in America (from 1997 onwards).
Neil Rosenstein and his wife, Mavis, live in Elizabeth, New Jersey. They have five sons and more than 20 grandchildren and great-grandchildren.