Mordechai Yohlin Family Papers

 

1914-1997 

 

SCRC 157

 

Yohlin, Mordechai, 1883-1942

 

0.54 linear feet (2 boxes) 

 

Special Collections Research Center, Temple University Libraries

 

Materials in English, Hebrew, Russian, and Yiddish

 

 

 

Orthodox Rabbi Mordechai (Max) Yohlin was born in Belliatzerkov, Kiviska, Russia on March 24, 1883, to parents Hersh and Brucha Schriber. He married Esther Pessie, daughter of Yossuf Serebrier, with whom he had six children, Betty, Mary, Rose, Rae, Harry and Sylvia. Yohlin immigrated to Philadelphia in 1925 in order to become rabbi and cantor of Congregation Keilath Kodesh Anschai Sode Lovon where he served until 1936. In 1933, he published his two volume Bible commentary, Sefer Ḳohelet Mordekhai. Yohlin served on the Philadelphia Vaad Hakashrus, a Rabbinic body that provided kosher supervision, and as an executive committee member of the Union of Orthodox Rabbis of the United States and Canada, American Jewish Congress, and the Jewish National Fund. Rabbi Yohlin’s family home was designated a Beth Din or Rabbinical Court to adjudicate gittin (Jewish divorces) and dinei Torah (matters of litigation). Although not formerly appointed, Mordechai Yohlin acted as spiritual leader of Atereth Israel Synagogue until his death on September 20, 1942.

 

The Mordechai Yohlin Family Papers consists of Rabbi Yohlin’s Russian military papers and passport with crude English translations, incoming correspondence from other rabbis including B. L. Levinthal, Leibesch Schiffman, Samuel E. Tiktin, and H. Friedling, manuscripts, certificates issued to Yohlin, a souvenir journal commemorating his twenty-five years of service as an Orthodox Rabbi, and a few photographs. The collection also contains materials collected by Yohlin’s family members including photocopies of correspondence from his descendants regarding donations of his book Sefer Ḳohelet Mordekhai to various libraries, a biographical sketch, "A Legacy of Love," written by Yohlin's daughter, Sylvia Frankel, photocopies of various published material and newspaper clippings about Rabbi Yohlin, and a photocopy of a family tree. 

 

 

 

A digital version of Mordechai Yohlin’s Russian passport is available online on the Temple University Digital Collections’ website http://digital.library.temple.edu/cdm/ref/collection/p15037coll15/id/2138 

 

A record for this collection is available in Temple University’s online library catalog: http://diamond.temple.edu/record=b5810515~S30 

 

Collection is open for research.

 

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The Mordechai Yohlin Family Papers are the physical property of the Special Collections Research Center, Temple University Libraries. Intellectual property rights, including copyright, belong to the authors or their legal heirs and assigns. Researchers are responsible for determining the identity of rights holders and obtaining their permission for publication and for other purposes where stated.

 

[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], Mordechai Yohlin Family Papers, SCRC 157, Special Collections Research Center, Temple University Libraries, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. 

 

 

 

Donated by Charles Potash, Sylvia Frankel, Roslyn Joffe, and Murray Judroff between 1997 and 2015. A portion of the collection previously administered by the Philadelphia Jewish Archives Center, acquired by Temple in June 2009.

 

Yohlin, Mordechai. Sefer Ḳohelet Mordekhai : ʻim heʻarot Birkat Tsevi ... ha-Kolel ... beʼurim ... ʻal ketuve ha-Torah ... Pieṭreḳov : [H. mo. l.], 693 [1932 or 1933] cataloged separately http://diamond.temple.edu/record=b5793876~S30

 

Collection processed and finding aid prepared in April 2015 by Jessica M. Lydon, Associate Archivist. 

 

 

The following headings have been used to index the description of this collection in Temple University’s electronic catalog:

 

Fridling, Tsevi Hirsh 

Levinthal, Bernard L. (Bernard Louis), 1866-1952

Riff, Naftoli H. J.

Shifman, Yehudah Leybush, 1870-

Tiktin, Samuel E.

Yohlin, Mordechai, 1883-1942

 

Rabbis -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia

 

Philadelphia (Pa.)

 

Clippings

Correspondence

Immigration records

Manuscripts

Photocopies