June 29, 2018 – Elizabeth, NJ – World-renowned Jewish genealogist Neil Rosenstein recently announced the on-going release of articles which appeared in various newspapers, periodical, journals, and magazines over the past three decades.
Neil Rosenstein, a world-renowned genealogist, and anert 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 which are hidden away in numerous periodical, magazines, and newspapers over the past twenty or thirty years.”
The latest article to be released is, “Adding branches to the deep-rooted family tree.” The article first appeared in the Metro West (New Jersey) Jewish News in September 1990. It described how the young Rosenstein discovered his illustrious ancestry to famous rabbis of the Katznellenbogen family which includes the MaHaRaM Padova (Rabbi Meir Katzenellenbogen of Padua) who died in Padua in 1565 and Rabbi Ezekiel Katzenellenbogen, Chief Rabbi of the famed triple community of Altona-Wandsbeck-Hamburg (died in 1749).
Rosenstein intends to continue to release more archived documents and articles in the coming weeks.
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| Epitaph of Rabbi Meir Katzenellenbogen, died in Padua in 1565 |
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Epitaph of Rabbi Ezekiel Katzenellenbogen, died in Hamburg in 1749
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About 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 the 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).
Rosenstein and his wife, Mavis, live in Elizabeth, New Jersey. They have five sons and more than 20 grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
