TSEMEKH
ZAMBROVSKI (b. April 15, 1911)
He was born in Warsaw, Poland, into
a rabbinic family. He moved to the
United States in 1924, graduated from rabbinic seminary, and received
ordination into the rabbinate. In 1932
he graduated from university in Cleveland.
For a time he served as rabbi there and from 1948 he was rabbi in
Montreal. He was chairman of Mizraḥi in Canada and a member
of the executive of World Mizraḥi
and of the General Zionist Organization.
He also chaired the Montreal rabbinate.
From 1932 he contributed to the Yiddish, Hebrew, and English-language
Jewish press in the United States, Canada, and elsewhere. He placed work in: Keneder odler (Canadian Eagle) and the monthly Di mizrakhi-shtime (The voice of Mizraḥi), of which he was also editor—both in Montreal; Morgn-zhurnal (Morning journal) in New
York; Unzer veg (Our way) in Paris; Hatsofe (The spectator) in Tel Aviv; and
other serials. He was also editor of Tora veavoda (Torah and belief) in
Cleveland. He was last living in
Montreal.
Sources:
D. Tidhar, in Entsiklopedyah leḥalutse hayishuv uvonav (Encyclopedia of the
pioneers and builders of the yishuv), vol. 10 (Tel Aviv, 1959), pp. 3571-72;
M. Ginzburg, in Keneder odler
(Montreal) (November 2, 1959); Who’s Who
in World Jewry (New York, 1955), p. 838.
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