Mendel Zaks

Rabbi
Menachem Mendel Yosef Zaks
Personal
Born1898
Siluva, Lithuania
Died1974
Jerusalem, Israel
ReligionJudaism
SpouseRebbetzin Feiga Chaya Zaks (née Kagan)
Parent
  • R' Yaakov Mordechai Zaks (father)
DenominationOrthodox Judaism
Alma materKaminetz Yeshiva
Radin Yeshiva
Jewish leader
PredecessorRabbi Naftoli Trop
SuccessorRabbi Gershon Zaks
PositionRosh yeshiva
YeshivaRadin Yeshiva
Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary
Yahrtzeit19 Tevet

Menachem Mendel Yosef Zaks (Hebrew: מענדיל זאקס; 1898–1974) (commonly known as Rabbi Mendel Zaks) was an Orthodox Jewish rabbi in Belarus and the United States, best known for being the Rosh Yeshiva of the Raduń Yeshiva and being the son-in-law to Yisrael Meir Kagan, the Chofetz Chaim.


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