Re: Family of Cantor Henry Rosenblatt

[Jordan Hirsch <trombaedu...>]

Jonathan Rosenblatt is Rabbi at the Riverdale Jewish Center.
Interesting trivia note. I played at his engagement party, around 1984.

jordan Hirsch

Daniel Wikler wrote:

> On April 24, Joel Bresler wrote:
>
> Is anyone in touch with the family of Cantor Henry Rosenblatt? (I
> believe he is deceased.) He is himself the son of Yossele Rosenblatt.
>
> The following information comes from Prof. Alan Weisbard
> (Weisbard (at) wisc(dot)edu), a relative:
>
> I don't think I ever knew Henry: I believe the last of his generation
> is/was Ralph Rosenblatt, who was quite ill the last I heard and, I
> believe, living in the NYC/ Long Island area--perhaps with his daughter
> at this point. I expect my father has an address for him, if it is
> sufficiently important.
>
> The most prominent of the following (x2?--I think grandson of Samuel,
> Yossele's biographer and a scholar of some note at Johns Hopkins)
> generation is Rabbi Jonathan Rosenblatt, an Orthodox rabbi of some note.
> I'm not sure of his current pulpit; guesses are NYC area, Baltimore, or
> perhaps Israel, although it might well be elsewhere.
>
> Dan Wikler
>

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