Jewish Community Mourn The Loss Of One Of The Oldest Rabbonim In Williamsburg

VIN News - Williamsburg, NY - A chapter in history has come to a close with the petira of HaGaon Reb Shalom Krausz, Av Beis Din of Udvari, perhaps the last of today's rabbonim who held a rabbanus before the war. R' Krausz, the Udvari Rov, was niftar this past motzei Shabbos in Williamsburg at the age of 93 ½. R' Krausz the author of ten seforim, was widely respected and served in the rabbanus for 74 years. Over 3,000 people attended the 11 PM levaya Saturday night at the Udvari Beis Medrash on Rutledge Street in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn, NY, where R' Krausz was eulogized for three hours by the Satmar Rebbe, the Pupa Rebbe, the Munkatcher Rebbe, the Karlesburger Rebbe, his sons in law, R' Meir Yoseph Rosenbaum, the Scruvniczer Rebbe and R' Nuchem Meir Gurman a Rosh Yeshiva in Bobov, his shamash R' Chaim Miller and his son and successor, R' Shmuel Dovid Krausz. Numerous cars and busses traveled to Dean, New Jersey, at 2 AM where R' Krausz was buried in the same ohel as his brother, R' Anshel Krausz, the Ratzserter Rov. Not only were all ten of the seforim that R' Krausz authored buried with him in accordance with his wishes, but the table he had written them on was broken up and placed in his kever as well.