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Crownheights.info and Lubavitch Archives present this vintage photograph of Chassidim dancing joyously. Can you identify those in the picture, when and where it was taken?

Answer to last week’s photo in the extended article.

Answer to last week’s photo:

This picture was photographed in 1961; posing is a group of bochurim and yungerleit who went for a Melave Malke to Detroit, Michigan in honor of 200 years since the Baal Shem Tov’s passing.

Standing (right to left): Rabbis Faivish Vogel, Zalman Blesofsky, Mendel Baumgarten and Yisroel Lazar. Sitting (right to left) Rabbis Moshe Feller, Avrohom Shemtov and Avrohom Korf.

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15 Comments

  • Ich Gedenk

    Far right Mendel Lipsker, next to him Yossie Baumgarten, both now in South Africa. And of course, front and center, Rav S.A. Kazarnovsky,O”H. Probably late 60’s.

  • Pini Baumgarten

    Yossi Baumgarten , Pini Baumgarten Itche Meir Kakan OH
    Rabbi Kazarnovaky at A Concert

  • Leibel

    Well I’ll be darned. This is amazing and timely. Bring on more, I love it.

  • ok

    Rabbi Kazernovsky dancing with Chtazkel Brod. Standing on the side Yossel Kazen AH and Pini Baumgarten and Itcha Mayer Kagan AH

  • A Former Detraitor

    This is at a Lubavitch Foundation of Michigan concert in the ’70’s on the left is Rabbi Y.M. Kagan A”H

  • Mendy Stock

    the Rabbi in the center is My Great Grandfather Rabbi Shlomo Aron Kazarnovsky
    far left looks like rabbi YM Kagan
    obm

  • ID

    Rabbi Yankel (Yaakov Noach)Kranz A“H can be seen behined Rabbi Kazarnovsky”s hat.

  • lh mn

    Comment 1 is correct. In addition Rabbi Yankel Kranz a”h is seen (partially) in the back (tall guy with the small hat)… Obviously the picture is from Detroit.
    mmf