Elyakim Schlesinger (Yiddish: אליקים שלעזינגער), born 1921, is a rabbi[1][2] and rosh yeshiva in London.[3] He is an international authority[1] and serves as the President,[2] Chairman,[1] and Head of the Rabbinical Board[2] of the Committee for the Preservation of Jewish Cemeteries in Europe.[1][2] He is a grandson of Moreinu Yaakov Rosenheim, one of the founders of World Agudath Israel.
Schlesinger was born in Vienna in September 1921 and emigrated to Israel with his family in the late 1930s. He is a son-in-law of Rabbi Moshe Blau. He was very close to Rabbi Yosef Tzvi Dushinsky, Rabbi Avraham Yeshaya Karelitz (the Chazon Ish), and the Brisker Rav. In around 1947, shortly after his marriage, he moved to London, England. He then opened a yeshiva named Yeshivas Rama and he still delivers lectures to its students. His wife died in 2019 after 74 years of marriage.
^ abcdGreenberg, Eric J. (11 July 2003). "Death Camp Dispute". The Jewish Week. Retrieved 18 March 2024.
^ abcdFrankfurter, Yitzchok (9 December 2015). "In the Shadows of Vilna's Ancient Alleyways". Ami. No. 246. pp. 86–96.
^Friedman, Yoel (13 February 2019). "Rabbis in Parliament //A group of senior rabbanim and askanim in England went to an unprecedented and historic meeting in the Houses of Parliament to meet senior government ministers and parliamentary officials, amidst the ongoing chinuch crisis that endangers the future of chinuch in the UK". Ami Magazine. Retrieved 18 March 2024.
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