Dov Berl Edelstein

Rabbi Dov Berl Edelstein (דב אדלשטיין, b. 1926), from Bedek (near Szatmár), Romania, is a retired rabbi, educator, and lecturer. A survivor of the Holocaust, he published his memoir Worlds Torn Asunder in 1985. After World War II, he came to Israel via Cyprus in 1947 and and taught Hebrew. In 1962, he emigrated to the United States where he served Beth Israel Synagogue in Weirton, West Virginia. In the early 1970s he moved to Appleton, Wisconsin where he served the Moses Montefiore Synagogue. While there, he earned a graduate degree in American history and studied the relationship of the Wisconsin press toward President Abraham Lincoln during the Civil War.