Ra’anan.⁹³⁰ The latter was a great gaon and a great Hovev Zion⁹³¹ who left for
the Land of Israel and is buried there. There was also Rabbi Yisroel Yehoyshua
Trunk⁹³² z.tz.l. [1a] or, as he was called, Rabbi Yossele Kutner, the Kutno
gaon who was famous throughout the rabbinic scholarly world and was also
a great Hovev Zion, as well as his son Rabbi Moyshe Pinkhas⁹³³ z.tz.l. and
his recently deceased grandson, Rabbi Yitskhok Yehuda Trunk⁹³⁴ z.tz.l., who,
like his grandfather Rabbi Yossele, was popular throughout the Jewish world.
He was a colourful, richly-endowed rabbinic personage of the last generation.
He influenced all areas of Torah learning and public life. He published
works of his own, as well as those of his famous grandfather, Rabbi Yossele
z.tz.l., all of which contributed to the popularity of Kutno in the Jewish world.
Kutno is also known throughout the world as the birthplace of the
famous writer Sholem Asch,⁹³⁵ who drew on his Kutno background in creating
the types and characters in his works. Dr Abraham Gliksman is also from
Kutno, and he too is known for his popular works of literature⁹³⁶. The children
929 Rabbi of Kutno in the 1840s (died 1853). The writer confuses him with Rabbi Moshe Yehuda Leib Zilberberg, author of Zayit Ra’anan (“Fresh Olive”), who immigrated to Jerusalem and died there in 1865.
930 (Hebrew) “Fresh Olive,” a collection of responsa and interpretations of aggada published in Warsaw in 1851.
931 (Hebrew, lit. Lover of Zion), supporter of the earliest Jewish movement in Russia in the 1880s for the return to the Land of Israel.
932 Israel Yehoshua Trunk (1820–1893), born in Płock, a rabbi in Szreńsk, Gąbin, Warka, and Pułtusk; in 1861 became the rabbi of Kutno; closely associated with the Hasidim of the tzaddik of Góra Kalwaria; under the influence of C. H. Kaliszer’s speech he supported the Hibbat Zion movement; in 1886 in Palestine, one of the rabbis who allowed farming in sabbatical years.
933 Moyshe Pinkhas Trunk (1854–1912) succeeded his father as rabbi of Kutno.
934 Yitskhok Yehuda Trunk (1879–1939), son of Moyshe Pinchas Trunk, learned from his father and then from the rabbis in Sochaczew, Lubraniec and Ciechanów; became rabbi of Kutno in 1912, lived at Toruńska Street 137; one of the leaders of the Mizrachi movement in Poland, at the end of his life a member of Poalei Agudat Israel; in the 1920s and 1930s he published works of his grandfather Israel.
935 Sholem Asch (1880–1957), born in Kutno, prose writer and playwright, classic writer of modern Jewish literature, wrote in Yiddish; in 1938 settled in the US, died in New York.
936 Abraham Gliksman (1883–?), writer and journalist. After graduation in Berlin and Zurich he was a long-term correspondent of Frankfurter Zeitung and other German and Swiss periodicals. In 1920 he settled in Warsaw, wrote articles on philosophical topics (also
