106 Year old Lubavitcher Dies:

Photo credit Circus Tent Blog NYPost: Rabbi Yehuda Chitrik, a 106-year-old Lubavitcher scholar known for his storytelling, died yesterday. Chitrik had been hospitalized after suffering a heart attack Feb. 8, said Rabbi Zalman Shmotkin, a Lubavitch spokesman. A book of translations of Chitrik's stories, "From My Father's Shabbos Table," was published in 1991. In 1926, he began teaching in what is now the Ukraine, where he married Kaila Tumarkin. While there, he also met Rabbi Menachem Schneerson, who later became the seventh Lubavitcher rebbe, the spiritual leader of the Chabad Lubavitch movement... ------------------------------------------------------------ Newsday: Rabbi Yehuda Chitrik, a 106-year-old Lubavitcher scholar...Chitrik, born in 1899 in Krasnolok, Russia, was sent by his father at age 15 to the town of Lubavitch, where he studied at the central Chabad Lubavitch yeshiva until communism and persecution forced him and other scholars to leave. In 1926, he began teaching in what is now the Ukraine, where he married Kaila Tumarkin. While there, he also met Rabbi Menachem Schneerson, who later became the seventh Lubavitcher rebbe, the spiritual leader of the Chabad Lubavitch movement. After World War II, Chitrik's family lived in Belgium and Holland before moving to Montreal, where he taught in a yeshiva, an institution for study of the Torah. He moved to Brooklyn after his wife died in 1983. Chitrik's memories of Schneerson, who died in 1994, have helped scholars learn more about the late rebbe, Shmotkin said. Chitrik is survived by more than 300 children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren and great-great-grandchildren...