Elyakim Schlesinger (Yiddish: אליקים שלעזינגער) born September 1921) of London is a rabbi[1][2] and rosh yeshiva.[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 Agudath Israel. He was born in Vienna in September 1921 and emigrated to Israel with his family in the late 1930's. He is a son in law of Rabbi Moshe Blau. He was very close to Rabbi Yosef Tzvi Dushinsky, the Chazon Ish, and the Brisker Rav. Shortly sfter his marriage, in around 1947, 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.

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  1. 1 2 3 4 Greenberg, Eric J. (2003). "Death Camp Dispute". The Jewish Week. Retrieved 28 October 2016.
  2. 1 2 3 4 Frankfurter, Yitzchok (9 December 2015). "In the Shadows of Vilna's Ancient Alleyways". Ami. No. 246. pp. 86–96.
  3. ↑ "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. 13 February 2019. Retrieved 12 August 2019.


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