Eliezer Zusia Portugal, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Eliezer Zusia Portugal

Skulener Rebbe

Date of Birth: 17-Oct-1898

Place of Birth: Sculeni, Ungheni District, Moldova

Date of Death: 18-Aug-1982

Profession: rabbi

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Libra

Eliezer Zusia Portugal (17 October 1898–18 August 1982), the first Skulener Rebbe, was revered by his followers in Russia, Romania, Israel, and the United States for his personal warmth and his care for hundreds of Jewish youth and war orphans, whom he personally adopted as his own children.
He established the Skulener dynasty in America in the 1960s.
His only biological son, Rabbi Yisroel Avrohom Portugal, succeeded him as Rebbe.