[Congressional Record Volume 154, Number 146 (Monday, September 15, 2008)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E1785]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                     HONORING ROSE LEIBOW EISENBERG

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                          HON. ELIOT L. ENGEL

                              of new york

                    in the house of representatives

                       Monday, September 15, 2008

  Mr. ENGEL. Madam Speaker, Rose Leibow Eisenberg was born on September 
14, 1908 at home at 38 Jefferson Street in Lower Manhattan, the 
youngest of four children of Bella and Harry Leibow. Speaking Yiddish 
at home, Rose learned English in the kindergarten at the Educational 
Alliance. As the family prospered, they moved uptown, finally settling 
in the Bronx where Rose attended PS 42 and then Morris High School.
  She was the only one of her siblings to seek higher education, 
graduating from the New York Training School for Teachers in June, 
1928. Later she would take graduate work at Teachers College, Columbia, 
Brooklyn College and Queens College. In August of that year she married 
Azriel Eisenberg, an educator, to whom she was married for 57 years 
until his death in 1985. They had two children, a daughter Sora, and a 
son Judah. Sora is an educator and retired Salomon Schechter Day School 
principal, married to Aaron Landes, a distinguished Rabbi and retired 
Rear Admiral in the U.S. Navy. Judah was a world renowned physicist, 
professor and vice rector of Tel Aviv University.
  The Eisenbergs moved frequently as Azriel rose in his field. They 
lived in Brooklyn, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Philadelphia and finally New 
York, where Azriel became the Executive Vice President of the Jewish 
Education Committee, now the Board of Jewish Education. Rose returned 
to teaching and taught kindergarten at PS 69 in Jackson Heights for 
sixteen years.
  The much beloved and respected matriarch of her family of nine 
grandchildren and 17 great grandchildren, Rose carried on after the 
death of her husband and the untimely death of her son. She remains an 
intellectually sharp and humorous person who is an inspiration to 
everyone who knows her.
  I join her family in wishing her the very best on her 100th birthday.




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