R. Yoel Feivish Margolis-Schtengen

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Rabbi Yoel Feivish Stangen was the son Itzchak Stangen. Several sources indicate that he was born in Germany likely around 1520-1540. One researcher indicates specifically that he was born in the town of Jűlich near Koln (Cologne). Yoel married Fraidchy Schmelkes, the daughter Yehoshua Schmelkes and is the father of HaRav Menachem Mendl Stangen-Margolioth rabbi of Pińczów and later of Prezmysl.

"The Unbroken Chain", by Dr. Neil Rosenstein, page 451

G6.6 R' Isaac Katz, Darshan of Prague and Lublin, ABD of Stepan married Edel, daughter of R. Menachem Mendel, son of Joel Margolis-Schotengen.

Rabbi Yoel Feivish is also referenced on the tombstone of his son Menechem Mendel which states:

Although generally spelled as שטנגן in Hebrew, several variants in Roman characters exist depending on the source, including Stangen, Schtengen and Schotengen.

Rabbi Yoel Feivish Stangen is mentioned in the following sources (primary and secondary):

The Unbroken Chain, by Dr. Neil Rosenstein: Page 451 Chapter V - Katz, Amsel, Parnas:
“G6.6 R' Isaac Katz, Darshan of Prague and later A.B.D of Stepan in Volhynia. He also was elected Darshan of Lublin and married Edel, daughter of R' Menachem Mendel, son of Joel Margolis-Schotengen.”

Pinkas Hakehillot Polin " The rabbi of Przemyśl during the 1740's [sic- should be 1640s] was Rabbi Menachem ben Rabbi Yoel Feivish Shtangin (Ashkenazi)"

The Torah Ark in Renaissance Poland: A Jewish Revival of Classical Antiquity By Ilia M. Rodov page 144.

“In Pińczów, the earliest evidence of a rabbi names Menachem-Mendl Stangen-Margolioth (d. 1652), who lived there from 1615 to 1635. He was born in German, married a daughter of the head of the yeshiva in Kazimierz, Moses Mordechai Margolioth, and after her death in 1624, married a daughter of Moses Harif, the head of the Rabbinical Court in L’viv.6”

6 On the first known rabbis of Pińczów, see Zunz, Ir ha-Zedek, 74-150ff; Friedberg, Luhot zikaron, 12 n. 10; Yoel Yakobovich-Ashkenazi, “Rabanei Pinchev le-doroteyhem” (Generations of the Pińczów rabbis) in In Pinchev togt shoyn nisht: Sefer zikaron le Kelihat Pinchev (Tel Aviv, 1970), 113-14 (Hebrew); Wunder Elif Margaliot, 12-16 no 16.

נטמן אסרי תג פסח שנת תי״ב לפ״ק הגאון ההחסיד המפורסים מו״ה מנחם מענדיל בן הרבני החסיד יואל פייוויש שטנגן זצ״ל ואצלו נקבר בנו הרב מו״ה אליהו ז״ל. (שם ושארית'.