Dov Behr Manischewitz

Manischewitz was born and raised in Salant (Salantai), and studied under Rabbi Israel Salanter in Memel, where he trained as a shochet. using the identification documents of a dead man named "Manischewitz". Although he stated that he emigrated because he had been hired as a shochet by the Jewish community of Cincinnati, other reasons have been suggested, including that it was in response to the then-imminent expulsion of Jews from Memel, or that it was in order to avoid compulsory military service. ==Professional life==

In Cincinnati, Manischewitz initially worked as a shochet and peddler; and the conveyor belt-based "traveling carrier bake-oven", which he patented. These methods were initially controversial, and questions were raised as to whether machine-made food complied with kashrut; His matzah business was successful enough that in 1913, he was able to move to the upscale Cincinnati neighborhood of Walnut Hills. As well, he sponsored the creation of the Manischewitz yeshiva in what was then Palestine; decades later, his sons argued in court that their continued funding of the yeshiva was a business expense, as its graduates would help to spread the idea that machine-made matzah could still be kosher. == Death ==

Manischewitz died in 1914, and is buried in Beth Hamedrash Hagodol cemetery, Covedale. ==References==