Rabbi Dov Burstein of Botosani is the author of Taierea rituala in lumina stiintei (Ritual Slaughter in the Light of the Science), a work that brought an important contribution to the debate against the anti-Semitic attacks on Jewish ritual slaughter; Rabbi Menachem Kave Safran was the brother of Rabbi Dr. Alexander Yehuda Safran.

The wedding of Rabbi Menachem Kave Safran with Malca, daughter of Rabbi Dov Burstein in Botosani, Moldavia, 1930