Bloch was born in Plunge, Lithuania, on September 14th 1865 to an illustrious rabbinic family with family roots traced back to the Shakh and Shelah Hakadosh.
Chaim Weizmann | Robert Bloch | Ernest Bloch | Bloch | Chaim Topol | Chaim Soutine | Ernst Bloch | Chaim Kanievsky | Yeshiva Rabbi Chaim Berlin | Iwan Bloch | Chaim Herzog | Yaakov Chaim Sofer | Joshua Bloch | Chaim Gingold | Yosef Chaim | Yitzchak Elchanan Spektor | Maurice Bloch | Marcel Bloch | Marc Bloch | Lucienne Bloch | Felix Bloch | Chaim Zhitlowsky | Chaim Rapoport | Carl Bloch | Bloch wave | Bloch sphere | Andreas Bloch | Yosef Yitzchak Jacobson | Yitzchak Meir Helfgot | Yitzchak Isaac of Zidichov |
Among these are Rabbi Yosef Leib Bloch, the Rabbi and Rosh Yeshiva of Telz, Rabbi Yeruchom Levovitz the Mashgiach of Mir, Rabbi Yosef Yoizel Horowitz of Novhardok, Rabbi Elya Lopian of the Knesses Chizkiyahu Yeshiva in Israel, and Rabbi Chaim Yitzchak Hacohen Bloch the chief rabbi of Bausk and Plunge.