Shraga Moshe Kalmanowitz
| Rabbi Shraga Moshe Kalmanowitz | |
|---|---|
| Position | Rosh yeshiva |
| Yeshiva | Mir yeshiva, Brooklyn, New York |
| Began | 1964 |
| Ended | 1998 |
| Predecessor | Rabbi Avraham Kalmanowitz |
| Personal details | |
| Birth name | Shraga Moshe Kalmanowitz |
| Born |
May 15, 1918[1] Rakov, Poland |
| Died |
April 16, 1998 (aged 79) Brooklyn, New York |
| Buried | Sanhedria Cemetery, Jerusalem |
| Denomination | Orthodox |
| Parents | Rabbi Avraham Kalmanowitz |
Shraga Moshe Kalmanowitz (Hebrew: שרגא משה קלמנוביץ; May 15, 1918 – April 16, 1998) was a Polish-American Orthodox rabbi. He was a rosh yeshiva (dean) of the Mir Yeshiva in Brooklyn, New York, from 1964 to 1998.
Biography
Shraga Moshe Kalmanowitz was born in Rakov, Poland, in 1918[2] to Rabbi Avraham Kalmanowitz (1891–1964), the Rav of the town. His mother was the daughter of Rabbi Betzalel Hakohen, a dayan (rabbinical court judge) in Vilna and author of the Talmudic commentary Mareh Kohen, which appears in all printed editions of the Talmud.[3] He was the eldest[4] of three brothers;[5] he also had two sisters.
At the age of 10, he began studying at the Mir yeshiva in Mir, Belarus, and later studied at the Kaminetz Yeshiva led by Rabbi Baruch Ber Leibowitz.[2] He came to the United States with his mother and siblings in 1941[6] (his father had immigrated a year earlier[7]) and studied at both Yeshiva Torah Vodaas and Beth Medrash Elyon.[2][8]
After his marriage, Kalmanowitz became a maggid shiur in the Mir Yeshiva in Brooklyn.[8] Upon the death of his father in 1964, he and his brother-in-law, Rabbi Shmuel Berenbaum, assumed the roles of roshei yeshiva.[9][10] He followed his father's lead in overseeing the education of Sephardi North African students at the Mir Yeshiva. He was also close with Sephardi organizations in New York City; he was one of the speakers at the grand opening of the mikveh of the Sephardi Brooklyn community on Avenue S.[11]
He died on April 16, 1998 (20 Nisan 5758)[2] in New York. His body was flown to Israel for burial beside his father’s grave in the Sanhedria Cemetery in Jerusalem.
References
Notes
- ↑ United States Social Security Death Index; U.S. Social Security Administration, Death Master File
- 1 2 3 4 Katz, Shlomo (May 16, 1998). "R' Shraga Moshe Kalmanowitz a"h". HaMaayan. torah.org. Retrieved June 18, 2015.
- ↑ Shapiro 1982, pp. 239-244.
- ↑ "Today’' Yahrtzeits & History – 28 Teves". matzav.com. January 14, 2010. Retrieved June 18, 2015.
- ↑ Shapiro 1996, p. 260.
- ↑ Finkelman 2003, p. 65.
- ↑ Kranzler & Gevirtz 1991.
- 1 2 Gliksman 2009, p. 132.
- ↑ Keren, Daniel (May 13, 2010). "Kabbalas Hatorah at Three Landmark Flatbush Yeshivas: The Mirrer Yeshiva,Yeshivas Rabbeinu Chaim Berlin and Mesivta Torah Vodaath". Flatbush Jewish Journal. p. 18. Retrieved June 18, 2015.
- ↑ Saltiel, Manny (2015). "Gedolim Yahrtzeits". chinuch.org. Retrieved June 18, 2015.
- ↑ Sutton 2005, p. 298.
Sources
- Gliksman, Devora (2009). A Tale of Two Worlds: Rabbi Dovid and Rebbetzin Basya Bender. Mesorah Publications, Ltd.
- Finkelman, Shimon (2003). Rav Pam: The Life and Ideals of Rabbi Avrohom Yaakov HaKohen Pam. Mesorah Publications, Ltd. ISBN 1578193842.
- Kranzler, Dr. David; Gevirtz, Rabbi Eliezer (1991). "A Cry From the Heart: Rabbi Avraham Kalmanowitz". To Save a World: Profiles of Holocaust Rescue. CIS Publishers. ISBN 1-56062-061-7.
- Rossoff, Dovid (2005). קדושים אשר בארץ: קברי צדיקים בירושלים ובני ברק [The Holy Ones in the Earth: Graves of Tzaddikim in Jerusalem and Bnei Brak] (in Hebrew). Jerusalem: Machon Otzar HaTorah.
- Shapiro, Chaim (1996). Once upon a shtetl: A fond look back at a treasured slice of the Jewish past. Mesorah Publications, Ltd. p. 260.
- Shapiro, Chaim (1982). "The Last of His Kind: Rabbi Avraham Kalmanowitz". In Wolpin, Rabbi Nisson. The Torah World: A treasury of biographical sketches. Mesorah Publications, Ltd. ISBN 0-89906-453-1.
- Sutton, Rabbi David (2005). Aleppo, City of Scholars. Mesorah Publications. ISBN 1-57819-056-8.