Shraga Moshe 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.

Rabbi

Shraga Moshe Kalmanowitz
Personal
Born
Shraga Moshe Kalmanowitz

May 15, 1918[1]
Rakov, Poland
DiedApril 16, 1998(1998-04-16) (aged 79)
Brooklyn, New York, United States
ReligionJudaism
ParentsAvraham Kalmanowitz

Rochel Kalmanowitz[2]

DenominationOrthodox
Jewish leader
PredecessorAvraham Kalmanowitz
PositionRosh yeshiva
YeshivaMir yeshiva in Brooklyn, New York, United States
Began1964
Ended1998
BuriedSanhedria Cemetery, Jerusalem
Graves of Shraga Moshe Kalmanowitz (right) and his father, Avraham Kalmanowitz (left), in the Sanhedria Cemetery.

Biography

Shraga Moshe Kalmanowitz was born in Rakov, Poland,[3] to Avraham Kalmanowitz (1891–1964), the Rav of the town. His mother (Rochel)[2] was the daughter of Betzalel Hakohen, a dayan (rabbinical court judge) in Vilna and author of the Talmudic commentary Mareh Kohen,[4] which appears in all printed editions of the Talmud.[5] He was the eldest[6] of three brothers;[7] he also had two sisters.

At the age of 10, Kalmanowitz began studying at the Mir yeshiva in Mir, Belarus, and later studied at the Kaminetz Yeshiva led by Baruch Ber Leibowitz.[3] He came to the United States with his mother and siblings in 1941[8] (his father had immigrated a year earlier[9]) and studied at both Yeshiva Torah Vodaas and Beth Medrash Elyon.[3][10]

After his marriage, Kalmanowitz became a maggid shiur in the Mir Yeshiva in Brooklyn.[10] Upon the death of his father in 1964, he and his brother-in-law, Shmuel Berenbaum, assumed the roles of roshei yeshiva.[11][12] 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.[13]

Kalmanowitz died on April 16, 1998 (20 Nisan 5758) in New York.[3] His body was flown to Israel for burial beside his father's grave in the Sanhedria Cemetery in Jerusalem.

References

Notes
  1. United States Social Security Death Index; U.S. Social Security Administration, Death Master File
  2. "R' Shraga Moshe Kalmanowitz, Rosh Yeshivas Mir (1918 - 1998)". ... and Rochel Kalmanowitz
  3. Katz, Shlomo (May 16, 1998). "R' Shraga Moshe Kalmanowitz a"h". HaMaayan. torah.org. Retrieved June 18, 2015.
  4. Harav Betzalel was also the author of Reishis Bikkurim "This Day in History û 11 Nisan/March 22 (5634/1874)". .. mechaber of Reishis Bikkurim and Mareh Kohen
  5. Shapiro 1982, pp. 239-244.
  6. "Today Yahrtzeits & History – 28 Teves". matzav.com. January 14, 2010. Retrieved June 18, 2015.
  7. Shapiro 1996, p. 260.
  8. Finkelman 2003, p. 65.
  9. Kranzler & Gevirtz 1991.
  10. Gliksman 2009, p. 132.
  11. 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.
  12. Saltiel, Manny (2015). "Gedolim Yahrtzeits". chinuch.org. Retrieved June 18, 2015.
  13. Sutton 2005, p. 298.

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