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 | |
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Personal | |
Born | Shraga Moshe Kalmanowitz May 15, 1918[1] Rakov, Poland |
Died | April 16, 1998 Brooklyn, New York, United States | (aged 79)
Religion | Judaism |
Parent | Avraham Kalmanowitz Rochel Kalmanowitz |
Denomination | Orthodox |
Jewish leader | |
Predecessor | Avraham Kalmanowitz |
Position | Rosh yeshiva |
Yeshiva | Mir yeshiva in Brooklyn, New York, United States |
Began | 1964 |
Ended | 1998 |
Buried | Sanhedria Cemetery, Jerusalem |
Kalmanowitz was born in Rakov, Poland,[2] to Avraham Kalmanowitz, the rabbi of the town, and Rochel Cohen, the daughter of Betzalel Hakohen, a dayan (rabbinical court judge) in Vilna.[citation needed] He had the brothers[3][4] and two sisters.[citation needed]
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.[2] He came to the United States with his mother and siblings in 1941[5] (his father had immigrated a year earlier[6]) and studied at both Yeshiva Torah Vodaas and Beth Medrash Elyon.[2][7]
After his marriage, Kalmanowitz became a maggid shiur in the Mir Yeshiva in Brooklyn.[7] Upon the death of his father in 1964, he and his brother-in-law, Shmuel Berenbaum, assumed the roles of roshei yeshiva.[8][9] 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.[10]
Kalmanowitz died on April 16, 1998 (20 Nisan 5758) in New York.[2] He was buried beside his father's grave in the Sanhedria Cemetery in Jerusalem.[11] His wife Malka Kalmanowitz died in 2020.[11]
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