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Orthodox and Yeshiva Leaders
Profiled in The Torah World'
"The Torah World: A
Treasury of Biographical
Sketches" has been pub-
lished by Mesorah Publica-
tions in conjunction with
Agudath Israel of America.
The volume, consisiting
of mini-biographies of
Roshei Yeshiva (yeshiva
heads) and Orthodox lead-
ers, is divided into five
selections: "The European
Heritage," "Hasidic Men-
tors," "Teachers of Mussar,"
"Pioneers of Women's Edu-
cation" and "Transmitters
of a Heritage."
The biographies are pre-
ceded by brief introduc-
tions, photographs and per-
sonality epithets. The col-
lection includes, inter alia,
the biographies of these
roshei yeshiva:
Rabbi Jacob Ettlinger
(1798-1871), the author of
"Arokh LeNeir," was the
rav and yeshiva head of
Altona, Germany. He was
the foremost opponent of
Reform Judaism in 19th
Century Germany.
Reb Baruch Ber Lebowitz
(1870-1941), whose yeshiva
in Kamenitz the Bolsheviks
destroyed, was the author of
"Birkas Shmuel." He
stressed the importance of
understanding each word
and expression in the study
of Gemara.
Reb Meir Shapiro (1879-
1934), who introduced the
"Daf Yomi" (the daily study
of a page of Gemara), was
ray and rosh yeshiva of Lub-
lin, Poland. Rabbi Shapiro
once gave a speech on behalf
of Yeshivas Chachmey Lub-
lin. During the speech, he
noticed a small child
wedged into the crowd.
After the speech, Reb Meir
approached the child and
asked him whether he un-
derstood the complex
speech.
The child answered, "No."
Reb Meir asked him,
"Then why did you
come?"
The child said, "I came
because I heard the rav was
going to speak about
money."
"If that is why you came,"
replied the ray, "you under-
stood my speech better than
most people here."
Rabbi Aharon Kotler
(1891-1962), headed the
Kletzker Yeshiva before
World War II. During the
war he came to the United
States where he became
rosh yeshiva of Bais Med-
rash Govoha in Lakewood,
N.J.
leaders
Orthodox
whose life stories, among
others, appear in this
book, are:
Reb Menahem Ziemba
(1883-1943), who was rav of
the Warsaw ghetto. He died
during the Warsaw upris-
ing against the Nazis.
Rabbi Joseph Breuer
(1882-1980) was the rav of
Frankfurt, Germany prior
to World War II. In 1939, he
came to New York where he
founded a congregation of
German Jewish refugees. In
addition to his rabbinical
diploma he had a PhD in
philosophy and political
economy. He was the
grandson of Rabbi Samson
Raphael Hirsch.
Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak
Schneersohri (1880-1950)
had been Lubavitcher
Rebbe since the death of his
father, Rabbi Sholom Dov
Ber, in 1921. During World
War II, his family and he
settled in Rostov. But in
1924 the Bolsheviks,
mainly the Yevsektzia,
forced him to move to
Leningrad where he con-
tinued his Hasidic activi-
ties. As a result, he was ar-
rested in 1927 and confined
to the Spalerna Prison
where he was mistreated.
In 1940, he came to New
York where he estab-
lished the Yeshiva Tom-
chey Temimim and a
network of "hetlarim'?
that were the "forerun-
ners" of today's religious
day schools.
The authors of the biog-
raphies include Rabbi
Joseph Elias, Chaim Shap-
iro, Pesach Komstam,
Rabbi Shaul Kagan, Moshe
Ziemba, Dr. Ernst J.
Bodenheimer, Rabbi Nos-
sorn Schermann and Rabbi
David Goldberg.
—A.A.W.
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