Avraham Pam
1913 CE–2001 CE · Modern · Vidz
Rabbi Avraham Yaakov HaKohen Pam (1913-2001) was an American rosh yeshiva who led Mesivta Torah Vodaas in Brooklyn for much of the twentieth century. Born in Vidz, in the Lithuanian region, he studied as a youth in the yeshiva of Slabodka before his family emigrated to the United States in 1927. He joined the faculty of Torah Vodaas as a Talmud lecturer in 1938 and, over more than six decades there, rose to serve as its rosh yeshiva, teaching generations of students and guiding those preparing for rabbinic ordination. He also sat on the Council of Torah Sages of Agudath Israel of America. In 1990 he founded Shuvu, a network of schools in Israel offering Jewish education to children of immigrants from the former Soviet Union. He died in 2001 and, at his request, no eulogies were delivered.
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Vidz
What they did here
Birthplace.
In Vidz at the same time
In the same place & time
Sages whose lives overlapped with Avraham Pam’s in the same cities, drawn from their recorded journeys.
Across the traditions
In the same tradition
Yonasan Steif, Ponevezher Rav, Reuven Grozovsky, Shraga Feivel Mendlowitz, Yoel Teitelbaum, Avraham Kalmanowitz, Yaakov Kamenetsky, Aharon Kotler, Menachem Mendel Schneerson, Yekutiel Yehuda Halberstam, Yitzchak Hutner, Avigdor Miller, Yisrael Zev Gustman, Chaim Pinchas Scheinberg, Menachem Mendel Taub, Menashe Klein, David Hartman, Aryeh Kaplan
The world in their lifetime
Thinkers, teachers, and rulers whose lives overlapped with Avraham Pam’s — a glimpse of the wider world they lived in. Drawn purely from recorded birth and death years.
Jewish world
- Yitzhak Kaduri· 1898 CE–2006 CE
- Nechama Leibowitz· 1905 CE–1997 CE
- R. Yedidya Shofet· 1908 CE–2005 CE
- Rabbi Ephraim Oshry· 1908 CE–2003 CE
- Rabbi Shlomo Halberstam· 1908 CE–2000 CE
- Rabbi Shimon Schwab· 1908 CE–1995 CE
- R. Shalom Mashash· 1909 CE–2003 CE
- Yosef Shalom Elyashiv (senior Litvish posek)· 1910 CE–2012 CE
- Shlomo Zalman Auerbach (Minchat Shlomo)· 1910 CE–1995 CE
- R. Sholom Noah Berezovsky· 1911 CE–2000 CE
- Rabbi Simcha Zissel Broide· 1912 CE–2000 CE
- Rabbi Pinchas Hirschprung· 1912 CE–1998 CE
- Rabbi Shalom Schwadron· 1912 CE–1997 CE
- Ephraim Urbach· 1912 CE–1991 CE
- Shlomo Wolbe (Alei Shur)· 1914 CE–2005 CE
- R. Mordechai Gifter (Telshe Cleveland)· 1915 CE–2001 CE
- Eliezer Waldenberg· 1915 CE–2006 CE
- R. Yosef Kapach (Qafih)· 1917 CE–2000 CE
- Shlomo Goren· 1918 CE–1994 CE
- R. Henoch Leibowitz (Chofetz Chaim)· 1918 CE–2008 CE
- Rabbi Betzalel Zolty· 1920 CE–1982 CE
- Rabbi Nachum Partzovitz· 1923 CE–1986 CE
- Ben Zion Abba Shaul· 1924 CE–1998 CE
- R. Chaim David HaLevi· 1924 CE–1998 CE
Scientists
Buddhist world
Luminaries & Explorers world
Christian world
Rulers world
- Ronald Reagan· 1911 CE–2004 CE
- Gerald Ford· 1913 CE–2006 CE
- Richard Nixon· 1913 CE–1994 CE
- Julius Nyerere· 1922 CE–1999 CE
- Deng Xiaoping· 1904 CE–1997 CE
- Mohammad Reza Pahlavi· 1919 CE–1980 CE
- Yuri Andropov· 1914 CE–1984 CE
- Nelson Mandela· 1918 CE–2013 CE
- Konstantin Chernenko· 1911 CE–1985 CE
- Emperor Hirohito (Showa)· 1901 CE–1989 CE
- Georgy Malenkov· 1902 CE–1988 CE
- Boris Yeltsin· 1931 CE–2007 CE
- Gamal Abdel Nasser· 1918 CE–1970 CE
- George H. W. Bush· 1924 CE–2018 CE
Works
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