Mordechai Gifter
1915 CE–2001 CE · Modern · Portsmouth
When the Nazis destroyed the famed Telz yeshiva in Lithuania, R. Mordechai Gifter (1915-2001) helped rebuild it from scratch in Cleveland, Ohio, and became the dominant figure in the postwar American Telshe (Telz) outlook. Born in Portsmouth, VA, he studied at Telshe in Lithuania under R. Avraham Yitzchak Bloch and R. Eliyahu Meir Bloch (his father-in-law was the Telshe mashgiach, R. Zalman Bloch) before World War II. After the war he co-led the rebuilt Telshe Yeshiva in Cleveland, relocated from the destroyed Lithuanian Telz. Through his collected sermons Pirkei Torah and his Talmudic insights Mevaser Tov, he became one of the most articulate teachers of his generation, equally fluent in English, Yiddish, and Hebrew.
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What they did here
He was born in 1915 in Portsmouth, Virginia, to parents who had emigrated from Lithuania and settled in a region with few established Torah institutions.
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In the same tradition
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The world in their lifetime
Thinkers, teachers, and rulers whose lives overlapped with Mordechai Gifter’s — a glimpse of the wider world they lived in. Drawn purely from recorded birth and death years.
Jewish world
- Nechama Leibowitz· 1905 CE–1997 CE
- R. Yedidya Shofet· 1908 CE–2005 CE
- Rabbi Ephraim Oshry· 1908 CE–2003 CE
- R. Avigdor Miller· 1908 CE–2001 CE
- Rabbi Shlomo Halberstam· 1908 CE–2000 CE
- Rabbi Shimon Schwab· 1908 CE–1995 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
- Rabbi Avraham Yaakov HaKohen Pam· 1913 CE–2001 CE
- Shmuel Wosner· 1913 CE–2015 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 Nachum Partzovitz· 1923 CE–1986 CE
- Rabbi Gedaliah Nadel· 1923 CE–2004 CE
- Ben Zion Abba Shaul· 1924 CE–1998 CE
- R. Chaim David HaLevi· 1924 CE–1998 CE
- R. Dov Landau (Slabodka)· 1929 CE–
- Aryeh Kaplan· 1934 CE–1983 CE
Buddhist world
Scientists
Luminaries & Explorers world
Christian world
Rulers world
- Ronald Reagan· 1911 CE–2004 CE
- Gerald Ford· 1913 CE–2006 CE
- Julius Nyerere· 1922 CE–1999 CE
- Richard Nixon· 1913 CE–1994 CE
- Deng Xiaoping· 1904 CE–1997 CE
- Nelson Mandela· 1918 CE–2013 CE
- Mohammad Reza Pahlavi· 1919 CE–1980 CE
- Yuri Andropov· 1914 CE–1984 CE
- Konstantin Chernenko· 1911 CE–1985 CE
- Boris Yeltsin· 1931 CE–2007 CE
- Emperor Hirohito (Showa)· 1901 CE–1989 CE
- Georgy Malenkov· 1902 CE–1988 CE
- George H. W. Bush· 1924 CE–2018 CE
- Gamal Abdel Nasser· 1918 CE–1970 CE
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