Avraham Kalmanowitz
1887 CE–1964 CE · Acharonim · Delyatichi
Rabbi Avraham Kalmanowitz (1887-1964) was born in Delyatichi, in what is today Belarus, and studied at the yeshivot of Telshe, Eishishok, and Slabodka. Still a young man, he took up the rabbinate of Rakov, where he organized relief for wartime refugees and founded local Torah institutions, and later served as rabbi of Tiktin (Tykocin). In 1926 he was named honorary president of the Mir yeshiva, taking a leading role in its support. After fleeing to Vilna at the outbreak of the Second World War, he reached the United States in 1940 and became a central figure in the Vaad Hatzalah rescue committee. He helped arrange the Mir yeshiva's passage from Lithuania through Shanghai and eventually to America, where he led its Brooklyn branch from 1946 until his death in 1964. He was buried in Jerusalem.
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