R. Avigdor Miller
1908 CE–2001 CE · Modern · New York
R. Avigdor Miller (1908-2001) was the most influential English-language popularizer of yeshivish hashkafa in postwar America. A Slabodka talmid (under R. Isser Zalman Meltzer and the Alter of Slabodka), he served as a rav and maggid in Chelsea (Boston), Brownsville (Brooklyn), and for his final decades the Young Israel of Rugby and Beis Yisroel Torah Gateway in Flatbush. His Thursday-night lectures (later released as 1000+ taped shiurim) and over a dozen English books — Rejoice O Youth, Sing You Righteous, Awake My Glory, Behold a People — shaped the worldview of the postwar Brooklyn-Yeshivish baal habayit class.
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Baltimore, MDNer Israel yeshiva center
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Born in Baltimore to a Yiddish-speaking family, he was given the English name Victor Miller and raised in an environment that combined public school education with a traditional Jewish home. His parents spoke only Yiddish at home, preserving an Eastern European Orthodox milieu within the American setting. These early years in Baltimore formed the backdrop to his later pursuit of intensive yeshiva study.
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