R. Mordechai Gifter
1915 CE–2001 CE · Modern · Jerusalem
R. Mordechai Gifter (1915-2001), rosh yeshiva of Telshe (Telz) Cleveland, was the dominant figure in postwar American Telshe Hashkafa. Born in Portsmouth, VA, he learned at Telshe in Lithuania under R. Avraham Yitzchak Bloch and his father-in-law R. Eliyahu Meir Bloch before WWII. After the war he co-led the rebuilt Telshe Yeshiva in Cleveland (relocated from destroyed Lithuanian Telz). His Pirkei Torah collected drashos and Mevaser Tov chiddushim made him one of the most articulate English-Yiddish-Hebrew rosh yeshivos of the postwar generation.
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Born in Portsmouth, Virginia, to Lithuanian immigrant parents in an American environment with limited organized Torah institutions. His early childhood years were spent there before his parents decided to relocate for the sake of his Torah education.
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