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Rabbi Avraham Kalmanowitz
Rabbi Avraham Kalmanowitz
1887 CE–1964 CE · Acharonim · Vilna (Vilnius)
A rabbi and rosh yeshiva, Rabbi Avraham Kalmanowitz was a communal leader whose career combined Eastern European rabbinate with wartime rescue activism and postwar yeshiva leadership in America. He is chiefly associated with the Mir yeshiva and with the rescue work organized through Vaad Hatzalah, including efforts to bring the Mir from Lithuania to Shanghai and then to the United States.
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Born in Delyatichi in the Minsk province of Belarus. He was raised in the Russian Empire before his later rabbinic and rescue work in Eastern Europe and the United States.
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