Leib Gurwicz
| Rabbi Leib Gurwicz | |
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| Gateshead Rosh Yeshiva | |
| Position | Rosh yeshiva |
| Yeshiva | Gateshead Talmudical College |
| Successor | Rabbi Avrohom Gurwicz |
| Personal details | |
| Birth name | Aryeh Ze'ev Kushelevsky |
| Born | 1906 Malat, Russian empire |
| Died | 20 October 1982 London, England |
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| Alma mater | Mir yeshiva (Poland) |
Aryeh Ze'ev (Leib) Gurwicz (1906–20 October 1982) was an influential Orthodox rabbi and Talmudic scholar. He was the son-in-law of Rabbi Elyah Lopian and best known as Rosh Yeshiva of the Gateshead Yeshiva in Gateshead, England, where he taught for over 30 years.
He studied at various yeshivas in Lithuania and Poland before marrying and moving to England in 1932. This move saved him from the Holocaust under the Nazis.
He was born Aryeh Ze'ev Kushelevsky in the small town of Molėtai, Russian empire (nowadays Lithuania), where his father, Rabbi Moshe Aharon Kushelevsky served as rabbi. His mother was a direct descendant of the Vilna Gaon. His brother was Rabbi Eliyahu (Elya) Kushelevksy (1910–1992), who later served as av beis din (head of the rabbinical court) of Beersheba.
At the age of thirteen he left home to learn in yeshiva. He sneaked across the border into Lithuania and went to learn at the Vilkomir yeshiva ketana, where he proved himself to be a diligent and capable student. After a year and a half in Vilkomir, he traveled to Vilna in the hopes of seeing his family, who had moved there. But his father had been called back to Malat. In the meantime, Vilna was the new home of the Mir yeshiva, which had relocated deep in Russian territory during World War I. Leib decided to join the Mir yeshiva in Vilna, becoming one of its youngest students.
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