Shraga Moshe Kalmanowitz
| Rabbi Shraga Moshe Kalmanowitz | |
|---|---|
| Position | Rosh yeshiva |
| Yeshiva | Mir yeshiva, Brooklyn, New York |
| Began | 1964 |
| Ended | 1998 |
| Predecessor | Rabbi Avraham Kalmanowitz |
| Personal details | |
| Birth name | Shraga Moshe Kalmanowitz |
| Born | May 15, 1918 Rakov, Poland |
| Died | April 16, 1998 (aged 79) Brooklyn, New York |
| Buried | Sanhedria Cemetery, Jerusalem |
| Denomination | Orthodox |
| Parents | Rabbi Avraham Kalmanowitz |
Shraga Moshe Kalmanowitz (Hebrew: שרגא משה קלמנוביץ; May 15, 1918 – April 16, 1998) was a Polish-American Orthodox rabbi. He was a rosh yeshiva (dean) of the Mir Yeshiva in Brooklyn, New York, from 1964 to 1998.
Shraga Moshe Kalmanowitz was born in Rakov, Poland, in 1918 to Rabbi Avraham Kalmanowitz (1891–1964), the Rav of the town. His mother was the daughter of Rabbi Betzalel Hakohen, a dayan (rabbinical court judge) in Vilna and author of the Talmudic commentary Mareh Kohen, which appears in all printed editions of the Talmud. He was the eldest of three brothers; he also had two sisters.
At the age of 10, he began studying at the Mir yeshiva in Mir, Belarus, and later studied at the Kaminetz Yeshiva led by Rabbi Baruch Ber Leibowitz. He came to the United States with his mother and siblings in 1941 (his father had immigrated a year earlier) and studied at both Yeshiva Torah Vodaas and Beth Medrash Elyon.
After his marriage, Kalmanowitz became a maggid shiur in the Mir Yeshiva in Brooklyn. Upon the death of his father in 1964, he and his brother-in-law, Rabbi Shmuel Berenbaum, assumed the roles of roshei yeshiva. He followed his father's lead in overseeing the education of Sephardi North African students at the Mir Yeshiva. He was also close with Sephardi organizations in New York City; he was one of the speakers at the grand opening of the mikveh of the Sephardi Brooklyn community on Avenue S.
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