With a fascinating foreword about the Olam Hatorah after the Holocaust. Presented as a Bar Mitzva present to the Gaon Rabbi Chaim Yerucham Ginzburg in 1957.
The life of the Gaon Rabbi Avraham Kalmanowitz (1891-1964) was a long chain of harbatzas Torah and public efforts on behalf of bnei Torah around the world. Born in 1890 in the village of Deliatich to Rabbi Aaron Arieh Leib Kelmanovich .He studied in Eishyshok and at the Slabodka Yeshiva and Telz Yeshiva. In 1929, at the young age of 22, he was appointed Rav in Rakov, and from that day, he never paused in his tireless efforts to promote Torah and assist his fellow Jews in distress. Rabbi Avraham was a close confidante of both the Chofetz Chaim and Rabbi Chaim Ozer Grodzinski, and he spearheaded the rescue efforts of the Vaad Hatzalah in Europe during World War Two to save Lithuanian yeshivos, and specifically the Mir Yeshiva in Shanghai.
For close to a decade, he served as Rav in Tiktin, but with the outbreak of war, fled with his family to Vilna and, from there, to the United States.
A leader of the Rescue Committee of the American Rabbinical Association and the head of the Mir Yeshiva in the United States He greatly assisted the Mir yeshiva, which Exiled during World War II to Shanghai.
After the war, Rabbi Avraham Kalmanowitz founded the Mir Yeshiva in Brooklyn. “He rescued Torah in our generation!” wrote Rabbi Simcha Elberg following the passing of Rabbi Avraham Kalmanowitz.
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