New York, 1953.
R. Moshe Feinstein (1895-1986), foremost halachic authority in the United States. President of the Union of Orthodox Rabbis of the United States and Canada. Leader of Orthodox Jewry and head of the Moetzet Gedolei HaTorah. Dean of the Tiferet Yerushalayim Yeshiva in New York. Author of Responsa Igrot Moshe, Dibrot Moshe on the Talmud, and Darash Moshe on the Torah.
R. Elkana Zoberman (1903-1959, Encyclopedia LeChachmei Galicia, II, pp. 974-975), Rabbi of Jordanów (Galicia) from 1929. A leading Bobov Chassid. In 1940, he was deported to Siberia, and after his release in 1941 served as a posek for refugees in a town near Tashkent. He was a rabbi in Wałbrzych from 1946, dealing extensively with the release of agunot. In 1948, he moved to the United States, where he served as rabbi. He became a leading posek and ordained many American rabbis. Member of the Beit Din for agunot of the Union of Orthodox Rabbis, alongside R. Moshe Feinstein.
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