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Wolf Gold, 1948

Rabbi Wolf Gold ( Hebrew זאב גולד, Ze'ev gold ; born on January 31, 1889 in Szczuczyn as Zev Krawczynski ; died April 8, 1956 in Jerusalem ) was a rabbi , Jewish activist and one of the signatories of the Israeli Declaration of Independence .

Life

Gold was the paternal descendant of at least eight generations of rabbis. His first teacher was his maternal grandfather, Rabbi Yehoshuah Goldwasser. Later he studied at the Mir Yeshiva under Rabbi Eliyahu Baruch Kamei. Then Gold went to Lida to study the Yeshiva Torah Vo'Da'as there - the yeshiva of Rabbi Jizchak Jakob Reines , where Torah - were combined with secular studies. At the age of 17 he was finally ordained as a rabbi by Eliezer Rabinowitz of Minsk and then inherited the office of his father-in-law, Rabbi Mosche Reichler, as rabbi in Juteka.

At 18 he went to the United States , where he served as a rabbi in several communities, including that of South Chicago , Scranton in Pennsylvania (until 1912), the Beth Jacob Ohev Sholom Congregation in Williamsburg , Brooklyn (1912-1919), San Francisco (until 1924) and the Shomrei Emunah Congregation in Borough Park , Brooklyn (until 1935). He was among the first to establish Orthodox Judaism in the United States; in 1917 he founded the Williamsburg Talmud Torah and the Yeshiva Torah Vodaas . He also opened the Beth Moshe Hospital and an orphanage in Brooklyn, and founded a college in San Francisco to train Hebrew teachers.

1914 Gold invited Rabbi Meir Berlin , Secretary of the World Mizrachi Organization, to New York, a branch of Mizrachi to organize in the United States. For the next 40 years, Rabbi Gold traveled the United States and Canada to establish local chapters for the Mizrachi movement, and in 1932 he became president of the American Mizrachi.

In 1935 he emigrated to Palestine , where he became head of the "Department for Torah Education and Culture in the Diaspora", in whose function he played a key role in the establishment of new educational institutions within the Diaspora and in particular devoted himself to the educational needs of North American Jews . During World War II , he participated in widespread Zionist opposition to the 1939 British White Paper and helped save European Jews from the Holocaust . In 1943 he traveled back to the USA, where he took part as a spokesman on behalf of the European Jews in the March of the Rabbis in Washington.

He served as Vice President in the Israeli Provisional State Council and signed the Israeli Declaration of Independence in 1948. He was a member of the founding committee of Bar Ilan University , which opened in 1955.

Gold died in Jerusalem and was buried next to his lifelong friend Rabbi Meir Berlin.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ SHERMAN, Moshe D .: Orthodox Judaism in America: A Biographical Dictionary and Sourcebook . Greenwood Publishing Group: Westport, Connecticut, 1996, ISBN 0313243166 , p. 78
  2. ↑ אנציקלופדיה לחלוצי הישוב ובוניה, Vol. 4, p. 1873
  3. ^ The Signatories of the Declaration of the Establishment of the State of Israel . Jewish Virtual Library
personal data
SURNAME Gold, wolf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gold, Ze'ev; Krawczynski, Zev (maiden name); זאב גולד (Hebrew)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Israeli rabbi
DATE OF BIRTH January 31, 1889
PLACE OF BIRTH Szczuczyn
DATE OF DEATH April 8, 1956
Place of death Jerusalem