AVROM YITSKHOK (ABRAHAM ISAAC) BROMBERG

AVROM YITSKHOK (ABRAHAM ISAAC) BROMBERG (1897-February 4, 1975)

He was born in Ostrów Mazowiecka, Poland, into a Hassidic family.  He studied in religious elementary school and yeshivas.  He graduated from a state teachers’ seminary and studied pedagogy and philosophy at Warsaw University.  He received ordination in 1925, and until the start of WWII in 1939, he served as the rabbi of Grudziądz, Pomerania.  During the German occupation of Poland, he escaped to Russia and from there arrived in 1942, as a military rabbi with the Polish army, in Palestine.  After the war he traveled to Switzerland and France (on business for Mizrachi).  He worked as an inspector of Mizrachi schools in Israel.  He began publishing in Hebrew in the monthly journal Shaare-tora (The gates of Torah) (Warsaw, 1913).  He wrote in Yiddish, Hebrew, and Polish on Jewish issues, as well as monographs concerned with the leaders of Hassidism in Poland in: Der mizrakhi-veg (The way of Mizrachi), Hamizraḥi (The Mizrachi), Unzer veg (Our way) in Paris, Hatsofe (The spectator), and Sinai (Sinai) in Israel, among others.  He authored a number of Hebrew-language works: Musar hayehudi (Ethics of the Jew) (Warsaw, 1939), 180 pp.; Ḥomat yerushalayim (The wall of Jerusalem) (Jerusalem, 1943), 120 pp.; Rashi veyerushalmi (Rashi and the Jerusalem Talmud) (Jerusalem, 1945), 135 pp.; and nine volumes of Migedole haḥasidut (From the greats of Hassidism) (Jerusalem, 1949-1955).  A number of his volumes concerning Hassidism were published in various countries in Jewish periodicals put out by Mizrachi.  He died in Jerusalem.

Sources: Yitsḥak Goldshlag, in Hatsofe (Jerusalem) (July 1955).