HYMAN BRODSKY (KHAYIM-SHRAGE BRODSKI)

HYMAN BRODSKY (KHAYIM-SHRAGE BRODSKI) (September 17, 1852-1937)

Born in Slonim, Byelorussia, he attended the Volozhin yeshiva.  In 1889 he emigrated to the United States.  For several years he worked as a rabbi in New York.  In 1895 he moved to Philadelphia.  He published and edited (together with Khayim Malits) the weekly serial Filadelfyer shtot-tsaytung (Philadelphia city newspaper).  He contributed as well to Byalistoker shtime (Voice of Bialystok) in New York.  He also published in the Hebrew-language Hadevora (The bee).  He authored two religious works in Hebrew: Maase ḥoshev (The act of thinking) (New York, 1906) and Divre ḥeshev (Words of thought) (New York, 1908).  From 1898 he was a rabbi in Newark.  He was one of the founders of HIAS (Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society).  After WWI, he contributed to the Bialystok Relief and on assignment for the Bialystok Compatriot Association he made a trip to Bialystok.  He particularly excelled as a popular speaker.  One pseudonym he used was “Ḥoshev” (Thought).  He died in New York.

Source: Zalmen Reyzen, Leksikon, vol. 1.