ARN
YERUKHEM (AHRON JERUCHEM) (May 26, 1904-March 1969)
He was born in Limanove (Limanowa),
eastern Galicia. His father was the Altshot
(Old City) rabbi. He received ordination
into the rabbinate himself in 1927, and was then rabbi in the congregation of
Ahavat Tora (Love of Torah) in Vienna.
From 1940 he was living in the United States. He was a member of the Agudat Harabanim
(Union of Orthodox Rabbis). He was a
founder of the relief organization “Ezra” which rescued Jews from the Nazis and
brought them to America. He was the
author of religious texts in Hebrew: Ohel
raḥel (Rachel’s tent) (New York, 1942), 142 pp.;
and Haam beyisrael (The people in
Israel) (Vienna, 1938). In Yiddish: Shuve yisroel (Return, O Israel), “a
scream of pain from a bloodied Jewish heart after the Holocaust” (New York,
1947), 32 pp.; and Loy tishkekh (Don’t
forget) (New York, 1949), 246 pp., an analysis of the Jewish destruction and
our accounting with the world. In
English: Test and Contest (New York,
1960), 34 pp., about his trip to the state of Israel.
Sources:
Asher Z. Rand, Toledot anshe shem
(Tales of great men) (New York, 1950), p. 65; Who’s Who in World Jewry (New York, 1955), p. 363.
Khayim Leyb Fuks
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