TSVI-HIRSH
DAKHOVITS (DACHOWITZ) (October 15, 1885-November 16, 1953)
He was born in Sokole, near Vilna,
Poland, into a rabbinic family. He
studied in the yeshivas of the Chofets Chaim and Volozhin, and received
ordination from the latter. In 1922 he
emigrated to the United States and served as a rabbi in a Lubavicher synagogue
in Brooklyn (1923-1953). He was popular
as an orator. He was a co-founder of
yeshivas and institutes for religious Jews in Poland and America. For many years he served as vice-president of
Agudat Harabonim (Organization of rabbis), an association of Orthodox rabbis in
America. He published articles in the
Yiddish and Hebrew press on Jewish issues and primarily on Jewish education,
among them in Hatsfira (The siren) in
Warsaw, as well as Dos idishe vort
(The Jewish word) and Morgn zhurnal
(Morning journal) in New York. In book
form, he authored religious texts in Hebrew and Yiddish: Peri shelomo (The fruits of Solomon) (New York, 1926), 149 pp.; Hegyoni vesarapi (Logical and thoughtful)
(New York, 1929), 156 pp. He died in New
York.
Sources:
P. Vyernik, in Morgn-zhurnal (New
York) (June 13, 1926); Tog-morgn-zhurnal
(New York) (November 20, 1953); Who’s Who
in World Jewry (New York, 1955), p. 147.
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