MOSHE SOLOVEICHIK

Rabbi 'Moshe Soloveichik' (1879 - 1941), son of the renowned Rabbi Chaim Soloveitchik and grandson of the Beis HaLevi - Rabbi Yosef Baer Soloveitchik, was the older of Rabbi Chaim's two sons. His brother, Rabbi Yitzchak Zev Soloveitchik (known as ''Reb Velvele'', or the ''GRYZ'' גרי"ז), succeeded his father as the rabbi of Brisk and eventually emigrated to Israel.
At the age of 31, Rabbi Moshe was appointed rabbi of the town of Raseiniai, a position he held for 3 years. In 1913, he took the position of rabbi of Khislavichi. After World War I, he went to Poland in 1920, and from there he immigrated to New York in 1929, answering the call of Rabbi Dr. Bernard Revel to join the faculty as Rosh Yeshiva at the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary of Yeshiva University.
While Rabbi Moshe was in New York City, his eldest son, Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik was working on his PhD at the University of Berlin, which he completed in 1931. The following year, Rabbi Yosef Dov (often referred to by his students as "The Rav") moved to Boston and became head of the Jewish community there.
When Rabbi Moshe passed away in 1941 at the age of 62, his son, Rabbi Yosef Dov was asked to fill his father’s place.
Rabbi Moshe’s two younger sons were Rabbi Dr. Ahron Soloveichik (1917 - 2001), who also taught at RIETS, and Rabbi Dr. Samuel Soloveitchik (1909-1967) who taught chemistry at Yeshiva College. He also had two daughters, Mrs. Shulamit Soloveitchik Meiselman (b. 1912) and Mrs. Anne Soloveitchik Gerber (b. 1915).

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Students

In Europe

In America

Brisk family tree

See also

External links and references

Students

In Europe

★ Rabbi Yehuda David Goldman

★ Rabbi Dovid Leibowitz

In America

★ Rabbi Jacob B Agus

★ Rabbi Moshe Zvi Aryeh Bick

★ Rabbi Mordechai Gifter

★ Rabbi Mordechai Kirshblum

★ Rabbi Dr. Moses Mescheloff



★ Rabbi Avigdor Miller

★ Rabbi Judah Nadich

★ Rabbi Emanuel Rackman

★ Rabbi Chaim Pinchas Scheinberg

★ Rabbi Yisroel Shurin



★ Rabbi Joseph Weiss

★ Rabbi Louis (Eliezer) Werfel

★ Rabbi Chaim Zimmerman

Brisk family tree

See also

★ Brisk yeshivas and methods

External links and references

★ geocities

★ bartleby

★ jewishvirtuallibrary

★ "The Rav: The World of Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik" By Rabbi Dr. Aaron Rakeffet Rothkoff (ISBN 0-88125-614-5 & ISBN 0-88125-615-3)