Biographies of Gedolim: Alphabetical Index

Here you will find biographical articles and hespedim about Gedolim--from both recent and past generations.

Also check out the Biographies and Genealogies at the Rabbinic Genealogy Special Interest Group site as well as their General Topics page that includes tools, databases and maps.

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• A
• The Aderes: Rav Eliyahu Dovid Rabinowitz - Te'imim (YN)
• Rav Shlomo Zalman Auerbach ZT"L (YN)
  
  

• B
• The Baba Sali, Rav Yisroel Abuchatzeira ZT"L (YN)
• Rabbi Meir Bar-Ilan (Berlin) (WMM)
• Mrs. Chana Belsky (DD)
• The Ben Ish Chai (YN)
• The Ben Ish Chai (JO)
• Mrs. Chana Belsky -- Remembering an Inspiring Woman on Her First Yahrtzeit (DD)
  
• Rav Zelig Reuven Bengis ZT"L (YN)
• The Breuer Family Background
  A Genealogical Overview by Dr. Neil Rosenstein
• Rabbi Joseph Breuer tz"l (JO)
• Rabbi Eliahu Meir Bloch (JO)
• The Brisker Legacy (JO)
• Rav Nachman Bulman zt"l (YN)
  
• Rav Nachman Bulman (DD)
  
• Rav Nachman Bulman z"l (JOL)
  
• HaRav Nachman Bulman, zt"l: A Passionate Life
  by Jonathan Rosenblum
  
  
• C
• The Chasam Sofer (YN)
• Chassidic Stories
  (A collection of stories of various Chassidic Rebbes)
• The Chida, Rav Chaim Yosef David Azulai ZT"L (YN)
• The "Chofetz Chaim" (JO)
• The Chofetz Chaim Comes to Vienna (JO)
• Memories of the Chofetz Chaim (DD)
• The Chazon Ish (JO)
  
  
• D
• Dr. Leo Deutschlander (JO)
• HaRav Yehoshua Leib Diskin (DD)
  
  
• E
• Rav Meir Zvi Ehrentreu Z"TL (YN)
• Rabbi Jacob Ettlinger (JO)
  
  
• F
• HaRav Yechiel Michel Feinstein, zt'l (DD)
• HaRav Moshe Feinstein (DD)
• Rav Binyomin Beinush Finkel of Mir ZT"L (YN)
• Rav Yisroel Yaakov Fisher (YN)
• Shraga and Golda Frank (JO)
• Rabbi Avraham Abba Freedman (JMR)
  (The passing of a pure soul by Jonathan Rosenblum)
• Rabbi Avraham Abba Freedman (JMR)
  (A life of ruchnios by Jonathan Rosenblum)
  
• Rabbi Avrohom Abba Freedman ZT"L (YN) By Rabbi Abraham Hoffenberg
• Rav Freedman ZT"L (YN) By Yisroel Flam
  
  
• G
• The Gerer Rebbe - Rabbi Yisroel Alter tz"l (JO)
• Rabbi Moshe Yitzchok Gerwirczman (JO)
• Reflections Upon the Petirah of HaRav Gifter ZT"L - A Personal Memoir, by Rabbi Yaakov Feitman (YN)
• Rav Mordechai Gifter ZT"L Rosh Yeshivas Telz by Rav Avrohom Fishman (YN)
• HaRav Mordechai Gifter zt"l
  by S. Bruchi, B. Kahn and Yated Ne'eman Staff (DD)
  
• Rav Eliezer Gordon ZT"L, Rosh Yeshivas Telshe
• Rabbi Chaim Ozer Grodzensky (JO)
• Rav Tzvi Grossbard (YN)
• Rabbi Reuvain Grozovsky (JO)
• Rebetzin Mollie Isbee-Gurwicz (Part I) (YN)
• Rebetzin Mollie Isbee-Gurwicz (Part II) (YN)
  
  
• H
• Rabbi Chaim Meir Hager [Vizhnitzer Rebbe] (JO)
• R. Yosef Eliyahu Henkin by Rabbi Yehuda Henkin
• Rabbi Yoseif Eliyahu Henkin (JO)
• The Kopyczynitzer Rebbe: Reb Moshe Mordechai Heschel Zt"l (YN)
• Rav Shimshon Raphael Hirsch (YN)
• HaRav Yitzchok Hutner Zt'l (DD)
  
• Rav Yitzchak Hutner (Jewish Action)
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• Rabbi Yitzchak Hutner (JO)
  
  
  
• I
  
• Rabbi Yissachar Dov Illowy (JO)
• Samuel Myer Isaacs (JO)
  
  
• J
  
• Rabbi Jacob Joseph (JO)
  
  
• K
• Rabbi Yoseif Kahaneman (JO)
• Rabbi Avraham Kalmanowitz zt"l (JO)
• HaRav Avrohom Tzvi Hirsch Kamai zt'l, Hy'd, (DD)
• Dr. Joseph Kaminetsky zt"l (DD)
• Reb Yaakov Kamenetsky (DD)
• Rabbi Raphael Chaim Yitzchak Karigal (JO)
• Rabbi Dr. Hillel Klein (JO)
• Rabbi Avraham Yitzchak Kook (WMM)
• A Letter by Rav Kook
• Rav Kook's Mission to America by Joshua Hoffman
  Originally published in OROT Vol. 1 5751/1991
  Reprinted with permission
• Rav Aharon Kotler (YN)
• Rav Aharon Kotler (DD)
  (Includes his "Keser Torah" shmues and biographical sketch )
• Rav Aharon Kotler (DD)
  3rd Kislev 5763, Forty Years Since His Passing
• Rav Aaron Kotler (SY)
  (An online selection from the biography by Rabbi Yitzchok Dershowitz)
  
• Rabbi Aharon Kotler (JO)
• In memory of HaRav Chaim Kreiswirth, zt"l, on his first Yahrtzeit (DD)
• Reb Dovid Kronglas (JO)
  
  
• L
• Rav Moshe Landynski zt"l (YN)
• HaRav Dovid Leibowitz Zt'l Part I (DD)
• HaRav Dovid Leibowitz Zt'l Part II (DD)
• Reb Baruch Ber Lebowitz (JO)
• Reb Yerucham Levovitz (JO)
• The True Lomza (JO)
  
• Reb Yisrael Yaakov Lubchansky (JO)
  
• M
• The MeAm Loez (JO)
• Rav Chaim Chizkiya Medini (The Sdei Chemed)
• The Maggid of Mezritch (SY)
  (An online version of The Life and Times of Rebbe Dov Ber The Maggid of Mezritch by Yitzchak Dorfman, with an foreword by Rabbi Nachman Bulman z"l)
• Remebering Mrs. Rivka Meisels A"H (YN)
  
• Rav Avigdor Miller ZT"L (YN).
• Rabbi Avigdor Miller: The Rov Who Turned Baalebatim Into Bnei Yeshiva Part I (DD)
• Rabbi Avigdor Miller Part II (DD)
• Rabbi Avigdor Miller Part III (DD)
• HaRav Avigdor Miller zt"l
  by C. Zilberman and B. Kahn (DD)
  
• Rabbi Avigdor Miller (JOL)
• Remembrances of Mir Yeshiva
  From the Introduction to: Bar Mitzvah Sermons at Touro Synagogue
  By Rabbi Dr. Theodore Lewis
  
  
• N
• The Shoel Umeishiv -R' Yosef Shaul Natansohn (DD)
  
• The World of Novaradok (JO)
• The Netziv: The Sefer That Was Almost Lost
  A story Linda Feinberg (YN)
  
• New Letters from the Netziv (DD)
• The Novominsker Rebbe: Rabbi Nochum Mordechai Perlow (JO)
  
• O
• The Or Sameach (YN)
• The Or Same'ach (JO)
  
  
• P
• Rav Avrohom Pam (YN)
  By Rav Nochum Eisenstein, Lakewood, NJ
• Rav Avrohom Pam: My Father, My Father: A Few Words on the Loss of a Gadol b'Yisroel (YN)
  By Rabbi Eli Gewirtz
• Rav Avrohom Pam: Reflections on Quiet Greatness (YN)
  By Rabbi Nosson Scherman
• HaRav Avrohom Yaakov Pam zt"l
  by S. Bruchi, D. Rubinowitz and Yated Ne'eman Staff (DD)
• Rabbi Avrohom Pam ZT"L
  by Nosson Scherman (JOL)
• Rebbetzin Chava Pincus -- Sara Schenirer's American Disciple (DD)
• The Ponevezher Rabbonim: HaRav Itzele Ponevezher and HaRav Yosef Shlomo Kahaneman (DD)
• Reb Pesach Puskin (JO)
• Rav Yaakov Yitzchak of P'shischa (YN)
  
  
• R
  
• HaRav Yitzchok Isaac Halevi Rabinowitz, zt'l Part I (DD)
  Author Of Doros Horishonim
  
• HaRav Yitzchok Isaac Halevi Rabinowitz, zt'l Part II (DD)
  Author Of Doros Horishonim
  
• HaRav Yitzchok Isaac Halevi Rabinowitz, zt'l Part III (DD)
  Author Of Doros Horishonim
  
• Rabbi Abraham Joseph Rice (JO)
• Moreinu Yaakov Rosenheim, zt'l (JO)
  
• The Rogatchover (JO)
  
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• Rabbi Yisroel Salanter (JO)
• Rav Yechezkel of Sarna (YN)
• The Satmar Rav (JO)
• Rav Elozar Schach (YN)
  Hesped by Rav Meir Tzvi Bergman, Shlita
  
• Rav Elozar Schach (YN)
  Hesped by Rav Elya Svei Shlita at Beis Medrash Govoah, Lakewood
• Rav Elozar Schach (YN)
  
• Rav Elozar Schach (YN)
  by Rav Mordechai Kamenetsky
  
• Rav Elazar Menachem Man Schach ZT"L (JOL)
  by Rav Mordechai Kamenetsky
  
• Sarah Schenirer (JO)
• The Maharam Schick - 100th Yahrzeit
  A Genealogical overview by Dr. Neil Rosenstein
  
• Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson (The Lubavitcher Rebbe)
• Reb Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn (JO)
• Rabbi Gedalia Schorr (JO)
• Reb Moshe Schwab (JO)
• Rav Yehuda Zev Segal ZT"L,The Manchester Rosh Yeshiva (YN)
• Gershom Mendes Seixas (JO)
• The Seride Esh (JO)
• Rav Avraham Shaag ZT"L (YN)
  
• Rav Meir Shapiro (YN)
  
• Reb Meier Shapiro (JO)
• Rabbi and Mrs. Baruch Shapiro (JO)
• Rabbi Chaim Leib Shmulevitz (JO)
• Rav Ahron HaLevi Soloveitchik (YN)
  
• Remembering Reb Chaim Brisker (JO)
• Rav Yosef Dov Soloveitchik [Beis Haleivi] (YN)
• Rabbi Raphael Baruch Sorotzkin (JO)
• Rav Zalman Sorotzkin ZT"L (YN)
  
• Rav Yitzchok Elchonon Spector ZT"L (YN)
  
• The Steipler Gaon, Zt'l (DD)
  
• The Steipler Gaon, Zt'l (DD)
  
  

• T
• Rebetzin Alte Faiga Teitelbaum (YN)
• Tiktin, Poland (JO)
• Reb Elemelech Tress (YN)
• Reb Elemelech Tress (I)
  from "They Called Him Mike" by Yonason Rosenblum
  
• Reb Elimelech Tress (JO)
  
  
• W
• Reb Elchonon Wasserman (JO)
• Rabbi Dov Ber Weidenfeld (The Tshebiner Rav) (JO)
• HaRav Yitzchok Yaakov Weiss, the Minchas Yitzchok zt'l (DD)
• Rabbi Michael Ber Weissmandl (JO)
• The Founding of Torah Vodaas--Reb Binyomin Wilhelm, (DD)
  
• Rabbi Shlomo Wolbe tz"l
• HaRav Shlomo Wolbe tz"l (DD)
• The Legacy of Rav Shlomo Wolbe (YN)
• A Mashgiach for Eternity: A Talmid Reflects (YN)
• Two Audio Shiurim by Rav Wolbe tz"l (613.org)
• Two Funerals (Rav Shlomo Wolbe tz"l) (JMR)
• Contemplating our loss: Rav Shlomo Wolbe zt"l (JMR)
• Rav Shlomo Wolbe zt"l (JMR)
• HaRav Shlomo Wolbe, zt"l, at the end of the Sheloshim, 17 Iyar (DD)
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• Y
• Rav Yaakov Yosef (YN)
  
  
• Z
• Reb Menachem Ziemba (JO)
  
  

• The Baal Shem Tov (YN)
• The Chidoh (DD)
  
• The Kaf HaChaim (YN)
• The Maharam (YN)
• The Maharsha (YN)
• The Marharshal (YN)
• The Noda B'Yehuda (YN)
• The Rambam (YN)
• The Rif: (YN)
  
• The Sefas Emes (DD)