Rabbi Yekusiel Raphael Hurwitz
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Rav, Beth Medrash Hagodol VâTomchai Torah, Bronx, New YorkDate of Death:
Sat. August 11, 1945 -
Elul 2 5705
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Directions to Kever: Mount Carmel Cemetery in Glendale, Queens maintains computerized records and will provide a detailed location map upon request. Location: Section: 1 (office side), Block: E, Map: 57, Society: Beis Midrash Hagodol of the Bronx, see map pictures below.
Name Listed on Cemetery Database: HURWITZ, RAPHAEL
Biographical Notes:
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Rav Yekusiel Raphael Hurwitz was born and raised in Novardok and studied in the Volozhin Yeshiva, Etz Chaim, until it closed in 1892. The Rav was a cousin and close friend of Rav Shlomo Polachek better known as the Maitcheteter (Maichater) Illui.
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In the following years, Rabbi and Mrs. Hurwitz established a Benjamin Hurwitz Memorial Prize to be awarded to an outstanding student in the Teachers Institute of Yeshiva University. They also donated funds to publish a Hebrew scholarly journal called Chorev. This journal, which was funded by the Benjamin Hurwitz Foundation, was published biannually by Yeshiva College (now Yeshiva University). Its first editor, in 1935, was Dr. Pinchos Churgin, later the first President of Bar-Ilan University in Israel. (Bar-Ilan’s second President was Rabbi Dr. Emanuel Rackman who had been a classmate of Benjamin Hurwitz.) Chorev is no longer published but the Benjamin Hurwitz Memorial Prize is still awarded each year.
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He was not a Shul Rabbi. Please correct. I am his granddaughter.
His uncle was Rav Yitzchak Simcha Hurewitz of Hartford, Conn.