Shraga Moshe Kalmanowitz

Kalmanowitz was born in Rakov, Poland,^[2] to Avraham Kalmanowitz, the rabbi of the town, and Rochel Cohen, the daughter of Betzalel Hakohen, a dayan (rabbinical court judge) in Vilna.^{[citation needed]} He had the brothers^[3][4] and two sisters.^{[citation needed]}

At the age of 10, Kalmanowitz began studying at the Mir yeshiva in Mir, Belarus, and later studied at the Kaminetz Yeshiva led by Baruch Ber Leibowitz.^[2] He came to the United States with his mother and siblings in 1941^[5] (his father had immigrated a year earlier^[6]) and studied at both Yeshiva Torah Vodaas and Beth Medrash Elyon.^[2][7]

After his marriage, Kalmanowitz became a maggid shiur in the Mir Yeshiva in Brooklyn.^[7] Upon the death of his father in 1964, he and his brother-in-law, Shmuel Berenbaum, assumed the roles of roshei yeshiva.^[8][9] He followed his father's lead in overseeing the education of Sephardi North African students at the Mir Yeshiva. He was also close with Sephardi organizations in New York City; he was one of the speakers at the grand opening of the mikveh of the Sephardi Brooklyn community on Avenue S.^[10]

Kalmanowitz died on April 16, 1998 (20 Nisan 5758) in New York.^[2] He was buried beside his father's grave in the Sanhedria Cemetery in Jerusalem.^[11] His wife Malka Kalmanowitz died in 2020.^[11]

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