Zvi Hirsh Broide


Zvi Hirsh Broide, ) was a leading Talmudic scholar who served as Rav of the town of Salant. He was the first rebbi of Rabbi Yisrael Salanter.

Biography

His brother's name was Nachum Broide. Their father's name was Rabbi Arie Leib Broide, rabbi of Lvov and their mother was Chana, daughter of Rabbi Tzvi Hirsch Orenstein.

Namesake

He had a namesake, the son in law of the Rabbi Simcha Zissel Ziv, the Alter of Kelm, was later the Rosh Yeshiva of the Kelm Yeshiva and the teacher of Rabbi Eliyahu Eliezer Dessler.

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