Rabbi Shlomo Wahrman (Hebrew: הרב שלמה הלוי וואהרמאן) was the Rosh HaYeshiva of the Hebrew Academy of Nassau County and a Torah scholar. He authored thirteen books and hundreds of articles on matters related to Jewish law, Talmudic analysis, and Jewish history.
Leipzig (1927–1939) Rabbi Shlomo Wahrman was born and raised in Leipzig, Germany. In 1939, at the age of twelve, he and his Polish-born parents and his siblings received American visas.
Rabbi Wahrman concluded his book, Lest We Forget: Growing up in Nazi Leipzig 1933-1939, with the following words:
All these events have delivered a powerful message to me. Any Jewish city anywhere could potentially suffer Leipzig’s fate, chas v’shalom. There is no safety and security for us in galus, even in a democracy. The German Weimar Republic was a democracy, yet it could not prevent the emergence of a Hitler. When the anti-Semites so decreed, Leipzig, a city of 18,000 Jews, became Judenrein.
Cincinnati (1940–1955) Soon after arriving in New York, Rabbi Wahrman's family moved to Cincinnati, Ohio, where he grew close to Rabbi Eliezer Silver, about whom he wrote a short biography </ref> Wahrman studied at several different yeshivas in the United States, including the Beth Medrash Govoha in Lakewood, New Jersey.
After marrying Sarah Malka Herskovitz, an orphaned refugee who arrived in the United States after surviving the Holocaust, Wahrman went to Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan, where he received a master's degree in education.
New York (1955–2013) He later became rosh yeshiva (dean) of Hebrew Academy of Nassau County (HANC) and authored over a dozen books.
The Shoah Foundation interviewed Wahrman and his wife in 1997 about their experiences in Germany before, and during, WWII.
Writings
In addition to numerous articles printed under a pseudonym in various Torah journals, he wrote a series of in-depth analyses of Torah topics called She'eris Yosef.
For decades he was a regular contributor to Torah journals including Ohr HaMizrach, HaMaor, HaPardes, and HaDarom.
References
External links
Words of Appreciation by Rabbi Daniel Z. Feldman
YUTorah Lecture
Yeshiva World News Obituary
Matzav.com Obituary
1926 births
2013 deaths
20th-century American male writers
American Orthodox rabbis
Jewish emigrants from Nazi Germany to the United States
Rabbis from New York (state) Writers from Leipzig 20th-century American rabbis 21st-century American rabbis