Meyer Juzint

Rabbi Meyer Juzint (June 15, 1924 – October 3, 2001) was a talmudic scholar and faculty member of the Ida Crown Jewish Academy in Chicago, and the Hebrew Theological College in Skokie, Illinois.

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Biography

Born in Šeduva (Shaduva), Lithuania, outside of Kovno, Rabbi Juzint studied at the nearby Slabodka yeshiva until the start of World War II. As a young student, Rabbi Juzint was imprisoned at Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen. All of his family perished during the war. Following his liberation in Europe, Rabbi Juzint moved to the United States, getting a job as a Jewish educator in the late 1940s in Chicago.

From 1950 until 2000, Rabbi Juzint served as a teacher and mentor to hundreds of students throughout many years. Rabbi Juzint remained unmarried, and dedicated his life to his hundreds of students; his only relatives were cousins in Israel.

Besides being a known Talmudic scholar who is said to have had an encyclopedic knowledge of the Talmud and Bible, Rabbi Juzint was also a poet and author, having published books on Talmud and Jewish philosophy.

After his death, Juzint was buried in Israel.[1][2][3]

References
  1. http://www.bhhkmal.freeservers.com/newsletterJuly%202010.pdf
  2. http://www.juf.org/news/obit.aspx?id=10270
  3. "Rabbi Meyer Juzint, 77". Chicago Tribune. October 10, 2001.

Publications
  • Juzint, Meyer (1947). Bluṭḳe lider (First ed.). Chicago. loc 77952098.
  • Juzint, Meyer (1957). Neḥamat Meʹir (First ed.). Chicago. loc 57056648.
  • Juzint, Meyer (1960). Shire Metsar Ve-Tikvah (First ed.). Chicago. loc 64039615.
  • Juzint, Meyer. Laws pertaining to prayer and tefillin.
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