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Burack
Burack is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Ahron Dovid Burack (1892â1960), Lithuanian-American rabbi * Zahava Burack (1932â2001), American philanthropist See also *Barack (name) Barack, also spelled Barak or Baraq, is a given name of Arabic origin. From the Semitic root ''B-R-K'', it means "blessed" and is most commonly used in its feminine form ''Baraka(h)''. The Semitic root ''B-R-K'' has the original meaning of "to kn ... {{Short pages monitor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zahava Burack
Zahava Burack (nÊe Radza, December 14, 1932 â September 28, 2001) was a Jewish Holocaust survivor from Poland who went on to become a well-known philanthropist, community leader and political activist in the United States. During her childhood, she survived the Holocaust by hiding with her family in a crawlspace beneath the home of a Polish Catholic family for two and a half years. After the liberation of occupied Poland in 1945, she was smuggled to Israel, where she lived for twelve years, two of which she spent serving with the Haganah paramilitary organization. In 1958, Burack moved to the United States, where she worked with both American and Israeli politicians for Jewish causes. Surviving the Holocaust Zahava Burack was born in 1932 in the shtetl of Nowy Korczyn, Poland, to Louis and Gitla Radza. Louis was a juice manufacturer. Burack had three sisters, Rita, Miriam and Sarah. In 1942, at the age of 9, Burack, her parents, and her sisters Miriam and Sarah were forced ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ahron Dovid Burack
Ahron Dovid Burack (also known as Aaron David or Ahron David; he, ×××¨× ××× ××ר×ק; 16 May 1892 â 7 October 1960) was a Lithuanian-American rabbi and rosh yeshivah. Early life and education Ahron Dovid Burack was born in Popelan (now Papile) in Kovno Governorate, Lithuania, on 16 May 1892Schwartz J., Kaye S.A., and Simons, J., eds. ''Who's Who in World Jewry''. (p. 149) Jewish Biographical Bureau. 1933."YU Torah Online: Our Speakers: Rabbi Ahron Dovid Burack", http://www.yutorah.org/speakers/speaker.cfm?teacherId=80035, accessed 12 October 2008. to Chaim Natan Burack and Basse Gittel Gibberman. As a young man in Lithuania, he studied at Yeshivas Knesses Yisrael (Slabodka) near Kaunas and at the Telshe Yeshiva near Telsiai, where he was ordained by Rabbi Yosef Leib Bloch.Sherman, Moshe D., ''Orthodox Judaism in America'', Westport, Connecticut:Greenwood Press, 1996, pp.41-43. https://books.google.com/books?id=cgMCSrDxKGAC&pg=PA41&dq=burack&sig=ACfU3U2WBiPVbdqyqNVs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |