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1868-1935

Rabbi Yitzchak Simcha HaLevi Hurewitz

Rabbi Yitzchak Simcha HaLevi Hurewitz was born in Kaunas, Lithuania on 9 Oct 1868 to Rabbi Yosef Dov HaLevi Hurewitz. Rabbi Hurewitz was supposed to be a rabbi in Washington, D. C. but on his way he approached a fellow rabbi in Hartford and the rabbi said they opened a new shul and they don't have a rabbi, so Rabbi Hurewitz accepted the position in Hartford. Rabbi Hurewitz was a rabbi at 3 synagogues in Hartford including Agudas Achim, Beth Hamedrash Hagadol and Shaare Torah. He stayed in Harford for over 40 years. Before he was a Rabbi in Hartford he lived in Canada for a few months. In 1926 Rabbi Hurewitz published a Sefor (Book) in Israel called Sefor Ha-Mitzvot. Rabbi Hurewitz was planning on publishing a 2nd volume of his Sefor but never got around to it. Rabbi Hurewitz was buried in the Beth Midrash Hagadol Cemetery in Hartford, people believed that he was reburied in the Mount of Olives Cemetery in Israel but this information was proven false when they checked cemetery records to see, it turned out that he was still buried in Beth Midrash Hagadol Cemetery. He left behind his wife Chaya Aronson Hurewitz and his children Dr. Herman Max Hurwitz, Rebecca Hurewitz Feldman, Anna Hurewitz Goldstein, Rachel H Hurewitz Gans, Lena B Hurewitz, Joseph Bernard Hurewitz, Jacob Coleman Hurewitz, Samuel Meyer Hurewitz. Rabbi Hurewitz had a very close relationship with his daughter Rose and her husband David Zelcer, with having over 150 letters written by Rabbi Hurewitz to his daughter and son in law. Rabbi Hurewitz passed away on 30 Dec 1935 at the young age of 67.