Rav Yaakov Moshe Mordechai Soloveitchik of Lucerne zt"l
הרב יעקב משה מרדכי בן ישראל גרשון סולובייצ'יק זצ"ל
Iyar 19 , 5755
Father's Name: Yisrael Gershon Soloveitchik
Rav Yaakov Moshe Mordechai Soloveitchik of Lucerne zt"l
Rav Yaakov Moshe Mordechai Soloveitchik of Lucerne (1915-1995). His father was Rav Yisrael Gershon Soloveitchik, son of Rav Chaim Soloveitchik of Brisk. Soon after his Bar Mitzvah, he traveled to Kamenitz to study under Rav Baruch Ber Leibowitz. He fled Poland to evade the draft, along with Rav Ahron Leib Shteinman, and the two stayed in Switzerland until the end of World War II. After the war, they traveled to Eretz Yisrael and studied at the Lomza Yeshiva in Petach Tikva, where he shared a room with Rav Chaim Kanievsky. He moved to Lugano and then Lucerne to head a Yeshiva and married Rivka Ruchama, daughter of Rav Shmuel Zanvil Neuman.
