Rav Elya Yurkanski zt"l
הרב אליה יורקנסקי זצ"ל
Cheshvan 25 , 5766
Rav Elya Yurkanski zt"l
Rav Elya Yurkanski was born in Minsk. He and two brothers were smuggled over the border to Poland, on a recommendation by the Chofetz Chaim. Rav Elya was not yet a bar mitzva and would never again see his parents. He spent almost ten years in Baranovich with Rav Elchonon Wasserman before leaving for Mir in 1929. He traveled with the Yeshiva to Shanghai and eventually joined the Yeshiva in New York, where he remained his entire life. He was a Rosh Yeshiva with Mir for over fifty-five years.
