Rabbi David Weiss Halivni (Hebrew דוד הלבני) (born 1927) is an American Israeli world-acclaimed scholar in the domain of Jewish Sciences and professor of Talmud, born in Carpathian Ruthenia.
David Weiss was born in the small town Kobyletzka Poliana (Кобилецька Поляна, Poiana Cobilei, Gergyanliget) in Carpathian Ruthenia, then in Czechoslovakia (now in Rakhivski district, in Ukraine). His parents separated when he was 4 years old, and he grew up i...
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Rabbi David Weiss Halivni (Hebrew דוד הלבני) (born 1927) is an American Israeli world-acclaimed scholar in the domain of Jewish Sciences and professor of Talmud, born in Carpathian Ruthenia.
David Weiss was born in the small town Kobyletzka Poliana (Кобилецька Поляна, Poiana Cobilei, Gergyanliget) in Carpathian Ruthenia, then in Czechoslovakia (now in Rakhivski district, in Ukraine). His parents separated when he was 4 years old, and he grew up in the home of his grandfather, a Talmud scholar in Sziget, Romania. During the Holocaust, at age 16 he was deported to Auschwitz. After a week he was transferred to a forced labor camp, Gross-Rosen, then to Wolfsburg, and later to Mauthausen camp and was the only member of his family to survive.
When he arrived in the United States at the age of 18, he was placed in a Jewish orphanage where he created a stir by challenging the kashrut of the institution since the supervising rabbi did not have a beard and, more importantly, was not fluent in...
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