Avraham Yoffen (or Jofen; 1887 - April 19, 1970), also known as "Avraham Pinsker"[1][2] was a rabbi, son-in-law to Yosef Yozel Horowitz, the Alter of Novardok and director of Novardok Yeshiva. He fled to the U.S. at the outbreak of World War II and opened a yeshivainBorough Park. In 1962 he moved to and founded a kollel in Jerusalem.[3]
Yoffen supervised a network of satellite yeshivas in pre-World War II Poland and Ukraine, all named Yeshiva Bais Yosef. He used this name for the yeshiva he founded in Borough Park.[4]
In Europe, for a while, Yoffen had the assistance of Rabbi Gershon Liebman.
Yoffen was arrested by the Russian government[5] in 1921, along with some of his students. Two years later he went back to Poland.[1]
He was buried on Har HaMenuchot among numerous famous rabbis.
rosh yeshiva of the Novardok Yeshiva in Bialystok, Poland; New York and Yerushalayim
..Avraham Yoffen, dean of the Bais Yosef yeshiva in Europe and America.
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Rabbi Avraham Yoffen Rosh Yeshiva of Novardok and rabbi of the 'Steipler'.
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