Meyer Juzint

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Meyer Juzint, (June 15, 1924 - October 3, 2006). Rabbi Meyer Juzint was a talmudic scholar and faculty member of the Ida Crown Jewish Academy in Chicago, and the Hebrew Theological College in Skokie, IL.

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Born in Shaduva, Lithuania, a small village outside of Kovno, Rabbi Juzint studied at the nearby Slabodka Yeshiva until the start of World War II. As a young student, Rabbi Juzint was imprisoned at Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen. All of his family perished during World War II. Following his liberation from Europe, Rabbi Juzint moved to the United States, getting a job as a Jewish educator in the late 1940's in Chicago.

From 1950 until 2000, Rabbi Juzint served as a teacher and mentor to hundreds of students throughout the many years. Rabbi Juzint remained unmarried, and dedicated his life to his hundreds of students, his only relatives were cousins in Israel.

Besides being a tremendous talmudic scholar, with an encyclopedic knowledge of the Talmud and Bible, Rabbi Juzint was a poet. Rabbi Juzint published a book on his insights into the Talmud and Jewish Philosophy.

Rabbi Juzint was buried in Israel, and is remembered by his many students living and teaching throughout the world.

[edit] References

1. Obituary in JUF News http://www.juf.org/news/obit.aspx?id=10270

Persondata
NAME	Juzint, Meyer
ALTERNATIVE NAMES
SHORT DESCRIPTION	Great Orthodox Jewish Rabbi of the 20th century
DATE OF BIRTH	1929
PLACE OF BIRTH	Poland
DATE OF DEATH	October 3, 2006
PLACE OF DEATH	Chicago, IL