Shraga Moshe Kalmanowitz

His wife Rebbetzin Malka Kalmanowitz passed away in the year 2020.

Kalmanowitz died on April 16, 1998 (20 Nisan 5758) in New York. His body was flown to Israel for burial beside his father's grave in the Sanhedria Cemetery in Jerusalem. He was predeceased by her daughter, Mrs. Maita Rosenblum a”h and Rebbetzin Rochel Henya Spitzer a”h.

After his marriage, Kalmanowitz became a maggid shiur in the Mir Yeshiva in Brooklyn. Upon the death of his father in 1964, he and his brother-in-law, Shmuel Berenbaum, assumed the roles of roshei yeshiva. He followed his father's lead in overseeing the education of Sephardi North African students at the Mir Yeshiva. He was also close with Sephardi organizations in New York City; he was one of the speakers at the grand opening of the mikveh of the Sephardi Brooklyn community on Avenue S.

At the age of 10, Kalmanowitz began studying at the Mir yeshiva in Mir, Belarus, and later studied at the Kaminetz Yeshiva led by Baruch Ber Leibowitz. He came to the United States with his mother and siblings in 1941 (his father had immigrated a year earlier) and studied at both Yeshiva Torah Vodaas and Beth Medrash Elyon.

Shraga Moshe Kalmanowitz (Hebrew: שרגא משה קלמנוביץ; May 15, 1918 – April 16, 1998) was a Polish-American Orthodox rabbi. He was a rosh yeshiva (dean) of the Mir Yeshiva in Brooklyn, New York , from 1964 to 1998.

Shraga Moshe Kalmanowitz was born in Rakov, Poland, to Avraham Kalmanowitz (1891–1964), the Rav of the town. His mother (Rochel) was the daughter of Betzalel Hakohen, a dayan (rabbinical court judge) in Vilna and author of the Talmudic commentary Mareh Kohen, which appears in all printed editions of the Talmud. He was the eldest of three brothers; he also had two sisters.