Wolf Gold

Rabbi Wolf Gold (Hebrew: זאב גולד, Ze'ev Gold, born February 5, 1889 in Stettin, German Reich as Zev Krawczynski, † April 8, 1956 in Jerusalem) was a rabbi, Jewish activist and was one of the signers of the Israeli Declaration of Independence.

Gold was paternal descendant of at least eight generations of rabbis. His first teacher was his maternal grandfather, Rabbi Yehoshuah Goldwasser. Later he studied at the Mir Yeshiva under Rabbi Eliyahu Baruch Kamei. Then went gold by Lida in order to attend the Yeshiva Torah Vo'Da'as to study - Yeshiva of Rabbi Isaac Jacob Reines, where Torah were connected with secular studies. At the age of 17 he was finally ordained by Eliezer Rabinowitz of Minsk as a rabbi and then inherited the office of his father, Rabbi Moshe Reichler, as a rabbi in Juteka.

At 18 he went to the United States, where he served as rabbi in several communities, including in South Chicago, Scranton, Pennsylvania (up to 1912), the Congregation Beth Jacob Ohev Sholom in Williamsburg, Brooklyn ( 1912-1919 ), San Francisco ( until 1924 ) and the Congregation Shomrei Emunah in Borough Park, Brooklyn ( until 1935 ). He was among the first who established the Orthodox Judaism in the United States; in 1917 he founded the Williamsburg Talmud Torah and Yeshiva Torah Vodaas. In addition, he opened the Beth Moshe Hospital and an orphanage in Brooklyn and founded in San Francisco a Collge, are formed in the teacher of Hebrew.

1914 Gold invited Rabbi Meir Berlin, Secretary of the World Mizrachi Organization, to New York to organize a branch of the Mizrachi in the U.S.. The next 40 years traveled Rabbi Gold by the United States and Canada to set up local chapters of the Mizrachi movement, and in 1932 became the president of the American Mizrachi.

In 1935 he emigrated to Palestine, where he became head of the "Department for Torah Education and Culture in the Diaspora ", in which capacity he was instrumental in the establishment of new training facilities within the diaspora and in particular dedicated the educational needs of North American Jews. During the Second World War he was involved in the widespread Zionist opposition against the British White Paper of 1939 and helped to preserve European Jews from the Holocaust. In 1943 he traveled to the USA where he participated as a speaker on behalf of the European Jews during the march of the rabbi in Washington.

He served as vice president in the Israeli Provisional State Council and signed the Israeli Declaration of Independence in 1948. He was a member of the founding committee of the Bar - Ilan University, which opened in 1955. Gold died on April 8, 1956 in Jerusalem, and in addition to his lifelong friend Rabbi Meir Berlin was buried.