Yidele Horowitz

Yidele Horowitz was born in 1905 in Dzików

Yidele Horowitz was born in 1905 in Dzików, near Tarnobrzeg in Poland. His father was Rabbi Alter Yechezkel Eliyahu Horowitz of Dzikov, and his mother Chava was the daughter of Rabbi Yisrael Hager, Rebbe of Vizhnitz. He was raised in the home of his maternal grandfather.

He studied under Rabbi Meir Arik of Tarnów and received rabbinic ordination. In 1928 he married his cousin, the daughter of Rabbi Chaim Meir Hager of Vizhnitz. They had no children, divorced, remarried and divorced again.

He was appointed a dayan, a rabbinic judge, in Klausenberg. In 1944 he was sent to the ghetto with the Jews of Grosswardein, but escaped to Romania shortly before the deportation to Auschwitz. His father died in 1943 in Kraków-Płaszów.

In 1947 he settled in the Land of Israel, first in Tel Aviv, where he grew close to the Chazon Ish, and then in Jerusalem. He taught at the yeshiva of Rabbi Yosef Tzvi Dushinsky and refused requests to lead a Hasidic court. He paid from his dowry for the printing of the works of the Chasam Sofer.

From 1985 he lived in London, where he spent his days in study and prayer and lived an ascetic life. He died in 1989 and was buried at the Adas Yisroel cemetery in Enfield, London.