Leib Gurwicz
Rabbi Leib Gurwicz | |
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| Title | Gateshead Rosh Yeshiva |
| Personal life | |
| Born | Aryeh Ze'ev Kushelevsky 1906 |
| Died | 20 October 1982 (aged 75–76) |
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| Alma mater | Mir yeshiva (Poland) |
| Religious life | |
| Religion | Judaism |
| Jewish leader | |
| Predecessor | Rabbi Nachman Dovid Landinski |
| Successor | Rabbi Avrohom Gurwicz |
| Position | Rosh yeshiva |
| Yeshiva | Gateshead Talmudical College |
Aryeh Ze'ev (Leib) Gurwicz (1906–20 October 1982) was an influential Orthodox rabbi and Talmudic scholar. He was the son-in-law of Rabbi Elyah Lopian and best known as Rosh Yeshiva of the Gateshead Yeshiva in Gateshead, England, where he taught for over 30 years.
He studied at various yeshivas in Lithuania and Poland before moving to England to get married in 1932.