He was educated in
the home of his father in Brisk (Brest-Litovsk), whence his name,
but moved to Hungary and became rabbi of Tiszadada. From 1908 he was
dayyan at Marghita (now in Romania) where he founded a yeshiva.
Rabbi in Tasnad from 1919, he moved over his yeshiva, which became
the largest in Hungary and Transylvania. During World War II he and
his family were sent to the ghetto at Simleul-Silvanei, in the
Hungarian occupied northern Transylvania. From there he was deported
to his death in Auschwitz. Three volumes of his repsonsa were
published.
Bibliography:
FUCHS, Abraham. Tashnad.
Pp. 276. [1973]
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