“Talmudist” - Rabbi of Kobryn, Poland.

GROSSMAN, ELIAS M.

1931.

Signed, dated and noted “Edition 25,” along with a charming self-portrait, lower center. Framed.

Elias M. Grossman (1898-1947) was born in Kobryn and immigrated with his family to the United States as a child. Years later on a lengthy return visit to his longed-for childhood home in Poland he composed the present image of the famed Rabbi Pesach Pruskin (1879-1939), Chief Rabbi and principal of the celebrated Yeshiva of Kobryn. R. Pesach Pruskin studied under the tutelage of the Chofetz Chaim, the Alter of Slobodka and the Alter of Kelm. Reb Pesach’s next stop was as a member of the ‘Yad Chazakah’ - the 14 students selected to go with R. Isser Zalman Meltzer to establish a yeshiva in Slutsk. Eventually he served in Shklov and when the Bolsheviks took over Russia, he escaped and returned to his native Kobryn.