kvmexpert.blogg.se

He wrote memoirs in Hebrew including: Joman geto Lwow (1978) translated as the Lvov Ghetto Diary (1990) as well as the Achre(j) ha-mabul (1968). He returned to Israel in 1975 and settled in Tel Aviv. In 1967–1975 he resided in Argentina and served as Chief Rabbi of that country. In Israel, he became the Chief Rabbi of the Air Force. Following the liquidation of the Polish Army field rabbinate in 1949, Kahane left the army and emigrated to Israel. Kahane protested against acts of antisemitism in Poland, including at the funeral of the victims of the Kielce pogrom. After the Soviet takeover, in 1944 he joined the Polish People's Army in the rank of Major, and appointed chief Rabbi in 1945. He survived the Holocaust in the General Government District of Galicia. Two months after the liquidation of the Lvov ghetto, in September 1943 Kahane and 15 other Jews sheltered in Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky's home in Lvov. Deported to Janowska concentration camp, he escaped on 23 April 1943 and went into hiding on the 'Aryan' side. Prior to his deportment to Janowska concentration camp in August 1942, he managed to secure a hiding place for his three-year-old daughter.

His parents were murdered in Bełżec extermination camp in 1941. įollowing the Nazi Operation Barbarossa and the conquest of Lwów, he was interned in the Lwów Ghetto and was active in the local religious department. He also served as director of scientific Tanakh institute locally.

Subsequently, he was appointed Rabbi of Tykocin, and in 1929–1939 the Rabbi in Ose Tow Synagogue of Lwów. He made his living as a religious teacher. Upon his return to Poland, Kahane joined the Mizrachi party in Lwów. In 1923–1929, following the reconstitution of sovereign Poland, he continued his studies at the University of Vienna where he obtained the title of Doctor of Philosophy in Israelitisch-Theologische Lehranstalt. He studied in Berlin and in Wrocław (then Breslau). Kahane was born in Grzymałów, partitioned Poland (now Hrymailiv, Ukraine) into a religious family of the Rabbis. He was also the Chief Rabbi of the Israeli air force, and Chief Rabbi of Argentina between 19. David Kahane (Hebrew: דוד כהנא‎, Polish language: Dawid Kahane 15 March 1903 – 24 September 1998) was a Polish-Jewish religious teacher, doctor of philosophy, member of the Mizrachi party in Lwów and Chief Rabbi of the Polish Army.