Shimon Schwab
American rabbi
Died when: 86 years 45 days (1033 months)Star Sign: Capricorn
Shimon (Simon) Schwab (December 30, 1908 – February 13, 1995) was an Orthodox rabbi and communal leader in Germany and the United States.Educated in Frankfurt am Main and in the yeshivot of Lithuania, he was rabbi in Ichenhausen, Bavaria, after immigration to the United States in Baltimore, and from 1958 until his death at Khal Adath Jeshurun in Washington Heights, Manhattan.
He was an ideologue of Agudath Israel of America, specifically defending the Torah im Derech Eretz approach to Jewish life.
He wrote several popular works of Jewish thought.
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