Shmuel Brudny

Shmuel Brudny was an Orthodox Jewish rabbi in New York in the mid-twentieth century. He served as a maggid shiur in the Mir Yeshiva in Brooklyn.

Early life

Brudny was born in August 1915 to Rabbi Elya and Basya Brudny in Smarhon', Russia (now in Belarus), during World War I. He studied in the Ashminer Yeshiva (a branch of the Novardok Yeshiva) and at the age of fourteen was accepted into the Rameilles Yeshiva of Vilna. He remained in Rameilles for three years before transferring to the Mir Yeshiva in 1932, where he was referred to as "the prodigy from Smarhon" and was given privileged treatment, receiving extra money from the rosh yeshiva (dean), Eliezer Yehudah Finkel.

Death and legacy

Brudny died on February 15, 1981. His children include Elya Brudny. Eliezer Ginsburg succeeded him as rabbi in the Agudah synagogue.

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