Born in Nabolnik, Lithuania, Rabbi Abramowitz moved to Jerusalem in 1872 and studied at Yeshivat Etz Chaim. In 1902, he came to America and served as a rabbi in Philadelphia and New York. He was one of the founders of the Agudath HaRabbonim of America. He compiled seforim in both drush and halakhah and published a journal entitled Beit Vaad LaChachomim which included Batei Ulphana L’Talmud, Rabbi Abramowitz's stirring call for the establishment of yeshivot in the New World.
A man of words and of deeds, he is numbered among the founders of Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary. In 1915, he was appointed rabbi in St. Louis. In 1921, he returned to Jerusalem where he passed away.
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