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Avraham Eliyahu Mokotow (22 March 1912 – 7 February 1976), better known as Eliyahu Kitov, was a Rabbi, educator, and community activist. ==Biography== His younger years were spent in the town of Opole Lubelskie, where he learned in a ''cheder'' and a ''beis midrash''. Most of his education was from his father, R. Michel, who was a Chassid, a close student of Rabbi Zadok HaCohen of Lublin, and had a great influence in forming his personality. At the age of 17, he left Opole Lubelskie and moved back to Warsaw. There he studied in a ''beis midrash'', worked at backbreaking jobs, while also doing public work for Agudath Israel of Poland. In his capacity as an educator, he gave lectures in Talmud, Tanach and Jewish thought. At that time, he also worked on a volunteer basis in secular Jewish schools for abandoned children, until his ''Aliyah'' to Israel in 1936. He married a sister of Rabbi Alexander Zusia Friedman, an activist for the Agudath Israel of Poland.〔Seidman, Dr. Hillel. "The Warsaw Ghetto Diaries". Southfield, Michigan:Targum Press, 1997, p. 341. ISBN 1-56871-133-6.〕 Upon his immigration to Israel, he worked in construction. As a Chareidi Jew, he was extremely dissatisfied with the terrible conditions the Chareidi workers experienced, and helped establish the Union of Agudath Israel workers (''Poalei Agudat Yisrael''). In addition to its concern for finding steady work for its members, this group eventually established cooperative factories of its own, in the fields of construction and industry. Rav Kitov engaged in this endeavor on a volunteer basis, alongside his own work in construction. In 1941, he established a school for ''Chareidi'' children, where he served as principal for about eight years. At the same time, he became very involved with public affairs, editing the ''Poalei Agudat Yisrael'' newspaper, ''HaKol'' (Voice'' ). In this journal, he published hundreds of articles, under various names, on a wide variety of subjects. In these writings, one can discern the budding of his writing capabilities that were to follow in his many books later on. In 1954, eighteen years after he immigrated to Israel, he left politics and public works and began to write full-time. Despite a lack of funds, he established a small publishing house called ''Aleph Institute Publications'' (now ''Yad Eliyahu Kitov''), through which he published his various books. From then until the end of his life, some twenty years, his main activity was writing and editing. However, at times he would get involved in education: giving guidance to teachers, lectures and publishing articles, mostly in the United States. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Eliyahu Kitov」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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