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{{Infobox person
| name = Moshe Aharon Poleyeff
| image = Moshe Aharon Poleyeff.png
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| birth_date = {{birth year|1888}}
| birth_place = [[Timkovitz]], Belarus
| death_date = {{death year and age|1966|1888}}<ref>The main YU/RIETS archive incorrectly says 1967; see TALK page</ref>
| death_place = [[New York City
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|url=https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/nhregister/obituary.aspx?n=sarah-feidelson-goldstein%26pid=184101500%26fhid=4186 |title=Sara Feidelson Goldstein, 94|website=[[Legacy.com]] }}</ref>
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'''Moshe Aharon Poleyeff''' (1888
|title=Rav Hershel Schachter Featured Speaker at 30th Yartzeit of HaGaon Rav Moshe Aharon Poleyeff zt"l: To be held at Cong. Ahavath Achim, Brooklyn, Wed. 2 Kislev (Nov. 13) |date=November 1, 1996 |page=87}}</ref> training generations of rabbis, including [[Mordechai Gifter]].
==Biography==
|url=https://www.yu.edu/riets/about/mission-history/historic-roshei/moshe-aaron-poleyeff
|title=HaRav HaGaon R. Moshe Aharon Poleyeff ZT"L, 1888-1967 |website=YU.edu}}</ref><ref>see TALK page re "1967" (vs. 1966, the documented date. The Hesped was Dec. 5, 1966; passing was Nov. 15, 1966.</ref> (White Russia).<ref name=Yar30HSchachter/>
He was a student of Rabbi [[Isser Zalman Meltzer]],
Poleyeff arrived in the United States in 1920, and immediately began a teaching career at Yeshiva University in New York, where for about 46 years he was
|author=Rabbi [[Aaron Rakeffet-Rothkoff]] |date=2011}}</ref> and had thousands of students.<ref name=YUarc/> His "''Thursday Shiur''" teaching methodology incorporated a student-presented topic, followed by discussion; he helped the student prepare the prior week or two.<ref name=Yar30HSchachter/>
Poleyeff died 2 Kislev 5727 (November 1966).
==Works==
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|title=Warsaw 1930, Machaneh Yisroel, Moshe Aaron Poleyeff, Vintage Yeshiva University Judaica}}</ref><ref>{{cite book
|title=Sefer MaChaNeh Yisroel, Volume 2
|url=https://books.google.com/books
* Be'er Avraham<ref>{{cite book
|title=Be'er Avraham
|url=https://books.google.com/books
* Ohr HaShemesh<ref>{{cite book
|title= Sefer Or ha-shemesh. Kovets Hadoshim u-ve'urim ba-Sugiyot ha-Shas, Rambam u-Poskim
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|url=https://www.abebooks.com/book-search/title/orach-mishor}}</ref><ref>{{cite book
|title=Orach mishor |author=Moses A. Poleyeff
|url=https://
|date=1949}}</ref>
==References==
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* ''From Washington Avenue to Washington Street'', by Aaron Rakefet-Rothkoff. Gefen Publishing House, 2011 ({{ISBN|9652299855}} and 9789652299857).
* ''Rebbi: The Memoirs of Rabbi Moshe Aharon Poleyeff'' (1995) {{cite book
|title=Rebbi: The Memoirs of Rabbi Moshe Aharon Poleyeff
|url=https://books.google.com/books
==External links==
* [https://www.yu.edu/riets/about/mission-history/historic-roshei/moshe-aaron-poleyeff YU archive article]
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