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{{short description|American rabbi}}
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|name = Nisson Alpert
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|birth_date = {{birth year |1927}}
|birth_place = Polanka, [[Second Polish Republic|Poland]]
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|death_place = [[New York City]]
|buried = Har Hazeisim, Jerusalem
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'''Nisson Alpert''' (1927 – May 25, 1986) was an American [[rabbi]] who was [[Rosh Yeshiva]] at the [[Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary]].
==Biography==
Nisson Lipa Alpert was born in 1927 in Polanka,<ref>Several places called [[Polanka (disambiguation)|Polanka]] have articles in English Wiki, and there are [[:pl:Polanka|even more]] in Polish Wiki. It is unclear which was Alpert's birthplace, and records may no longer exist.</ref> a small [[shtetl]] in Poland. He was named after his maternal grandfather Nisson Lipa Joselowitz, rosh yeshiva in Lazday, Poland, and later the rabbi of Polanka. His father Rabbi Shabsai Alpert was a student of the Mir Yeshiva and cousin of the Rabbi [[Yisrael Meir Kagan]], the Chofetz Chaim.<ref>per Weinberger, Rabbi Alpert's son-in-law. Note that the YU Online biography has him listed as the Chofetz Chaim's nephew.</ref> His mother was Guta Yachne Joselowitz. He had three sisters: Rita, Sarah, and Freida.
Alpert's father decided to move his family to the United States, and traveled there ahead of his family. However, World War II broke out before everyone could come. In December 1939, his mother and family crossed the border to Lithuania. Rebbetzin Alpert obtained one of the first transit visas from [[Chiune Sugihara]], and crossed Russia with the family to Japan. From there they traveled to San Francisco, and finally to the [[Lower East Side]] of [[New York City]].
Although Alpert arrived in America at the age of 12 with no knowledge of English, he graduated [[Washington Irving High School (New York City)|Washington Irving High School]] as valedictorian of his class. He learned at [[Mesivtha Tifereth Jerusalem]], where he became a very close disciple of Rabbi [[Moshe Feinstein]].
Alpert was one of the founders of [[Peylim]].<ref>{{cite book
| last = Weinberger
| first = Dovid
| authorlink =
|author2=Dovid Hojda
| title = Rabbi Nison Alpert on the Sidrah
| publisher = Mesorah Publications, LTD
| year = 2006
| location =
| pages = 13–17
| isbn =978-1-4226-0201-0}}</ref>
He first was rabbi of the East Third Street Shul in the Lower East Side, and later became the rav of Agudath Israel of Long Island. In 1967, he was appointed as a [[Rosh Yeshiva]] at the [[Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary]], before becoming the first Rosh [[Kollel]] of its Kollel L’Horaah— Yadin-Yadin. He was a great Torah scholar.
In 1983, the Alperts suffered the sudden loss of their 19-year-old son Yishaya Mendel.
A resident of [[Far Rockaway, Queens]], Alpert died at the age of 58 on May 25, 1986.<ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/1986/05/29/obituaries/nisson-alpert-58-a-scholar-at-rabbi-elchanan-seminary.html "Nisson Alpert, 58, a Scholar At Rabbi Elchanan Seminary"], ''[[The New York Times]]'', May 29, 1986. Accessed March 7, 2024. "Prof. Nisson Alpert, a noted rabbinical scholar at the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary, an affiliate of Yeshiva University, died of cancer Monday at his daughter's home in Queens. He was 58 years old and lived in Far Rockaway, Queens."</ref><ref>{{cite book
| last = Teller
| first = Hanoch
| authorlink =
| title = Sunset
| publisher = Feldheim Publishers
| year = 1987
| location =
| pages = 75
| isbn =0-9614772-2-9}}</ref> about two months after the passing of his mentor, Rabbi Moshe Feinstein. He is buried on [[Mount of Olives|Har Hazeisim]] in [[Jerusalem]].<ref>[http://www.yutorah.org/bio.cfm/80006/Rabbi_Nisson_Lippa_Alpert YU Torah Online : Bio<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>
==Writings==
* Beit Habechirah of the Meiri on Bava Metzia.<ref>{{cite web
|url= http://www.yu.edu/riets/index.aspx?id=24114&ekmensel=51b41ad4_2186_2194_23718_2
|title= Historic Roshei Yeshiva, HaRav Hagaon R. Nisson Lippa Alpert zt"l
|accessdate= 2009-12-13
|publisher= Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary}}</ref>
* Commentary of the Raavad on Bava Metzia.
* Limmudei Nissan on the Torah and on Tractate Beitzah.
==Notes==
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==References==
* {{cite web
|url=http://www.yutorah.org/lectures/lecture.cfm/741320/Rabbi_Menachem_Genack/Remembering_Rav_Nissin_Alpert
|title=Remembering Rav Nissin Alpert
|author=Rabbi [[Menachem Genack]]
|accessdate= 2010-03-19
|publisher= YUTorah.org}}
{{YU Roshei Yeshiva}}
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[[Category:1920s births]]
[[Category:1986 deaths]]
[[Category:Yeshiva University rosh yeshivas]]
[[Category:20th-century American rabbis]]
[[Category:Jews who emigrated to escape Nazism]]
[[Category:Burials at the Jewish cemetery on the Mount of Olives]]
[[Category:People from Far Rockaway, Queens]]
[[Category:People from the Lower East Side]]
[[Category:Sugihara's Jews]]
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