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|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>
He was a student of Rabbi [[Isser Zalman Meltzer]], from whom he received his [[Semikhah|smicha]] in 1910.<ref name=
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 one of the most revered YU/[[Rabbi_Isaac_Elchanan_Theological_Seminary|RIETS]] [[Rosh Yeshiva|Roshei Yeshiva]].<ref name=Rak> {{cite book |title=From Washington Avenue to Washington Street |isbn=9789652299857
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He also served as a synagogue rabbi in the Bronx.
Rav Poleyeff died 2 Kislev 5727 (1966); on his 25th [[Yartzeit]], a former student with whom he had ongoing correspondence,<ref name=MGifter>{{cite web
|title=Rabbi Yitzchak Rosenbaum |url=http://www.rabbis.org/news/article.cfm?id=105527
|date=Oct 13, 2010}}</ref> Rabbi [[Mordechai Gifter]], spoke in the NYC shul of son Rabbi Yisroel Poleyeff.
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