Harav Yosef Avrohom Wolf was born in 1911/5671 to Rav Pinchos Wolf and Helena (Hinda) Auerbach, daughter of Harav Aviezri Zelig Auerbach, Rav of Halberstadt. Rav Wolf studied in Germany. He married Liesl Klein, daughter of Rabbi Avrohom Yitzchok Klein, the Rav of Nuremberg. In 1939/5699 they immigrated to Eretz Yisrael and settled in Tel Aviv.
Rav Wolf first taught in the Bais Yaakov Seminaries in Yerushalayim and Tel Aviv. Later, the Chazon Ish, zt”l, invited him to oversee the Bais Yaakov Seminary in Bnei Brak. Besides expanding the seminary, he planned and implemented the curriculum. He did not allow the secular education system to influence the religious content of the seminary. He believed that material written by secular writers lacking yiras Shamayim usually includes false assumptions.
Rav Wolf was respected by all Orthodox Jewish circles in Bnei Brak. When opponents lashed out against his approach, the Vizhnitzer Rebbe, Harav Chaim Meir Hager, zt”l, defended him.
After Rav Wolf’s petirah on 4 Sivan 1979/5740, his son, Rav Zev Wolf, took over leadership of the seminary.
Rav Yosef Avrohom Wolf wrote several sefarim and kuntresim, such as Torah Umada, Hachinuch L’or Hatekufah, Neviei Emes, Toras Hanefesh and Hatekufah U’baayoseha (4 parts).
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