Rav Yehuda Eizik Eliezer Hirschowitz Kerem Beis Yisroel

Rav Yitzchok Eizik Eliezer Hirschowitz was born in 5631/1871 in Libau (Liepaja), Latvia, a city influenced by neighboring Germany. His parents, Rav Aryeh and Liba Devora, saw the Haskola (Enlightenment) sweep their older children away from Yiddishkeit. Determined to save the youngest, they sent Yitzchok to the local chareidi school.

When he graduated at age fifteen, the headmaster sent him on to Telshe. He became a star talmid. In 5654/1894, he married the daughter of the Rosh Yeshiva, Rav Eliezer Gordon.

He wrote Kerem Bais Yisrael (in German with Hebrew characters), on building a Torah home. Meitav Higoyon is a collection of letters of Rav Samson Raphael Hirsch, translated into Hebrew from Gothic German.