# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/elchonon-wasserman
# Generated: 2026-08-14T01:59:51.857Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/elchonon-wasserman"
name: "Elchonon Wasserman"
slug: "elchonon-wasserman"
description: "Rabbi Elchonon Bunim Wasserman was a prominent rabbi and rosh yeshiva (dean) in prewar Europe. He was one of the closest students of Rabbi Yisrael Meir Kagan and a noted Talmid Chacham. In the interwar period, he served as rosh yeshiva of Yeshiva Ohel Torah-Baranovich. He was murdered during the Holocaust."
tagline: "Belarusian Orthodox rabbi and rosh yeshiva (1874–1941)"
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gender: "male"
birthDate: "1875"
deathDate: "1941-07-06"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  historical:           9.248492
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  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  40
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump