Name Mike Tress | ||
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Died July 9, 1967, New York City, New York, United States | ||
Elimelech Gavriel "Mike" Tress (1909 – July 9, 1967) was the national president of Agudath Israel of America from the 1940s until his death. He was a major figure in the movement's expansion and its chief lay leader until his death.
His life and work are the subject of a biography, They Called Him Mike: Reb Elemelech Tress: His Era, Hatzalah, and the Building of an American Orthodoxy, by Yonason Rosenblum (Mesorah Publications, 1995, ISBN 0-89906-623-2).
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