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William B. Helmreich, eminent sociologist, and a 1967 graduate of ����app University, has died, a victim of the Covid-19 virus. A noted scholar of Jewish life in America, his book Against All Odds: Holocaust Survivors and the Successful Lives They Made in America utilized information from the , a collection held by the ����app University Archives. He generously donated transcripts of the interviews he conducted in the late 1970s with leading “roshe yeshiva,” heads of well-known yeshivas in the United States, to the ����app University Library. These luminaries include, among others, Rav Moshe Feinstein of Mesivta Tifereth Jerusalem and a renowned posek (decisor of Jewish law), and Rav Shneur Kotler of the Lakewood ����app. The interviews, some of which were conducted in Yiddish, discuss topics such as Jewish education, the rabbinate, attending secular colleges, and the post-World War II rise of traditional yeshivas in America. These interviews provided background and perspective for his book, The World of the ����app: An Intimate Portrait of Orthodox Jewry. Helmreich taught sociology in Stern College in the late 1970s; this photo is from the 1978 Kochaviah yearbook:

Kochaviah 1978

May his memory be for a blessing. יהי זכרו ברוך Posted by Shulamith Z. Berger