Soloveitchik (Joseph) is born in Pruzhen, Poland.

The son of a rabbi and a member of a well-known Lithuanian Orthodox Jewish family, Joseph Soloveitchik graduates from the University of Berlin, marries Tanya Lewit in 1931, and emigrates to Boston in 1932. He lives initially in Roxbury, then Dorchester, and finally Brookline. He is appointed chief rabbi of Boston in 1932*, founds the Maimonides School in 1937*, and also becomes a professor at Yeshiva University in New York City, commuting regularly by train. As a teacher, speaker, and author, Soloveitchik, known as “The Rav,” becomes a leading voice in the American Orthodox Jewish community. He dies in Brookline on April 8, 1993.