Years: 1927–1986
Primary city: Queens
Rabbi Nisson Alpert was a rosh yeshiva and communal rav in New York. He authored Limmudei Nissan, a collection of chiddushim on the Torah and the Gemara, and produced criticsl editions of the Meiri and Raavad on Bava Metzia. A devoted talmid of Rabbi Moshe Feinstein, he served as a rosh yeshiva at the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary and was the founding rosh kollel of its Kollel L’Horaah.