Elya Svei

Elya Svei
Elya Svei (left) with Aharon Yehuda Leib Shteinman and Shmuel Kamenetsky in 1997
Personal
Born	Eliyahu Svei March 19, 1924 Kaunas, Lithuania
Died	March 26, 2009(2009-03-26) (aged 85) Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Religion	Judaism
Buried	Jerusalem

Elya Svei (March 19, 1924 (Taanis Esther 5684) – March 26, 2009 (Rosh Chodesh Nisan 5769)) was an American Haredi Jewish rabbi and co-rosh yeshiva (with Shmuel Kamenetsky) of the Talmudical Yeshiva of Philadelphia.^[1] He was born in Kaunas and died in Philadelphia.^{[citation needed]}