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Brudny was among the first groups of students of the Mir Yeshiva to arrive in America, and so was one of the first students in the Mir Yeshiva in the United States. [3] The yeshiva later moved to the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn and Brudny was appointed to give one of the most advanced shiurim (classes) in the yeshiva. [4] [3]
In the United States he married Rochel Leshinsky. [4]
Among his first students at the Mir Yeshiva was Shlomo Brevda. [4] His shiur was the largest class in the Mir Yeshiva, sometimes with as many as ninety students.
In the last few months of his life Brudny was the rabbi of an Aguda synagogue, today known as Agudas Yisrael Sniff Zichron Shmuel. [5]
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