Daugavpils / Dvinsk / Dinabug / Denenborg / Denabarg
Born in 5654 (1894)1) in Pashvitin2), where his father served as rabbi (and later rabbi in Dvinsk, as above).
He was educated at the yeshiva of R. Sheptel Kramer in Kharkiv, studied at the yeshivas of Ponevezh and Mir, and was among the beloved students of R. Yerucham, the spiritual director of the Mir Yeshiva.
He served in the rabbinate in Shably (Shablan), and after his father's passing was elected in early Tevet 5697 (December 1937) to fill his place in the rabbinate of the Mitnagdim congregation in Dvinsk3).
He perished in the Holocaust in the Pogulyanka forest near Dvinsk on Shabbat Kodesh, 18 Marcheshvan 5702 (8 November 1941)4), together with the members of his community.
Yahadut Latviya, p. 391. HaYnt Batag, 4 Tevet 5697. Latvia: Batei Knesset VeRabbanim, p. 230, where it is noted he was officially approved by the authorities as rabbi on 7 Shevat 5697 (19 January 1937). An article about him in Eleh Ezkerah, vol. 6, pp. 134 ff.
“The city of Dvinsk was considered the capital of the Hasidic congregation from the very beginning of the rise of the Hasidism of the Ba'al Shem Tov, of blessed memory, in the world, beginning from the summer of 5498, when the 'Society of those Attached to our Teacher the Ba'al Shem Tov, of blessed memory' was founded in the city.”
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