Līvāni / Livenhof
Born in 5584 (1824) in Kėdainiai. A descendant of R. Refael of Hamburg.
In his youth he was a dayan by the author of Pitchei Teshuvah and also by the Malbim.
He served as rabbi in Antakalnis, here in Livenhof, in Alytus, in Abel, and in Wegrów in Poland, and from 5640 served as rabbi of Nikopol, district of Yekaterinoslav (Dnepropetrovsk), where he served for 18 years and passed away in 5657 (1897).
A letter from him was printed in Shivat Tzion, vol. 2 (Warsaw 5652), p. 35.
(His grandson is R. Yehuda Leib Levin, rabbi of Moscow from 5717.)
LeKorot Ir Keidan veRabbaneha, p. 12. Shanah BeShanah 5729, p. 288. Shanah BeShanah 5733, p. 387. In Yidishe Shtet, pp. 1 and 18, his name is written as Chaim Natan.
Latvia and Rabbis