Viļaka / Marienhausen

Born on 20 Marcheshvan 5659 (5 November 1898) in Rēzekne. He studied at the yeshivas of Rēzekne, Riga, and Bogorodsk, and was ordained for halakhic rulings by R. Menachem Mendel Zak, rabbi of Riga.

Son-in-law of R. Shloime'le, the shamash of the Hasidic minyan “Bazar Berg” in Riga.

He was among the lesson-givers at the Riga yeshiva and among the activists for Haredi education in Latvia.

He served as rabbi of the place from 5686 (1926).

He perished in the Holocaust.

Torah novellae from him were printed in the pamphlet Pilpul HaChaverim (Riga 5684).

Yahadut Latviya, p. 409. Latvia: Batei Knesset VeRabbanim, p. 225.

Latvia and Rabbis