Skaistkalne / Schimberg

He was the first rabbi here.

A native of Žagarė Hadash.

He served here as rabbi in the years 5602–5608 (1842–1848), then as rabbi in Kholapenichy, district of Minsk, and afterward in Jakobstadt (see there).

Di Geshikhte fun di Yidn in Letland, p. 189.

Latvia and Rabbis