R. Yitzchak Aizik Eliezer son of R. Yehuda Leib Hirshowitz
Talsi
Born on 4 Kislev 5631 (28 November 1870) in Liepāja.
He studied at the Telshe yeshiva and was the son-in-law of R. Eliezer Gordon, Av Beit Din of Telshe.
On Purim of 56661) he was crowned rabbi of Talsi and served here in the rabbinate until the expulsion of the Jews of the city during the First World War, on Shavuot 5675.
He went on to serve as rosh yeshiva in Ihumin (district of Minsk), and in the winter of 5686 was accepted as rabbi in Virbaln Lithuania.
Author of the books Moralische Schriften für das jüdische Haus (5660),2) Meitav Higayon — a Hebrew adaptation of the writings of R. Samson Raphael Hirsch (Vilna 5673), Halikot Im Olam (Kovna 5689).
He perished in the Holocaust on 6 Menachem Av 5701 (30 July 1941) in the town of Uzbnt.3)
On Tzom Gedaliah 5717, his remains, together with the remains of the other victims, were transferred and interred in a mass grave in the Jewish cemetery in Vilna.
His biography was printed at the beginning of his book Meitav Higayon, Netzach edition, 5727; at the end of that book his will was also printed. Marbitzei Torah UMusar, vol. 2, p. 230. BaCheker VeaIyun, vol. 2 (Jerusalem 5727), p. 245, note 4, contains a list of his printed articles.
Latvia and Rabbis