Daugavpils / Dvinsk / Dinabug / Denenborg / Denabarg

Author of the book Chevel Yehuda (Vilna 5560), and on the title page of his book he writes: “I composed… Yehuda, son of the late our teacher R. Yisrael, may the memory of a righteous man be for a blessing, from Kalvaria — serving as rabbinic decisor of the holy congregation of Dinabug and lying under the burden of the province of Livland.”

An approbation from him was printed in Derekh HaMelekh (Shklov 5558). In his signature there he writes: “sitting on the seat of instruction in the holy congregation of Denenburg, his authority extending over the province of Livland.”

Latvia and Rabbis