Landa Yakov (1893-1986)
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| Surname | Landa |
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| Name | Yakov |
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| Birth year | 1893 |
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| Birth month | 4 |
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| Birth day | 21 |
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| Birth place | Kurenets |
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| Death year | 1986 |
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| Death month | 2 |
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| Death day | 5 |
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| Death place | Bnei Brak |
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| Sex | M |
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Landa Yakov (Yaakov, Jakov) (21 April 1893, Kurenets, Vilna Province – 5 February 1986, Bnei Brak, Israel) – rabbi.
Yakov Landa was born into the family of Rabbi Moshe Leib Landa (born 1855), a Lubavitcher Hasid. From 1908, he studied at the Tomchei Temimim yeshiva in Lubavitch. After his father's death in 1913, he became a rabbi in Kurenets. In 1917, he moved to Rostov-on-Don, and from the early 1920s, he lived in Leningrad and Moscow, where he established and headed the underground yeshiva Tiferes Bohurim. In 1928, he moved to Latvia, and in 1929, he was elected rabbi of the Hasidic community in Liepaja. In 1934, he moved to Palestine and served as rabbi of Bnei Brak.