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SurnameVald
NameGrigory
PatronymBorisovich
Birth year1938
Birth month3
Birth day18
birth_placeKharkiv, Ukraine

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Landa Yakov (1893-1986)

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surnameLanda
nameYakov
birth_year1893
birth_month4
birth_day21
birth_placeKurenets, Vilna Province
death_year1986
death_month2
death_day5
death_placeBnei Brak, Israel

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.