Jaunjelgava / Friedrichstadt / Neiru

He served as the first rabbi of the city.

A student of R. Mordechai Rabiner, rabbi of Bauska; in the book Gedulat Mordechai of his teacher, several responsa (sections 11–14) were printed in which he engages in halakhic exchange with him.

Di Geshikhte fun di Yidn in Letland, p. 168.

Latvia and Rabbis