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R. Avraham Don Yechiya son of R. Menachem Man

Daugavpils / Dvinsk / Dinabug / Denenborg / Denabarg / Dayyanim, Rabbinic Decisors, and Synagogue Rabbis

His father's origin was from Vidz, and he was known as R. Menke Vidzer1).

He served as rabbi in Plan Chadash2) in the time of R.Y.L. Batlan.

Di Geshikhte fun di Yidn in Letland, in the addenda at the end of the book. Ta'am Megadim, vol. 1, p. 268.

Latvia and Rabbis

1)
According to R. Ben Tzion Don Yechiya (at the end of his book Ta'am Megadim, vol. 1, p. 268) he was his grandson and not his son, but also in the introduction to the responsa Ayala Shlucha of R. Naftali Hertz Klatzkin it mentions “R. Avraham of Dinabug and his father R. Menke Vidzer.”
2)
Novistroyene, Magash Chadash, Neye Pletzer.