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Mileikovsky-Samsonov Eliyahu (1864-1947)

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SurnameMileikovsky-Samsonov
NameEliyahu
Birth year1864
Birth placeMitava
Death year1947
Death placeTel Aviv
SexM

Mileikovsky-Samsonov Eliyahu Agaron (1864, Mitava – 1947, Tel Aviv) – rabbi.

Eliyahu Agaron Mileikovsky-Samsonov was born into a rabbi's family. He studied at a yeshiva in Volozhin. From 1892 to 1912, he was a rabbi in Graevo, Lomzha Province, and from 1912 to 1928, in Kharkov. During World War I, he actively helped Jewish refugees from the western provinces. In the early 1920s, he headed an underground yeshiva. In 1928, he moved to Palestine, where he headed the religious court of Tel Aviv. He is the author of the responsa ‘Ohel Agaron’

Works: Ohel Agaron. Graevo, 1909. Vol. 1; Tel Aviv, 1936. Vol. 2.