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

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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

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.