Višķi

Born here on Rosh Chodesh Sivan 5662 (6 June 1902), to his father mentioned above. He studied at the yeshivas of Rēzekne, Riga, Kremenchug, Slobodka, and Hebron.

He served as rabbi here from 5690 (1930), in the place of his father and grandfather.

Torah novellae from him were published in the monthly Knesset Yisrael and in the pamphlet Zekher Avot at the end of the book Shalom Yehuda.

He perished in the Holocaust in Dvinsk.

Yahadut Latviya, p. 407. Monthly Sha'arei Tzion, Iyyar–Sivan 5690, p. 34. Latvia: Batei Knesset VeRabbanim, p. 238 (where it states he was accepted as rabbi in 1931; but in the monthly Sha'arei Tzion, early summer 5690, it already appears that he was accepted as rabbi). Pinkas HaKehillot, p. 123.

Latvia and Rabbis