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R. Aharon Eliyahu son of R. Arye Leib Pompiansky

Riga / Government-Appointed Rabbis

Born in 55951) (1835) in Vilna.

In 5621 he was appointed as government rabbi in Ponevezh, district of Kovna (1860–1872). In 5633 (1873) he was appointed as government rabbi in Riga and all of the Livland district,2) and his tenure lasted more than 20 years.

In 5641 (1881) he founded a literary-historical monthly journal titled Yevreyskiye Zapiski, in which he published articles on the history of the Jews in the districts of Livland and Courland.3)

He passed away in Riga on 10 Iyyar 5653 (26 April 1893).

Sefer Zikaron leSoferim, Warsaw 5649, p. 85. Achi'asaf (almanac), 5654, p. 300.

Latvia and Rabbis

1)
Or 5596.
2)
He is signed as rabbi in the registration books here from the month of Sivan 5633 until the month of Adar 5653 (May 1873 – February 1893).
3)
See in Dor veDor veDorshav, p. 44, a list of the books he composed.