R. Yaakov son of R. Yehuda Tzvi Katz Rubin
Skaistkalne / Schimberg
He served for many years as ritual slaughterer and mohel,1) and served here as rabbinic decisor in the years 5607–5610 (1847–1850) together with the ritual slaughterer below.
In the responsa Ayala Shlucha of R. Naftali Hertz Klatzkin, section 27, R. Yaakov is signed as a member of the court for the taking of a deposition.
Yahadut Latviya, p. 280. Registration books; he appears there as officiant of kiddushin in the summer of 5627.
It should be noted that in Yahadut Latviya, pp. 277 ff., an article by R. Ze'ev Arye Rabiner titled “Schimberg — City of My Youth” was printed, where he writes that most of the residents of Schimberg were Chabad Lubavitch Hasidim.
Latvia and Rabbis