Shneyder Leyb Sholom was born in 1860 in Dinaburg (later Dvinsk, now Daugavpils); studied at the Druya yeshiva (Belarus), and was inducted into office by the Dvinsk (Daugavpils) rabbi R. Levin. Shochet (ritual slaughterer) of the Dvinsk (Daugavpils) rabbinate from 1898.