R. Baruch Naftali Hertz Sosnovic
Riga
Born in 5635 (1875). He studied at the Tomchei Temimim yeshiva in Lubavitch.
Rabbi of the Chabad minyan on Matei Street1) 41. For many years this minyan was regarded as the center of the Kapust Hasidim.
He perished in the Holocaust.
He is mentioned in Igrot Kodesh of the Lubavitcher Rebbe (Mohariatz)2) as “our friend the great rabbi, R. Baruch Naftali Hertz Sosnovic.”
Yahadut Latviya, p. 401 (where the address is given as Matei 22). Lubavitch veChayaleha, p. 364. Latvia: Batei Knesset VeRabbanim, p. 241. List of R. Avraham Gudin, of blessed memory.
Latvia and Rabbis