RabbisThe following rabbis served in Aniksht:Rabbi Gershon, son of Abele Iserles from Lublin (whose father was the administrator of "The Council of the Four Lands"). Rabbi Gershon was the father of Rabbi Shlomo, the head of the Beit Din (Rabbinical Court) of Posvol (Pasvalys) and the grandfather of the Gaon, Rabbi Abele (or Rabbi I. Agulnik) of PosvolRabbi Aryeh-Leib, son of Natan-Nota, the head of the Beit Din of BrodyRabbi Avraham LichtensteinRabbi Yakov, son of Rabbi Avraham of EmdenRabbi Eliahu from RagolaRabbi Moshe-Eliahu (who authorized the Vilna edition of the Talmud)Rabbi Moshe-Yoel, son of Rabbi Meir-Shalom Gurion, the head of the Beit Din of Alyta, and author of Rosh Beshamayim (< 1893 >) Rabbi Shlomo, son of Rabbi Jacob Schlosberg, author of Or Yakov and Gan Hadasim Rabbi Y. Calebsohn, son of YehudaRabbi Avraham Aharon Burstein (until 1899)Rabbi Avraham ShapiroRabbi Shmuel Avigdor Feiwelzohn (1899-1905)Rabbi Eliahu Ber Shur(b.1848-d.1936)Rabbi Avraham Mordechai Vesler (d.1941)Rabbi Meir Eliyahu Weiner (d.1919)Rabbi Chaim Schochet (d.1941)Rabbi Meir KomaikoRabbi Kalman Yitzhak Kadishevitz, author of Isaac's History, and known as the Tzaddik of Lotova and the last rabbi of AnikshtSOURCESThe Annihilation of Lithuanian Jewry, by Rabbi Ephraim Oshry, The Judaica Press, Brooklyn, New York, 1995. pp. 181-182.Yahadut Lita (The Jews of Lithuania), Tel Aviv, 1967, published by the Association of Lithuanian Jews in Israel.English translation of the Anykščiai chapter from Pinkas Hakehillot Lita: http://www.jewishgen.org/Yizkor/Pinkas_Lita/lit_00151.htmlJewish Life
Rav Eliyahu Ber ShorRav Eliyahu Ber Shor of Aniksht. Born 1848, died 1936 in Eretz Israel.
Rabbi Meir Eliyahu WeinerRabbi Meir Eliyahu Weiner, ZK''L, was born in Taurage, Lithuania and received his Talmudical education at the famous yeshiva of Wolozin during the years 1883-1886.He married the daughter of Aniksht Chief Schohet, Reb Chayim, where he was taught Shchita (ritual slaughter of animals in accordance with Jewish dietary laws) and B’dikah (the inspection or examination of a slaughtered animal to determine if it had been healthy before slaughter -- if any of a series of problems is present, the meat is not kosher).After becoming widowed, Rabbi Weiner married Sarah Sherel, the daughter of Rabbi Gershon Mendel of Taurage. She raised his three children.In 1895, Rabbi Weiner became Rabbi of Vizhun and, in 1902, took a position at the Kehila in Yedwabne. In 1914, after the onset of World War One, the Russian authorities expelled him, his family and all the Jews of Yedwabne. Together they became refugees and for a short time lived in Bialystok before moving on to Tambov, Russia where he became its Rabbi.At the end of the war in 1918, he tendered his resignation to the Kehila of Yedwabne to fulfill a lifetime dream of moving to Eretz Israel where he had been offered a rabbinical post.But the dream went unfulfilled. On August 22, 1919, Rabbi Weiner and his wife were among 20 Jews taken hostage and murdered by Cossacks during a pogrom of the Tambov Jewish community. To learn more about Rabbi Weiner, click on the links below.http://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/jedwabne/yed001.html#17http://www.fjc.ru/news/newsArticle.asp?AID=303347
Rabbis
The following rabbis served in Aniksht:
Rabbi Gershon, son of Abele Iserles from Lublin (whose father was the administrator of "The Council of the Four Lands"). Rabbi
Gershon was the father of Rabbi Shlomo, the head of the Beit Din (Rabbinical Court) of Posvol (Pasvalys) and the grandfather of
the Gaon, Rabbi Abele (or Rabbi I. Agulnik) of Posvol
Rabbi Aryeh-Leib, son of Natan-Nota, the head of the Beit Din of Brody
Rabbi Avraham Lichtenstein
Rabbi Yakov, son of Rabbi Avraham of Emden
Rabbi Eliahu from Ragola
Rabbi Moshe-Eliahu (who authorized the Vilna edition of the Talmud)
Rabbi Moshe-Yoel, son of Rabbi Meir-Shalom Gurion, the head of the Beit Din of Alyta, and author of Rosh Beshamayim (< 1893
>)
Rabbi Shlomo, son of Rabbi Jacob Schlosberg, author of Or Yakov and Gan Hadasim
Rabbi Y. Calebsohn, son of Yehuda
Rabbi Avraham Aharon Burstein (until 1899)
Rabbi Avraham Shapiro
Rabbi Shmuel Avigdor Feiwelzohn (1899-1905)
Rabbi Eliahu Ber Shur (b.1848-d.1936)
Rabbi Avraham Mordechai Vesler (d.1941)
Rabbi Meir Eliyahu Weiner (d.1919)
Rabbi Chaim Schochet (d.1941)
Rabbi Meir Komaiko
Rabbi Kalman Yitzhak Kadishevitz, author of Isaac's History, and known as the Tzaddik of Lotova and the last rabbi of Aniksht
SOURCES
The Annihilation of Lithuanian Jewry, by Rabbi Ephraim Oshry, The Judaica Press, Brooklyn, New York, 1995. pp. 181-182.
Yahadut Lita (The Jews of Lithuania), Tel Aviv, 1967, published by the Association of Lithuanian Jews in Israel.
English translation of the Anykščiai chapter from Pinkas Hakehillot Lita: http://www.jewishgen.org/Yizkor/Pinkas_Lita/lit_00151.html
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