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Aryeh Leib Schochet
Rabbi Aryeh Leib Schochet ( he, אריה לייב שוחט) was a Ukrainian rabbi who emigrated to the United States in 1906. He published a book on Hasidic philosophy titled '' Lekutim Yekarim''. Biography Aryeh Leib was born in Balta, now in Ukraine in 1845. His mother Tziporah was the daughter of Rabbi Yoseph Zev Wolf Segal of Balta, his father was Yaakov Nissan. He grew up in a town mostly occupied by Chasidim of Rabbi Refoel of Bershad, though he was a student of Rabbi Dovid Twersky of Tolna and Rabbi Yitzchok Yoel Rabinowitz of Kantikaziva. In his book, he related how his uncle Reuven Wolf Segal took care of Rabbi Shmuel Avraham Abba Shapiro of Slavuta, while he recuperated from being lashed 1,500 times by the Russian government. Avraham and his brother Pinchas Shapiro, both grandchildren of Rabbi Pinchas of Koritz, were the owners of the Slavuta printing house, which had been founded by their father, Rabbi Moshe Shapiro. As was common, the text of published books had ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
History Of The Jews In The Soviet Union
The history of the Jews in the Soviet Union is inextricably linked to much earlier expansionist policies of the Russian Empire conquering and ruling the eastern half of the European continent already before the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917. "For two centuries – wrote Zvi Gitelman – millions of Jews had lived under one entity, the Russian Empire and its successor state the USSR. They had now come under the jurisdiction of fifteen states, some of which had never existed and others that had passed out of existence in 1939." Before the revolutions of 1989 which resulted in the end of communist rule in Central and Eastern Europe, a number of these now sovereign countries constituted the component republics of the Soviet Union. Armenia The history of the Jews in Armenia dates back more than 2,000 years. After Eastern Armenia came under Russian rule in the early 19th century, Jews began arriving from Poland and Iran, creating Ashkenazic and Mizrahi communities in Yerevan. More Jews ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
