- Žagarė (pronunciation, see also
other names) is a city
located in the Joniškis district,
northern Lithuania,
close to the
border with Latvia. It has a...
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program of
nuclear weapons.: 27
Kikoin was born in the town of
Novye Zhagory (now Žagarė in Lithuania),
Russian Empire.
Kikoin was a
Lithuanian Jew...
- also
known as "Israel Salanter" or "Yisroel Salanter" (November 3, 1809,
Zhagory –
February 2, 1883, Königsberg), was the
father of the
Musar movement in...
- Paul
Mandelstamm Born
Fayvush Mandelstamm 19 September [O.S. 7] 1872
Zhagory,
Kovno Governorate,
Russian Empire (present-day Žagarė, Joniškis District...
- Vyeshiuti, in the
Kovno region. He
received his
Talmudical education at
Zhagory, in the
house of his
uncle Simon Hurvitz, and
graduated in 1865 from the...
- mind. He
became successively rabbi of
Vilon in 1868,
Yurburg in 1870,
Zhagory and then Kovno. His fame as a
preacher spread, so that in 1883 the community...
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furthering Salanter’s teachings.
During this time,
Salanter sent Ziv to
Zhagory, to
strengthen the Beis
HaMusar (Musar
study house),
which had been established...
- of
Chaim of
Volozhin Jacob Joseph (1840–1902),
rabbi of Vilon, Yurburg,
Zhagory and Kovno,
Chief Rabbi of New York City's ****ociation of
American Orthodox...
- born to a
Jewish family in Kaidany,
Kovno Governorate. He was
raised in
Zhagory,
where his father, Tzemaḥ Sachs, was
appointed rabbi when
Senior was one...
-
Israel Paul
Mandelstamm (Latvian:
Pauls Mandelštams) (19
September 1872,
Zhagory,
Russian Empire–August, 1941, Riga, USSR), was an
architect in Riga who...
