Meir Atlas
1848 CE–1926 CE · Acharonim · Baisagola
Rabbi Meir Atlas (1848–1926) was a Lithuanian rabbi and halachic authority active across the Jewish communities of the Russian Empire. Born in Baisagola, in the Kovno region, he was among the group that established the yeshiva of Telz (Telšiai) in 1875, working alongside Rabbi Zvi Yaakov Oppenheim, Rabbi Shlomo Zalman Abel, and the lay supporter Ovadyah Lachman. Over the following decades he led several communities as rabbi, including Salant, Libau (Liepāja), and Kobryn, and from 1904 he served as rabbi of Shavel (Šiauliai), where he remained until his death. Remembered as a respected posek who produced a substantial body of responsa, he was also connected by marriage to prominent figures of the following generation: his sons-in-law included Rabbi Elchonon Wasserman, who married his daughter Michle, and Rabbi Yehuda (Yehudel) Kahana Shapiro.
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Elijahu Baruch Kamai, Ba'al HaLeshem, Zalman Sender Kahana-Shapiro
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Thinkers, teachers, and rulers whose lives overlapped with Meir Atlas’s — a glimpse of the wider world they lived in. Drawn purely from recorded birth and death years.
Jewish world
- Israel Meir Kagan (Chafetz Chaim)· 1838 CE–1933 CE
- Meir Simcha HaKohen of Dvinsk (Or Sameach, Meshech Chochmah)· 1843 CE–1926 CE
- Rabbi Dovid Tzvi Hoffman· 1843 CE–1921 CE
- Rabbi Yaakov Dovid Wilovsky· 1845 CE–1913 CE
- Rabbi Yosef Yozel Horowitz· 1847 CE–1919 CE
- Solomon Schechter (Cairo Genizah; JTS)· 1847 CE–1915 CE
- Yehudah Aryeh Leib Alter· 1847 CE–1905 CE
- Shlomo Halberstam (founder of Bobov)· 1847 CE–1905 CE
- R. Raphael Aharon ben Shimon· 1848 CE–1928 CE
- Rabbi Yosef Chaim Sonnenfeld· 1848 CE–1932 CE
- Rabbi Nosson Tzvi Finkel· 1849 CE–1927 CE
- R. Yisrael Taub (Modzitz founder)· 1849 CE–1920 CE
- Yihya Qafih· 1850 CE–1931 CE
- Yitzchak Friedman (Pachad Yitzchak of Boyan)· 1850 CE–1917 CE
- R. Tzvi Hirsch Shapira (Munkacs II)· 1850 CE–1913 CE
- Chaim Soloveitchik (founder of the Brisker derech)· 1853 CE–1918 CE
- Shmuel Bornsztain of Sochatchov· 1855 CE–1926 CE
- Rabbi Moshe Shmuel Glasner· 1856 CE–1924 CE
- R. Yaakov Meir· 1856 CE–1939 CE
- Rabbi Yosef Engel· 1858 CE–1919 CE
- Yosef Rosen of Rogatchov (Tzofnat Pa'aneach)· 1858 CE–1936 CE
- Rabbi Dov Moshe Namiat· 1860 CE–1919 CE
- Sholom DovBer Schneersohn (5th Lubavitcher Rebbe)· 1860 CE–1920 CE
- Rabbi Meir Don Plotsky· 1866 CE–1928 CE
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Rulers world
- Yuan Shikai· 1859 CE–1916 CE
- Gojong of Korea· 1852 CE–1919 CE
- Theodore Roosevelt· 1858 CE–1919 CE
- Georges Clemenceau· 1841 CE–1929 CE
- Guangxu Emperor· 1871 CE–1908 CE
- Woodrow Wilson· 1856 CE–1924 CE
- Paul von Hindenburg· 1847 CE–1934 CE
- Emperor Meiji· 1852 CE–1912 CE
- Chulalongkorn (Rama V)· 1853 CE–1910 CE
- Mehmed V· 1844 CE–1918 CE
- Nicholas II· 1868 CE–1918 CE
- Yaa Asantewaa· 1840 CE–1921 CE
- William Howard Taft· 1857 CE–1930 CE
- Mehmed VI· 1861 CE–1926 CE
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