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Rabbi Zalman Sender Kahana-Shapiro

Rabbi Zalman Sender Kahana-Shapiro

1851 CE1923 CE · Acharonim · Jerusalem

Rabbi Shlomo Zalman Sender Kahana-Shapiro was a Lithuanian rabbi and rosh yeshiva, associated in particular with the community and yeshiva of Maliec. A talmid of the Volozhin Yeshiva, he later served in several rabbinic posts in the Russian Empire before emigrating to Jerusalem toward the end of his life. His halachic and lomdishe reputation is preserved through references in later literature and through the careers of his descendants, among them Rabbi Avraham Dov-Ber Kahana Shapiro, author of Devar Avraham and rav of Kovno.

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Nisowiz

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Born in 1851 in Nisowiz in the Minsk region, into the Kahana-Shapiro family. Genealogical records list his parents as Moshe and Chaya Elka Kahana-Shapiro, situating his origins within a rabbinic lineage. This background framed his later emergence as a rabbinic figure in the Lithuanian-Russian milieu.

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