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Bauska (Boisk)

Courland, Latvia

Bauska (Yiddish Boisk), a town in the Courland (Kurzeme) region of southern Latvia, had a long-established Jewish community. Rabbi Avraham Yitzchak HaKohen Kook served as its rav from 1897 to 1903 -- the period in which he first published his writings on Zionism -- before leaving for Jaffa in the Land of Israel.

2 teachers

Teachers who lived here