Greiva (Latvia)

Latvia, Russian Empire

Greiva (Grīva), a town in the Courland region of Latvia (today part of Daugavpils), was the birthplace of Rabbi Avraham Yitzchak HaKohen Kook in 1865. Kook later became a rav in Latvia and Lithuania before emigrating to the Land of Israel, where he became Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi.

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