Memel (Klaipėda)מעמל

Lithuania — Baltic port

Memel (today Klaipėda, on the Baltic coast of Lithuania), historically a Prussian port city, had a Jewish community that served as a frontier point between German and Russian-Lithuanian Jewry. The young Rabbi Yosef Yozel Horowitz, later the 'Alter of Novardok' and founder of the Novardok Mussar movement, frequented Memel as a merchant in his youth, and it was there that he first met Rabbi Yisrael Salanter, the encounter that drew him to the Mussar movement.

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