Person
Jacob Friedman
יעקב פרידמן
Large timber merchant who moved to Kyiv in 1906 and supported town rabbis and needs.
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Source OCR · scan 99 · printed page 92
... דויד"הורודוק היתה מוקפת יערות, והיו בה סוחרי עצים. מהגדולים שבהם היה יעקב
פרידמן, שעבר לקיוב ב-1906, אך לא חדל לתמוך ברבני העיירה ובנצרכיה. פעמיים בשנה,
לפני החגים, היה שולח את תרומתו ביד רחבה. הוא הקים את ההקדש שהפכו אותו אח"כ למוסדות-
ציבור שונים : הועד הציוני, הספריה וכו'. מרדכי (מוכה) רימר היה בעל מספנה שעסקה בבניית ...Connected nodes
Place
Kyiv
Migrated To
Organization
Zionist Committee
Established Endowment
Event
Jacob Friedman's move to Kyiv
Participated In · Subject
Community
David-Horodok Jewish community
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Person
Yeshai Adler
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Institution
Modern School
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Person
Israel Friedman
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Person
Moshe Yehuda Lifshitz
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Person
Eliezer Pintchuk
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Person
Aharon Kagan
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Person
Aharon-Yona Shaper
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Person
Moshe Gurushkin
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Person
Israel Meir Lakhovsky
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Place
Kyiv
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Person
Mordecai (Mukha) Rimer
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Established Endowment
Jacob Friedman → Zionist Committee
הוא הקים את ההקדש
The text says he established an endowment that was later converted into public institutions; it does not state he founded the committee directly.
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