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Rabbi Yitzhak Margalit
Rabbi Yitzhak Margalit was Rabbi Tzvi Hirsh Director’s father-in-law.
Yisrael Sher
A Sokółka resident who reported on a rabbinic dispute.
Mr. Leib Padalsky
The writer of a statement denying the reported rabbinic dispute.
Rabbi Shalom Beker
Father of Rabbi Tzvi Hirsch Director and a noted religious figure.
Zvi-Hirsh Director
Rabbi who supported Hibbat Zion and showed openness to political Zionism.
Shmuel Mohilever
Rabbi of Białystok and supporter of Hibbat Zion.
Binyamin Even
Person named in the personalities section.
David Yardeni
Member of the book committee.
Yekutiel Khinsky
Member of the book committee.
Theodor Herzl
Zionist leader who met with the rabbi of Sokolka and other rabbis.
Zvi Hirsch Dirktor
Rabbi who became chief rabbi of the Amstislav district in 1900.
Meir Leibush Malbim
Rabbinic scholar whose grave was near Direktor’s grave.
Raphael Nathan Nata Rabinovich
Rabbinic scholar buried near Direktor’s grave.
Yitzhak Goldin
Rabbi and father-in-law of Zvi Hirsch Direktor.
Moshe Yehuda Rabinovich
Rabbi who assumed the Sokółka rabbinate.
Israel Goldin
Rabbi who studied, served in Sokółka, and later held rabbinates elsewhere.
Yehezkel Abramsky
Rabbinic authority identified as Israel Goldin’s uncle.
Ezra Goldin
Hebrew writer and Israel Goldin’s brother.
Hayim Nahman Bialik
Hebrew poet whose poem appeared in Ha-Zman.
Rabbi Y. W. Raines
Rabbi associated with a religious-Zionist yeshiva in Lida.
Chaim Goldin
Son of Rabbi Israel Goldin and an important rabbi of American Jewry.
Malkiel Halevi Tanenbaum
Author and rabbinical authority associated with Divrei Malkiel.
Shimshon Katzenelbogen
Rabbi associated with a Sokółka yeshiva.
Shimon Shkop
Rabbinic authority named among the subject's ordainers.
Moshe Yehuda Rabinowitz
Rabbi listed for Sokółka during 1901–1908.
Moshe Yehuda
Rabbi who endorsed a book by Kalman Hayyim Meitkin in Sokółka.
Kalman Hayyim Meitkin
Preacher and author of “Hemdat Yamim,” associated with the Sokółka community.
Yonatan Eybeshitz
Rabbinic author whose work “Yaarot Devash” was excerpted.
Moshe Yehuda
Rabbi who endorsed the book “Keren Yehoshua” in 1905.
Nahman Epstein
Father of Yehoshua Epstein.
Shmuel bar Meir Halevi
Rabbi of Kobryn who endorsed “Keren Yehoshua.”
Yitzhak Halevi Shuster
Rabbi born in Butrimants and educated in Slabodka and Kovno.
Hayyim Ozer Grodzenski
Rabbi who founded the collective of distinguished rabbinical judges in Vilna.
Rabbi Nahum Grinhaus
Rabbi who helped arrange his son-in-law's appointment as Sokółka's rabbi.
Rabbi Yitzhak Halevi
Rabbi of Sokółka from 1908 until the community's final days.
Rabbi Avraham Dovber Kahana-Shapiro
Chief rabbi of Kovno who attended the first Agudath Israel world conference.