MOYSHE-VOLF
LIKHTENSHTEYN (1862-1915)
He was born in Mishkolts (Miskolc),
Hungary, into a rabbinical family. He
was a grandson of “Kedushes Yisroel” (Holiness of Israel). For a time he lived in Budapest where he
received ordination into the rabbinate.
From 1891 he was rabbi in Urmin (Ürmény), later in Nitra-Mege. He was also headmaster of the local yeshiva
there. He authored religious texts in
Hebrew and stylized Yiddish. He edited
and published the Orthodox weekly newspaper in Yiddish: Mekhazikei
hadas (Strengtheners of the faith) in Nitra (1910-1914). He died in Vienna.
Sources:
Sh. N. Gotlib, Ohale shem (The tents
of Shem) (Pinsk, 1912), p. 212; information from M. Vega in New York.
Khayim Leyb Fuks
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