SHIYE KAPLAN (1879-July 24, 1941)
He was
born in Pechishche, near Babruysk, Byelorussia.
He was the father of Yisroel Kaplan and came from Chabad family. He studied in yeshivas and received
ordination into the rabbinate. In 1913
he became a rabbi in Warsaw. From 1919
he was rabbi in the
Lithuanian communities of Kruki (Kriukai) and Suvenishok (Suvainiškis),
and from 1926 in Viduklė, where he was murdered with the community. He was the author of religious texts, one of them
in Yiddish: Likute shoshanim (A bunch of
roses) (Kaidan, 1938), 37 pp. At the
advice of the Chofets Chaim, he prepared an abridged Yiddish version of his
work Mayene hayeshua (The springs of
salvation) and in 1909 published in the form of a large placard to be pasted or
attached to a backboard and entitled Kuntres mayene hayeshua (Pamphlet, the
springs of salvation); for many years it hung in schools in the Jewish
communities in Tsarist Russia. He
died in Viduklė, Lithuania.
Sources: Information from Yisroel Kaplan; N. Goren, ed., Yahadut lita (Jews of Lithuania), vol. 3
(Tel Aviv, 1967), pp. 84-86.
Ruvn Goldberg
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