Shmuel Salant
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Shmuel Salant served as the Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of Jerusalem for almost 70 years. He was a renowned Talmudist and Torah scholar.
c. 1903
Rabbi Salant, as photographed for Pearson's Magazine in July 1909
Zundel Salant
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Yosef Zundel of Salant was an Ashkenazi rabbi and the primary teacher of Rabbi Yisrael Salanter.
Shmuel Salant
…Białystok, then part of the Russian Empire, to Tzvi and Raisa (their surname is unknown). After marrying Toiba (Yonah), the eldest daughter of Rabbi Yosef Zundel of Salant, he adopted his father-in-law's surname. At an early age his lungs became damaged, and he was advised to seek a warm climate. This induced him in 1840…
Grave on the Mount of Olives
Volozhin yeshiva