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Herzog himself was born in 1960 in Tel Aviv, independent Israel. His father, Chaim Herzog, who was the sixth president of Israel, was born in Ireland and his mother was in Egypt.
The latter’s families originated in Eastern Europe. I. Herzogo’s great-grandfather, Šmuelis Icchakas Hilmanas, was born in 1868 in the town of Šeduva in the Radviliškis district, he studied Toras with his uncles in Pašvitiniai (town near Šiauliai) and Pasvalys.
In 1897, at the age of 29, Hilman became a rabbi in the Minsk region of Berezin, and in 1908 he was appointed rabbi in Glasgow, Scotland. Thousands of people attended his funeral in Jerusalem in 1953.
Facebook “nuotr./Šmuelis Icchakas Hilmanas
Hilman was a rabbi who studied at Pakruojis. His daughter was also born in Lithuania, we cannot say whether in Šeduva, and in the 20th century. at the beginning of the 19th century the family left for Scotland.
Chaim Herzog’s grandparents and the current president-elect’s great-grandfather were born in Lithuania. That’s the connection “, 15 minutes S. Kanovičius said.
He has been developing the Missing Stethl Museum project in Šeduva for some time. The museum is expected to open in 2022-2023 and will restore life to one of the largest Jewish diaspora cities in Europe.
Photo from the Government Press Service / Monument to the Jews living here presented in Šeduva in 2015
The beginning of the Šeduva Jewish community can be considered in the 18th century. the first half, when the city of Magdeburg, which received rights and self-government, began to develop rapidly. In 1880, almost 2.4 thousand people lived in Šeduva. Jews.
In 1941, the Germans who occupied Šeduva, with the help of local Nazi collaborators, expelled the Jews from the city to the nearby town of Pavartyčiai, which had become a ghetto. In August of the same year, 664 Jews from Šeduva were shot in Liaudiškės forest.
No one was born president
In 2009, when he was Minister of Social Services and Welfare, I. Herzog visited the first “March of the Living” in Lithuania.
“Reuters” / “Scanpix” nuotr./Isaacas Herzogas
There are many litvaks among influential Israeli politicians then and now. Reuven Rivlin, who cedes the presidency to I. Herczog, is a descendant of Vilnius Gaon, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s grandparents are from Šeduva and Krėva (now Belarus).
Former President Shimon Peres was born in the small town of Vishnevo in what is now Belarus, where Jews who have identified themselves as Litvaks have lived since the Middle Ages.
S.Kanovičius – these famous people were born into the families of ordinary people. Interest in contact with the earth would be much more natural if one were interested in the lives of ordinary people and their history.
Origins of the Litvaks: in the biographies of singers Leonardo Cohen and Bob Dylan, artists Marco Chagall, Chaim Soutine, philosophers Emmanuel Levin and Isaiah Berlin, writers Romain Gary and Nadine Gordimet.
It is true, S. Kanovičius, speaking with 15 minutes, pointed out that the ancestors of the famous Litvak Jews were ordinary people.
Photo by Evaldas Labanauskas Sergey Kanovich
“These famous people were born into the families of ordinary people. Interest in contact with the earth would be much more natural if one were interested in the lives of ordinary people and their history.
No one was born a president, no one was born a famous writer or a Nobel laureate. All are born into families: doctors, shoemakers, tailors. Hilman was a rabbi in Šeduva, later he became an important commentator on Judaism, ”said S. Kanovičius.
According to him, a distinction must be made between the “search for famous and wealthy Litvaks” and the cultural and historical context.
“We often put a sticker on it, that’s a litvaka. But it happens that an interested Litvak decides that he is no longer interested in having Litvak roots. The connection must be active.
Also, we forget what kind of culture they came from, what kind of Litvak culture. The word “litvakas” has a deeper meaning than some distant geographical connection to the land, “said S. Kanovičius.
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