Mattityahu Strashun
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Mattityahu Strashun (1817-1885) was a rabbi and scholar of Vilna, the son of Samuel Strashun. He was a significant figure of the Haskalah.
The Strashun Library of rabbinical and other works, often spoken of as the largest library of Jewish learning in the world[1] and which he gave to the community[2], became an important landmark in Vilna[3][4][5].
[edit] References
- Herman Kruk, Library and Reading Room in the Vilna Ghetto, Strashun Street 6, in Jonathan Rose, ed., The Holocaust and the Book, 171-200
[edit] Notes
- ^ Shep Zitler's Story
- ^ The City that could not be Vanquished Mann, Stanley
- ^ Jewish Community of Vilna
- ^ The Great City Synagogue of Vilna
- ^ Looted and destroyed from 1941[1]. Books recovered after 1945 went to YIVO (20000 of them[2]) and the Hebrew University[3].
