Meir Ashkenazi (rabbi)

Rabbi
Meir Ashkenazi
Personal life
BornDecember 25-26, 1891
Chernihiv, Russian Empire
DiedAugust 25, 1954 (aged 62)
New York, United States
ChildrenMoshe Ashkenazi
Religious life
ReligionJudaism
DenominationChabad
BuriedQueens, New York, United States
SemikhahRabbi Tzvi Tumarkin, Rabbi Chaim Eliezer Soloveitchik

Rabbi Meir Ashkenazi (Hebrew: מאיר אשכנזי) was a Chabad rabbi who served as chief Rabbi of Shanghai from 1926 to 1949.

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