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Yitzchak Elchanan Spektor

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twice to take part in conferences held there on the situation of the Jews after the riots of 1881. He successfully opposed the proposed establishment of a new rabbinical school like those in
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In 1889, Spektor opposed the proposed celebration of his rabbinical jubilee. He failed to save the Volozhin yeshiva from being closed by the government, but sponsored the "
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of Vilna, should be added to the official rabbinical commission, which had hitherto consisted entirely of men of affairs and secular scholars.
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and introduced himself to R. Jacob of that town (author of "Mishkenot Ya'aḳob"), who recommended him to the community of
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In 1857 he was the youngest member of a committee of rabbis chosen to regulate the management of the
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and at the age of thirteen he married, and settled with his wife's parents in
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Spektor died at Kovno on 6 March 1896. Institutions named after him include
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Samson Raphael Hirsch: Architect of Torah Judaism for the Modern World
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Eliezer Hillel Aronson, Erez ba-Lebanon, Frankfort-on-the-Main, 1879;
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Jacob ha-Levi Lipschitz (Spektor's secretary for twenty-six years),
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Rosenfeld, Sha'at ha-Kosher, in Aḥiasaf, 5659 (1899), pp. 71-80.
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Eisenstadt, Dor Rabbanaw we-Soferaw, iii. 31-33, Wilna, 1901;
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Society for the Promotion of Culture Among the Jews of Russia
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In 1889, Spektor was elected an honorary member of the
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movement. He was the anonymous friend who influenced
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