KHAYIM-ABA GOMER (ca. 1898-July 1941)
He was born in Bialystok, Poland, into
a well-to-do family. He studied in
religious primary school, yeshiva, and later philosophy in Berlin
University. From the late 1920s, he was the
head rabbi of Revel (Tallinn), Estonia.
From 1926 until WWII, he was a contributor to the Orthodox weekly
newspaper Dos vort (The word) in Vilna, in which he published articles
on Jewish issues and education. His treatises
excelled in their beautiful style and rich use of the Yiddish language. He also contributed to the monthly journal Der
shabes (The Sabbath) in Riga (1929), the Hebrew-language Yeshurum
(Jerusalem) in Riga (1924-1925), and the journal Bes-yankev in Lodz,
among others. In July 1941, while the
Germans were fortifying themselves in Estonia, R. Gomer and the elite of Revel
were dragged from their homes, and the Gestapo took him and the other Jews and
shot them in the middle of the street.
Source:
R. Zeev Arye Rabiner, in Yahadut latviya (Judaism in Latvia) (Tel Aviv,
1953), pp. 376-77.
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