Eliezer Efrati of Siauliai

The Unbroken Chain, page 20

Eliezer Efrati of Siauliai, a literary scholar, son of Menachem Mendel Efrati of Kalvarija

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Rabbi Eliezer Efrati came from an aristocratic family. His father, Reb Menachem Mendel Efrati lived in Shavel for a while, until his death. His uncle, Rabbi Dovid Tevele Efrati, was a Rabbi in Vitebsk and the author of "Toldos Anashei Shem" (Warsaw 1875). Eliezer wrote for Hebrew newspapers and was a friend of Yehuda Leib Gordon when he was a teacher in Shavel.

EPHRATI , A Siauliai, Lith. Hamaggid #10, p125 1872

EFRATI A Siauliai, Lith. Hamelitz #189 1895 EFRATI Siauliai, Lith. Hamelitz #254 1894

Possibly his son? See below for an Eliezer son of Abraham Efrati of Shaval (Siauliai). So this Eliezer had a son Abraham (below) who had a son Eliezer.

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"The Jewish Hospital was founded originally in 1891 in a wooden building with room for twelve beds. This was a small hospital for a large community. The businessmen of the city saw that there were great demands on this small hospital. At their head was the public activist and first Gabai of the large study house (Beis Hamidrash Hagadol), an enlightened man "of the old generation", Reb Eliezer Efrati, from the family of Reb Avraham Efrati, the father of the famous Efrati family. He tried to get the government to budget a sum of money from the meat tax contingency fund to build a new hospital and to repair the Beis Hamidrash Hagadol. In 1898 the Beis Hamidrash Hagadol was rebuilt as a fine two storey building. Similarly a fine stone building of two storeys was built for the Jewish Hospital, similar to hospitals in other big cities. There were 24 beds for general patients and ten beds for contagious patients. There were separate rooms for outpatients, a clinic, nurse and operations. The institution left a strong impression and there was also a society for visiting the sick (Bikur Cholim) which gave financial help and medical equipment free to the poor of the city who were convalescing at home."

Tax and Voter List

• EFRAT, Leyzer son of Mendel. Age 34 Tax Category: Rabbi Electors Date: 16 October 1867 Location: Siauliai Siauliai Kaunas Archive Fond/Record/Page #: KRA/I-49/1/9057 144
• EFRAT, Lazar well-to-do; wooden house Tax Category: Box Taxpayers Date: 1877 Location: Siauliai Siauliai Kaunas Archive Fond/Record/Page #: KRA/I-49/1/12938 340 835
• EFRAT, Lazar total value of owned property = 3240 rubles Owners of large properties/qualified to vote Year: 1894 Location: Siauliai Siauliai Kaunas Archive Fond/Record/Page #: LVIA/1567/1/2819 117 13