Myer Joel Wigoder

The family name had been Gans.

Left Lithuania in 1891 (actually in 1889 aged 34) DAJ 2921 at the age of 36 (Source: "In Dublin's Fair City" Geoffrey Wigoder Page 3).

Died in 1933 or 1934 after his son Harry died in 1932.

He had 18 grandchildren spread between Ireland, England, South Africa, USA and Israel.

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The Irish 1901 Census states that Barney and Simon Shishi who are lodging with Myer Joel Wigoder and his wife Tamare Gitel Copeman are first cousins. They are first cousins because Tamare Gittel's father is Bernard Kropman and the Shishy boys mother is Keile Kropman, a sister of Bernard Kropman. David Jackson Feb 2018 When Myer Arrives in Dublin e he has address of Mr Eppel. Presumably Abraham Behr Eppel born 1845 in Vieksniai who is married to Malka Shishy a close relative of his wife Tamara.

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Meir Joel Wigoder (1855-1933) was a lay-scholar who published fifteen works on Midrashic and Aggadic topics. Upon losing all his possessions in a fire in the town of Laizovo soon after he was married, he emigrated in 1890 to Dublin, Ireland. After pursuing fifteen different methods of earning a living he settled on a picture-framing business – ironically selling pictures of Catholic saints while composing his Aggadic novellae when the shop was quiet. Many intriguing events are described: His excitement upon discovering in Dublin a treasure trove of rare Hebrew books, his thoughts on Zionist matters and related speeches heard, the pogroms in Russia, social and economic conditions of Irish life, community and synagogue affairs, the personalities of the Jewish families resident in Dublin (Rabbis Aaron Glikman and Isaac Herzog). After Wigoder’s wife died in 1906 (names of all visitors to her shiva are recorded), he raised his eight children on his own while also teaching Hebrew classes to the children of Dublin’s tight-knight Jewish community. (Source)