Shabetay Don-Yachya

born 1817, renowned Gaon and Chassid, among the leaders of the Chabad movement, in 1847 Rabbi in Drissa, died 1907. Sons Chaim, Menachem and Eliezer.

Half brother of Zvi Hirsh, Zelig, David, Shlomo, Slova, and Dina

Encyclopaedia of Rabbis Otzar Harabbonim by NZ Friedman reads ".... born 1817, renowned Gaon and Chassid, among the leaders of the Chabad movement, in 1847 Rabbi in Drissa, died 1907. Sons Chaim, Menachem and Eliezer.

Archives at Minsk Belarus letter dated 23.3.98 Eleanor was informed that in the list of Jews that owned houses in Drysse in 1870 was one Shebsel Daniyach a merchant who had owned his address for 25 years i.e. since 1845. In 1874 he was 58 and listed as Doniyachin as Shatlen Chaimovich. That is son of Chaim.

A List of Officers of Jewish Prayer Societies in Russia, 1853-1855, Avotaynu, USA. 1993, No.2, pp.25-27.

среди евреев, имевших собственность в Дриссе в 1870 г., был Шебзель Даниах (Дон-Ихье), торговец, проживавший там с 1845 г.