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SHIMON ZELKIN (Strashun)

Also Known As: "Shimon Alperovich"
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Father of Rebecca Massel
Brother of YITZCHOK ZELKIN

Managed by: Michoel Avrohom Gluck
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About SHIMON ZELKIN

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Shimon Alperovich has Vilna Jewish royalty in his blood. He is the great-great grandson of the Vilna scholar and Jewish community leader Shmúel Strashún (1794 - 1872) who was much esteemed among theChristian majority, and is often referred to in Jewish lore as the Rashásh (acronymic from his name). The Rashásh's son, bibliophile Matisyóhu Strashún, became even more famous, as bequeather of the fabled lilbrary that bore his name, after whom a Vilna street was named in 1920.

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