Rabbi Lesser Obituary 10.24.1924

1924

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From The Ohio Jewish Chronicle, 1924-10-17

RABBI LESSER, OLDEST JEWISH RABBI IN AMERICA, DIES AT AGE OF 92
 
CINCINNATI (J.T.A.) – Rabbi Abraham Jacob Gershon Lesser, oldest Rabbi in America, died Tuesday night after Kol Nidre. Rabbi Lesser was 92 years of age.
 
Born in the City of Mier, district of Minsk in 1834, he came to the United States in 1880. For eighteen years he held an important rabbinical position in Chicago. In 1898 he became Orthodox Chief Rabbi in Cincinnati. In 1902 he was elected President of the Union of Orthodox Rabbis in America. The late Rabbi left many works in Hebrew on Halacha and Agadah.