Chief Rabbi of Worcester, MA
d. 17 Kislev, 1938 (5699)
Rav Silver was a founding member of the Agudath Harabonim.
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Directions to kever:
Worcester Hebrew Cemetery
Lamper Hill Road
Auburn, MA 01501
(Off Stafford Street, take Cemetery Road past Havana Road)
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Rabbi Chaim Yaakov Silver
March 20th, 2009 · 2 Comments
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1 Admin // Apr 8, 2010 at 12:34 pm
http://agmk.blogspot.com/2006/11/early-rabbi-in-worcester-ma.html
2 YD Miller // Apr 8, 2010 at 5:25 pm
The Maerican Jewish yearbook, mentioned in the above link.
http://books.google.com/books?id=0LUyAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA215&img=1&zoom=3&hl=en&sig=ACfU3U0-18m56Nc3UUrev2pJ_MocfYwr0A&ci=131%2C895%2C777%2C439&edge=0
A short notice of his Petirah in Hapardes
http://www.hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?req=12097&st=&pgnum=19&hilite=
(At least I learned that Worcester is actually pronounced /ˈwʊstər/, WOOS-tər, by reading the text ion the Tumbstone, see also here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worcester,_Massachusetts
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