Rabbi Yitzchok Finfer
יצחק ב"ר חיים הכהן
Rav, Woburn, MassachusettsDate of Death:
Sun. June 10, 1934 -
Sivan 27 5694
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Biographical Notes:
The Rav who was from Kuvno, Lithuuania was a descendant of the Vilna Gaon’s sister.
Credit: Marjorie Short
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His seforim:
http://www.hebrewbooks.org/2254
http://www.hebrewbooks.org/2899
His brother Reb Pesach was a “Moreh Horah” in Vilna. He authored seforim on the subject of the mesorah in sifrey torah: http://www.hebrewbooks.org/6251.
Reb Pesach’s son-in-law was Reb Moshe Karelitz a younger brother of the Chazon Ish (he was killed by the Nazis yma”sh). Reb Moshe was the editor of the Torah journal “Knesses Yisroel” which appeared in Vilna in the ’30s. He also printed “Shareey Tshuvah” with his comments: http://www.hebrewbooks.org/38229.
See here a bit a bout his family: http://www.otzar.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=3073&p=23068#p22711.
Details of the Finfer family can be found in “Eliyahu’s Branches, the Descendants of the Vilna Gaon and His Family” (Avotaynu 1997) pp.531-535