Natans Barkāns
- Birth Date:
- 23.09.1923
- Death date:
- 20.11.2003
- Length of life:
- 80
- Days since birth:
- 37068
- Years since birth:
- 101
- Days since death:
- 7790
- Years since death:
- 21
- Categories:
- Businessman, Order of the Three Stars (Latvia), Priest, rabbi, mulla, imam, Public figure, Victim of nazism, Victim of repression (genocide) of the Soviet regime
- Nationality:
- jew
- Cemetery:
- Mount of Olives Jewish Cemetery, Jerusalem
Natans Barkāns was born 23.09.1923. in Livani and was was the first chief rabbi in the renewed Latvian state; he received the highest award in Latvia, the Order of the Three Stars, for his contribution to the study of history and to cultural life of Latvia's jewish community.
In Latvia's capital Riga, Street was named after Chief Rabbi of Riga and Latvia Nathan Barkan, and this is the first one in Eastern Europe named after an orthodox Rabbi
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He died at the age of 80 years, in 2003.
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His / her died in Latvia, in Rīga
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Source: news.lv, lursoft.lv
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