Shapira, Daṿid Kahana, 1901-1970

LC control no.	n 95030824
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	Shapira, Daṿid Kahana, 1901-1970 *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	Fürther Rav, 1901-1970 Shapira, Daṿid Kahana, d. 1970 Spiro, Dovid Kahana, 1901-1970 Spira, Dovid, 1901-1970 Spiro, Dovid, Hakohen שפירא, דוד כהנא
Located	Warsaw (Poland) Fürth (Bavaria, Germany)
Birth date	1901
Death date	1970-10-17
Place of death	Jerusalem
Profession or occupation	Rabbis
Special note	Machine-derived non-Latin script reference project. Non-Latin script reference not evaluated.
Found in	Bet Daṿid, 1981 or 1982: t.p. (Rabi Daṿid Kahana Shapira, zatsal; a.b.d. ḳ. Fyorda umile-fanim me-rabane Ṿarsha) RLIN data base, 03-29-95 (hdg.: Shapira, Daṿid Kahana, d. 1970) The Rav of Fürth, 2021: t.p. (Rav Dovid Kahana Spiro zt"l; הרב דוד כהנא שפירא זצוק'ל = ha-Rav Daṿid Kahana Shapira, z. ts. ṿe-ḳ.l." [in Heb.]) p. 3, etc. (2020, 50 years since the passing of the Rav of Fürth; the Fürther Rav; b. 1901, the son of Esther Margulies and Rav Mordechai Zvi Kahana Spiro; 1929 married Freida Gutschechter; 1929-1943 resided in Warsaw; during WWII, wife and children killed in Majdanek while R. Kahana taken to the forced labor camp Budzyn; was in Dachau during liberation; relocated to Fürth July 1945; the last surviving member of the Warsaw Rabbinate, he's also called the last Warsaw Rabbi, the last Warsaw Rav; Rabb. Dawid Spiro, Herrn Rabbiner Dawid Schapiro; Harav Hagoaon R. Dovid Hakohen Spiro, Rabbi Dovid Spira; d. Jerusalem 17 Oct. 1970)