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Significant Dates
1810 Israel Lipkin born in Zager. Known later as Israel Salanter.
1822 Sent by his parents to study Torah in Salant.
1840 Moved to Vilna, where he was invited to serve as head of
Yeshiva.
1845 Took first initiative toward establishing the Mussar Movement
in Vilna.
1848 Fled Vilna for Kovna in order to be free of the pressure of the
authorities to serve as a Gemara teacher in the rabbinical
seminary then established in Vilna. In Kovna, he actively dis-
seminated the ideas of the Mussar Movement.
1851 Began teaching Torah in Nevyozer Kloiz in Kovna.
1857 Left Lithuania and settled in Prussia, intermittently in Memel,
Koenigsberg and Berlin.
1861 Began publishing the periodical entitled Tevunah.
1880 Left for Paris in order to rehabilitate the Jewish community
made up of Russian and Polish immigrants.
1882 Led a public struggle against the initiative to re-establish the
rabbinical seminary in Russia.
1883 Died in Koenigsberg.

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Publication Information: Book Title: Rabbi Israel Salanter and the Mussar Movement: Seeking the Torah of Truth. Contributors: Immanuel Etkes - author, Jonathan Chipman - transltr. Publisher: Jewish Publication Society. Place of Publication: Philadelphia. Publication Year: 1993. Page Number: ix.
    
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