Pines, Yerucham Fishel

  General Notes:

He was an enthusiastic promoter of Zionism. He attended early convent ions of Chibat Zion and was one of the first members of Chovevei Zion . He often preached about Zionism in the Ruzhany synagogue. Author o f two books. He was married twice. His first wife must have been a m ember of the Pines family (according to the meoirs of Ita Yellin, sinc e she says Yerucham Fishel, Yitschak and Leib Wasz, since the other so ns married Luria, Harkavy and Karpas). Probably Yerucham Fishel Pinw a married a daughter of Meir Yosef Pines (the brother of Noach Pines) . In other words, he probably married his first cousin, daughter of h is uncle Meir Yosef Pines. Yerucham Fishel's son, Meir Yosef was like ly named after Yerucham Fishel's uncle Meir Yosef.

After the death of his first wife, about 1894, Yerucham Fishel marrie d Rivka Rosenberg on June 25, 1897 in Vilna. Rivka was also widiwed a nd was a daughter of Zelman Morgenshtern.

Yerucham married ?.