Chaim Dov Kantor (original) (raw)

Rabbi Chaim Dov Kantor (1865–1944) (Hebrew: הרב חיים דוב קנטור) was born in Pinsk to his father R. Shlomo, the town cantor. The family was descended from Rabbi Chaim of Volozhin. At the age of four his father died, and Kantor's mother traveled around with her four children until she settled in Jerusalem in 1871. Kantor appears as the character Reb Chaim Dov in Shmuel Yosef Agnon's fictionalized travelogue HaGalilah (in English as "To the Galilee"), published in his posthumous volume Pithei Devarim.