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On January 15, 1840, the Riga community, amid pomp and rejoicing, opened the first Jewish school affiliated with a university. In the same year, the indefatigable Basilius Stern succeeded in forming a committee, of which Hayyim Efrusi and Moses Lichtenstadt were members, to deliberate on founding rabbinical seminaries in Russia.
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