Gávavencsello
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Gávavencsellő is a village
Village
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 in Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg
Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg
Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg is an administrative county in north-eastern Hungary, bordering Slovakia, Ukraine and Romania. It shares borders with the Hungarian counties Hajdú-Bihar and Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén...

 county, in the Northern Great Plain region
Region
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 of eastern Hungary
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.

Geography

It covers an area
Area
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 of 66.83 km² (26 sq mi) and has a population
Population
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 of 3938 people (2001).

Leaders

In 1898 Rabbi Tzvi Hirsh Friedlander
Friedländer
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 became the village chief rabbi; until he got promoted as the chief rabbi of Liska
Liška
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, When his father Rabbi Chaim Friedlander died in 1906. Rav Tzvi Hirsh established a yeshiva
Yeshiva
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, where about 40-60 students learned.

Rabbi Chaim said about his son becoming chief rabbi of Gava: "He is rav of Gava (=the city), but gava he does not possess".
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