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After assisting his father until his death in 1874, Nisan Bak took over the printing press, which he managed for another nine years. After selling it he continued with his work as a leader of the Jewish community in
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The synagogue project, with Bak as architect and contractor, was plagued by constant delays. Over ten years were spent raising funds and building took six years, from 1866 to 1871. The imposing, three-story synagogue was inaugurated on 19 August 1872. For the next 75 years, it served as the centre
263:. The Ruzhiner Rebbe encouraged Bak to build a synagogue there. He bought the land from its Arab owners for an exorbitant sum a few days before the Czar ordered the Russian consul in Jerusalem to make the purchase. The Czar thus bought another plot of land for a church, today the
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Jerusalem. There he established anew his printing press in 1841–the first and only Jewish printing press in the city until 1863. Nissan helped his father run the printing press, which produced a large number of books, and in 1863 Yisrael Bak also started editing
107:(1797–1874), also spelled Israel Bak or Back, came from a family of printers from Berdichev. After working as a printer in his home town between 1815 and 1821 and having to close down his business, he eventually immigrated to Palestine in 1831. He reopened his printing press in
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Although there were already
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210:. They were again active among those who established in 1884 the Ezrat Niddaḥim Society, a Jewish association designed to counter the activity of Christian missions who were trying to convert the Jews. Ezrat Niddaḥim went on to build a
332:("Nissan Bak Houses"). The neighborhood was originally intended for Hasidic Jews, but due to lack of financing, only 30 of the planned 60 houses were constructed. The remainder of the land was apportioned to several other groups:
187:. Bak, who had good relations with the Ottoman government, managed to soften the decrees targeting the Jewish community and initiated and carried out on its behalf the construction of several housing projects in the city.
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together with other fifteen Jewish families, where the community engaged in agriculture, making it the first Jewish farm in the country in modern times and the first new settlement of the traditional Jewish community, the
159:. In the early 1840s, father and son established the first Hasidic community in Jerusalem. Yisrael and Nissan Bak managed to have a central Hasidic synagogue built, officially named
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newspaper in 1870. As part of their reform attempts, Bak and
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