Shmuel Hakatan

male
judaism, talmud, custom, Jewish person, siddur, babylonian…Jewishlaw
Shmuel Hakatan (literally "Shmuel" the Small) was a Babylonian Jew considered a great scholar of the Talmud, Jewish law and custom. He was one of...

Hillel ben Naphtali Zevi

male, deceased (1690)
vilna, Early Acharonim, Wilna, lithuanian, vilnius, altona…Jewish person, Jewishlaw
Hillel ben Naphtali Zevi was a Lithuanian rabbi. He was born at Brest-Litovsk in 1615; died at Zolkiev January 3 1690. After he had studied under...

Dov Berish Weidenfeld

male
rabbi, World War II, polish, Jewish person, Galician, Jewishlaw
Rabbi Dov Berish Weidenfeld was the Chief Rabbi of Tchebein (Trzebinia), Poland, and after World War II spent his final years in Jerusalem. His...

Michael Levi Rodkinson

male, deceased (1904)
Chabad, Jewishlaw, Surname, hasidic, English, newspaper
Michael Levi Rodkinson known for being the first to translate the Babylonian Talmud to English. Born with the surname Frumkin, he is the son of...

Hayyim Joseph Gottlieb Of Stropkov

male, deceased (1867)
Stropkover Rov, Moshe Schreiber, Later Acharonim, Chasam Sofer, Tiv Gittin ve-Kiddushin, Jewishlaw
Hayyim Joseph Gottlieb of Stropkov (Hebrew: חיים יוסף גאטליב), known as the Stropkover Rov, was a student of Rabbi Moshe Schreiber and author of...

Yisroel Dovid Harfenes

male
Haredi rabbi in the United States, Haredi, Haredi Judaism, halakha, posek, Jewishlaw
Rabbi Yisroel Dovid Harfenes is an important Haredi posek ("decisor of Jewish law") and Scholar in the United States, residing in Williamsburgh,...