- Jacob Neusner
Jacob Neusner (born July 28, 1932, Hartford, Connecticut) is an academic scholar of Judaism - Saul Lieberman
Saul Lieberman (1898-1983), also known as The "Gra"sh" ("Gaon Rabbeinu Shaul"), was a rabbi and a scholar of Talmud. He served as Professor of Talmud at the Jewish Theological Seminary for over 40 years, and was for many years, head of the Harry Fischel Institute in Israel and also president of the American Academy for Jewish Research. - Gersonides
Levi ben Gershon, better known as Gersonides or the Ralbag, was a famous rabbi, philosopher, mathematician, astronomer/astrologer, and Talmudist. He was born at Bagnols in Languedoc, France. - Rashbam
Rashbam is a Hebrew acronym for רבי שמואל בן מאיר (Rabbi Shmuel son of Meir) (c.1085 - c.1158). His father was Meir ben Shmuel and his mother was Yocheved, the daughter of Rashi. Like his grandfather Rashi, the Rashbam was a biblical commentator and Talmudist. He was also a leading French Tosafist. He was the older brother of the Tosafist Rivam and the Tosafist Rabbeinu Tam, also known as Jacob ben Meir. - Case
Case was one of the foremost Polish rabbis and Talmudists of the end of the sixteenth century and the beginning of the seventeenth; died at Posen about 1610. His name, "Case" or "Kaza" is most probably only a variant of the well-known surname "Cases." This would argue for Italian descent; but it does not agree with the fact that Case called himself "Shapiro," as Bloch has conclusively proved. After serving as chief rabbi of Lemberg, Case became city rabbi of Posen, … - Chaim Ibn Attar
Chaim ben Moses ibn Attar was a Talmudist and kabbalist; born at Mequenez, Morocco, in 1696; died in Jerusalem July 31, 1743. He was one of the most prominent rabbis in Morocco. In 1733 he decided to leave his native country and settle in Palestine. En route he was detained in Livorno by the rich members of the Jewish community who established a "yeshiva" for him. - Nathan Adler
Nathan Adler (1741-1800) was a German kabalist born in Frankfurt, December 16, 1741. As a precocious child he won the admiration of Chaim Joseph David Azulai (Chida), who, in 1752, came to Frankfurt to solicit contributions for the poor of Palestine. Adler attended the rabbinical school of Jacob Joshua, author of "Pene Yehoshua", who was at that time rabbi at Frankfurt, but his principal teacher was David Tevele Schiff, afterward chief rabbi of the United Kingdom. - David Weiss Halivni
Rabbi David Weiss Halivni is a scholar of Talmud and a Holocaust survivor, originally of Sighet, Romania. - Zvi Hirsch Chajes
Zvi Hirsch Chajes (Hebrew: צבי הירש חיות - November 20, 1805 - October 12, 1855; also Chayes or Hayot) was one of the foremost Galician talmudic scholars. He is best known for his work "Mevo Hatalmud" (Introduction to the Talmud), which serves both as commentary and introduction. Chajes is also known as "The Maharatz Chajes" (מהר"ץ חיות), the Hebrew acronym for "Our Teacher, the Rabbi, Zvi Chajes". - Moritz Steinschneider
Moritz Steinschneider (March 30, 1816, Prostějov (Prossnitz), Moravia – 1907) was a Bohemian bibliographer and Orientalist. He received his early instruction in Hebrew from his father, Jacob Steinschneider (b. 1782; d. March, 1856), who was not only an expert Talmudist, but was also well versed in secular science. The house of the elder Steinschneider was the rendezvous of a few progressive Hebraists, among whom was his brother-in-law, … - Samuel Adler
Samuel Adler (b. Worms, Germany, December 3, 1809; d. New York City, June 9, 1891) was a leading German-American Reform rabbi, Talmudist, and author. He was also the father of Felix Adler, the well-known founder of the Society for Ethical Culture. Adler received his early religious education from his father Isaac, who was one of the associate rabbis in Worms and instructed him in Hebrew and the Biblical and Rabbinic literature of the Jews. - Meir Abulafia
Meir ben Todros HaLevi Abulafia, also known as the Ramah (Hebrew: הרמ"ה) (an acronym of his Hebrew name), was a major Sephardic Talmudist and Halachic authority in medieval Spain. Meir Halevi Abulafia is pronounced mey-er ha-lay-vee a-bool-a-fia'. He was the scion of a wealthy and scholarly family, the son of Todros ben Judah, to whom the physician Judah ben Isaac dedicated his poem, "The Conflict of Wisdom and Wealth", published in 1214. - Elazar Rokeach
Eleazar ben Judah ben Kalonymus of Worms (ca. 1176-1238) was a leading Talmudist and kabbalist, and the last major member of the "Chassidei Ashkenaz" ("Righteous Ones of German[ic] Jewry"), a group of Jewish German pietists. - Daniel Sperber
Rabbi Dr. Daniel Sperber is a professor of Talmud at Bar-Ilan University in Israel, and an expert in classical philology, history of Jewish customs, Jewish art history, Jewish education and Talmudic studies. Sperber was born on November 4, 1940 in Gwrych Castle, Wales. He studied for rabbinical ordination at Yeshivat Kol Torah in Israel, earned a doctorate from University College, London in the departments of Ancient History and Hebrew Studies. - Isaac Hirsch Weiss
Isaac Hirsch Weiss (Hebrew: יצחק הירש ווייס) was an Austrian Talmudist and historian of literature born at Gross Meseritsch, Moravia. After having received elementary instruction in Hebrew and Talmud in various "chadorim" of his native town, he entered, at the age of eight, the "yeshiva" of Moses Aaron Tichler (founded at Gross Meseritsch in 1822), where he studied Talmud for five years. He then studied at home under a tutor, … - Samuel Loew
Samuel ben Nathan Loew (Kelin) (also "Lōw" or "Löw", Hebrew: שמואל בן נטע הלוי קעלין) was a Talmudist, son of Naṭe ha-Levi (נטע = Nathan), born at Kolin, Bohemia. For nearly sixty years he presided over a yeshiva at Boskovice, Moravia, where he died on May 20, 1806. He had the title Av Beis Din of Boskowitz. - Menachem Meiri
Rabbi Menachem Meiri (1249-c.1310) was a famous Talmudist and Halakhist. - Avraham Goldberg
Avraham Goldberg is a well-known and respected Israeli talmud scholar. Goldberg was born in Pittsburgh, and was educated at yeshivot Torah V'Daat and Chafetz Chaim, as well as at the University of Pittsburgh, where he studied English literature. After serving as a chaplain in the US armed forces during World War II, Goldberg moved to Israel to study at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, where he remained until today. - Aaron Lapapa
Aaron ben Isaac Lapapa was an Oriental rabbi and Talmudist. He was at first rabbi at Manissa, Turkey, and at an advanced age was called to Smyrna as judge in civil affairs. In 1665, when the Sabbatai Zevi movement was at its height there, he was one of the few rabbis who had the courage to oppose the false prophet and excommunicate him. Sabbetai Zevi and his adherents retorted by deposing him and forcing him to leave the city, and his office was given to his colleague, … - Isaiah di Trani
Isaiah di Trani ben Mali (the Elder) (Hebrew: ישעיה בן מאלי הזקן דטראני) was a prominent Italian talmudist. - Jacob Ibn Habib
Jacob ben Solomon ibn Habib (Hebrew: יעקב בן שלמה אבן חביב) was a Spanish Talmudist born at Zamora. In his youth Ḥabib studied the Talmud under R. Samuel Valensi. - David ben Naphtali Fränkel
David ben Naphtali(Hirsch) Fränkel, or David Hirschel Fränkel was a German Jewish rabbi. Born in Berlin, for a time he was rabbi of Dessau. He became chief rabbi of Berlin in 1742. Fränkel exercised a great influence as teacher over Moses Mendelssohn, who followed him to the Prussian capital. It was Fränkel who introduced Mendelssohn to Maimonides' "Moreh Nebukim," and it was he, too, who befriended his poor disciple, … - Mordecai Benet
Mordecai ben Abraham Benet (also Marcus Benedict (Hebrew: מרדכי בן אברהם בנט) was a Talmudist and chief rabbi of Moravia born at Csurgό, a small village in the county of Stuhlweissenburg, Hungary. - Solomon Buber
Solomon (or Salomon) Buber (Lemberg, 1827-1906) was a Jewish Galician scholar and editor of Hebrew works. He is especially remembered for his editions of Midrash and other medieval Jewish manuscripts, and for the pioneering research surrounding those texts. - Marcus Jastrow
Marcus Mordechai Jastrow (June 5, 1829, Rogasen, Prussian Poland - October 13, 1903, Germantown, Pennsylvania) was a renowned Talmudic scholar, most famously known for his authorship of the popular and comprehensive "A Dictionary of the Targumim, Talmud Babli, Talmud Yerushalmi and Midrashic Literature". Jastrow was born in Posen, Poland. After receiving rabbinical ordination, Ph.D., and "Doctorate of Letters" (D.Litt), … - Solomon Dubno
Solomon ben Joel Dubno (Hebrew: שלמה בן יואל דובנה) was a Russian poet, grammarian, and student of the Masorah born at Dubno, Volhynia. When he was 14 years old his parents married him to the daughter of the Talmudist Simhah ben Joshua of Volozhin. Having exhausted the knowledge of his Volhynian instructors, Dubno went to Galicia, studying there for several years Biblical exegesis and grammar under the direction of Rabbi Solomon of Cholm. - Perez ben Elijah
Perez ben Elijah of Corbeil (d. 1295) was a French tosafist, son of the Talmudist Elijah of Tours. In Talmudical literature he is designated by the abbreviations RaP (= Rabbi Perez), RaPaSh (= Rabbi Perez, may he live), and MaHaRPaSh (= our master Rabbi Perez, may he live). Perez had for masters Rabbi Jehiel of Paris and Samuel of Evreux. He traveled throughout Brabant, and sojourned for a time in Germany, … - Samson Of Chinon
Samson ben Isaac of Chinon (Hebrew: שמשון מקינון) was a French Talmudist who lived at Chinon. In Talmudic literature he is generally called after his native place, Chinon (Hebr. קינון), and sometimes by the abbreviation MaHaRShaḲ. He was a contemporary of Perez Kohen Gerondi, who, as reported by Isaac ben Sheshet, declared Samson to be the greatest rabbinical authority of his time (Responsa, No. 157). - Yaakov Kamenetsky
Rabbi Yaakov Kamenetsky, was a prominent rosh yeshiva, "posek" and Talmudist in the post-World War II American Jewish community. He was born in the hamlet of Kalushkove, Lithuania, in 1891. Shortly afterwards his family moved to the village of Dolhinov where he grew up. He studied in Minsk and then for 21 years in Slabodka yeshiva under Rabbi Nosson Tzvi Finkel. It was there that he met his lifelong friend Rabbi Aharon Kotler, … - Judah ben Asher
Judah ben Asher was a German Talmudist and later rabbi of Toledo, Spain, brother of Jacob ben Asher ("Ba'al ha-Ṭurim"). These dates are deduced from the evidence furnished by Judah's testament and epitaphs (Luzzatto, "Abne Zikkaron," No. 5; see Schechter in "Bet Talmud," iv. 340-346, 372-379). At the age of thirteen, according to the custom of the German Talmudists of that epoch, Judah began to travel. He set out for Spain July 18, 1283, … - Abraham ben Saul Broda
Abraham ben Saul Broda, a Bohemian Talmudist ("Talmudforscher"). Saul Broda sent his son to Cracow to pursue his Talmudic studies with Rabbi Isaac ben Ze'eb Ḥarif of that city, in order to withdraw him from the evil influences of Shabbethaism, at that time spreading throughout Bohemia. After receiving his rabbinical diploma, Broda returned to his native city, but was soon called as rabbi to Lichtenstadt/Hroznětín, and thence to Raudnitz/Roudnice n.L.. - Yaakov Culi
Rabbi Yaakov Culi (a.k.a Kuli or Chuli) was a Talmudist and Biblical commentator of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and passed away in Constantinople in August 9, 1732. He belonged to an exiled Spanish family, and was the grandson and pupil of Moses ibn Habib. He edited various important works. The first fruit of his literary activity was the publication of his grandfather's writings. To this end he left Safed, where he seemed to have taken up his abode, … - Jacob Joshua Falk
Jacob Joshua Falk (also: Yaakov Yehoshua ben Tzvi Hirsch, or Yaakov Yehoshua Falk - see Note on the name "Joshua Falk".) 1680 - January 16, 1756) was a Polish and German rabbi and Talmudist. - Samuel Uziel
Samuel Uziel was a Talmudist and scholar of the 17th century, rabbi of Leghorn. He is mentioned in a responsum in the collection "Mayim Rabbim" (ii.52) of Raphael Meldola. - Hillel Of Verona
Hillel ben Samuel of Verona (c. 1220 - c. 1295) was an Italian physician, philosopher, and Talmudist. He was the grandson of the Talmudic scholar Eleazar ben Samuel of Verona. He spent his youth at Barcelona, where he studied the Talmud and natural sciences, his teacher in the study of the former being Yonah Gerondi, distinguished for his piety and rabbinical scholarship. - Aryeh Leib Hacohen Heller
Aryeh Leib Hacohen Heller (Hebrew: אריה לייב בן יוסף הכהן הלר) was a Rabbi, Talmudist, and Halachist in Galicia. - Abraham de Boton
Abraham Hiyya de Boton (Hebrew: אברהם די בוטון) was a Talmudist and rabbi, a pupil of Samuel de Medina, who later dwelt for the most part at Salonica as rabbi and leader of a Talmudic academy. The name "Ḥiyya" was given him during a dangerous sickness (Ḥiyya = "life"; "may he live!"). He was for a time rabbi at Polia (Michael, "Or ha-Ḥayyim," p. 95); in 1601 he lived in Palestine (David Conforte, "Ḳore ha-Dorot," pp. 47b, … - Yaakov ben Yakar
Yaakov ben Yakar (990 - 1064) was a German Talmudist. He flourished in the first half of the 11th century. He was a pupil of Gershom ben Judah in Mainz, and is especially known as the teacher of Rashi, who characterizes him as "Mori HaZaken" (my teacher the elder). Yaakov was one of the leading Talmudic authorities of his time. In some cases Rashi disagrees with the opinions of his teacher Yaakov. - Aaron Walden
Aaron Walden (born at Warsaw about 1835, died 1912) was a Polish Jewish Talmudist, editor, and author. Walden, who was an ardent adherent of Ḥasidism, is known especially for his "Shem ha-Gedolim he-Ḥadash" (Warsaw, 1864), a work of the same nature as Azulai's "Shem ha-Gedolim." Like the latter, it consists of two parts: * "Ma'areket Gedolim," being an alphabetical list of the names of authors and rabbis, mostly those that lived after Azulai, … - Sándor Büchler
Alexander Büchler, or "Bűchler Sándor" (September 24, 1869, Fülek - July 1944, Auschwitz) was a Hungarian rabbi and educator. He is a son of the Talmudist rabbi Phineas Büchler of Moór. He was educated at the gymnasium in Székesfehérvár and at the university and the seminary of Budapest; he received the degree of Ph.D. in 1893, and was ordained as rabbi in 1895. In 1897 he was called to Keszthely.
|
| |