Lawrence Schiffman

male
Lawrence H. Schiffman is the Ethel and Irvin A. Edelman Professor in Hebrew and Judaic Studies at New York University (NYU). He is a scholar in the...
Yisroel Salanter

Yisroel Salanter

male, deceased (1883)
Rabbi Yisroel Lipkin, better known as "Rav Yisroel Salanter", (1810- February 21883) was the father of the Mussar movement in Orthodox Judaism and...
Levi Brackman

Levi Brackman

male, 31 years old
Rabbi Levi Brackman (born 1978) is a Judaic scholar, teacher, writer and religious leader who has been active in both England and the United States...
David Kaufmann

David Kaufmann

male, deceased (1899)
David Kaufmann (Hebrew: דוד קויפמן) was a Jewish-Austrian scholar born at Kojetein, Moravia. From 1861 to 1867 he attended the gymnasium at Kremsi...

Samuel Krauss

male, deceased (1948)
Samuel Krauss was professor at the Jewish Teachers' Seminary, Budapest, 1894-1906, and at the Jewish Theological Seminary, Vienna, 1906-1938. He...
Eliyahu Eliezer Dessler

Eliyahu Eliezer Dessler

male, deceased (1953)
Eliyahu Eliezer Dessler (1892-30 December 1953) was an influential Orthodox Jewish rabbi, Talmudic scholar, and Jewish philosopher of the 20th...
Chaim Ozer Grodzinski

Chaim Ozer Grodzinski

male, deceased (1940)
Rabbi Chaim Ozer Grodzinski (1863-1940) was a world renowned pre-war Dayan, Posek and Talmudic scholar in Vilna.

Lee I. Levine

male
Lee I. Levine is a Talmud scholar and historian of classical Judaism. He is a professor of Jewish history and archaeology at the Hebrew University...
Nehemia Gordon

Nehemia Gordon

male, 37 years old
Nehemia Gordon (1972 -) is arguably the best known Karaite Jew of this era. He was born to an Orthodox Jewish family with a long line of Rabbis,...
Zvi Hirsch Chajes

Zvi Hirsch Chajes

male, deceased (1855)
Zvi Hirsch Chajes (Hebrew: צבי הירש חיות - November 20, 1805 - October 12, 1855; also Chayes or Hayot) was one of the foremost Galician talmudic sc...