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Avner Bahat

… Piyyutim from the Moroccan Jewish tradition by the payytan Rabbi David Bouzaglo, Yamim Noraim in the Koenigsberg …

Eduard Birnbaum

… Birnbaum was born in 1855 in Cracow to a family of notable Rabbis and scholars. Birnbaum received his primary education …

… and raised in the house of his grandfather 'Beit Harav', Rabbi Shlomo Breuer, the community’s rabbi, and the father-in-law of Rabbi Shimshon Rafael Hirsch who formed, shaped, and led the …

Andre Hajdu

… to the specific klezmer repertoire performed at the tomb of Rabbi Simeon Bar Yochai during the Lag B'omer celebrations …

Abraham Zvi Idelsohn

… Libau, where, due to the efforts of Dr. Philip Klein, then Rabbi in Libau (later in New York), my father was appointed … entered the Chor-shul because of the ban the ultra-orthodox Rabbis laid upon it when it was built. Due to my … Dr. M. Guedemann, Dr. M. Grunewald, Dr. Feuchtwanger—all Rabbis, also Dr. A Kaminka and A Stern (President of the …

Leo Levi

… in Italy, remains to be fully recognized. The grandson of a rabbi, he was an uomo di lettere of wide-ranging …

David de Sola Pool

… Rabbi Dr. David de Sola Pool was the foremost Sephardic rabbi in the United States during the middle decades of the … in London, he came to New York in 1907 to become assistant rabbi to his relative, Dr. Henry Pereira Mendes, at the …

Yehuda Ratzaby

… in central Yemen, a two-hour walk from Sanaa. His father, Rabbi Yeh'ya, was one of the leaders of the community there. … and manuscripts from Yemen. He published many studies about Rabbi Saadia Gaon and the poetry of Rabbi Yehuda Halevi, as well as poems by Yemenite poets such …

Salamone Rossi

… two prominent Jewish figures in Mantua: Moses Sullam and Rabbi Leone da Modena. Sullam provided Rossi with financial support, and Leone da Modena offered rabbinical guidance and protection. Rossi was also heavily … music composition. He called upon Leone da Modena’s rabbinic authority and sway to grant legitimacy to his …