Yehezkel Abramsky

Rabbi Yehezkel Abramsky (1886–1976) was one of the world's most eminent Orthodox rabbis of the 20th century. He was born in Lithuania and studied at the yeshivas of Telz, Mir, Slabodka and Brisk, becoming a rabbi at the age of 17. He served the communities of Smolyan, Smolevich and Slutzk. Following the Russian Revolution, he was at the forefront of opposition to Communist attempts to repress the Jewish religion and culture. In 1928, he started a Hebrew magazine, Yagdil Torah ("Make Great [the] Torah"), but the ...

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Posek (Hebrew פוסק; /poseq/ pl. Poskim) is the term in Jewish law for "legal decisor" - a rabbi who decides the Halakha in cases of law where previous authorities are inconclusive. This decision is known as a psak din or psak halakha (ruling of law; pl. piskei din, piskei halakha) or simply a "psak". In Hebrew, פסק is the root implying to stop or cease - here the posek brings the process of legal debate to finality. Piskei Din are ge ...

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The Tosefta is a second compilation of oral law from the period of the Mishnah. In many ways, the Tosefta acts as a supplement to the Mishnah (tosefta means "supplement"). The Mishnah is the basic compilation of the Oral law of Judaism; it was compiled around 200 CE. It is a Halakhic work which corresponds in structure almost exactly to the Mishnah, with the same divisions for sedarim ("orders") and masekhot ("tractates"). It is mainly ...

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List of British Jews - MPs. British Members of Parliament listed chronologically by first election date (in brackets): Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield (1837) [1], Conservative Prime Minister (family converted to Anglicanism) Lionel de Rothschild (1847, admitted 1858) [2], Liberal MP, first openly Jewish MP Sir Francis Henry Goldsmid (1860) [3], MP for Reading, first Jewish barrister Frederick David Goldsmid (1865) [4], MP for Honiton Sir Julian G ...

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In 1913, Hertz was appointed Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of the British Empire, a post he held till his death. His period in office was marked by many arguments with a wide variety of people, mainly within the Jewish community; the Dictionary of National Biography describes him as a "combative Conservative". It was said of him that he was in favour of resolving disagreements by calm ...

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However, recent scholarship, especially by Professor Judith Hauptman reveals that the Tosefta draws on source material earlier than the later material in the Mishnah. It may well be that parts of the Tosefta predate the Mishnah. The Tosefta has been translated into English by Rabbi Jacob Neusner and his students. They have also produced a commentary. ...

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List of British Jews - Fine arts. Frank Auerbach [378], painter Helaine Blumenfeld [379], sculptor David Bomberg [380], painter Sir Anthony Caro [381], sculptor Sir Jacob Epstein [382], sculptor (UK-based) Hannah Frank [383], artist & sculptor Lucian Freud [384], painter Mark Gertler [385], painter Sir Ernst Gombrich [386], art historian Anish Kapoor [387], sculptor (Jewish mother) R.B. Kitaj [388], painter (UK-based) Lennie Lee [389], mixed med ...

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List of British Jews - Authors. Grace Aguilar [320], novelist & poet Lisa Appignanesi [321], novelist Alain de Botton [322], writer Anita Brookner [323], novelist Ian Buruma [324], Dutch-born journalist and writer Elias Canetti [325], novelist, Nobel Prize (1981) (Bulgarian-born) Jackie Collins [326], romantic novelist (Jewish father) Eleanor Farjeon [327], children's writer (Jewish father) Antonia Forest [328], children's writer (J ...

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Joseph Hertz was born in Rebrin, Slovakia, and emigrated to New York City in 1884. He was educated at New York City College (BA), Columbia University (PhD) and the Jewish Theological Seminary of America (Rabbi, 1894, the Seminary's first graduate). His first Ministerial post was at Syracuse, New York. In 1898, he moved to South Africa, to the Witwatersrand Old Hebrew Congregation, Johannesburg. He stayed there until 1911, despite attempts by President Paul Kruger in 1899 to expel him for his pro-British sympathies and for advocating t ...

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Affirmations of Judaism, a collection of his sermons, was well regarded. He published a further four volumes of sermons, addresses and studies. A Book of Jewish Thoughts, a selection of Jewish wisdom through the millennia, was immensely popular and ran to 25 editions. The Fight for the Sabbath at Geneva, an account of his work opposing calendar reform. Hertz edited notable commentaries on the Torah (1929-36, one volume edition 1937) and the Jewish Prayer Book or Siddur (1946). He contributed to the Jewi ...

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List of British Jews - Philosophers. Samuel Alexander [99], professor of philosophy at Manchester, born in Australia, the first Jewish fellow of an Oxbridge college Sir Alfred Ayer [100], philosopher, populariser of logical positivism (Jewish mother) Sir Isaiah Berlin [101], political philosopher H. L. A. Hart [102], legal philosopher Sir Karl Popper [103], philosopher of science (family became Lutheran) Richard Wollheim [104], philosopher of art Ernest ...

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List of British Jews - Film actors. Binnie Barnes, actress (Jewish father; converted to Roman Catholicism for second husband Mike Frankovich) Alfie Bass [142], comic actor Claire Bloom [143], actress Eleanor Bron [144], actress and name inspiration for Eleanor Rigby Helena Bonham Carter [145], actress (Jewish maternal grandmother) Katrin Cartlidge [146], actress (Jewish mother) Joan Collins [147], well-known actress (Jewish father) Daniel ...

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List of British Jews - Popular musicians. Ambrose (bandleader) [250] Nicole, Natalie Appleton & Melanie Blatt [251], members of All Saints (Appletons Jewish mother) Marc Bolan [252], member of T. Rex (Jewish father; raised Jewish) Elkie Brooks [253], singer, member of Vinegar Joe Pete Burns [254], singer, member of Dead Or Alive Ian Broudie [255], member of The Lightning Seeds Johnny Clegg [256], South African musician (UK-born; Jewish mother) < ...

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