KATZENELLENBOGEN, DAVID TEVEL
- KATZENELLENBOGEN, DAVID TEVEL
- KATZENELLENBOGEN, DAVID TEVEL (1850–1930), rabbi and talmudic
scholar in Russia. Born in Taurage, Lithuania, he was appointed rabbi in
Virbalis, Lithuania, in 1876, serving there until 1908, when he became
rabbi of St. Petersburg, where he remained until his death. He gained
the respect of the czarist authorities and was able to have the ban on
sheḥitah in force in Finland canceled. In 1915 he headed the
religious committee for the supply of kasher food to the
Jewish soldiers in the Russian army. On his initiative a fund was
established in the U.S. for the support of Russian refugees.
Katzenellenbogen, whose notes to the Jerusalem Talmud first appeared in
the Krotoschin edition of 1871, was the author of Ma'yan Mei
Nefto'aḥ (1923) and Divrei David (1927).
-BIBLIOGRAPHY:
S.N. Gottlieb, Oholei Shem (1912), 369.
Encyclopedia Judaica.
1971.
Look at other dictionaries:
KATZENELLENBOGEN — KATZENELLENBOGEN, family widely dispersed throughout Eastern and Central Europe. It originated in the town of Katzenelnbogen in Hesse, the birthplace of meir ben isaac katzenellenbogen (1473–1565), head of the Padua yeshivah. His son, SAMUEL… … Encyclopedia of Judaism
ASHER, JOSEPH MICHAEL — (1872–1909), rabbi and educator. Asher was born in Manchester, England, and studied at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he met Solomon schechter , who greatly stimulated his interest in the rabbinate and Jewish scholarship. He continued his… … Encyclopedia of Judaism
SAINT PETERSBURG — (Petrograd from 1914 to 1924; Leningrad from 1924 to 1992), capital of Russia until 1918, now in the Russian Federation; industrial city and major port on the Baltic Sea. Some apostates or Marranos appeared in St. Petersburg soon after its… … Encyclopedia of Judaism
SUWALKI — (Pol. Suwálki; Yid. Suvalk), town in Bialystok province, N.E. Poland. The town began to develop toward the end of the 18th century under Prussian rule; Jews then settled there, numbering 44 (3.5% of the total population) in 1808. In 1815 Suwalki… … Encyclopedia of Judaism
